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When in reality, if you go 'What year is this?!?' people will just say '2024. Crazy huh.' and you go 'Wtf where has my youth gone.'

"Hey, what month is it?"

Stumbling into a diner and asking "What town is this" isn't weird, the workers will think you're on a road trip

If you ask them "Where's the nearest Nano Deck?" they'll assume it's a shop they've never heard of and say "Sorry, I don't know where any of those are"

Going into a store and telling a cashier "I need pods for my comm device" will just get you a "Never heard of those, maybe try Radio Shack?"

basically all of human life can fit into one or more of these categories:

there is limited access to information and therefore it’s totally normal to not have heard of things

there’s so much going on all the time that even though you have easy access to information, there’s no way you can be expected to know everything

you hear about wild shit so often that there’s no reason you wouldn’t accept this new weird shit

“I’m fighting alone, every day. I fight with the hell that I survived. I fight with the fact of my own humanity. I fight with the idea that death is the only way of escaping this fact.”

This didn't happen because Harris wasn't left enough. Many voters said they viewed her as radically liberal. If this election hasn't shown you your leftist ideals aren't held by most of this country, I don't know what will. California, one of the bluest states in the country, voted for slavery and against a minimum wage increase.

This didn't happen because of Gaza. As usual, most voters dgaf about foreign policy. At most they viewed the protests last year as evidence of general lawlessness, like they did with black lives matter. They voted on domestic issues like they always do. And those issues were the economy and a general backlash against 'others' like immigrants and trans people.

This also didn't happen because of leftists not voting to protest Gaza. The margin of victory is too big for that.

This happened because people really hate inflation, and when people aren't happy they will reflexively swing the political pendulum in the opposite direction. Which is why we also see a far right swing in blue states.

It also happened because people are generally under informed, and did not listen when multiple expert economists said Trump's policies would be bad for the economy.

It happened because in addition to being ignorant, people are also pretty bigoted. It feels good to blame outsiders, it feels good to hurt them, and they love that Trump says and does the things polite society says you shouldn't. This happened because people genuinely like Trump and dislike challenges to the ingrained social hierarchy, aka 'woke'.