I could be wrong since I wasn’t there…but I have a stinking suspicion that the majority of successful leftist movements in history didn’t happen on account of a highly literate populace who all individually read karl marx and decided they needed to do a revolution at the same time.
If a third party candidate and their voters represents a threat to your election bid then here’s a wild thought: Maybe you should court that candidate and their supporters, figure out what the key issues are they most care about, and consider adding it to your own platform?
Oh no, silly me: third party candidates are always jokes and illegitimate people not worth giving attention to right up until they become a convenient scape goat for all your own failings.
“I’m a PC!”
Nah, I think that that goes too far. I voted Green and support everyone else’s decision to do the same but even when Trump was president and the “resistance” was always largely performative.
Its really sad she and Jamie are so low tier because they are both insanely cool additions to the whole series and I really hope they stick around for a long time.
Quite plausibly (by complete accident, but nevertheless) the single most moral thing Trump has ever done in his life was dodge the fucking draft.
Oh yeah, because this fucking administration totally didn’t crack down on student led protests or break workers strikes. Shut the fuck up!
They are basically one step removed, at best, from outright saying: “Palestinian lives don’t matter.” Thank you, I’m happy I voted green earlier this morning.
JugGOlo TO THE POLLS!!!
Said it before, and I’ll keep saying it ad nauseum everytime its brought up:
Even if we accept for the sake of argument there’s a genocide in Xinjiang of the Uyghurs, I am an American living in America and therefore I (and any serious person in similar conditions) am more pressingly concerned with the currently ongoing genocide my own government is funding and assisting in.
Anyone out there still moralizing and grandstanding about the uyghurs in the year 2024 is only interested in how they can be used as a political prop.
I still listen. I agree they’re kinda old and stale especially with half the hosts gone for various reasons but what can I say…I still have one of those parasocial relationships where I feel like I’m hanging out with my friends while I workout.
Paraphrasing: “That noise and all those wild disjointed hurtful thoughts that your brain produces…did you know that that’s actually NOT you and you can tell it ‘shush’?”
It never occured to me that my brain and my thoughts could be kind of externalized like an annoying roommate i’m stuck with but who doesn’t define me. Also got me into thinking a lot more about how my body and other senses interact with my brain. I used to have crippling anxious episodes but I have some really good coping tactics/practices now.
I think everyone should really pause for just a moment to reflect on this cultural moment and why I would submit it is the final nail in the coffin on why libs are not allies. What I find most incredible about their protestations that Kamala and the Dems represent “the best chance” that the Palestinians have and that Trump will somehow be worse on the issue is that all of that is essentially liberals and democratic party line voters basically internalizing and regurgitating REPUBLICAN talking points and propaganda that the democrats themselves keep denying at every single opportunity.
If Trump wins: the entire democratic party and your liberal friends will suddenly be crying out about how monstrous Trump is and how he’s made Gaza 10 times worse. If Kamala wins they can go back to just not giving a shit. Either way they will be smug self righteous assholes about it.
I’m actually talking myself a bit into believing the idea that the democrats actually want to lose. Losing would essentially absolve them of the responsibility of actually doing anything and let them just sit in a corner and complain about everything.
Our crawdad, too hot in lemon, shallowed be thy bay.
Its jaw dropping and I’ve been confused also but I THINK in my limited layman’s opinion they WANT to win…but only if it can be on their specific terms.
Like with Israel…I think they may be in a bit of a quagmire. I think they are aware the genocide is broadly unpopular but the problem is that they also fundamentally agree with the zionist agenda and can’t decouple themselves from it. Its a bit shocking how they won’t even bother to lie about it…but I think they’ve gamed it out and decided that politically its actually more dangerous/volatile to risk completely ceding that ground to the republicans.
With the Cheney’s…I don’t know…I’d be curious what polls show because just anecdotally I know my grandparents and a lot of their Reagan era republican friends who switched during the Obama years fucking love her.
Speculation: they may be primarily motivated to focus exclusively on that voting bloc because they don’t actually expect the democrats to do anything different or material???
Not new :P :
Its gotten to a point where I’m not sure what the most existentially horrifying outcome of the election even is at this point.
Genuinely Jaw dropping. I just went and watched the video because I couldn’t believe it, but its just as bad as its implied. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC2-fJw4SBg, about 4 mins in if you want to hear it for yourself.
I was already prepared to vote green but I’m stunned how little they’re even trying to make me have cold feet about it. I don’t fucking understand it…why don’t they just fucking lie like they do about everything else???
I feel like my kiddo is a solid barometer for what will hit the pop culture.
His take on the Minecraft movie is he doesn’t like the way they screwed up the scale, the crafting, and the weird animation/live action hybrid…but he’s still super excited for it.
I think it will be a decent hit, turn a profit…then completely evaporate and leave no lasting cultural impact.
However this all concludes whether it be: the worst case, best case, or mixed case scenario I honestly have to wonder out loud how anyone is expected to take phrases like “rules base international order” and “human rights” seriously ever again going forward?
Like I’m not naive and I know it was always bullshit and the rules have always been whatever we say they are but like…is this really gonna just be a case where everything is memory holled and everyone just tried to act like it wasn’t all exposed as a fucking sham for everyone to see?
I’m struggling to be cynical enough to believe it will play out like that…so I worry I am naive.