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softlynow

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  1. His comment was “Muslims scare liberals.” A true statement, IMO. If, elsewhere he broadened that to all liberals, that would be an untrue statement. There are more than outliers. Remember polling in the 60s that showed a rapid flip in the percentage of white folks who were wary of black families moving into their neighborhood? I know that polling has come up on this or predecessor boards. We know there’s a strong element of social pressure behind that polling. Suddenly admitting you’re a racist was uncouth. I think we’re still in that moment on most things LGBTQ+. It’s unfortunate, but many people in their 40s and 50s who grew up using homosexual epithets didn’t expel their bigotry becuase of social pressure. Sure, you can back them down if they drop a slur or tell a terrible joke, but there are liberals not repulsed by Dan Patrick’s bathroom fascination. Humanism moves ahead of the populace. Obergefell dropped and new battle lines were formed, seemingly the next day. That’s a good thing. We need to be pushed to treat more and more people as human. But for electoral politics, that tendency leaves left-leaning parties very vulnerable. W/r/t Muslims, I will say I have more limited anecdotal data. But, every one of the guys I’m talking about did openly say quite inappropriate things about Tlaib and Omar. Like I said, I don’t view them as particularly good people. But a big tent needs shitheels, too.
  2. They vote Dem, hate Trump, talk a good game about racism and many other liberal priorities, and call themselves liberal. When you see polling where 10% of registered Dems are for something that makes you scratch your head, it’s those people.i just happen to know several Im not defending them or saying they’re good people. I’m just reminding y’all that there’s less homogeneity left of center than we’d like on even the issues we’d most like to prioritize. Recall the controversy about Go Set a Watchman’s Atticus Finch vs. TKaMs AF. AF represents the kind of people I’m talking about. They look quite liberal when the fight is about broad strokes racism, but the script nearly flips when you dig deeper.
  3. I know more than just a few liberals who you could say are scared of muslims, who roll their eyes at non-white and/or female presidential candidates and are completely at odds with the general left sentiments for some or all things LGBTQ+. When the consultants trot out their failed strategies, I get it. There is a segment out there that hangs with Dems by a thread for wins, and sits out enough to be a major factor in many losses. Anyone who thinks they have a handle on what Dems should do going forward is probably wrong. Oue electorate is a fucking mess. It isn't just the morons on the right that don't understand the issues, hold strong prejudices against one or more out groups and are generally underinformed. There's quite a few left-leaning morons as well. The best play might just be to nominate a bunch of Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camachos up and down ballots.
  4. There are some people. Nowhere near a majority. That's a lot of why we're at this point. I've greatly reduced my news intake for my own sanity. I allow myself 3-5 minutes to be angry about this, but that's all. At my previous consumption levels I would be angry half the day.
  5. The DoI readings by trumpkins are akin to Fortunate Son and Born in the USA being played at Dotard rallies.
  6. An all-female statewide slate liberally running Sarah Stogner's offense would at least be entertaining.
  7. Is the primary election over? Did I miss the battle? "They?" He can run if he wants. Hopefully others get in there and send him home, not that I think anyone beats lazy eye.
  8. That skeet is pointing out that Teslas are depreciating faster than (as least a couple) other EVs. It's taking a mildly interesting fact and making into a "Elon is destroyed" internet moment.
  9. New name: Bill to Remedy the Distress of People and the Realm.
  10. We all know 90 seconds with Susanna Hoffs would do it. He woudn't even have to throw in Sela Ward.
  11. That may be how the infection spread to older losers, and it may be how many of us recognize this part of the disease, but the youngs don't care about the NYT. They doomscroll and listen to podcasts. If Me Too is really the watershed moment, and it may be, I would see it akin to Reagan bringing the fundagelicals in from the political cold and giving them a permanent seat in the GOP boardroom. Millions of folks who were itching to make their backwards views a part of public life and discourse weren't radicalzied by Reagan, they were already there. Social media and bro-casters and others gave losers community, Me Too might just have shone a light on it and helped shitgibbon and co. bring them into the fold.
  12. Me too was a factor, I'm sure. But I think 2 other developments fueled the feminist backlash. First, young misogynists got their Rush Limbaugh figures in Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson. Second, the ability of losers (what we used to call incels, and we really should insist on doing that again) to connect with each other in large groups and form a groupthink that led them to absurd conclusions. Corporate America was always going to be brake on feminist advances, but they couldn't put it in reverse without the help of masses of meatheads and gamers, not to mention the sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies and dickheads.
  13. We focus on the racism bit, but young men (and some not so young) reacting to the attack on their god-given right to be superior to women is a major factor as well. Equality is triggering, in all its forms.
  14. If they disappear ZM and nothing significant happens to the administration, they will only be emboldened to start a wider purge of public officials pushing back. We're far too fat, happy and complacent to turn into the kind of mob y'all think is going to form. There might be marches, and maybe those marches get a little boisterous. Social Media will be replete with memes, selfies and 'OMG look at what the cops are doing' videos. That's about it.
  15. If he gets the Nobel Peace Prize I'm switching to team Burn it All Down. https://news.sky.com/story/israel-iran-live-us-base-targeted-by-iranian-missiles-but-sources-say-iran-may-have-given-warning-13382979
  16. When we were told the adults were in power, I didn't realize @realgreggym meant Iran's government.
  17. What difference does that make to the families of the formerly just sick but now dead people that were in those hospitals?
  18. A resounding military defeat in the lower 48 would qualify as the kind of event Dotard couldn’t survive.
  19. Y'all getting your hopes up. A cult leaders spell only lifts when they die, and only if they don't die a martyr. I know y'all have see posts about how evangelicals trap new followers by isolating them from the secular world. They get sent out to protletyze only to be told how silly their new belief is. That only steers them futher into the cult which doesn't think they're weird, instead is the community they've been seeking. This shit is just more of that. Making fun of Dotard changes nothing for the cult. His failures change nothing for the cult. The other reliable Pub voters won't change either because taxes, people of color, pronouns, and whatever else Fox News comes up with in the 60 days before elections. Holding their nose to vote for THEIR team has become a regular thing now. It's just how it is. No need to rally those troops, 'cause they'll always vote, and vote R. The people who can get fed up or are too embarrassed to stick with the party have already left. We're going to need an event to shake us out of it. COVID wasn't enough. Something far, far worse. Short of that, or the billionaire class suddenly deciding they actually do have too much money, this is the new normal.
  20. Why is that fair? The whole fucking point is if you're gonna be an asshat and blow past a loading or unloading school bus, you're acting recklessly and there's a good chance you commit a negligent homicide. Those tests show quite conclusively that FSD is nowhere near ready for public roads, except as a supplement to a non-asshat human driver. If it were ready, the dummy would've crossed safely because the Tesla had correctly identified the loading/unloading school bus as "loading/unloading school bus" and not as "truck," consequently applied the rules of the road and stopped 50 short of where the dummy crossed. HH succincly pointed out your idiocy, but I think it's readily apparent you needed it spelled out for you.
  21. Looking though the list of the scenarios the WOPR plays out in WarGames, I see one called “Israeli Discretionary.” I find comfort in knowing that the movies from my childhood weren’t just scaremongering, rather simply preparing me to accept the inevitable. https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/s/yiCnG4YzGR
  22. I like your optimism.
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