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You say this as if youâve made a compelling case up until this point, or that you even understood what I was saying previously.
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The criticisms are no different and itâs not like they would be if he was running for a national office. Donât kid yourself. This lot that I referred to in that post you quoted isnât nearly that nuanced
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Thatâs correct. They donât dislike Trump because of his embrace of right wing politics. They hate Trump because his policies are so insane that they even hurt their bottom line. But theyâd still would rather take a chance on trying to educate Trump and his idiot minions out of their more insane policy ideas than they would voting for a Bernie or a Mamdani against them. And theyâre very committed to that idea, too. You could show them all the pie charts in the world that show Mandani/AOC/Bernie policies are not only better for the average American than Trump, but also the establishment Democrats. Wanna know what their response will be? If they donât find a way to mute their opposition, what theyâll say basically amounts to âwell you see, the facts may very well seem to indicate Y, but I prefer to believe X.â
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Most Republican voters donât know shit about economics. They readily vote against their own interests and itâs not because âIâll pay more if it means owning the libs.â No, itâs because they all too readily believe improbable claims from questionable sources based on insufficient information. Everything they say they believeâ about economics? They donât actually believe it, but theyâve definitely been told to believe it by people who have a skin in the game. Trickle down economics is bullshit, tariffing the shit out of everything is bullshit, the stories they tell about âmilitary spending is what got us out of the Great Depressionâ is bullshit, the idea that we need to pull crumbs away from the poors in order to save the economy is bullshit, and âtaxation is theftâ is utter, complete and unforgivable bullshit. Bottom line, if you voted for Trump because heâs a âsuccessful businessman,â even his record clearly shows heâs not, and that âheâs better for the economyâ when he was steering it towards a major recession (if not depression) in his first term before the pandemic gave him cover, you are by definition a low information voter. Explaining to them the magnitude of a billion dollars is not going to change that because most of them wouldnât even get it and the rest are too emotionally invested in this idea that politics is a team sport and âbut muh red team.â
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They donât exactly stick their fingers in their ears and ignore. They just do this:
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Thatâs usually what happens when you stop letting them be their own gimmicks and instead leave everything to the comedy writers
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And to that, we can also add âwhat Israel was doing to Gaza before 10/7 especially from 2006-now has been much much worse.â Worse before, even worse after.
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This is just inexcusably lazy. Youâre essentially trying desperately to straw man the living shit out of what I said based on a single conjunction. The âbutâ that followed was âthey were no different than the atrocities committed during the Nat Turner rebellion and they were done for the same reason as the Nat Turner rebellion.â So if you want to waste time tediously nitpicking about semantics, you should at least have the courtesy to notice the âdeplorableâ before the âbut,â as well as âatrocitiesâ after. Those are both very judgmental words. Youâre going to have to move on to the next topic because this âbutâ stuff isnât the slightest bit convincing. Now that weâre past the trivial semantics, itâs important to understand the comparison to Turnerâs rebellion. In Turnerâs own words, the whole purpose was "kill all the white people.â Even at the time, William Lloyd Garrison was known to have said that he condemned the actions but refused to condemn Nat Turner personally, who himself did kill one white woman by bludgeoning her with a fence post. Americans today are generally reluctant to condemn Turner, or John Brown, even if they did condemn the actions. And itâs rather important because that was 1831 and as Frederick Douglass himself stated, there was a straight line from John Brown to the beginning of the American Civil War. Well, John Brown freely confessed that Turner was who inspired him the most. Do you condemn either of them personally? And that is an important distinction thatâs been understood outside of jingoistic circles for centuries. Hereâs the comparison: the slaves who perpetrated the Turner rebellion were born as slaves, lived their entire lives as slaves, and were resigned to the grisly reality that they would die as slaves. The Gazans who perpetrated 10/7 were born prisoners, lived their entire lives as prisoners, and were resigned to the grisly reality that they would die as prisoners. Now, thatâs my judgment of them as people. As to their actions? Those who defend the actions taken by Hamas on 10/7 (and there are very few) donât have a leg to stand on. Those who defend Israelâs response to it donât have a leg to stand on either, and they have a much weaker position.
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Amazing that you can read a sentence that says âYes the actions were deplorable,â and even for a moment contemplate that it was in any remote fashion âovert apologia.â
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Sorry but this portion is bullshit as it concedes talking points that originate in the Israeli MFA and the US Dept that just became doctrine and dogma overnight. As Finkelstein would say, when you consider how old most of those boys were, you condemn the actions and not the actors. Yes the actions were deplorable, but they were no different than the atrocities committed during the Nat Turner rebellion and they were done for the same reason as the Nat Turner rebellion. Most of the boys who committed those atrocities were born at or around 2005 which was when the so-called âdisengagementâ began and Israel began to occupy Gaza from the outside instead of the inside. After the Hamas victory in the parliamentary elections, which Hillary Clinton herself lamented that we should have rigged in Fatahâs favor, the US and Israel moved almost immediately to overthrow the government via a putsch. Hamas preempted the putsch and their efforts were for naught. So Israel then proceeded to enact the blockade, which is all an 18 year old Gazan in 2023 would fucking know as âlife.â As even David Cameron conceded, Gaza was and still very much is the worldâs largest open air prison. So the prisoners fucking snapped. When youâre in a position like Israel and you have that happen, you donât tighten the screws. Thatâs all phony tough guy bullshit. All that accomplishes is to exacerbate the underlying causes that led to 10/7 in the first place. Seriously, have we not learned anything from 9/11 at all? Have we all gone crazy or just stupid? The way you deal with a nation whose grievances against you are so vast that they violently lash out at you is not to intensify the very thing that was pissing them off in the first place. What you do is admit to the grievances and then address them a la the U.K. and Ireland in the Good Friday agreement of 1998. That agreement is precisely why you donât hear very many stories about IRA bombings any more. The Palestinians have very obvious and real grievances with the Israelis. Theyâve had them for nearly 77 years, and certainly for the last 58 years. The Israelis have done next to jack shit to address those grievances and when push comes to shove, they intensify the underlying issues. And of course the same useless idiots in the US use their tired, old, dishonest apologetics to make chickenshit little excuses that are specifically designed to gaslight people into thinking âyes it makes sense that the Israelis are torturing the Palestinians, demolishing their homes, stealing their lands, and killing those who dare to defend them because well, we just canât have the Palestinians acting like less-than-perfect prisoners.â Seriously, Iâm sure if Dennis Ross was to write a book about the underlying causes of 10/7, heâd go through a carefully sanitized history from 1987-2006, and what a convenient stopping point that would be for him then to begin to chastise and admonish Hamas. Anyways youâre quite right to say that we and the Israelis are the bad guys. But the one issue I take with whatâs implied there is that this didnât start on 10/7. Itâs been true since well before that. Itâs been true since Israelâs response to UNSC 242 was essentially âwe have no solution, you shall continue to live like dogs, and whoever wishes may leave.â
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Which is actually quite funny because letâs just suppose it was true⊠How is it any less accurate and/or worse than: All Israelis are Knesset All Israelis are Mossad All Israelis are IDF All Israelis are Likud All Israelis are Netanyahu Those individuals/groups have committed far worse acts of terrorism than anything that Hamas has ever dreamed of, and Hamas hasnât responded with anywhere near the depravity that Israel did just to October 7 alone. And yet, the Israelis as a society are far more supportive of the IDF than the Palestinians are of Hamas. Gazaâs support of Hamas has, for quite some time, hovered in the mid 30âs. Meanwhile, virtually half of the Israeli population supports actual genocide in Gaza https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/majority-israelis-support-expulsion-palestinians-gaza-poll So to the extent that there are posters that do believe in this feeble nonsense that âall Palestinians are Hamas,â and there very clearly are: thatâs not the slam dunk argument-winner those mindless little cheerleaders think it is. And just to stop the retort thatâs brewing in their garbled minds; no that is not an endorsement of Hamas as a political party, nor is it antisemitic. Itâs an endorsement of the very obvious reality that the Israeli state managed to find a way to out-suck Hamas in the sucks department. You really have to suck to out-suck Hamas in the sucks department. And I can tell by the neg on one of my earlier posts that one of the damned wiener kids is reading.
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Dem Strategeries For Mass Cult Reprogramming
hpslugga replied to Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand's topic in Cloak Room
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I have no doubt that he believes it. What I object to is this bullshit presentation that he âknowsâ about the economy and we are just a bunch of group thinking morons. The magatards over at the daily Texan very often accuse people in the cloak room of being guilty of group think. No, itâs not group think. itâs just that the things that we say are so obvious and they so desperately do not want to accept them that they waste everyoneâs time with these pitiful mental gymnastics performances trying to justify the continuous nonsense thatâs perpetrated by this administration. So while the aforementioned beliefs may be sincere, the confidence and the make believe surrounding the idea that they âknowâ these things, when really what theyâre doing is struggling and tripping over themselves, is not.
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Which is why I told him to drop the act. People who claim to be 1). focused on/familiar with the economy and 2). supportive of Republican economic policies, in reality, do not know shit about the economy. When they say âthe economy,â what theyâre talking about is what their favorite shock jock commentators order them to believe whatâs in their own personal interests. The thing is, theyâre just part of a much bigger group of Republican voters who vote against their own interests. So when this fucking guy, as others before, comes along and talks about âthe economy,â youâre witnessing a performance piece, and a horribly executed one at that.
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These are the people that turned âfaithâ into a verb. Unmotivated, ambition-less, lazy fucks that have been given every opportunity to improve themselves intellectually, and [Tywin] they chose to spend their days, as they always have, listening to charlatans and trusting in frauds [/Lannister] To those of you who are reading and posting from a desktop, you will find more wisdom in the dust under your computer desk that accumulated over the last 24 hours than you ever would reading that silly assed DT shit since the founding of Surly and all its predecessors.
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Drop the act
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This. That shit does nothing but give a platform to fascists. It presents fascism as if it was a plausibly valid worldview, or at the very least that it needs to be debated. And this is where we get this toxic cultural environment where people think itâs valid to argue âhow dare you attack my opinionâ or âI have a right to believe X.â And we just accept this. Hardly anyone has the balls to say ânewsflash, you soft piece of shit: not every opinion is worthy of consideration, which by definition makes them assailable. And if youâre going that far into the bag to pull out the âI have a right to believe Xâ excuse, I take that as an admission of defeat.â
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Works for me, brother
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He gets enough credit already. The triple option had already been around over a generation and multiple coaches at the very least dabbled in it, if not made it an outright staple of their offensive systems, going as far back as Don Faurot at Missouri. Just as an aside, I always get tickled when people talk about Ken Hatfield "inventing" the flexbone when all he really did was dust off some old copy of Tiger Ellison's book and just stripped out the passing game stuff.
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At this rate, these actions are going to be coupled with the phrase âtimes infinityâ in their announcements. âWe impose sanctions on Hamasâ #3 times infinity because heâs a big poopoo headâ
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Who are yall kidding? The democrats are too busy sticking their heads up their asses with this âthey go low, we go highâ shit. No way would they wipe off mar a lago or any other republican power center even if given the ability to control weather. At best theyâd ask it politely to leave and when not given an answer, theyâd brag about how they spoke to Mar a Lago for 8 hours about how mean of a place it is, and their followers would gush over it.
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TU is far more elevated than TDS. TU is just a sign of disrespect from one fanbase against another in team sports. Itâs stupid, but you understand it. TDS? Not a real thing and really just a feculent waste product from years of ingesting stupid shit. Of course, in order to defecate said stupid shit, itâs necessary for one to continue to pat oneself on the back until one convinces themselves they fucking accomplished something meaningful. At that point? The words come out the assâŠor the shit comes out the mouth. I forgot how that goes.
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1953 was a pretty instructive fucking case on that
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