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wildcat09

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  1. Is ChatGPT even fucking up people's ability to post? Is that how bad things are getting?
  2. It’s some truly pathetic behavior isn’t it? Rex, go see a fucking therapist.
  3. So Rex is getting divorced, huh?
  4. Interrupting nazis is good. Preferably with fists.
  5. I find it very funny how you constantly play the reasonable maybe-not-even-a-conservative-anymore, then your proposed solutions are always like "everyone left of the nazis should split instead of unify against the nazis."
  6. I'm sure statsman will be along to tell us that kid was Hamas. Or maybe the IDF who shot him are secretly Hamas. Or maybe the Green Beret who witnessed it is Hamas.
  7. So we're well into this was/is an active cover-up at this point. The only real question remaining is whether they're covering up a murder or their own incompetence.
  8. Stassney felt something funny in his pants when he saw a trans woman and now we’ve all got to deal with his anxiety over it, apparently.
  9. "The real way to get voters to like me and my party are to go on the nazi pedophile's show and tell him and his audience that they're right that actually it's Democratic base voters who are the real anti-Semites!" This is how one of the party's supposed stars thinks.
  10. Meanwhile... What a fucking idiot. The way the more pro-Israel members of the party have messaged on Israel and anti-Semitism is just beyond fucking stupid.
  11. Egalitarianism is a strong, motivating ideological force. Tens if not hundreds of millions of people in human history have fought for it and millions have died for it. Nobody is willing to fight and die for "Ok what we need is to pull 57% of white voters with college degrees, at least 85% of the black vote, at least 60% of the latino vote, and we checked the math and we want the gay vote but also the anti-trans vote" triangulating.
  12. I'm sure tornado alley will really enjoy the shittier warnings and complete lack of any disaster response over the next few years.
  13. It's bad enough when it's Gen X or Boomers, but people who just went through school thinking this is at all how anything at school works are just the absolute dumbest people on earth.
  14. Knockout games? You sure you’re talking about babysitters and not 60 year old Fox News watchers in 2014?
  15. I love how multiple posters have proposed several good ideas then tossed in “balance the budget.” Guys, it has no political salience at all and it’s bad policy to boot.
  16. These people are all depraved freaks and more of us should say so.
  17. This has been explained several times in this thread.
  18. Those are shitty terms. Why does it have to be the first thing I tell them? I might as well say you've got to tell them you think this guy has some decent points: You and I are both saying they need to be able to message both social and material issues. I don't think you even disagree with the emphasis I've placed on the importance of fighting for social issues, so much as the exact wording I used in one post. You damned well know my point isn't that we've got to convert every voter to being 100% pro trans in their hearts, my point is that retreating from the political debate on social issues is ineffective and surrenders ground on issues we can and should actually be on the popular side of.
  19. That gets into a bunch of self-identification stuff, but for these purposes if you've vehemently against Trump and the modern GOP, I don't really consider that in "the middle." In terms of political strategy, Dems don't need to worry about trying to win your vote any more than they need to worry about trying to win mine.
  20. Voters in the middle are people who don't know what they want or believe and are easily swayed to go with whoever is more popular and/or seems more mainstream. Ironically, it has been Democrats' attempts to avoid culture war issues (which have required them to pre-emptively surrender on them and concede that Republicans are on the right side of them) that has cost them with these voters.
  21. There are some things the GOP did that can't really be effectively copied from another angle, but I think their approach to media can. Dems need to build up a partisan media outlet (and appurtenant popular cultural commentary) and mercilessly attack the mainstream media for its bias. We need more people to see the mainstream media as owned and controlled by Republican-aligned interests, which should be doable because that's actually the truth and there is a ton of supporting evidence.
  22. When did a Democratic candidate make a special interest social issue the center of their agenda? We passed the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act in 1964 and 1965, respectively. Were we a less racist country then? Or did liberals become too scared of speaking affirmatively in support of civil rights? Would we be better off right now if Manchin and Sinema had voted for the new Civil Rights Act in 2022, or was their concern about appearing too focused on social issues to support it correct? In 2016, North Carolina passed an anti-trans bathroom bill. At the time it was so controversial that the NCAA pulled the NCAA Tournament out of the state, the NBA moved the all star game, and numerous major companies withdrew business from the state. What changed between then and now? Did the Democrats become vocally more pro-trans rights? Did any Democrats center trans issues in their campaigns? Or did many of them begin acknowledging that Republican messages on trans rights were correct, in an attempt to defuse it as an effective political issue? There is no running from social issues to focus on material issues. Democrats have to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time.
  23. @Goredho, I'll try another tack. There's some Dem commentators suggesting that Dems shouldn't attack Trump on Epstein: This is of a piece with the "avoid culture war" shit. Do you agree with her?
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