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591·8 days agoTake a minute to look through all the photos of hoovervilles. Tens of thousands of people in tents, often with the apartments they were evicted from and the factories closed or running at a fraction of capacity within a few hundred yards in the background.
How would you explain to aliens why tens of thousands of people in every city were driven from their homes, which were left empty, to live in squalor while being prevented from doing anything productive?
22·10 days agoThe democrats get beat the fuck out every time they run conservative. They plummet in popularity if they get elected and then betray their constituents by doing what the republicans want. Republicans will never elect a republican-lite when the real thing is right there.
Meanwhile left policy polls overwhelmingly well among everyone, especially people who actually might vote democrat, and it’s even more popular once people start feeling its effects, as you can observe in any country that has free or near-free healthcare and public housing.
The argument that the Butcher of Libya would have run the machinery of empire much more competently than Trump isn’t an argument in her favor. I still wouldn’t be able to bring myself to vote for Trump for harm reduction, but calling her qualified to hold a position which every holder in modern history has done things we hanged nazis for isn’t the argument you think it is.
113·11 days agoDo you really believe everything in the USSR was dim and depressing? Do you also think everything is Mexico is tinted yellow?
What do you think would happen if he started doing things the people able to recall him didn’t like?
If the person behind you wants to drive faster, just move over and let them.
4 years from now, when democrats are running on building the wall, mass deportations, getting tough on crime, banning trans people from public spaces, and continuing whatever war Trump starts, you will be telling anyone telling the democrats that this is unpopular “shut up, this really is super popular and the democrats really can win by adopting the republican platform from 4 years ago”.
People knew that these protests would suppress democratic voters
The notion that the reason the genocide was unpopular because of the protestors is absurd. The protesters were responding to an incredibly unpopular thing, not causing it to be incredibly unpopular.
would be unlikely to sway the current administration
The previous administration stopped running and put Kamala in when they saw they had no pathway to victory, so they’re capable of making changes when they know they have no alternative. It was only the “vote blue no matter who” crowd who allowed them to live under the delusion they could win while trying to be republicans.
I voted PSL, I don’t live in a swingstate.
If anti-genocide voters are powerful enough to sway the election, you should listen to us.
Even weeks after October 7th, I had libs demanding I pledge to vote blue whether they stop the genocide or not, even though the election was a year and a half away, instead of standing with us and demanding they stop the wildly unpopular thing they’re doing.
I think deep down, you all understood that the democrats will never do what the people want, even if they know it will cost them the election.
Protestors made a poor decision
How else were they supposed to get the democrats to stop driving the bus off the cliff?
This was not an unforeseen consequence, everyone with a brain was screaming it from the rooftop, and now here we are.
If it was unforeseen, why do I keep seeing liberals blaming the people who spent 4 years screaming what would happen from the rooftop, while the democrats spent 4 years either trying to be republicans or whining about how powerless they were instead using every measure at their disposal to do what the people whose votes they need are telling them to do?
It took trump all of a day to enact hundreds of life-changing policies. Don’t give me some horseshit about how the president of the united states was powerless.
Yes, it was definitely the fault of the people protesting genocide and telling the democrats the things they’re doing are incredibly unpopular, stop trying to be republicans, and not the democrats who told us to fuck off.
Really, if nobody protested, genocide would have been super popular and Kamala definitely would have won.
Sure are lot of liberals feeling smug about the most marginalized people in society being harmed these days. Something about scratch a liberal?
At the federal level taxes aren’t used to pay debt, they’re used to reduce the money supply. That money goes into a shredder, and is functionally unrelated to the money printed.
2·14 days agoIt’s not that ceremonial, like AUS, Canada has a Governor General appointed by the crown.
In 1975, the Governor General unilaterally removed Labor from power and put the Liberals in power. Canada’s Governor General has the same power.
I mean Reagan gave medals to the guys who shot down an Iranian passenger jet and eulogized the nun-raping Contras. But yeah, it’s unusual for the president to display such callousness, they usually have the common sense to pretend to care, after making decisions that end the lives of hundreds of thousands to millions of children.
This country is so cooked.
Anyone who wouldn’t pick the bear does not deserve bears.
That’s a thing on mainland China too. Apparently some of them think eating alone with a big stuffed animal in the middle of a restaurant is a thing of nightmares too.