I have to apologize to Keifer Sutherland and the creators of 24.
When they did an season where the President of the US was actively working against the country I threw my hands up and declared the show had jumped the shark.
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On a similar subject I'll say the creators of The Boys need to chill the fuck out. I have zero desire to watch a show only slightly more fucked up than reality.
Wouldn't that mean they need to go more off the rails instead of chill out?
They could make it WAY more fucked up instead
Yes, then it wouldn't hit as close to home. (But then, that was their goal.)
hey remember when we held our votes so that the Democrats would stop supporting genocide? congrats, now they're supporting 2 genocides (and probably a lot more I'm not aware of)
Every single vote abstainer is complicit in every terrible thing that is currently happening in the US.
I've combed through the statistics for the 2024 election multiple times. Just check my profile.
The uncommitted movement were some 700,000 strong. Those numbers were on par with RFK's votes since he didn't pull out of the race by the time he endorsed Trump.
Democrats lost voters in 2024, despite the eligible voting pool increasing. Republicans gain voters ofc.
Why are you focusing on the voters when it's the politician's job to CONVINCE voters they're worth voting for? And are we forgetting the awful transition by Biden to Kamala, where she had 3 months to campaign? Are we forgetting how Biden said he'd be a transition candidate, that he wouldn't run for a second term but then did so anyway to the surprise of his staff?
We could have held a primary where the American people could have at least had the impression that they were engaging in Democracy (only for the DNC to pick their favorite anyways).
Pleaseeeeeee stop blaming voters. You're repeating the cycle where those in power never have to change.
I'm gonna at least blame the stupid fucks that voted for the orange fat man larping as an early days Mussolini.
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I'm focused on both, I've been incredibly critical of the Democrats but I'm also critical of nonvoters because they've committed to it as a strategy to convince the Democrats to their own folly because it won't work, and only serves as accelerationism
I won't stop blaming the voters that just sit there and expect to be spoonfed perfect candidates like toddlers, instead of understanding one candidate wasn't perfect and the other is a fascist. The american electorate needs the plane noises and everything.
I won't stop blaming politicians that just sit there and expect to be spoonfed perfect votes like toddlers, instead of understanding that people's needs and wants change over time as shit happens in the world.
Wages have stagnated. Civil liberties are being restricted. Immigration sucks now, where empires live or die by import of not only goods but laborers that fire up the economy. Harassment is on the rise, especially in cyberspace where there are no protections. Infrastructure is either crumbling or insufficient for how people want to live. Smog, pollution, and greenhouse gases are jeopardizing our future. People are having less children which will surely fuck up the economy at some point for those that age out of the workforce. Corporations control law and order beyond what science and research tells us. Privacy is eroding. There are TONS of issues that politicians could run on to galvanize non-voters, and yes anti-genocide is one of those.
Democrats on the other hand would rather uphold existing institutions, however neololiberal they are, and chase after Republicans than run on popular, leftist policies.
If Democrats don't do what their constituents want, they will continue to lose elections. I think people want change, and I don't think Dems (or MAGAts) are willing to give that. The politicians must change. We shouldn't have to settle with mediocre, half baked centrism when we are now seeing the Right completely undermine and shock the existing system. Why can't Democrats do the same, but in the other direction?
Who the hell do you think these mythical Democrats should vote for? Some third party that won't win and will have a spoiler effect? The GOP whose policies help create the problems you've described?
What Republican is running on popular leftist policies? That's news to me.
You're right we shouldn't have to settle. Unfortunately we live in the real world where should doesn't matter and actions dictate our reality. I'd much rather take a milquetoast centrist that wants to preserve our democracy and important institutions vs a right-wing radical that wants to burn it all down.
Why can't Democrats do the same, but in the other direction?
They kind of are with AOC and Bernie Sanders on tour but it takes time. Not to mention, for better or worse, there are people trying to do the math of winning/losing voters and who is more or less likely to vote. For now, the DNC "professionals" are betting that they'd turn off more voters than they'd get if they ran further left candidates in more races.
I'm not sure I agree with them or the overall DNC strategy the past decade but the strategy and who they plan to back with money does seem to be moving further left so that's good.
Occasionally on my Reddit account I try to get people to see this point, but they’re enjoying their posturing as the “only people being moral” too much and refuse to listen.
People that virtue signal are THE WORST people. Murderers with no remorse are better because AT LEAST THEY ARE HONEST.
people who trip over their own morals and actively accelerate genocide ARE the worst.
but look none of this is meant to be a personal attack it's more so meant to make people examine if their actions are actually leading to the results they claim to want.
Don’t worry, his Russian handlers weren’t surprised at all.
All of these Trump officials using cloned telegram apps to send messages back to Russia is starting to make alot more sense now.
So they can recall guns but not citizens deported to gulag in El Salvador.
Do guns have more rights than people?
Always have.
Obviously can't have TRANSCOM, it needs to be renamed to CISWHITEMALECOM first
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That was the plan. The spectacle in the WH about suits was to convince Americans that Ukraine shouldn't be helped. Trump was convinced that blocking help to Ukraine will force them to surrender, and the war will be over.
When Ukraine and Poland contacted WH asking what was going on, WH just acted like they don't know what's happening.
It was one of those things where your boss’s boss asks you to do something. No biggie
Those flights you can stop. Flights that render people to overseas gulag? :shrug:
The DUI hire order the flights stopped when he found out they weren't full of whiskey
I know someone exactly like trump, who said the same thing about work he had me spend 3 days working on when it was inconvenient to admit the truth. I do not doubt at all that trump ordered this and threw hegseth under the bus.
If you don't do what Trump wants, you're fired. He doesn't tell you what he wants though...
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