[-] chaonaut@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

For whatever reason, when I'm hearing about Dems in the swing state I'm in, I'm hardly ever hearing why you should be excited to vote for the Dem candidate, but instead why the Rep candidate is so awful that you simply must vote Dem to stop them. Like, there was about a week(?) that Harris and Walz seemed to be coming out of the gate going "we're gonna be so awesome, don't even worry about the weirdos on the other side", but then it became "please, it is of Vital Importance you do not vote for Trump, we promise Harris will be better than him", and I just don't understand why they changed.

[-] chaonaut@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

... You do remember these are the same people that went unvaccinated and unmasked during COVID and took dewormer for a viral infection, right?

[-] chaonaut@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago

You know who look like whales? Problem spenders who spend far beyond their means, and are preyed upon by predatory business practices that use psychological manipulation to encourage people to spend as much as as they can. Like, I've literally watched video game developer conference talks where a dev explains in great detail and depth on how to hijack human psychology to milk every last dollar they can. Whales stopped being "those who can afford to spend" a long time ago.

[-] chaonaut@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago

The UAW struck after the railroad strike. And got Biden to personally come down to ask the what he could do to secure their vote. Both happened while Biden was in office. What are you even saying about why the railroad strike failed?

[-] chaonaut@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The Heritage Foundation is wild, and one of the most significant public policy groups with deep ties to American conservatism. Basically, any crazy policy that the Republican party has taken on as a major party plank in the past 50 years has a distressing high chance of having its roots in Heritage's recommendations.

For example, in 1981:

Among the 2,000 Heritage policy recommendations, approximately 60% of them were implemented or initiated by the end of Reagan's first year in office.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation

[-] chaonaut@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah, given how much Trump and Republicans lean on Heritage, and Trump has been talking about doing some "light" tyranny on day 1, it's ridiculous to attempt to write off the Heritage Foundations' plan to Christian Fascism.

[-] chaonaut@lemmy.world 37 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Now tell us how many Heritage Foundations recommendations do the Republicans and Trump take on board! Distancing the Heritage Foundations from them rather undersells the position of one of the most influential public policy organizations particularly within conservative politics.

[-] chaonaut@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

Sounds like a reason for Biden to set a whole bunch of legal precedent while he's still president.

[-] chaonaut@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago

What an absolutely deranged claim. What is it that "SJWs" are advocating for that you think is invalid? Because if it's something along the lines of "they should stop advocating for an oppressed group of people" you should really consider what it means to try to build political power. Unless you're going for "if we give the billionaires more stuff, maybe they'll let us have medical care, as a treat."

[-] chaonaut@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago

Ah, yes, the perennial take of "only those I deem socially acceptable should be allowed at pride". Happy Pride Month, everybody! Remember to leave all the parts of you that make people uncomfortable in the closet!

[-] chaonaut@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Ah, yes, the "laziness and entitlement" of risking becoming a political prisoner for checks notes not wanting to participate in a plausible genocide. Clearly, political prisoners and genocides have nothing to do with Israel.

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