The turnout was really high, the democrats main plan for this election was catering to the “moderate republicans” which backfired spectacularly (a smaller % of registered republicans voted for democrats than in 2020), left-wing was pretty much abandoned in the campaign… It’s a horror all around, and the democratic party only have themselves to blame for this blunder instead of trying to point fingers at literally everything (so far I’ve seen blame thrown on LGBTQ+, Biden, Kamala’s aides, left wing voters, etc).

The GDP of that household must be insane

Don’t get me wrong, I think that the left/right divide and talking shit about the right are both necessary. There are some right-wingers who aren’t idiots in the world, but most of the right-wing parties nowadays are just spreading hate and endangering certain groups of people while having policies that benefit the top crop.

My comment is about how while MAGA is a hate ideology and should be fought against, the anger shouldn’t be turned into personal attacks against regular people and should be directed towards ideology itself and people who benefit from it. It’s much harder to deprogram someone when the side that tries to deprogram them are actively shunning them on a personal level and calling them inherently terrible people, while it’s likely that the person joined MAGA because of their environment, similar to how religious communities and being born into them work.

Never really liked this argument, since it’s not really a contemporary political movement where you just read the policy and go “yup that sounds good”, it’s more akin to a cult with a large indoctrination campaign.

You have alternative news floating around on the same platforms as real ones, you’re told to not believe the “other side” as they’re all in league with one another and always lie, you can have coworkers or your community reinforce these things making it very hard to escape especially if you’ve been a part of it for years. The current ‘liberal politics’ and the living situation doesn’t help either too and does contribute to the general stress that makes people fall down these rabbitholes.

Granted, people who have a lot to benefit from MAGA and are acting as influencers for the movement should be rightfully hated, but not really regular people. I do believe that a lot of people who currently are going to (begrudgingly) vote for democrats could definitely be part of the MAGA cult given different environment (such as work, living area or community they’re part of).

Point is, hate the movement, not the people. While it’s very difficult, it’s possible to deradicalize someone and vilification is not really going to help with that.

Can’t say I haven’t seen the conflict used as propaganda to encourage not voting - that does exist and it’s counterproductive assuming there’s no massive direct action campaigns going on at the same time (which would probably have to be something massive, something akin to a left’s version of January 6th).

That being said, how is criticizing Kamala about her stance on Israel a bad faith criticism? I genuinely do not understand - there’s a literal genocide going on there being committed by Israel, with Palestinians being deliberately starved, bombed and Gaza being mostly rubble by now. Aggression is being shown to their neighbors now as well with the conflict being escalated by Israel, and US directly supports both of these horrible events.

What’s happening right now in Gaza is akin to the holocaust, at least according to some historians specializing in the field, and just handwaving it as some non-issue that will be forgotten just to protect your preferred political candidate from any kind of criticism is just sad.

If US stopped sending billions in weapons for Israel to kill whoever their current target is, that would be a huge blow to the whole ‘conflict’ (as in, a colonial genocide). Neither of the candidates are willing to do anything of the sort though - Kamala has pledged to continue supporting Israel while Trump has pledged to give all the support Israel needs to ‘finish the job quickly’.

And while yes, there’s nuance to be found like with literally everything in the world, it’s not a reason to dismiss any criticisms thrown at your preferred candidate.

Also notice how people online who go out of their way to “own the libs” and who also say they don’t care about politics (or are neutral) never go after conservatives, even though they’re often much funnier to ‘own’.

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I kinda get the accelerationist-like game plan conservatives are doing here (voting down funding and then blaming the other political side), but it’s just so evil considering that alternative options would actually help people and achieve the same effect.

Vote for relief funding, maybe do some “helping” for press photos to look good, spend some billionaire money that conservatives aren’t lacking for fundraisers then boast about it, calling democrats and current administration ineffective. Same result but it might save lives with the added bonus that nobody can call you out on lying.

Is it really so hard to do some good every once in a while? It really feels like conservatives are allergic to morally good deeds.

I’m curious how many houses/apartments are unused in the US, acting as a speculative asset and if building more is even necessary.

Wonder if this is real or just ragebait, really can’t be sure in the current day lmao

Yeah, though there’s also the phenomena of older folks generally being more against change and clinging in the past more, the idea being that you have less future to look forward to (since you’re closer to death than your birth) so instead you look towards the past and become nostalgic about it.

ERP can also refer to Erotic Role Play

Whenever I see companies use ERP as an acronym, I can’t help but wonder if they’re aware of its more general meaning

That’s weird, I thought klansmen don’t have to hide their faces behind hoods anymore after Trump. Someone should tell the guy to get with the times

Yahoo is just a terrible news source in general tbh

Pull the lever as fast as possible and hope that the trolley doesn’t have enough force to push through the pile of people you just generated.

Then continue gambling with your newfound moral superiority

Having to re-read the same sentence multiple times until you actually start paying attention to what it says is pain

This is precisely why I gave up on getting an IT career lmao, fuck interviews

Jump out of the plane mid-flight