#yes America is a racist sexist country

[uchiha-gaeshi]

Noooo mum pls stop saying that “America is not ready for a black woman president,” the issue is wayyy beyond that at this point.

[odinsblog]

“Every time I talk to people, they talk about the economy. But I'm like, man, since World War II, the economy has always done better under a Democrat president. That's just a fact.

It's always been Democrats. There's been 11 recessions in this country. Ten of them have been Republicans.

So I don't know how they've hijacked that narrative. But I think the other thing that you just got to chock it up to is just good old fashioned racism. And I think in the case of Vice President Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton 2016, sexism.

I just really do, like it's still America at the end of the day. There are people in this country who are still just holding on to old ideologies. They don't want to see America be a great American melting pot where all of these different people from all of these different walks of life can live.

They like that racist, sexist, bigoted rhetoric that Trump spews.

Why is it so hard for her to say that?

I think because for whatever reason, like, you know, you hate these elected officials even when you say, is America a racist country? OK, you can't say America is a racist country, but you can say that, you know, there's systemic racism in America. I think that is a fair thing to say.

Like, I watched her on Fox News the other night, and I loved how she handled Bret Baer. When Bret Baer tried to push her, Bret Baer was like, are you saying the American people are stupid? I can't remember how he worded it, but she was like, ‘No, I would never say that because I don't want to disparage the American people. But my opponent has no problem doing that.’

And I understand that approach, you know, but I think that it is perfectly fine to acknowledge that those things exist because guess what? As a Black man, as a Black woman, you feel that.

As a woman, you feel that sexism. As a Jewish person, you think you don't feel all the antisemitism that's happening right here in our country. Like as a gay person, you think you don't feel the homophobia.

So you can speak to what people are feeling because you see it.”

There was an amazing moment in the interview where someone comes along and brings up the F word, fascism.

Kamala Harris: It's two very different visions for our nation. One mind that is about taking us forward and progress and investing the American people, investing in their ambitions, dealing with their challenges. And the other, Donald Trump, is about taking us backward

Charlamagne: The other is about fascism. Why can't we just say it?

Kamala Harris: Yes, we can say that.

Tell me about what transpired there and how you felt about it.

“Well, it was the same thing that we just said, right? Like, you know, she was saying what she's about, and then she was saying what he's about.

And I was just like, yo, just say it.

Like, he's a fascist. You just had General Mark Milley just said he's a fascist to the core, like a danger to the country. So for me, it's like the American people will never understand the threat that Donald Trump is if people aren't spelling it out.

They didn't treat him like he's a threat to democracy. They kept saying that he's a threat democracy. They kept saying that he's a threat to democracy, but Merrick Garland should have locked Trump up after the coup. Right?

I was literally watching something yesterday and there was a person talking and the person was like, if Donald Trump, you know, really let an attempted coup of this country, why didn't they arrest him? They did. They did charge him.

But there's so many people who don't even know because he's not treated like that. We know we live in a society that knows how to demonize people when they want to. Right?

You can look at it, and I'm just going to use this as an example. Not saying that it's not warranted that it's happening, but look at somebody like Diddy. Front page of every newspaper, all over the news.

You hear about every charge. Like you see it, you see it, you see it over and over. They don't villainize and demonize Trump in that way.

You've never seen Trump in handcuffs. You saw one Trump mugshot. Like they don't treat it like.

The media has continuously treated Donald Trump and his whole candidacy like it's normal, which is mind boggling to me.”

What do we have to... Not to be defensive, but jumping up and down, what do we have to do? I mean, how many different ways can you say it?

“You know why it doesn't penetrate? Because Americans are spoiled and we don't think it can happen here because it's never happened here.

Like if you talk to older people who were closer to that, who can remember things like, ‘Oh my God, he's doing a rally at Madison Square Garden.’

That's what happened in the 30s with the Nazis.

If you can talk to people who understand that, they get it. This generation doesn’t.

If you have a sense of history and you've read things like The Fall of The Third Reich, things like that, you can see the patterns that lead to somebody like Trump becoming a dictator. I just don't think people think dictatorship is possible in America, but it is, because our democracy is very fragile.”

—Charlamagne tha God, on election 2024

[ultraericthered]

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Or same-ish?

Like so many of us, I am still horrified by the election results from yesterday, and I fucking hate that the outcome did not go the way it ought to have because so many fuckwits in this damned, broken down husk of a nation on (yes really) both sides of the political aisle did not learn the lessons of history and allowed it to repeat itself.

I am distraught because this was the ultimate high stakes election that would decide the salvation of the American Experiment as it was concieved of and built upon by the founding fathers in 1776 and restored once by Abraham Lincoln and the Northern Union in 1865, or the damnation of the country as it breaks apart by choosing and accepting the instillation of a theocratic fascist dictatorship that wipes its ass with the Constitution, shits all over the fundamental ideals of American democracy, and rules in a way reminiscent of and even approved of by our enemies...and the damnation was fulfilled, the Neo Confederacy has won, the United States of America as we knew it exists no more. It's dead. We played Russian Roulette with our nation's future and got the bullet. We committed national suicide.

I am heartbroken because this was the one chance to determine the path forward and the shape that the later 2020s would take for not just the USA but the world at large. Our chance at a future where Trump and his MAGA Cult Party finally, after almost a decade, finally recedes as a force in our national politics, news, society, and the world around us. He's taken so much from us already, wrecked so many lives and relationships, and has got us all so damn tired of him. I was so hoping we could finally turn the page on him. "We're Not Going Back" and all that. And nope! The Trump As Hitler arc has been fulfilled and things with MAGA will get worse in the later 2020s before they can ever get better. The Cold Civil War goes on and on.

And most of all, I am disgusted because due to all this, Trump got exactly the win he wanted. Post-2020/Covid response Trump. Post-Januray 16 Trump. Post-felony indictiment and conviction Trump. After a series of political miscalculations and public humiliations, a rapidly accelerating mental decline, and the worst, most inept, most nakedly racist, sexist, xenophobic, angry, fascistic, pro-authoritarian, anti-democracy, psychopathically hateful and disdainful of the country campaign ever waged in politics, culminating with a literal Nazi Rally at Madison Square Garden, everything that should have been setting him up for a spectacular downfall...instead, he wins. Again. The misogynstic rapist swine is favored by voters over yet another infinitely more qualified woman that he's "put in her place" and denied us our first female President for a second time, he gets to reverse of the election outcome he kicked and screamed and whined and cried and betrayed our country and did a coup over just to reverse, and he gets to avoid being held legally accountable for his crimes. The charges will all go away, he never goes to prison. All thanks to a voting electorate more irreparably broken then we could've ever imagined. A fallen nation filled with minds that have been shattered by harsh realities, poisoned by propaganda, and so spoiled that they take their civil blessings and liberties as Americans for granted, souls that have been corroded and gone 99% defective. Donald Trump is America and America is Donald Trump.

However, there's a caveat here. None of us can look into the future to know for sure what it'll hold, not even the very near future. Times are uncertain once more and we're going to have to accept that. And on Trump's end, as nightmare inducing as the prospect of him and his sycophantic loyalist cronies at the levers of power once again and even worse than before may be, especially with Project 2025 as a thing, there are two beacons of hope shining in the face of this immeasurable darkness.

First is, like I said, history has repeated. We've seen this movie before. Trump has vendetta against a male Democratic President that he refuses to shut up about, he runs for President as a fascist, nativist, populist demagogue stoking the fears, rage, grievance, resentments and prejudices of a good chunk of the population that will go vote for him, and he wins the election against a female Democratic candidate in an upset victory, getting the win he desired and his revenge against the man he takes the keys to the Oval Office from....and then has to actually live in the White House, run the country, and do the job he'd bitched about the previous guy not doing well enough by his standards. And he sucks at it way, way, waaaaaay worse, having to deal with all the tough decisions and bad press and stresses of the job that previous Presidents took with more dignity and grace, except he whinges and whines like a little bitch about how nasty and unfair to him everyone and everything is. Swap out the name "Barrack Obama" for "Joe Biden" and the name "Hillary Clinton" for "Kamala Harris", and the series of events are identical. Everything that Trump has sent around, every bit of cruelty, hate, hurtfulness, negativity, toxicity and even violence is once again going to come back around on him, but this time, he won't be in the shoes of Barrack Obama this time - he's already landed right in the shoes of Joe Biden. He's 78 years old and people are already noticing his aging, increased physical frailty, weaker and hoarser voice, low energy, and regularly accelerating cognitive decline into dimentia. He's again going to be unable to live up to all the huge, wild promises he made on the campaign trail, which will be especially hurtful should he crash the economy, drive prices back up, and cause the very recession people were dooming about Biden causing. And most deliciously ironic of all, while so far not widespread and not yielding any drastic measures from the Left, there are conspiratorial rumors floating around about foul play done to rig and steal the 2024 election for Trump after Kamala Harris had ended up the narrow favorite to win just before it, much of it fueled by Trump's own words he said while running his big fat filthy mouth like "You don't have to vote, we've got all the votes we need" and talk about a "big secret" that he and Mike Johnson know and all his thanks and flattery to Elon Musk. The allegations are going to hound him starting now and into his presidency. He's going to have to face a nation with people who view his presidency as illegitimate and fraudulent, the same situation he made Joe Biden have to face. And now that he and his MAGA freak show cabal run the executive branch, his party got the Senate majority and a possible narrow House majority rettained, and he even has SCOTUS Justices on his side, this means there's no more Democratic leadership that they all can scapegoat for the country's problems. THEY are "the regime" now. Everyhing that will occur in the country starting next year will occur ON THEIR WATCH. They're holding the bag for everything now. And they're going to regret it.

Second is, and while this is an ironically darker shade of light, while we may have to brace ourselves to see inevitable divisions in this broken country not seen since the Civil War, this also means that local governments and state governments, namely in Blue and Purple States, will push back against federal overreach and fight back against the MAGA regime when they attempt their fascist shit. And should said fascist shit go truly beyond the pale, such as mass deportation raids for legal immigrants and attempts to mow down dissenters to the Far Right with the National Guard or military, there will be counterstrikes, protests, riots, and revolutionary action taken the likes of which this country has never known in ages. So long as good people still live, still stand, still fight in all the right positions, whether they be elected leaders or private citizens, evil won't prevail.

Also, let's be real, how likely is it that Trump even makes it through all 4 years? Whether a bullet fired at his face finally hit its target or he experiences terminal age and health complications, he could be done at a time none of us are ready for it. He's nowhere near the imposing titan in the prime of his life that most strongman dictators start as, and he is so easy to ridicule, now more than ever. So let's all show him what a big joke we think he, his regime, and his country are, and that we do not respect nor fear him. Let's all drive him even crazier and sadder and smaller and more stressed 'til he can't survive it!

All decent Americans out there, buckle up for the fight of our lives. The latter 2020s should be interesting times, but I can promise you that if we live together, fight together, support one another, and navigate our way through this with resilience, we'll make it through.

[jyndor]

I think some of you need to remember that the majority of the country is made up of normies who don't like instability and especially are uncomfortable with the unhinged prejudiced rhetoric that the republicans spew. I'm not saying the majority isn't racist or sexist but absolutely they don't like it being so overt and messy. they just want to be able to go to brunch.

the republicans don't know how they sound to most normal people.

the idea of kamala being a former prosecutor and trump being a fucking weirdo sex pest and literal felon is going to make so many normies come in their pants lmao. through in the idea of kamala defending abortion from those freaks, and also kamala being actually critical of biden's palestine policy several months ago, and yeah I mean its not gonna be hard to get people to support her, and support her enthusiastically.

and one final thing: we elected a man with the middle name HUSSEIN in 2008 and re-elected his ass in 2012. in THE UNITED STATES OF ISLAMOPHOBIA. LMAO like yes america is racist as hell, is misogynistic as hell too, but do not buy into the idea that hrc lost because of misogyny. she had a decades long smear campaign against her by the republicans, and also she is extremely unlikeable and representative of political elitism. and she STILL won the popular vote, but because she sucks she didn't campaign in wisconsin for example. it's way more complicated than how it's been portrayed.

anyway, americans hate trump so much. this should actually be a lay up.

[iliveforyouilongforyouvesuvia]

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[wherearethetacos]

Honestly, the Democratic Party have no one to blame, but themselves. They were stubborn from the very beginning, since the last election. They were not listening to the people. I commend Kamala for running a campaign in the short amount of time that she had, but man was it a cringy. Yes she had policy, but her entire campaign was that she wasn't Trump and that they weren't Republicans.

They were insulting people that were undecided, demasculating the men, and not hearing the voices of people fighting against genocide. They didn't do enough to celebrate the success of what Biden's presidency was able to accomplish and they sure as hell weren't able to solidify what they'd do differently. It was a moment of wanting you cake and eating it. You can't have it both was, especially when people are concerned with the economy and unfortunately everything did get worse during Biden's presidency, due to the previous president. Optics are everything, even though he did his best, but it wasn't enough and you needed to lean into that more.

Reproductive rights are important topics, but it wasn't the only issue. You had to encourage and tell people that the main focus will be on the economy, immigration, and genocide and that we will go in a more positive direction, not that "it's gonna be worse under Trump" as your platform.

While, I don't like Trump and totally did not vote for him, at least he was telling people that he would fix things and that he would listen. He's a total joke, but at least he knows how to rally people behind him without undermining the working class. Even for show, he did go "work" at a McDonald's and as a Garbage man, again optics are everything. What did Kamala do? Host a MTV concert, scold people for not wanting to vote for her, and party with elites.

The Democratic Party are just as much to blame for the situation that we are going to be in, in the coming 4years. Yes America can be racist and sexist, and that has something to do with why she lost, but ultimately her campaign was not very good at the end of the day. It didn't speak to the everyday person that's not in a liberal echochamber and chronically online.

Let's hope this time around Trump can do better, I'm hoping he can. I can't wish for the downfall of this country. People keep fighting the good fight and protect your fellow neighbors, if does go bad.

But this was a the kick in the mouth the Democratic Party needed. They need to focus on everyday people again and actually listen to the concerns of everyday people.

[wyrmfedgrave]

Pics: And things seemed to be going 'smoothly' for the Republikkkan Nazis.

1. My caption reads (purposely miss repeating Star Wars 4), "There's not a worse den of riffraff in 12 parsecs!!"

But, I really like the more succinct, "Hell No!!"

Which is much better...

2. Math is 1 thing that the American oligarchs are on top of.

They use their accountants to cheat the rest of the country.

Cause they're so much better than anyone else...

3. Now who's the oldest mental head case to try & steal our elections?!!

4. So, the Republikkkans are now all trying to 'attack' VP Harris.

But, they're now trying not to use any racist or sexist language in their usual virulent ads...

Which is backfiring on them!!

The Rump actually has racists turning on him because of a 'heartfelt' letter that he sent to a Muslim police officer.

So, they're voting against tRump - for him not being racist enough!!

Only in America...

5. Yes, the Rump's recovered enough to ramble ever on - without anything to actually say!

Just the usual macho crap - when he remembers...

Pics: Other things to worry about!

1. What's going on with the Secret Service?

This is 1 of their worse 'showings' ever!

Since Kennedy's assassination - at least...

2. A world of too much info seems to leave most of us with too many fears.

Especially, when a lot of conspiracy theories are 'running' the world!!

Being used to take advantage of others & leaving good folk to not trust anyone else...

3. There's already been a tech bubble crash in our past!

But, corporations seem to now build newer bubbles every couple of years.

The same thing is happening to the 'false money' (Bitcoin, etc...) bubbles...

All because regular banks don't pay much in interest, causing people to try more risky 'options'...

4. Climate change - the 'forgotten' problem that can kill us all...

The weather is getting worse, medical & industrial pollution sees no letdown & only a few folk & companies are actively trying to do something about it...

5. Now, add up all of those problems - together!!

Sadly, all of the attention is now on the US election - with enough twists & turns to make a great TV series!

Otherwise, we keep leaving such 'Big' problems for scientists to solve.

Well, they could use your local help!

It doesn't have to be a sudden, giant change in your life.

But, you can help out just by following a small step approach.

Those little changes do add up...

End - for now.

[beardedmrbean]

“Oh my god I’m a descendant of slave owners?!” Woah, now you are going to tell me that several chinese have cannibals ancestors (especially towards kids) and central Asians are descendants of a prolific rapist

Who they often make big statues for

The founding fathers are green with envy

Also what with the Latinos shitshow

My brothers in Christ most of your countries and cultures was the result of colonialism.

If we were to ever decolonized the Americas, 95% of the continents population went bye bye

Oh no a PUERTO RICAN have European blood?

She does know what a taino or native mesoamerican looks like right?

Also I think a lot of non whites (especially black Americans) think we never cross breed unless it’s was non consensual

Which is a lie-also a lot of confederate soldiers married black women

The Jim Crow laws was to keep us divided much like the crack did in the 80’s

Also I think a lot of non whites (especially black Americans) think we never cross breed unless it’s was non consensual

I wouldn't use the term cross breed, but ya.

Was also thinking Latin America would have a tough time specifically because of that, there were no empires to conquer in what became the US or Canadian territories meanwhile we had the Aztec Emprie in Mexico, the Mayan Empire in Central America, Inca Empire in western South America, and there might be some more that I'm missing

But ya they were already organized into societies so once they were subjugated it got easier to hoard resources without sending so many people over so there's a lot of confusion that would be going on there.

As for

“Oh my god I’m a descendant of slave owners?!”

Everyone has something in their family history that if they were held accountable for it today would land them in hot water, thankfully we're not responsible for the sins of our ancestors.

If we were reparations for slavery would bankrupt every nation and person in the world, and that would just be step one.

Also what with the Latinos shitshow My brothers in Christ most of your countries and cultures was the result of colonialism.

Yes the border crossed you, but you wouldn't have been there if the area hadn't been colonized.

Also as I'm sure most Texans will be able to tell you, while the US gave military and economic assistance to the Republic of Texas, it was the people of Texas that decided to seek independence from Mexico, those people included the Latino population of Mexico wasn't just transplants from the US doing it so if your family was in the territory then and has been there the whole time it's possible they helped in the fight for independence from Mexico.

In the end with all of this it's mostly just important to remember that sunny hostin is a terrible person who is both incredibly racist and sexist, gonna be a few other things she is too but those are good enough to start with.

[beoneofus]

despite living in america, I hate it so much because this country isn't “ free ”. It never has been and I despise the folks that claim it being as so. like yes you can take a piss in your backyard if you felt like it, but that's not the definition of freedom this country is supposed to fucking represent. you shouldn't be debating one's life just because they switch the genital between their legs or live as who they truly were meant to be. you shouldn't be able to decide whether or not someone is edible to work somewhere cause of their hair or whatever other reason regarding sexuality, race, anything personal (despite putting in their policy at jobs that no discrimination is tolerated they still tend to fucking discriminate). and don't even get me started on people in the higher authority. why are you letting racists, homophobes and sexists run in the house of representatives (and any other higher league)? if anything that shit right there goes against the conduct of this fucking entirety alone.

[ket-pupp]

why are we acting like she had a good campaign ?? she just spewed old republican talking points and policies. most lethal military, “protect our borders” bullshit, not a goddamn mention of the attack on LGBTQ+ rights that’s been happening nationwide. she paraded around LIZ CHENEY FOR FUCKS SAKE. she ran a terrible campaign. the dipshit lost so many fucking votes entirely because she chose to keep supporting israel and defending their genocide of the Palestinian people. the results are the way they are because of how fuckibg dumb she was with this campaign. utterly useless to act like her losing was just cause she’s a black woman. she’s a bad politician and person.

in what fucking world, when you’re running against literal nazis, would you think the GOOD idea is to say “i’ll respect the nazis that call for my extermination, i’ll even invite them into my cabinet :) there are some fine people there.” she ran against a racist rapist felon that wants to destroy this country and it’s people. and she chose to take the high road. that doesn’t fucking work in these situations. you cant be nice, or find a compromise, or appeal to those freaks. her trying to garner republican votes and to win them over to her side was an utter failure. her gaining maybe like 50 republicans to side with her also had her losing so much support from leftists and democrats who actually care. people that just chose not to vote, or went 3rd party.

yes, america is full of absolute fucking idiots. uninformed/misinformed, racist, sexist, bigoted people are widespread. but if she ignored trying to win them over, and instead focused on the actual majority, people that agree with progressive policy, she could’ve won. but she didn’t. she tried to befriend the nazis. she was terrible and her campaign was an embarrassment to what the democratic party was supposed to be, what it (kinda) used to be.

i say all this as someone that still voted for her. because as fucking rancid as she was, trump is an actual demon that will try and ruin your life if you live here.

[textingaboutprometheus]

I live in PA in a very working class area, full of latinos, black and white people with no college education. It’s considered middle of the road politically and my city voted for Obama twice, then Trump, Biden, and Trump again. I was very involved in this election, talking to people everyday, trying to elect Kamala. I’m here to say that racism, sexism, Gaza, authoritarianism, hate of democrats, none of this caused these results. These issues exist and it feeds his base but doesn’t really bring new people in. And his base, no matter how culty and vocal they are, was not enough to elect him.

Kamala lost for 3 major reasons and very likely, any other Democrat would lave lost as well. IMO, she lost due to inflation, immigrants and cultural issues, in this order. I’m going to talk here about people who voted for Trump and are are NOT maga, are not part of his cult, are not what we, on the left, imagine how all Trump voters are. These are not my views, but what I heard days and days and days when talking to people of all races, men and women, young and old in my area.

To start, yes, Trump is a convicted felon, a rapist, he’s racist, corrupt and everything else. People should take this in consideration before everything else but I can’t emphasize enough how low ALL politicians are seen in our country. And I mean LOOOOWWWW. For many people, with very few exceptions (Obama is still seen as a very decent man here), all politicians are like Trump, did exactly the same things and were just not exposed yet because they are part of the establishment.

People don’t care other countries also have inflation because of Covid, they only see the high prices in their grocery stores and, right or wrong, blame the president in power at that time. Kamala as a VP was seen as an incumbent who didn’t fix this problem before, and imo, was not able to really show what/how she would act different now. She should’ve separated herself from Biden way more but obviously didn’t or couldn’t do that.

Immigrants are seen as a VERY SERIOUS problem outside Twitter and Democrat spaces. Yes, there are lots of racism (Trump’s base), but for everybody else, is just seeing more people competing with Americans, taking their jobs by accepting lower salaries. In my area for example, construction jobs were mainly done by black Americans not so long ago (in my lifetime) and now is almost 100% immigrants. This impacts men more than women because these jobs are done primarily by men so that may explain Trump’s huge gains with men of color all over the country.

Cultural issues are so difficult to talk about. The reality is that America is not that progressive. Gay marriage was a big deal to a lot of people (and let me say here that minorities are MORE conservative than whites regardng this) but it was eventually accepted by most. But the leap from 2 men (or women) in love should have the right to get married to the very progressive issues of today, is too much I guess. There’s too much in volved in the vc trans and DEI debates to talk about here, andi mim not all bad from conservatives by the way, but cultural issues are one of the most significant differences between the left/ vci Democrats and everybody else. Even left leaning people in my city, people who are not racist, not sexist, not conservative, pro choice, pro gay rights, believe/know they live in a very different word from what we see from DNC people in person, watch on TV and read online.

Another point before I stop. Abortion access concerned a lot of women here, but many of them didn’t believe it would change nationally or thought it was fair for each state to have a vote to decide it. Also, not every pro-choice woman in America agrees with the DNC stance on abortion, so maybe a more nuanced view would help? I don’t know, I heard very crass things from DNC operatives about abortion that would make a lot of people run (like how abortions are not a big deal, they are not babies anyway, etc). Even if you think exactly like that, talking about it in a more respectful way would go a long way (latinos for example are very anti abortion and hearing “it’s just a bunch of cells” really pisses people off).

I’m deeply disappointed with the election today, I read this was the worst Democrat results in 40 years and I believe it. My area went from center left purple to deep red and I live here, I know this was NOT about Trump.

I can’t sleep and feel completely defeated.

I'm a white American with a low income.job. I make less than $25k a year. I don't have the qualifications to do anything else because I never really learned any skills.

And I know for a fact that Republicans are worse the economy than Democrats. Everything you said is accurate but awful.

I don't see immigration as a problem personal. Immigration is good for the economy. I'm devastated.

[thatstormygeek]

Aside from being a white man from the Midwest to “balance” the ticket according to more conventional campaign wisdom, it really matters what Democrats in Minnesota achieved under his leadership. His ascension should be read as a statement of intent: Look what we have done in Minnesota – yes, that’s what we want for all Americans. Republicans are certainly trying to transplant to the national level what they are already doing in “red” states: Impose a reactionary vision by increasingly authoritarian measures. This has been the biggest advantage for Democrats over the past few election cycles. Rightwingers can talk about the dangers of “woke” radicalism all they want. But Americans see, in “red” states, what GOP rule means, as Republicans are rolling back fundamental rights, installing vindictive reactionary regimes. Walz represents the positive counter to that. Not just “We reject the Right’s vision for the country,” but “Here’s what a fairer, more egalitarian pluralistic America looks like” – not just in theory, but in the form of actual legislation, and based on narrow majorities too.

The idea that attacking leading figures on the Right as “weird” obscures a more substantive discussion about the issues that really matter in favor of empty campaign rhetoric is similarly misleading. The attack hasn’t just been directed at weird mannerisms, rhetoric, or superficial stylistic features – it has been directly tied to policy. What’s weird is the Right’s obsession with controlling women’s bodies and subjecting children to full-body inspections before letting them do sports; what’s weird is banning popular children’s books; what’s weird is abandoning all attempts at figuring out how to solve collective action challenges via public policy because you are too busy propagating conspiracies about the evil forces that have supposedly taken over all the institutions of American life. The official thrust of the Harris campaign has been seamlessly building on that: What these weird guys want to do is take away fundamental freedoms that most Americans agree should define the nation – but we are not going back to that dark place to which they want to take us. Democrats – and by extension: (almost) all the people who, for better or worse, rely on America’s sole (small-d) democratic party to fight back against the authoritarian assault – are feeling relieved. They are on the offensive. They are, dare we say it, having fun. The reactions from the Right have been immensely helpful too, as rightwingers have reliably lost it and freaked out in ways that are really not doing much to dispute the impression that they are weirdos (witness Christopher Rufo’s rather unhinged tirades against Walz, for instance). The Right desires to project strength and intimidate those who dare to deviate from the reactionary vision; “you guys are just weird” directly undermines these assertions. Another reason for the immediate success of this messaging is probably that it provides a way to attack the Right’s aggressively bigoted political project without calling them racists, sexists, or homophobes. If that is indeed the case, I feel somewhat ambiguous about it. The tendency in the mainstream political discourse to discard terms like “racist” and “sexist” – or fascist! – as merely slurs, rather than analytically correct assessments of core elements of the rightwing worldview, and to consequently regard those who call out racism and sexism with as much suspicion as the discriminatory structures and behavior that we urgently need to call out, is a disaster. Given this frustrating reality, however, it’s good to have found a way to circumvent those taboos to some extent, in a way that doesn’t give an inch to the rightwing agenda on substance. Tim Walz himself plays a crucial role in this respect: He is modeling a white male masculinity that is not either obsessed with its own power over others and/or consumed by whining about its own frailty, but confidently focused on using the power and privilege that comes with being a “normal” white Christian man to improve the lives of others.

Since the late 1960s, Republicans have successfully weaponized the idea that they represent the norm that should define the nation. This assertion (in)famously crystallized in the “silent majority” notion Richard Nixon popularized early in his presidency. In his address to the nation on the war on Vietnam in November 1969, Nixon spoke to – and, as he claimed, for – “the great silent majority of my fellow Americans.” Nixon presented himself as the proponent and defender of these normal, everyday Americans, of “the quiet voice in the tumult and the shouting,” as he had put it in his speech accepting the nomination at the Republican Convention in August 1968: “It is the voice of the great majority of Americans, the forgotten Americans – the non-shouters; the non-demonstrators.” These Americans, according to Nixon, were under assault from the loud radicals, the protesters, the young hippies, and the Black people causing “unrest.” Nixon’s “silent majority” was unmistakably white, it was older, it shared conservative or even reactionary sensibilities. He precisely captured the trajectory of the Republican Party, both ideologically but also in terms of the demographics and self-perception of its supporters. The civil rights legislation of the 1960s had acted as a catalyst for a longer-term process of party realignment or partisan sorting. The result was a profound reconfiguration of the two major parties, ultimately uniting those opposed to egalitarian, multiracial, pluralistic democracy in the GOP. Their voices have dominated the Republican Party since at least the late 1970s. The mainstream political discourse – and far too many Democrats as well (more on that in a second) – has accepted and perpetuated this assertion of a white conservative Christian norm that is supposedly shared by the majority of Americans for far too long. ... For the longest time, most leading Democratic officials and lawmakers were unwilling and/or unable to really pounce on this drastic discrepancy between the Republican claim to power and the GOP’s descent into extremism and its embrace of reactionary minority rule. A distinct asymmetry in the way the two sides treat each other has defined the political conflict: While the GOP has been engaging in an escalating authoritarian assault on the political system and Republican leaders could not have been clearer about the fact that they consider Democrats the “Un-American” enemy within and Democratic governance fundamentally illegitimate, powerful Democrats have acted as is politics as usual is still possible and a return to bipartisanship and cross-party consensus, to “normalcy,” imminent.

[a-tale-never-told]

Btw seeing as the West don’t approve of South Japan’s racist and sexist polices does this mean whenever a South Japanese visits any foreign countries people just assume they are hardcore racists?

Pretty much yes, the South Japanese are like the South Africa of the world. every time a visit happens between one nation and South Japan, expect unhappiness and frustration.

The only one that can't visit the South is the North, as rarely do they visit the South. Instead, most meetings and summits with the North Japanese government are in the North itself. Soviet politicians are greeted with cold and tense feelings in the South, which is mutual to the Russians.

Even relationships with America had been strained over the past few years. Pretty much, ever since Bush Sr became president, there have been strained relations with the South, only made incredibly worse when Mckain picked Obama as his Vice president.

[ruined-crow-boy]

YES! Our corrupt government (I'm from Aotearoa/NZ too) is taking rights from all but the rich white folk! They are desecrating our founding documents, damaging our efforts to support indigenous people and languages (Māori people and language). They are using the fast-tracking method to pass bills and laws that were used by the previous government to address COVID (i.e putting us in lockdown and saving hundreds of thousands of lives) and using it to introduce racist, sexist, abelist, and LGBTQ+phobic bills and laws WITHOUT needing public approval!!

THEY ARE KILLING OUR LAND, OUR COMMUNITIES, OUR HOMES, OUR PEOPLE, OUR HEALTH, AND OUR LANGUAGES!!! THEIR ACTIONS ARE KILLING WHAT MAKES US UNIQUE. THEY ARE HURTING US AND EVERYTHING WE STAND FOR, PURELY FOR FINANCIAL GAIN!

Our political parties' leaders (the ones currently in power) are avoiding having to pay taxes, and using their political influence to gain power over things! They are stripping away Māori rights by not honoring The Treaty of Waitingi (Te Tiriti o Waitingi) this includes land, language, healthcare, safety, security etc. We have one of the most fragile ecosystems here in NZ and they are not only avoiding creating laws to protect it, but they are actively trying to harm it!!

While all the focus is on America and their upcoming election, we aren't focusing on our own country's issues as much as we need to be. It has now been almost a year and they've done even more harmful things to us.

Our country is dying. There's almost nothing we can do. Fuck the government and TOITŪ TE TIRITI!!!!

USA please listen to me: the price of “teaching them a lesson” is too high. take it from New Zealand, who voted our Labour government out in the last election because they weren’t doing exactly what we wanted and got facism instead.

Trans rights are being attacked, public transport has been defunded, tax cuts issued for the wealthy, they've mass-defunded public services, cut and attacked the disability funding model, cut benefits, diverted transport funding to roads, cut all recent public transport subsidies, cancelled massive important infrastructure projects like damns and ferries (we are three ISLANDS), fast tracked mining, oil, and other massive environmentally detrimental projects and gave the power the to approve these projects singularly to three ministers who have been wined and dined by lobbyists of the companies that have put the bids in to approve them while one of the main minister infers he will not prioritise the protection of endangered species like the archeys frog over mining projects that do massive environmental harm. They have attacked indigenous rights in an attempt to negate the Treaty of Waitangi by “redefining it”; as a backup, they are also trying to remove all mentions of the treaty from legislation starting with our Child Protection laws no longer requiring social workers to consider the importance of Maori children’s culture when placing those children; when the Waitangi Tribunal who oversees indigenous matters sought to enquire about this, the Minister for Children blocked their enquiry in a breach of comity that was condemned in a ruling — too late to do anything — by our Supreme Court. They have repealed labour protections around pay and 90 day trials, reversed our smoking ban, cancelled our EV subsidy, cancelled our water infrastructure scheme that would have given Maori iwi a say in water asset management, cancelled our biggest city’s fuel tax, made our treasury and inland revenue departments less accountable, dispensed of our Productivity Commission, begun work on charter schools and military boot camps in an obvious push towards privatisation, cancelled grants for first home buyers, reduced access to emergency housing, allowed no cause evictions, cancelled our Maori health system that would have given Maori control over their own public medical care and funding, cut funding of services like budgeting advice and food banks, cancelled the consumer advocacy council, cancelled our medicine regulations, repealed free prescriptions, deferred multiple hospital builds, failed to deliver on pre-election medical promises, reversed a gun ban created in response to the mosque shootings, brought back three strikes = life sentence policy, increased minimum wage by half the recommended amount, cancelled fair pay for disabled workers, reduced wheelchair services, reversed our oil and gas exploration ban, cancelled our climate emergency fund, cut science research funding including climate research, removed limits on killing sea lions, cut funding for the climate change commission, weakened our methane targets, cancelled Significant National Areas protections, have begun reversing our ban on live exports. Much of this was passed under urgency.

It’s been six months.

[incorrectcomicbookquotes]

When the JLA first met the JSA

Batman: So, Mr. Garrick, how are you enjoying your time in the twenty-first century?

Jay Garrick: Well, I must admit, there are a few things that confuse me and the others about this time period.

Batman: I thought you'd say that. So how about you and I sit down and I can catch you up to speed. No pun intended.

Jay Garrick: Why, that'd be just swell, Batman!

Batman: Well, for starters; I'm sure you've noticed that what was once a simple household item is now everywhere you look. And that they're much more important in today's society.

Jay Garrick: Yes! Yes, exactly! The televisi-!

Batman: Women.

Jay Garrick: ... what?

Batman: I mean, Black Canary and Wonder Woman fought in WWII alongside you, so you should have expected them to start demanding more rights. But after this thing called "women's suffrage" it's been a downward spiral since then.

Jay Garrick: Uh, I think you're confused-

Batman: Equal pay, voting rights. Hell, I can't even ask Batgirl to make me a sandwich without saying "please" and "thank you."

Jay Garrick: Jesus Christ!

Batman: I know, it's terrible.

Jay Garrick: Wait, no! That's not what I meant-!

Batman: But it only get's worse, I'm afraid. I'm sure you've noticed a lot of minorities walking around.

Jay Garrick: Oh, my god.

Batman: I hate to be the bearer of bad news, Flash, but segregation is over and racism is no more. Well, for the most part. There are still several subsets of this country where it's very much alive. You're welcome to visit there if you'd like.

Jay Garrick: WHAT?!

Batman: There's also a few words and phrases that are socially unacceptable to say these days. Don't worry, I have a list-

Jay Garrick: STOP! I'm not racist!

Batman: What? You're not? What're you talking about? You come from the 1940's.

Jay Garrick: Okay! But that doesn't mean everyone was an asshole!

Batman: Oh, really? Are you sure? You're not just a little bit racist?

Jay Garrick: Why do you sound disappointed? Were you hoping I was racist?

Batman: What?! N-no! Why would I be-?!

Jay Garrick: I mean, that stuff about women sounded like it came from the heart and-

Batman: Oh, so now I'm sexist?!

Jay Garrick: I mean, if I didn't know better-

Batman: I adopted a black kid!

Jay Garrick: ... not racist.

Batman: Got it. (clears throat) You know, Jay, considering where you're coming from, you and the Justice Society really are the best of us.

Jay Garrick: It's not like that Batman. The "A" in "JSA" stands for the America we strive for, not necessarily the one we live in now. Equality is part of the American Dream. And so long as the Speed Force flows through my veins, I'll never stop fighting for the freedom of everyone in this and every other country.

Batman: Simply amazing.

Flash: Holy cow! The Golden Age Flash?! This is such an honor! Can I have you autograph, sir?!

Jay Garrick: Certainly, son. Who am I making this out to?

Flash: (takes off his mask) Barry Allen!

Jay Garrick: Barry... (sees his face) Allen...? Wait... blonde hair? Blue eyes? Wait, are you... GERMAN?! (proceeds to beat up Barry)

Batman: Wait, no, no, no, no! Jay, stop!

[odinsblog]

I’m seeing a lot of, “Won’t someone please think about the men!” posts regarding Afghanistan, and I’m sorry but that is an incredibly bad take.

Look, yes, I dO understand that the men who aided America and it’s allies in the 20 year occupation are absolutely positively at risk. The overwhelmingly male interpreters who the U.S. abandoned, are being hunted down and murdered by the Taliban. As are the men who took up arms against the Taliban. I get that, and of course I have sympathy for them. I emphatically hope that they are able to escape to safety, and I get heated thinking about how the military was there for two entire decades and still failed to have an exit strategy that included plans to extricate these men who were our allies.

That being said…. while those men undoubtedly are in danger, the lion’s share of my concern is for the women who the U.S. so abruptly abandoned.

Women—progressive women, gay women, trans women (and trans men), young women, old women, non-binary women, non-Muslim women—they are all in danger from the Taliban simply because they are women. Not because they took up arms against the Taliban, not because they interpreted for U.S. forces, not even because they expressed “progressive” ideals. THEY ARE IN DANGER FROM THE TALIBAN SIMPLY FOR BEING WOMEN.

This is not me being “sexist” against Afghan men. This is not me vilifying the men who also want out of Afghanistan. And this is not me using Islamophobic stereotypes against the men who were brave enough to actually support progressive women, and who also want a better life in their own country.

But the women…?!! Look, I’m Black, so I’m going to try to make this as relatable as I can, in a way that makes sense to me. Whenever I’m in a crowd of mostly white people and I see a confederate flag or a police officer, I get understandably apprehensive because my Blackness is obvious. I can’t just say, “hey there mr. or mrs. racist, please don’t mess with me. I’m with these white guys.” I have been and will be targeted by racists, whether or not I’m “behaving” myself. And my white friends won’t say, “hey, what about us? we’re also in danger”. There might also be some good, nice white folks in that crowd, but statistically speaking, EYE am the one who is in danger, not them.

So I said all of that to say this: We should NOT “all lives matter” this thing. I’m more worried for the young women in their early 20s who may have no living memories of a time when the Taliban ruled before. I’m more worried for the women who are old enough to remember that time, but got a 20 year taste of a better life. I’m more worried about women like this incredibly brave reporter, Shabnam Dawran. I am more worried about the first female mayor in Afghanistan, Zarifa Ghafari, who fully expects to be murdered by the Taliban for daring to be mayor.

JFC, can we please try to not center men for just this once??

SN: terfs, this post is absolutely not for you. Please dni.