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im really in a bad place i hope the sun doesnt start setting crazy early at like 4pm. i said i hope the sun doesnt set early at like 4pm that would be bad for me

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yeah i'm wlw (wench loving wench)

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the front seat of the car is a type of confessional

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There’s a level of confessional that only occurs when someone is driving you home late at night

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i have understood so many things about online leftist culture by the fact that when i said "your local community has people you will morally and politically disagree with but you cannot lock them out of accessing any tangible service you’re organising" one of the tags responding said "this isn’t about proshippers in here you’re not welcome" like. folks. focus with me. some of us are homeless here.

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one of the more interesting gender selectors i've seen

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I think it's important to understand that the vast majority of voters do not spend much time thinking through their political decisions because it's simply not something that occupies much space in their minds. You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into, and it's extremely difficult to fight feelings with facts.

Now that the Democratic party's inner core is highly-educated cosmopolitan urbanites, it seems to have lost the ability to deal with that reality.

Most people do not feel like trump is a fascist, or that he wants to be a dictator. Most people do not feel like any of Biden's massive legislative/executive accomplishments improved their lives at all. Most people do not feel like Harris's platform would've actually gotten done or helped them. Most people feel like Trump ran a better economy and that it's Democrats' fault that inflation got so bad.

In an individualistic, selfish nation with one of the worst education systems in the industrialized world, a political party cannot win by serving up a charcuterie board of various poll-tested policies that it then tries to explain to people who could not care less and don't understand anyway. It needs to create an overwhelming feeling, a feeling that changes the minds of people who don't give a fuck about anything but themselves and their wallets. Trump found that overwhelming feeling. Through bravado, cruelty, and levity, he created this zeitgeist of blunt, confident grievance that countless prideful people who feel left behind by the economy could grab onto. This feeling inspired people far beyond his cult of enthusiastic fascists and self-identified bigots.

The country chose trump because Trump's brand, vibe, and message inspired compelling emotions in more people, especially in people who have no interest in civic engagement, don't follow the news, and have been given little understanding of government/economics by our failing education system.

This problem wasn't fully apparent in 2022 during the midterms, when more low-propensity voters stayed home and highly-educated, highly-engaged people made up more of the electorate.

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I love learning about the gay firefighters solely third hand from my dash I hope I never see one minute of this actual show because it would ruin it. They all look identical and I’m not sure how many of them are actually involved at this point. All of their names are Brad. I’m happy for whatever occurred for them tonight.

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Ok this is the best one i've seen.

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once again with the Hunter article but it is fascinating how few of the examples given there are like...commonly discussed by the Very Online No-Voting Crowd. Fwiw I think it's not unhelpful for people in said crowd to have the much-needed realization that the Democrats are actually way further to the left of most of this country, and that they personally are multiple standard deviations away from the norm which isn't even bad but it requires coalition building WELL to the right of them instead of demanding they be met where they are. But like. can we talk about how you guys do NOT bring up Pinochet or Milosevic.

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I am already seeing people blame this election on “the woke stuff” and trans people and we need to abandon that and focus only on the economy and I just want to say that I am completely uninterested in a left wing movement that leaves the most vulnerable members of society behind or even throws them under the bus for the sake of gas prices. If we cannot walk and chew gum at the same time by helping trans people and running on bold economic policies that materially help all people then we are no better than the right.

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Lucian Freud, Two Men, 1987-8

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Sorry I’ve been posting so much about the election it’s just that I live here and I give a shit

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yeah i do think we've seen way too much throwing around of comparison to historical fascists at the same time we haven't seen enough analysis of who those fascists actually were and who they appealed too. plenty of people today, including conservatives, centrists, AND the online left like to think that they never would have supported fascism. the online left in particular likes to believe in a good hard fighting mass of the proletariat that always looked out for *other* oppressed peoples and stood up for the jews and whatnot. but that's... not how fascisms has ever gotten control, or gotten power- it's gone strong because proletarian masses HAVE supported it, and then been too scared to do anything about it, and then made the excuse that the trains "ran on time" even when fascists policies made their lives appreciably worse. so much of the appeal fascism is the promise of "stability" against social change and social turmoil and even inflation, and it has been popular among the middle and working class, to the point of antifascists being sometimes labelled as the indulgent (((jewish))) urban elite. remember that.