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fast cars loose anus posted:America, "figure it out yourself"
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# ? Jun 2, 2022 16:53 |
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# ? May 25, 2024 12:07 |
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LastInLine posted:That's not exactly true. Conservatives don't want to tear things down in the sense that we, the left, do. They do believe in a vision of America as it exists and a path by which that vision can become reality. But they don't believe that it's just the people in charge which are the problem. I mean they do believe that but not *just* that; they believe that "mistakes" have been made which need to be undone. It's a confusing time because the liberals have cultural hegemony and control of the institutions of power. Thus liberals are the real conservatives in that they want to preserve the current status quo, while right-wingers are now reactionary wanting to roll back the clock to an earlier uncorrupted era of governance like the Protestant Reformation trying to rewind the church to primitive Christianity. It's a a very unstable ruling coalition, it's hard not to see the parallels to 1930s rising fascism era or the 1848 liberal revolutionary regimes that almost instantly collapsed because their base of support (educated liberals) was so narrow. You get the impression a halfway competent strongman could seize control of the whole system and the majority of this country would just shrug their shoulders.
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# ? Jun 2, 2022 17:00 |
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A lot of people would affirmatively support it if the strongman started clearing some entrenched people out of their cushy positions, frankly
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# ? Jun 2, 2022 17:13 |
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hailthefish posted:yeah if you wanna get a lib really fuckin mad point out that they're definitionally a conservative The Democratic Party and it’s associated apparatus of PACs, think tanks, NGOs, etc all exist solely to give people on the inside and their friends/families six figure cushy jobs forever. That’s it. Like back in 2016 I remember how Clinton supporters refused to accept that no one was accusing the Clintons of directly being bribed by Clinton Foundation donations the whole purpose of the Clinton Foundation was that it gave them the means to hand out thousands of patronage jobs that bought them influence with the families of the people that got those jobs.
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# ? Jun 2, 2022 17:14 |
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Subvisual Haze posted:
How does this not describe what trump has already done
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# ? Jun 2, 2022 17:16 |
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Shear Modulus posted:How does this not describe what trump has already done trump in no way has "control of the whole system"
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# ? Jun 2, 2022 17:17 |
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yeah he was maybe in a position to do that but basically just shrugged because it would have been more work than posting
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# ? Jun 2, 2022 17:18 |
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Yeah the system pushed back hard and Trump wasn't the kind of guy to throw down with it other than on twitter
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# ? Jun 2, 2022 17:21 |
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:yeah he was maybe in a position to do that but basically just shrugged because it would have been more work than posting one almost has to admire his level of laziness
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# ? Jun 2, 2022 17:23 |
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ok but since then the republicans have built the machinery to install him as president no matter what the real result of the next presidential election is
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# ? Jun 2, 2022 17:24 |
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WampaLord posted:one almost has to admire his level of laziness I don't know if it occurred to him in the moment that he could have lead those people to the Capitol building and actually accomplished something because who tf is gonna arrest the president, but it will never not be funny to me that the real reason he didn't is because it was too long of a walk and he wanted to go home and watch TV and eat lunch
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# ? Jun 2, 2022 17:25 |
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hailthefish posted:lmao Bullshit. In reality you are living in a large house and have $500,000 in retirement funds. Everything you perceive in your life is a delusion. DoubleDonut posted:is it even better for anyone in the aggregate? I’m legitimately not sure who’s doing better that wasn’t already very comfortably rich I feel like the figures either stem from a lot of people leaving the workforce (low unemployment rate, but partly as a result of low labor participation rate) or nation-wide economic metrics like GDP improving (which is just rich people getting richer). Or in many cases are just comparing against the height of the pandemic.
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# ? Jun 2, 2022 17:28 |
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Shear Modulus posted:ok but since then the republicans have built the machinery to install him as president no matter what the real result of the next presidential election is who cares the presidency isn't the cia there's vast levels of power beyond whoever the president is
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# ? Jun 2, 2022 17:28 |
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:I don't know if it occurred to him in the moment that he could have lead those people to the Capitol building and actually accomplished something because who tf is gonna arrest the president, but it will never not be funny to me that the real reason he didn't is because it was too long of a walk and he wanted to go home and watch TV and eat lunch #relatable #goals
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# ? Jun 2, 2022 17:32 |
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fast cars loose anus posted:A lot of people would affirmatively support it if the strongman started clearing some entrenched people out of their cushy positions, frankly if trump had actually been serious about his "drain the swamp" rhetoric and e.g. abolished the CIA? I would definitely have been all aboard.
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# ? Jun 2, 2022 17:36 |
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The Democrats are succeeding, actually. The narrative that the party went too Left and got crushed because of it is already locked into place. At this point, Dem reps are impatiently looking at their watches waiting for the ritual to be over.
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# ? Jun 2, 2022 17:36 |
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Mokelumne Trekka posted:The Democrats are succeeding, actually. The narrative that the party went too Left and got crushed because of it is already locked into place. At this point, Dem reps are impatiently looking at their watches waiting for the ritual to be over. 100%. Losing the election will be an excuse for what they wanted to do anyway. They failed in 2020 because they actually had to look like they were doing something after regaining control.
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# ? Jun 2, 2022 17:38 |
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Winifred Madgers posted:if trump had actually been serious about his "drain the swamp" rhetoric and e.g. abolished the CIA? I would definitely have been all aboard. Yeah for sure
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# ? Jun 2, 2022 17:42 |
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Shear Modulus posted:How does this not describe what trump has already done To exercise real autocratic control you'd need to purge the bureaucracies. Which obviously Trump was too unfocused and lazy to even attempt to do. If attempted, it might well be possible though, particularly with the current makeup of the supreme court. And again, would the majority of the country really care all that much if the President fired a bunch of unelected bureaucrats? It would be a violation of our sacred norms, but how many people really believe in system and its norms at this point?
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# ? Jun 2, 2022 17:49 |
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Subvisual Haze posted:To exercise real autocratic control you'd need to purge the bureaucracies. Which obviously Trump was too unfocused and lazy to even attempt to do. well, he did a pretty good job at purging the bureaucracies of a lot of professional bureaucrats that actually made the bureaucracy function without even trying by prompting mass resignations. He also facilitated the complete takeover of the ultimate political-bureaucratic authority by completing the takeover of the supreme court, which gave him and the republicans ultimate control over every facet of the bureaucracy (even moreso than the president who is nominally in control of the federal bureaucracy, since the court can overrule the president). e: oh you already mentioned the court
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# ? Jun 2, 2022 17:57 |
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Mokelumne Trekka posted:The Democrats are succeeding, actually. The narrative that the party went too Left and got crushed because of it is already locked into place. At this point, Dem reps are impatiently looking at their watches waiting for the ritual to be over. .1 seconds after they officially lose the house, they are gonna rant about how defund the police caused them to lose
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# ? Jun 2, 2022 18:00 |
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the left blaming began last fall when they torpedoed themselves in the VA gov race with another Clinton succophant in mcauliffe the Republicans are going to have a 10 or 15 seat majority in the house, and probably 2 seats in the Senate
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# ? Jun 2, 2022 18:17 |
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Shear Modulus posted:well, he did a pretty good job at purging the bureaucracies of a lot of professional bureaucrats that actually made the bureaucracy function without even trying by prompting mass resignations. He also facilitated the complete takeover of the ultimate political-bureaucratic authority by completing the takeover of the supreme court, which gave him and the republicans ultimate control over every facet of the bureaucracy (even moreso than the president who is nominally in control of the federal bureaucracy, since the court can overrule the president). yeah he already swept away almost everyone at the state department for example lol
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# ? Jun 2, 2022 18:23 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-mqgCliinQ
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# ? Jun 2, 2022 18:28 |
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Srice posted:.1 seconds after they officially lose the house, they are gonna rant about how defund the police caused them to lose They've never stopped ranting about that
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# ? Jun 2, 2022 18:51 |
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ex post facho posted:the left blaming began last fall when they torpedoed themselves in the VA gov race with another Clinton succophant in mcauliffe luckily we now know it takes at least 60 senators for a given party to be able to implement even the smallest part of their agenda, right?
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# ? Jun 2, 2022 18:53 |
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:yeah he was maybe in a position to do that but basically just shrugged because it would have been more work than posting lol
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# ? Jun 2, 2022 18:53 |
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:I don't know if it occurred to him in the moment that he could have lead those people to the Capitol building and actually accomplished something because who tf is gonna arrest the president, but it will never not be funny to me that the real reason he didn't is because it was too long of a walk and he wanted to go home and watch TV and eat lunch lmao
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# ? Jun 2, 2022 18:54 |
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The Oldest Man posted:The democrats completely stopped doing anything positive legislatively about five decades ago and now prefer to simply tell you to shut the gently caress up and vote for them or else you're defacto supporting New Hitler by your absence of support for Current Hindenburg LBJ spent all the political capital on Civil Rights and left the democrats a political capital debt they've been paying back for decades. Thats why the dems can't do anything! They'd love to cancel student debt, but they still owe political debt!
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# ? Jun 2, 2022 22:42 |
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Srice posted:.1 seconds after they officially lose the house, they are gonna rant about how defund the police caused them to lose Biden literally said "we need to fund the police" multiple times in a row in a press conference the week of the Uvalde shooting, they never stopped ranting about this even if/when they win
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# ? Jun 2, 2022 22:48 |
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lmao https://twitter.com/USA_Polling/status/1532460962543984665?cxt=HHwWsoCziYnIssQqAAAA
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# ? Jun 2, 2022 23:14 |
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Subvisual Haze posted:To exercise real autocratic control you'd need to purge the bureaucracies. Which obviously Trump was too unfocused and lazy to even attempt to do. the current court would green light anything. civil service protections are dead
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# ? Jun 2, 2022 23:20 |
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The end of democracy in America is pretty much guaranteed at this point and it is going to suck for a whole bunch of people
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# ? Jun 3, 2022 00:05 |
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In my spam folder just now - From: Nancy Pelosi - HUMILIATING Defeat within which she claims that the Dems are actually winning the senate races but the dirty repubs just spent money on ads so now we the dems must spend money on ads or the repubs will win it's a humiliating defeat_but not for me.jpg
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# ? Jun 3, 2022 00:29 |
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The baby formula shortage continued to worsen last week despite actions from the Biden administration to ease constraints, according to retail tracking data. Out-of-stock rates climbed to 74% nationally for the week ending May 28, according to data on 130,000 stores followed by Datasembly. The increase comes after rates spiked to 70% for the week ending May 21 from 45% the week prior. Ten states now have out-of-stock rates at 90% or greater, including Arizona, Mississippi, California, Nevada, Tennessee, Rhode Island, Louisiana, Florida and Washington. Georgia is the hardest hit at 94%, a jump from 74% the week before.
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# ? Jun 3, 2022 00:42 |
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Thank you for the link! Honestly, I'm feeling like I cannot trust this poll. I'm so confused on the results of this. For example, how does 35% of Democratic women under 50 (over 1/3!!!!) agree with "men should be represented and valued more in our society"? And I know this is ageist, but especially when that's a higher percentage than Democratic women over 50 (27%)? I was trying to find the underlying data of this poll, but I get nothing when I try to search for Tulchin Research survey for this poll. I'm feeling especially because this was an "online panel" E: I just want to clarify though, thank you for sharing this link/info Willa. Maybe I had too much hope for society moving more towards gender equality... E2: Also, how are younger people, both Democratic/Republican and Men/Women, more transphobic than their older counterparts when it comes to trying to "indoctrinate children into their lifestyle"?? As far as transgender people being a threat to children, at least Republican women are moving more towards being less transphobic? Seriously, I'm getting more and more confused as I look at these results...
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# ? Jun 3, 2022 00:43 |
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Mayor Dave posted:The end of democracy in America is pretty much guaranteed at this point and it is going to suck for a whole bunch of people Lmao at the idea of democracy existing in america
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# ? Jun 3, 2022 00:43 |
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I don't get it...how can MY generation be bad????
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# ? Jun 3, 2022 00:43 |
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maybe we need to give more money to the ceos of baby formula companies who used all their sanitation and maintenance money to enrich themselves and ended up killing a bunch of babies
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# ? Jun 3, 2022 00:44 |
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sexpig by night posted:Thank you for the link! if you've never done a phone poll it's like 45 minutes of back-to-back questions that you're probably just repeating "strongly disagree" to
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