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So is the economy good or not? One day it's "don't believe your lying eyes, all these metrics indicate the economy is better than ever", the next day it's "support this war, it'll make the economy better!".
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quote:After Biden’s casualty-figure remarks, some administration appointees began to consider resigning, but, as that same person put it: “That’s one news cycle. Then what?” That person said they and others had spent years working inside the Democratic machine for better representation of their communities and that this wasn’t the time for “ceding ground.”
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so if this project 2025 poo poo is so awful, then surely the dems have their own long-brewing plan to use the federal government to achieve their own policy goals, right? let me see that plan. surely competent political operatives wouldn't have been sleeping at the wheel this whole time
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Oct 30, 2023 23:21
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if not voting for biden helps trump, it sounds like the dems should have picked a better candidate than biden
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Nov 1, 2023 17:38
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https://i.imgur.com/BuJTKIV.mp4 i'm still mad about carville going on msnbc on super tuesday saying that the goal was blocking sanders
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Nov 2, 2023 19:08
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smug jeebus posted:What is with everyone dressing like Kevin Smith he does that poo poo all the time. he's outrageously wealthy but he dresses like that for media appearances so he looks less like a dem party elite
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Ytlaya posted:The thing that gets me about the "it's only logical and pragmatic to vote for Biden" argument is that, even if you accept the premise that Biden is truly the net lesser evil (which is itself nonsense), the core logic itself fundamentally makes no sense. It's basically saying "not helping Biden = helping Trump." But where do you draw that line? If you choose not to donate $50 to Biden, you are increasing Trump's chances of winning (at least using the same twisted logic as "not voting for Biden helps Trump"). And if you donate $50, you're basically saying that donating $100 is too much to defeat Trump. Hell, the "if you don't donate to Biden you're helping Trump" argument is actually more coherent than the "if you don't vote for him" one, since voting has literally zero chance of accomplishing anything in most places. just uno reverse it. tell them that by not helping trump, you're helping biden.
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Nov 2, 2023 20:36
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Srice posted:I'm reminded of how during the 2020 primaries, polling showed that a not insignificant chunk of primary voters believed that Biden supported M4A even though the slightest amount of scrutiny would show otherwise. if you ever brought up biden's opposition to M4A online you'd get someone going "he never said he'd veto it" when anyone with a brain cell knows "I'll have to take a look at how much it costs if the bill hits my desk" means "i'm veto'ing that poo poo"
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Joementum posted:maybe people on TikTok think Biden is senile because they're watching videos of him, Will why's he focusing on "young people" so much when it's 60%+ for anyone under 65? there isn't a single age breakdown with a majority saying "Yes"! sounds like he's just mad at tiktok and wanted an excuse to yell about it
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Nov 5, 2023 17:18
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i'm the idiot for noticing hypocrisy and thinking it matters but i remember "trump orbit people would buy the rights to negative stories just to squash them" being a big deal in 2015/2016
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Don't you love it when the administration's defence is "we are gullible rubes"?
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Excelzior posted:"but what about ukraine?" "Yeah I guess it rains in the UK, but what does that have to do with our funding bill?"
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quote:combined with the issue of abortion, voters may end up seeing things differently.
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You see, I'm right! I'm clearly right. The only possible reason someone might disagree with me is because they don't understand my flawless reasoning. If someone thinks I'm wrong, this must be my own failure to communicate my obvious correctness. If i just slow down and explain myself better, everyone will finally understand just how right I am. I'm being gracious and magnanimous by taking the time to do this. the pepe silvia part of my brain has a hunch there's a connection to mid-00s era forum fights about atheism to be made here but I suspect they're both manifestations of the same ideology rather than causally linked phenomena
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Nov 7, 2023 17:00
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i want a small tent, please. this one's too big.
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Trabisnikof posted:hillary clinton went full terf on "women need to feel safe in the bathrooms" but everyone pretends it didnt happen lol wasn't even twenty years ago the official Dem position was opposing equal marriage rights
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Nov 10, 2023 19:24
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If VAN dies will I finally stop getting added to every Dem campaign's mailing lists
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Nov 13, 2023 18:00
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fits my needs posted:https://x.com/NBCNews/status/1724389243726737697?s=20 North Korea too
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Nov 14, 2023 14:52
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they should make their own American Pope and American Vatican. Reject the Roman Catholics, embrace the American Catholics. i guess that's just Episcopalianism, right?
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Nov 15, 2023 17:26
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DreamWorks face rear end president
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mags posted:what idiocy does a sunflower emoji in the username signify on x the everything app looks like "support for ukraine"
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Does the Abe assassination even count as terrorism? He was a lone gunman with a very specific beef. Political violence sure, but terrorism seems like a stretch.
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if regular people are aware of the grievances other countries have with the USA they might start asking the country to change what it's doing
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Nov 17, 2023 17:17
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quote:Then, Doanld Trump came along and picked the lock.
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So the first Judis and Texeira argument was "demography is destiny", that certain demographics were soon going to be the majority and those demographics were Dem-aligned, thus the Dems would be winning forever without lifting a finger. Their second argument is that those same new demographics, that made the Dems permanent winners of politics, are now also driving the Dems away from winning because their opinions are too toxic for the country to stomach. So which is it? They can't both be right. If they were so wrong the first time, why should we trust they got it right this time? yes i know theyre just spinning fairy tales into book sales
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Nov 17, 2023 21:41
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i really wish polls would give you an option for "Neither" instead of "Red Team/Blue Team/Unsure"
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Nov 19, 2023 02:20
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Genocide Joe? Bombin' Brandon!
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Nov 19, 2023 20:53
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"Why not protest the Republicans?" strikes me as an especially stupid retort because that kind of nonviolent protest, to me, is a hopeful action. You protest the people you think can be convinced. People protest the Dems because they think the Dems might agree with their position. Saying "Go protest Republicans instead" is telling us they can't be convinced. Edit: Cleaned up the wording, realized I was accidentally implying protest was bad/pointless. Protests are good. SixteenShells has issued a correction as of 21:01 on Nov 19, 2023 |
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loquacius posted:I'd say "you're only allowed to push them left by asking very politely in contexts and channels where nobody of any consequence will ever hear you" but no they hate that too there's still the occasional person with a donut emoji in their profile name on twitter
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You want to take the voting bus to Public Option Street? That would be highly disrespectful to the bus driver and everyone who pulled the cord to stop at Affordable Care Boulevard.
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If not voting for Biden is a vote for Trump, then a vote not for Trump is a vote for Biden. I'm implicitly voting for Biden by not voting Trump.
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i dont think actively being in prison should remove your right to vote, so sure, let someone under indictment run for president.
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Nov 21, 2023 17:38
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if the president is going to get a huge opinion piece published in a major newspaper, they should have to write it themselves. i dont believe for a second he did more than glance at the draft his staff sent for approval
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Nov 21, 2023 18:23
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this nation's strategy for saving lives is slapping a "do not use on civilians" mattress tag on our bombs
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Nothus posted:Can you imagine the freakout this would have caused if it happened under Trump I remember it being a huge outrage when Trump signed all those "safe third country" agreements and also made it harder to get asylum if you entered the country without a visa. I think the Biden admin even let some of those agreements lapse right after he took office to much fanfare? And now it turns out Biden made it all worse. But he did it with Decorum, I guess. He didn't post about it on Twitter and bring attention to it.
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"focus on" this, "focus on" that, come on. that's the same bullshitting language I use when I'm trying to save face about why I'm behind at work
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quote:Another three administration officials, including one senior official during an on-record interview, said that working to secure the release of hostages, and pause the fighting for four or five days, was simply necessary as Israel’s retaliation against Hamas for the Oct. 7 attack has devastated Gaza and sparked a humanitarian crisis.
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Nix Panicus posted:My favorite thing about all of this 'Project 2025' horseshit is that it reveals a motivated faction could just take over the civil service to do whatever insane thing they want but for some reason that power can only ever be used for evil And it's not like this came out of nowhere. "Ratfucked" came out in 2016 and made rounds in the normie lib spaces, and I'm pretty sure the Federalist society never made much of a secret of their plans before that. The Dems have never seemed to care or make counter plans before now.
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Lmfao the pinned tweet https://twitter.com/trouble_man90/status/1480653763392253952
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not sure the Dems should be drawing favorable connections to that time period during a presidential race, but i'm not a well-paid strategist
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