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Student loan discharge won’t directly help the 87% of americans without student loans but the government should still do it.
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Youth Decay posted:...Kinda want to vote for this dude now He’s racist
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In general, it looks like there's no real correlation between what a politician or political party accomplishes and their electoral success because our society creates people who are utterly mind-poisoned. Not just recently by the internet and social media, but by the matrix of capitalist discourses and power that produces the ways people see themselves, their knowledge about the world, their desires, and their expectations for life. Expecting voters in this kind of a system to somehow reward good policies is pure Sorkin liberalism. So you get college students staying home when Sanders promised to abolish their student loans but the boomer masses voting for Biden who promised idk decorum and bipartisanship, people turning out in droves for Trump, who delivered nothing but culture war poo poo, lies, and an unpopular tax cut, because Dems are going to abolish the suburbs and operate an enormous child slavery ring
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Nov 3, 2021 20:28
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Yinlock posted:The correlation seems fairly substantive. Biden's current poll numbers are dipping precisely because his administration are somewhat justifiably seen as do-nothings, while Trump was actually clawing his approval back up via actively fighting for things he wanted(even if those things were all horrible) until the pandemic really hit and he nosedived again Is that true? The big decline in approval over time I see coincides with the best thing he's done as president: pull out from Afghanistan
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Nov 3, 2021 21:50
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What's really asymmetric is that the Trump always had a full throated propaganda machine blasting viral disinformation onto the airwaves and social media no matter what he did. Biden just doesn't, so the media turning on him after Afghanistan has really helped tank his approval. "CRT" went from a non-issue (because it doesn't exist in public schools) to the target of nation-wide schoolboard protests that draw thousands of internet-crazed morons frothing at mouth about made-up poo poo they heard online. If Dems want to win they should probably start working on setting up something similar. Imagine if in a period of two weeks, 20% of Americans could be convinced that all GOP politicians led by Mitch McConnell are drowning children in an Dubuque, Iowa basement swimming pool filled with milk in order to summon the demon Dagoroth. With weekly protests at dairy farms, viral milk-pouring videos to raise awareness, etc.. But you know, they used that power to pass the drat policies they ran on
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Nov 4, 2021 20:18
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FizFashizzle posted:By the time we get to 2024, trump is just going to claim he was still President the entire time. Funny that Trump has an envoy working on an issue pretty near the top of Russia’s list of geopolitical grievances (the independence of Kosovo from Serbia)
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Nov 11, 2021 18:42
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The entire “left” in America is approximately 1/2 as powerful as the QAnon movement
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Nov 12, 2021 22:50
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Epic High Five posted:This is an incredible overstatement lol. Qanon is enormously well funded and has enthusiastic support at all levels of government, and lots of its members that just tried to overthrow the government are all hanging out playing cards with guards in their own wing of a prison where they are organizing and radicalizing exactly like the early Nazis lmao so more like 10%  we are hosed
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Nov 12, 2021 23:05
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Eric Cantonese posted:New Zealand was very quick on banning international travel and locking down when cases emerged. I think Australia was too. Australia is shockingly large in terms of geographic size, it’s about as big as the US excluding Alaska!
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Somehow I’m skeptical that these are the people the left should be courting https://twitter.com/hutchinson/status/1462508677659725832?s=21
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