I find more violations scrolling than I do from the reports. There should probably be a lot more of them. This is also why there's a big ideological divide on removals because people are less likely to report something they agree with.
How many universities will abandon free speech rights for 10% of their budget? Hard to say, many abandoned them for less when students were protesting genocide.
I think it would actually be very easy to unite their bases. At a certain point we're going to have to acknowledge that progressive populism is appealing to every demographic apart from evangelicals, xenophobes, and 3%ers. Midwesterners who like Walz may be more religious and worse LGBTQ+ allies, but fundamentally people want someone who is going to even the playing field for workers and that's something that both groups would appreciate. A large amount of any campaign is going to have to be education about the benefits of unions, public projects, and being a member of your community rather than a shut-in if they want to generate positive buzz. Negative buzz is easy, just call the fascists weak and gross.
I'm worried that despite having very good views himself that he is going to be tainted by the past. Not without reason too, because the consultants made him stand down with the "weird" insult and progressive messaging. Like most of these people, if it's not their authentic campaign, then whose is it? He's demonstrated, like most people who reach a moment in their career to seriously consider this, that he's too malleable for populist politics. It's possible that he completely sheds that team and runs his own, but who here really thinks that's going to happen? I'd believe it if we had AOC for VP. The pressure to succumb to inferior messaging is higher than it'll ever be during a presidential campaign, I don't really trust anyone to stay firm except AOC, Talib, and Bernie because they have demonstrated resistance in this sort of high pressure consultant environment.
I remember being around 8 years old and thinking it's scary how one leader's bad mood in a conversation could lead to war and then I felt better once I eventually learned about diplomats and state department's existence some years later... I guess with the US, we're back to a child's version of diplomacy.
What an utterly disgraceful idiot our president is. Zelenskyy is a generational talent in being able to keep his cool as people who know nothing proceed to richsplain and gaslight him about his literal lived experience. The US doesn't deserve to be a super power for voting in this clown.
I think that was literally the point they were making. Agreed, though, that breaking the cycle is the most important approach. When a healthcare CEO got got, they initially celebrated it. I think they were reachable in that moment, but right-wing media chastised them, and in about 5 days or so, the murmurs in the halls started reverted to talking points.
When he said, "I think we all want to prevent Ebola," I was trying to will the camera to pan and zoom in to RFKs stupid face, but alas, my willpower was not strong enough.
Elon's brother was introduced to his girlfriend from Jeffrey Epstein and Elon was associated with both Diddy and Epstein. I imagine they're spending a lot of time shoring up the links back to our shadow president and his geriatric assistant, who was obsessed with an underage girl Epstein had sex trafficked because she, "reminded him of his daughter Ivanka"... puke
He rules by his own whims and uses bots and his shitty audience to circumvent market manipulation laws. The polls are as meaningless as his claims that he's a free speech absolutist.
It's a super easy trope to default to. It's basically removing the chaos from mental scenarios to make it more palatable and voiding the evolutionary utility in having those thoughts in the first place. Seems like it's more or less a coping mechanism for things likely to be out of our control.
Reminder that Trump is singlehandedly making it his mission to bully a SINGLE child in Maine. He is literally just an amorphous, souless husk of skin and evil.
House Republicans sometimes run in 90% Republican districts, of course they represent the worst at least optically. The squeaky wheel gets the grease and Marjorie Titan Greene / Boeboe are by far the squeakiest.
Ironically Boebert had to flee from her district because she was about to lose from being so stupid. Marjorie is in a much safer seat
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I find more violations scrolling than I do from the reports. There should probably be a lot more of them. This is also why there's a big ideological divide on removals because people are less likely to report something they agree with.