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Dems suck at messaging because the entire media apparatus does republicans' work for them.

It's literally what's happening.

Texas used the same concept to empower private people to sue abortion providers and receivers under civil law since they couldn't do it criminally.

The country as a whole has done it for a long time with cellphone data, the five eyes alliance, etc.

They have access to information they're barred from getting directly themselves, and they get it from private companies. Spying by proxy.

Again, what good would this do if you are in a war torn country that cannot secure its elections?

So they amend their constitution. During a war. To force people into the streets to vote.

How does the government make sure the election is fair? Some people won't be able to vote due to danger. Some will be attacked. Some areas are occupied, and the occupation lines may change during the election.

If they tried to run an election now, Russia would publish their own results showing that the occupied areas voted for Putin. Trying to run elections is hard enough in normal times, doing so with Russia literally holding a large swath of your country is impossible.

Yeah, and they'll probably side when the accused abuser, even though they didn't give a single fuck when it was people accused of nebulous terrorism ties not being able to fly.

Reagan made up a bunch of shit. He had Alzheimer's, and people would tell him things. Either he willfully misrepresented or was beginning to lose the ability to sift fact from fiction.

He also claimed that vets were spit on when they came back, but they didn't come back from Vietnam through normal commercial airports, and there was a vibrant internal military protest movement, which everyone knew about. No one was spitting on random soldiers, and in the event that it happened once, it wasn't an organized zeitgeist like they tried to make it out to be.

Regressives are liars.

Which goes a long way toward explaining why someone in that situation would be pissed off enough to write exactly what they wrote.

He looks like a slightly older Santos.

This. Pretty much every company that does business with the US or a US state has clauses in their contract about "boycotting" Israel, poorly defined on purpose.

We already have those. It's called EBT/food stamps, and we just outsource it to local grocers and philanthropy food banks.

The only thing they actually care about is how they're perceived by the rest of the cult.

No, I read one of the many ridicule reviews that are quotes pieces. In this quote, she said that most of the good pics she has of her kids came from the nanny during the day.

She claimed she'd face undue hardship because it's during the school week.

What?

She's got a husband. I bet she still has a nanny - she mentioned having one in her book. She's got two brothers that aren't going to be testifying at the same time.

The kids will be in school for 8 hours, and literally any one of those people could watch her kids for the remaining time. Normal people have to deal with this all the time.

If and when he stops, whoever is in the next safest seat will just pick up the baton.

They operate under a thin veil of plausible deniability, but they're all aware of the game they're playing.

I used quotes around that because I do not believe it.

But a bunch of idiots do, and politicians have to have some backing from those idiots, so even though everyone knows these people are shills and grifters, they have to pay lip service to the idea that they'll do the reasonable thing, and hope that eventually cultists start dropping out and realizing they've been duped.

You can lead a horse to water and all that.

100%. Most business is just advanced sophistry at this point. Marketing and advertising serves a useful purpose for new products, when the market isn't aware that it exists.

But by quantity and cost, most advertising is just social manipulation and is effectively an extra drain on the economy.

There's a thought experiment about babies in a river. Do you save each baby as it floats down the river, or do you go upriver to stop them from throwing babies in?

If you choose to stay, are you enabling the baby throwers?

If you go, are you consigning all the babies that are thrown to death while you search?

It's not black and white. There's no good solution when bad actors are doing bad things. A coordinated response would be great, but at the same time, this is a constant problem. It's not like Democrats haven't been trying to get "reasonable republicans" to handle their own shit for decades. It's not like republicans won't have another mole pop up after this one gets whacked back into his hole.

Propaganda, nationalism, and fear of what regressive shitheads will do if you vocalize any opposition

Jail or the front lines.