this type of voter will never make sense to me. "I want Democrats to control the Senate, but I want them to be overruled by a malevolent dictator."
reminder that POPULISM is the tool of demagogues. there is a difference between POPULISM, and good policy that happens to be popular.
Republican villains: criminals, immigrants, intellectuals, Black people, brown people, gay people, trans people, poor people, left-leaning people, women, children, Muslims, atheists, Jews, anyone who disagrees with them, and the Constitution
Democratic villains: Republicans and the rich (ostensibly)
that is an extremely simplistic and outdated definition of populism. again, there is a distinction between "doing what is right which is what benefits the people" and "telling the people whatever they want to hear whether it's right or even feasible."
and how the hell was Obama's 2012 campaign more populist than his 2008 campaign?!
first of all, how is it possible that "most Americans don't have a bachelor's degree," I was told the entire reason tuition has skyrocketed and a bachelor's isn't enough for entry-level jobs anymore is because EVERYONE has a bachelor's now?
but if climate change "fails to resonate with working-class voters," that is (a) fucking sad and (b) not a reason to stop talking about climate change! that shit is gonna start "resonating with voters" real fuckin soon when summer in Ohio is 6 mo of 100+°F
is there anything more American than forfeiting democracy itself to save a few bucks at the gas pump?
oh sweetie, honey, babydoll, they began planning the overturn of Roe roughly 15 minutes after Roe was decided.
is Elon Musk capable of touching anything and not naming it X? somebody suggest he change the name Tesla to Xesla, then my daughter can stop being embarrassed to be named after Nikola.
the "ways Trump is promising to be a dictator" ledger is getting depressingly long.
also if you're ejecting citizens for the crime of dissent, that's not "deportation," that's EXILE.
Alito lied? You mean like during his confirmation hearing when he promised to uphold Roe?
I keep hearing this described as just "high winds" but there's an awful lot of trees broken like toothpicks and flung across the road around here for there not to have been at least an EF1 tornado involved... the view out my front door looked like that first scene from Twister when little Jo was looking out the window of their storm cellar
NO, IT ISN'T. THE VOTERS HAD THEIR CHANCE TO DECIDE AND THEY CHOSE POORLY. WE DO NOT ALLOW VOTERS TO CHOOSE CRIMINAL DEMAGOGUES WITH ASPIRATIONS OF DICTATORSHIP.
the intellectual pursuit of truth requires taking positions on "hot-button issues." just because people get emotional about it and have wrong opinions doesn't mean there's no intellectual truth to be found in it.
WHO FUCKING CARES, IT'S FUCKING DELICIOUS. NOT EVERY DELICIOUS FOOD HAS TO BE GOOD FOR YOU, YOU SOUL-SUCKING FUN-DESTROYING BUZZKILLS.
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Yes, getting someone like Trump into the office was just one of the steps.
@dietotaku I have seen reporting where people and children have been disabled because of eating too much tuna. Mercury poisoning is a thing. Eat shrimp, it is close to the bottom of the food chain!
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I think we'll learn eventually from better radar that some of these "straight" winds are the result of a funnel lying on its side and spinning around a horizontal axis.
Downbursts can cause tornado-like damage via straight line winds.
I hope everyone is okay 🩷
https://www.weather.gov/iwx/2013_straight-line_winds_vs_tornado
@dietotaku I've had to have this conversation with so many queer, and particularly gender-expansive, people.
The quote I use most is this: "Friend, you can say you don't do politics, but politics is gonna do you."
@lenaoflune yep. i usually phrase it like "you may not be interested in politics, but politics is VERY interested in you." noting that "interest" is not necessarily in a positive way...
allowing democracy to die won't fix the problems that made you disillusioned. politics will continue to have a massive impact on your daily life no matter what you do, so you can either make your voice heard, or sit back in silent defeat.