I think there’s a difference in finding major corruption charges and publicly releasing them vs billionaires just dying of “mysterious” illnesses, etc. China reserves that sort of death for violators of the one China policy where scrutiny isn’t going to have financial resources on its side. Credit where it’s due, billionaire money isn’t the end all be all factor because China will just take it… something the US should do too when billionaires violate the law.

“The voters cannot be failed, they can only fail the government.”

Bold of them to all go to the only rich country that has executed its billionaires for wrongdoing.

You do not win over people who are delusional by playing into their delusions, you acknowledge their delusions and explain it in another way. These people who believe thousands of lies from talking heads mostly got there by not being forced to acknowledge their shortcomings, whether it be about their tribalism, paranoia, guilt, or outright bigotry, it was because those views preexisted and were coddled. Most of the people who want to reach out to conservatives so bad can only fathom doing so by throwing the smallest victim under the bus. Fuck that

Because fascists, at least at the time, viewed support for other ethnostates as a means to an end for their own goals. Their opinion turned on a dime because it was no longer a popular and largely positive example of an ethnostate working, at least in the mind of Americans, who she wants to appeal to.

MTG supported Israel right up until Trump ruined her reputation in the party. She wasn’t remotely shy about her support either. Now she doesn’t? I mean we can support her current disdain, but she’s obviously not authentic in her stance.

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Definitely agree

I think the point is that even MAGA people have a basal anger in people who take a slice of their pie. Media and corporations are very good at preparing the runway for big projects and so the talking points are all figured out before they lay the first brick. In Luigi’s case it was sudden and it broke the cycle and allowed an insight into how their brain really worked in lieu of a narrative. The issue is that the unified message of their news sources is playing up the Illusory truth effect.

They only cheered until their satellite feed beamed the “correct” opinion into their brain. It was actually super interesting to see the speed of propaganda in real time with the most gullible people in America.

Billionaires no longer content with manipulating the entire housing market, debt market, stock market, healthcare access, courts, primaries, and laws, they now want to be able to squeeze retirement accounts to prevent retirements in the labor market when it suits them. Kiss my entire ass

In general it’s useful to rely on Canadian standards anyways, they tend to care about safety more than us.

Pretty sure leftists have been more outspoken than liberals. On the day the court stripped away black representation in congress Chuck Schumer was praising Trump for some stupid horse shit. There’s a debate between who’s worse between do nothing democrats and fascists who accelerate the pain and force people awake. They’re both relatively valid views, but the primaries are the most important election in both arguments.

He’s part of the crybully party? Who coulda guessed

Unfortunately Socialism is usually just a means to an end with neoliberals like him. There’s an ongoing debate between half-ass measures that rachet us backward and fascism leading to faster socialist wins, I’m pretty sure Newsome knows he’s losing that argument and knows he needs to do more.

Making a company that revolutionizes how games are sold around the world and markedly for the better is a better reason for having dragons hoards than manipulating the stock market. There are degrees to douchebaggery.

This sort of stupid shit will at least marginally help drive home the need to abolish the agency since even its name is tied to a trolling narcissist.

Gotcha, I haven’t seen the rape one you mentioned yet. That’s a pretty dogshit take from him obviously. The one I saw was less than 13 years old and was as I described it. The other examples don’t seem that smoking gun to me, but clearly 13 years ago he was a very different person.

I’ve seen no evidence of his reddit comments either acknowledging his tattoo as a hate symbol or victim blaming rape survivors. I have however seen people bring up a comment he made to a rape survivor which was in no way blaming her for what happened to her, instead he was trying to dispel any internal negative thoughts she might be having about her value as a person being diminished now… Seemed like a heartfelt genuine message, albeit risky. Almost like he was a dude who never expected to run for office.

I feel like we’re just taking the Blackwater bit and extrapolating that he has to be a bad person for life now and reading between all the other lines to secure that conclusion. I don’t buy it.

Everything tends to make more sense when viewed as:

Israeli demands > donor demands > civility liberalism > their own constituents > the country > their minority constituents > minority non-constituents > muslims