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  • AppleTeatoLate Stage Capitalism@lemmy.worldHow did this happen?
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    8 days ago

    The polls show that voters were most motivated by inflation and immigration and that is what resulted in republicans winning

    Just one comment ago, you claimed it was Russian bots. Now you’re agreeing that it’s people feeling economic pressure.

    If what you’re saying is true then it disproves the claim that democrats didn’t go far enough left according to voters.

    If you give people a choice between Republicans and diet-Republicans, they pick the real one. Would you have them try to outflank republicans more next election?


  • AppleTeatoLate Stage Capitalism@lemmy.worldHow did this happen?
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    8 days ago

    Oh, Obama governed as a Regan-era republican. The Affordable Healthcare Act was based on a Heratige Foundation proposal, and given the blessing of health insurance companies. But he campaigned on the left, that line of broken promises got him into office.

    As for the rest… pay no attention to the declining lifespan, the increasing precarity, the rising cost of just scraping by. People aren’t voting because of real grievances, it’s all Russian Bots don’cha know?

    Like, jeeze, you’d rather have a Sinister Villain to peg this on than actually examine the conditions in this country. That’s some saturday morning cartoon nonsense you’ve spun.


  • AppleTeatoLate Stage Capitalism@lemmy.worldHow did this happen?
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    9 days ago

    Then compare it to 2016 - it was practically the same campaign strategy, only this time it lost the popular vote on top of the electoral collage.

    Trying to flip people at the margin is not a winning strategy. Obama won in '08 by campaigning to the left and promising meaningful change – it got people who normally don’t vote to engage. Why is that strategy so anathema now?



  • oh so sanctimonious “purity pedestals” like, Stop abetting an exterminationist campaign

    It was only broadly popular with most of the country and polled well in swing states; thank goodness party leadership had the stones to stick to their values and loose on this issue. Nobody to blame here but people who didn’t make campaign choices and do not have access to the levers of power!




  • This is an english meme about the one event in Chinese history that gets repeated in english-speaking spaces over and over and over again. This isn’t attempting to make an argument to a Chinese audience. Why shouldn’t we draw comparisons to similar things in the US? What else would we talk about? Just a whole thread of “yeah, that’s bad” again and again? For every time this gets trotted out?










  • AppleTeatoTenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.worldCopium
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    4 months ago

    i feel like the answer to what is and isn’t canon can be summed up with;

    Why do the klingons look different?

    They always looked like that, you just didn’t notice before.

    Canon has always been squishy. The Eugenics Wars takes place in the nineteen-nineties… oh but didn’t Voyager’s crew visit our nineties? Plus, DISCO had that Elon Musk name drop.

    …so the timeline floats up as the present day does. Canon is just a vague sense of the things everyone agrees on.

    Personally,

    I really dislike the fungus engine. You expect me to believe the Federation developed instant, consequence free warp but gave up on using it on literally any other ship? Silly. Very silly. Oh, but the precursor civilization doing a galaxy wide Genesis project is somehow an unimaginable technological feat.

    And yes, I know STE covers the klingon flu. I just think They always looked like that was more elegant.




  • Yeah, Trump himself has no policy commitments. He’ll say whatever he thinks is popular biased on the last thing he’s seen on television. In office, he delivers bog-standard republican policy because that’s who his cabinet gets filled with.

    I don’t see Biden changing his stance on arming Israel. Trump could, but the question is whether would it last long enough to actually affect policy.