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  1. Okies gonna have to contend with Enhanced severe weather too
  2. Jokic monster game just watch
  3. Politician isn't a "role" I'd ever want, but as far as public figures go you could do a lot worse than Walz.
  4. See for yourself.
  5. Not the way I read his post. I don't agree with gatekeeping anyone, and I know @linux has good politics, so I'm not going to dogpile or insult him. What I will do is say that we should resist the temptation of convenient (but flawed) explanations for why the party fails. There are columnists who blame feminism, and wokeism, and social justice warriors, the scapegoat du jour. These hacks are not and never have been invested in the success of the left. The only want to drive engagement on their shitty blog by baiting people into fighting among themselves. The right sees all involved as useful idiots. The Democratic party fails because it's being run by incompetent, weak people.
  6. when's the last time you checked in on his community?
  7. He is a role model, though. What kind of pandering to Gen Z men would you have preferred? Keep in mind that, no matter what, the right-wing propaganda machine is going to have a problem with it and continue its appeal to their resentment.
  8. SJWs are not and never have been even remotely as impactful as the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. You should re-examine why you're so quick to blame feminism for the failures of the Democratic Party.
  9. I agree with you that elections are not won or lost on election day. But where is the evidence that SJWs single-handedly alienated the American electorate? There's stronger evidence suggesting the effect of SJWs has always been negligible, like a missed call early in the Knicks' Game 6 blowout of the Celtics. Nominating Hillary Clinton, allowing Biden to run for a second term, muscling out anyone with political instincts in favor of fossils because "it's their turn," and listening to malpractitioner Beltway consultants, those things absolutely eclipse the impact that gender studies blowhards could ever have. The Democrats haven't figured out how to address resentment, which was the fuel of Gamergate and is now the fuel of MAGA. It doesn't take much effort or intellect to conclude that young men are prone to resentment and especially vulnerable to messages that validate those feelings. Once you understand the strategy the playbook comes into focus, and damn it's a remarkably flexible playbook. Whoever the audience is (maybe it's nerdy guys, maybe it's athletic guys) figure out what their insecurities are and craft an explanation for those insecurities in which something unfair is to blame. For the nerds, it's unfair that women will never pay attention to you. For the jocks, it's unfair that society scolds traditional masculinity. No matter what's going on in your life, even if you're a trust fund kid who always gets laid, you're the victim. Something unfair happened to you. And we (the content creators shoved onto your feed by dark money) are the only ones brave and perceptive enough to acknowledge this injustice. That's how you convert resentment into a captive audience. After that, the media diet more or less takes care of itself. Steven Crowder, Matt Walsh, Andrew Tate, whoever it is, they present information through the resentment narrative's lens, which reinforces their common values and builds communities on a sort of in-group loyalty. The reason I bring all this up is that, even if SJWs had never existed, the playbook is extremely adaptable. Like a MacGuffin, it doesn't actually matter what the social circumstances are, a resentment-based political movement will find a villain and craft a narrative around it.
  10. Okay so this was 2021, who from the Biden/Harris campaigns was using it in 2024?
  11. This isn't because of online left wing posters, it's because their algorithms were flooded with Andrew Tate and Daily Wire slop. It's the same reason people at a watch party will go for the pizza, wings, and beer, while hardly anyone will so much as glance at the celery and carrot sticks. People want instant gratification in the form of easy answers ("these females be bitches yo") instead of the expectation of being a half-decent person.
  12. This is wrong. This "mature adults" vs. "petulant children" framing is straight up ahistorical. Do you not remember "when they go low we go high" and how well that worked? Whatever it was that happened in 2016 and in 2024, a handful of annoying left-wing internet personalities did not somehow move the overton window.
  13. The equivalent of jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge into the East River, so yeah not a promising prognosis
  14. One side meticulously studied Gamergate and cynically applied it in a wildly unethical social experiment that altered the brain chemistry and empathy of millions of Americans. The other side took everyone under retirement age for granted and asked celebrities to sing Pink on a zoom call.
  15. You can't ascribe the annoying behaviors of terminally online SJWs to the party. Number one, the top down power structure of the democratic party very clearly did not endorse or participate in any "latinx" or "they/them" tone policing. Number two, not only that, the party even went so far as to promote Liz Cheney and other Lincoln Project conservatives at the expense of alienating the voters who liked what Governor Walz was bringing to the table. There's just no serious argument to be made that (1) the DNC ever embraced SJWs or (2) this non-existent embrace of SJWs is responsible for Gen Z men moving toward Trump. The scholars who actually monitor and research modern media have made a variety of observations and hypotheses, but one common theme is that the Dems basically ceded the online spaces for years, allowing a "Manosphere" to grow and take hold with that demographic, instilling toxic beliefs and misogynist, xenophobic values in them while they're in a vulnerable age. Dems arrogantly believed that they didn't need to put in any work, just like what happened with Latinos.
  16. Treating trans people (or any other part of the coalition) as expendable is a sign of weakness, to say nothing of the morality of such a cowardly stance. At that point, and with that track record, why should any other constituency trust the party to protect its interests?
  17. By Wednesday it's gonna be 2 billion
  18. JK Rowling was always a bigot. She couldn't handle the criticism so she doubled and tripled down until it made her miserable. Much like Elon, except for the part where she isn't a blood mineral heir and didn't get rich because of someone else's ideas.
  19. Whoa! Perhaps they should be kept under some kind of surveillance.
  20. They had ten people in that cell?
  21. Fell to the 7th round
  22. wait imma unblocked twitter?
  23. Can someone clip the part of Kamala's DNC speech where she said Latinx? I'm too lazy to find it on my own.
  24. step in the right direction, but not strong enough medicine for what ails them not many of those in the party
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