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wildcat09

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  1. "[Republican candidate] is a fucking creep I wouldn't let within 100 yards of my daughter" should be a common Dem attack line, man. Dems don't appear weak for attacking Republicans, they appear weak because they say shit like "[Republican candidate] is a threat to democracy but if I elected I promise I will work with Republicans to address the issues that are important to them!"
  2. It's so funny that you diagnose "don't appear weak" correctly and immediately jump from there to "the most effective political attack a Democrat came up with in 12 years was bad." When Republicans begin hyperventilating about a Democratic political attack and you get centrist pundits like Jake Tapper asking why you're being so divisive, that's not weak. That's the type of thing to double down on.
  3. I think you agree so I'm speaking to Linux, BO&W, etc., but this also means not validating their culture war bait. It doesn't mean throwing trans people, gay people, minorities, immigrants or whoever under the bus, because that (1) tells your base you don't believe in the values you profess (and depresses their turnout) and (2) tells undecided voters that Republicans are right about those issues and their importance. Not long ago DEI was just some corporate CYA shit so if a company got sued for discrimination it could go "but we had this antidiscrimination training!" to avoid legal liability. Republicans seized on that and were able to make it a huge culture war issue because (1) the media knowingly helped them and (2) Dems had no idea how to respond because too many Dems' instinctive reaction to that shit is to say "Republicans are right about this!" and run away from it. The obvious response was along the lines of "they're lying about anti-discrimination training that's been going on for 30+ years to distract from their goal to [slash medicaid/eliminate social security/etc.]"
  4. Point to a Democratic candidate that has done that. I will literally do this forever if you can't learn to distinguish between random people on the internet and Democratic candidates for office.
  5. How much longer are you going to complain about things no Democratic candidate for office had anything to do with? You do understand the difference between random fucking people and Democratic nominees, right? Please tell me you at least have object permanence.
  6. She’s never been a calculating person, man. Sometimes the answer to “why is this character doing something stupid?” is because that’s part of who they are as a character.
  7. In my own canon Eddie Vedder ended up in Jackson and taught Joel a new song he was working on.
  8. Adult men with super defensive takes about asmongold is a new one. The internet is full of marvels.
  9. There's fundamentally zero difference between Linux and Richard Hanania.
  10. So anonymous internet posters (who were almost certainly Brits) who posted JK Rowling’s address online (which is publicly available information, she lives in a fucking castle that’s on tourist sightseeing tours) are now part of this amorphous “They” who run Democratic politics. Got it.
  11. Linux you goddamned beautiful mind you, are you suggesting that Democratic leadership radicalized JK Rowling?
  12. WHO THE FUCK IS “THEY”?
  13. Why are you attributing random posts and videos of people with no fucking connection to the Democratic party to Democrats? What the fuck does the Depp/Heard trial have to do with the Democratic party?
  14. Fascist propaganda gets negged.
  15. No comment.
  16. Hey man, you don't know me!
  17. Withdrawing from twitter wasn't about disapproval. It was recognition that it wasn't an effective platform any longer (ignoring for this conversation that it's just a shitty user experience now). When Elon can program the algorithm to automatically disappear any liberal tweets that start getting too much attention, you gotta find a new battleground. On the attack/retreat analogy, Washington pretty much won the American revolution by being very good at retreating.
  18. Hell yeah, it rules remembering how right I was about her the entire time.
  19. She's always been sneaky-hot. Don't let that or her relative decency (relative to Sam Alito) fool you into thinking she doesn't suck, though.
  20. Helo hating on what will be the best Superman movie since Donner's might be peak Helo.
  21. Next time I get a traffic ticket I'm complaining that these assholes didn't.
  22. He didn’t go too far. He was just early.
  23. And yet she still helped him out. It was so fitting for her character, in that even as she was realizing the system had no more use for her and would destroy her, she couldn't help but still want it to prevail.
  24. Yeah, I thought it was really well done and felt "real." They'd have to be terrified of ISB traps at that point and people in that position would HAVE to wonder about the authenticity of the information. They still made the right call in the end without really wasting much time.
  25. At some point just calling them "weird" would grow old, yes, but it's pointing in the right direction in terms of what should be the rhetorical strategy. Despite being the party for incel nazi creeps, much of the public still views the Republican party as the adult, responsible business party and the Democratic party as the party of strange and unpopular nerds. It's a real problem for us and a real advantage for the GOP. That's why they freaked the fuck out when the "weird" attack picked up steam. The Dems need to be telling the public that the Republican party is the party of nazi pedophiles and other creeps you wouldn't let within five hundred feet of your children. They need to be repeating it pretty much constantly.
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