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wildcat09

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  1. They couldn't even get one token black student. Impressive.
  2. If they made a dozen beekeeper movies where he just brutally murders new scammers in each one I'd see every single one of those in theaters.
  3. It's like I'm arguing with Grok.
  4. Did you eat paint chips as a kid or something?
  5. By definition people won't hear a message from non-celebrities. What the fuck is Joe Rogan if he's not a celebrity?
  6. A lot of those "lost souls" will change their minds because their minds are malleable and if the political winds shift they will. To the extent Dems should be trying to appeal directly to young men, they probably shouldn't even be using candidates to do so, but organizing with, e.g. progressive professional athletes and other celebrities who can effectively talk shit about Republicans and tell these young men to stop being so soft. A little bit of Jordan Peterson "clean your room" shit coming from a progressive guy like Alan Ritchson will be a lot more successful than average politicians going on long-form podcasts.
  7. Hey, you guys know that South Park episode where they all ignore Cartman and because nobody will respond to him Cartman thinks he died?
  8. Then maybe stop trying man.
  9. The thing about this is that the way to stop talking about trans issues as national political issues is to make a righteous stand when asked about trans issues. E.g. if Jake Tapper is interviewing a candidate and trying to goad them into throwing trans people under the bus, the response isn't to tepidly try to change the topic, but to attack Jake for thinking trans folks don't deserve the same rights as everyone else and that denying them their basic rights is more important than [whatever]. Most if not all GOP culture war bullshit depends quite a bit on the complicity of mainstream media types who launder GOP culture war bullshit (that jibes with their own beliefs more than they'd like to publicly admit) as views of "ordinary Americans."
  10. "[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!"
  11. 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.
  12. 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.]"
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. In my own canon Eddie Vedder ended up in Jackson and taught Joel a new song he was working on.
  17. Adult men with super defensive takes about asmongold is a new one. The internet is full of marvels.
  18. There's fundamentally zero difference between Linux and Richard Hanania.
  19. 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.
  20. Linux you goddamned beautiful mind you, are you suggesting that Democratic leadership radicalized JK Rowling?
  21. WHO THE FUCK IS “THEY”?
  22. 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?
  23. Fascist propaganda gets negged.
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