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troph

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  1. Gotta find someone Better Than Ezra.
  2. I was married to one. I dig it.
  3. There’s nothing wrong with academic conversations per se, but as an academic adjacent and not an academic myself I agree academics can be insufferable. The issue isn’t listening to them if you want to, it’s having no one else speaking to the people other than academics. and anyone listening to private equity explain the root of all problems is … something.
  4. great clip. he says there is hope. Trump gives them an identity and he's tough. they aren't necessarily attracted to the crueler parts. don't shoot the messenger, that's what the guy said. he also said these kids are looking for a tribe, they are open and listening but the left just isn't there, not on campuses not in these spaces with the 18-19 year olds. It kinda goes to the same complaint of the black voters and frankly the LGBTQ voters. The hispanic voters too. Many of the constituents feel forgotten. Heck, republicans come out and say they will pass the equality act (and we live in a world where they will) then I'm changing my vote that day. Dems don't have their constituents forever. soooooo, I think this points to get in the fray and communicate, but it also means focus on your constituents. Youth should be a constituent, minority voters should be a constituent, gay and queer voters should be a constituent, but Dems have FAFO based on how they have governed for 30+ years and how they have communicated for just a long as well. I don't think attracting center right will ever work, but there are so many young voters that turned for maga that shouldn't have and the same is true for black men and hispanics. shit, even straight white women should be higher percentages too.
  5. you said GOP uses Rogan as a tool that's why they are so good at it, he was advocating the exact same strategy. when he said celebrity he didn't mean have some hollywood lib hob-knob with Biden then say shit on the campaign trail. Jon Stewart is a Dem tool and funny as hell (also a helluva advocate for 9-11 responders and will call out Dems when they suck too). Dems need 50 more people like that, 45 of them on youtube, podcasts, twitch, whatever and are outside the mainstream media. not sure how saying do the same thing makes it different.
  6. well, it's not like we have a deep bench. he's on the list because when he speaks he's effective but yeah, he hasn't done nearly enough for what he could be doing. no argument at all.
  7. don't worry, the feds and the clean water act will save us... oh. wait...
  8. Pure insanity
  9. I agree with this, the failed logic with some of the kids is so extreme their current beliefs are extremely vulnerable to change. This is a good thing. As soon as their life circumstances change their politics may too. However, young men who are all in on violence and bro culture are unlikely to vote dem, ever. That’s not new, even though their unique expression of masculinity appears new. Contrast that with my son who says none of this will really impact him but it’s going to impact those he loves and it makes him sad and makes him want to fight for change. Bro culture men think that’s weak and they are never coming around. It’s in their ethos - no excuses, self reliance, no help from anyone (all of which are convenient lies, everyone gets help). reality is demographics are changing and the country is fast approaching minority majority. until a new reality of our plurality settles in, the unrest and upheaval will continue and there’s not a damn thing Dems can really do to stop it, and much like the times of the civil rights era, times during the 1980s municipal ERO battles, you will have whites, especially hetero white men (and their traditional wives) acting out. Only this time we have the echo chamber of the social media algorithm to act as the incendiary device. Add the fact that building an audience is one way to make tons and tons of money (where it wasn’t before) and you have talented people getting into this historical game. its going to look like we are losing until we are not. doesn’t mean Dems should just be idiots, and Bernie, Warren, AOC, booker, and others should be the party leadership for sure. The alternate message has to be clear so when it’s time to vote a clear alternative is laid out and compelling. But we aren’t stopping this unrest and acting out by conservative men, it’s a clear repeat of history.
  10. I have no real objection to what he said because where he said it and because I know he stands for equal protection under the law for my people - but if taken at face value it’s simply not true. People absolutely do care who I am, or on the other side “what I am” - if it really didn’t matter I wouldn’t have retained a lawyer to help get our affairs in order to leave the US.
  11. idiotic, when the bill fails, trump will say see, congress has spoken, I get muh plane!
  12. you only really get one shot to sell your product to the audience. as a practitioner of the English language and the art of persuasion I get it.
  13. there is some truth to what you are saying but you are way underestimating how sticky parental religious and political views are on kids. from Pew: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/05/10/most-us-parents-pass-along-their-religion-and-politics-to-their-children/ Over 80% success rate in passing Trumpism (aka Republican views) to their kids. Same with religion. Another survey showed it usually sticks through the age surveyed (29 years old).
  14. that thread is exactly why I rarely go over there. total beat down.
  15. I actually agree with @linux about liberal lingo. I mean I can go on and on and on about how the patriarchy has fucked me over and over and (BO&W) not in a good way. But it doesn't matter, it's tone deaf language except in certain liberal circles. When I'm in women only discussions it's rarely stated but it's well understood and stated more informally what the root cause is. Make no fucking mistake about it, this world would be immensely better off with women running the show, research is pretty clear on that. RBG was right, when will it be enough? When there are 9 women on the Bench. But NONE of that matters to poor undereducated men in this country because they are getting a raw deal too.
  16. don't sleep on diptheria. who doesn't want a "gray to black, tough, fiber-like covering" obstructing your airways and making it hard to breathe and swallow on the way to death?
  17. I mean I exclaim "fuck the patriarchy" when I'm about to orgasm. seems better than exclaiming "oh god" given that I'm not religious.
  18. 100% but doesn't mean you don't get in the mix of the podcast, youtube and whatever else universe and throw some punches and explain your position.
  19. I'm watching now. bernie got those guys when he laughed at their autism joke. where's the RAGE??!! jk.
  20. Billionaires. You’ve seen me say it many times here. When hate is needed, point to the billionaires.
  21. If I wouldn’t get assassinated I would run and do exactly what needs to be done. Dismiss the trans issue in 3 seconds with the attention an idiot deserves (while advocating for equality) then I’d turn straight to the economic issues. Leave humans alone, and fix the fucking potholes man. It ain’t hard.
  22. Yeah but you do it with that Obama “WTF” energy. Jake, come on man. You really going to sit here in 2025 and say people shouldn’t get a fair shake because of an immutable characteristic? Are you serious? Look man, I like you, I’ll still grab a beer with you, but you’re just wrong on this man. And worse you’re distracting us from the real issues … do you know that the state of Texas and a bunch of others keep turning down Medicaid funding to help their poor with healthcare? And now their Republican counter parts in Washington are gutting Medicaid for the rest of the country to fund billionaire tax cuts. These politicians on the right then claim to be for the working poor and middle class. Why on gods green earth are they doing that? Why aren’t you focusing on this Jake. Do better man. Jake follows up, so Ms troph are you in favor of passing legislation to protect trans people? Jake, what part of what I just said didn’t make sense to you? Of course we shouldn’t discriminate against any group of people based on inherent characteristics. This is a 5 minute issue, let’s leave people alone, let them be, and move on. Yes I support the equality act, but dang man, can we talk about issues that impact ALL of us like these god awful and mistaken tariffs?
  23. We need this energy… and this energy … the weird comment was pretty bad. They need to say, Trump is a lying, hate filled, fear mongering grifter who is only in this for himself. That’s not who we are. Then pivot to the issues so you have a chance to capture the person who might agree on the first point.
  24. I’ll go a step further. I don’t want to fucking talk about trans issues AT ALL. Not one fucking minute talking about it. In my day to day life, it doesn’t come up. I parent, I love my wife (no I won’t give you our onlyfans page url), I work, I volunteer, I play and that’s it. Ain’t no body got time for this shit. Shut up, pass the law, shut it down and move on. Like when my wife came out, her dad in a Marine colonel sort of way said, “this is who she is, we love her, so we accept her. That’s the last I’ll hear of it.” And that conservative family moved on and it was never an issue again, in 19 fucking 87. It’s not hard. We can do this. We have to, we have way bigger fish to fry than grandstanding about who people are. For the love of fucking god what I would give for this shit to be a nonissue.
  25. Nobody gives a fuck. Hell in our district they blamed the budget problems on the current board and want to DOGE the district. We won so I guess some care. But not enough to matter.
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