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Unrelated, but there was another article that showed up when i scrolled down about the Dems holding the PA House that was really interesting:
"Burns, a conservative anti-abortion Democrat, has drawn the ire of the Pennsylvania GOP for some time now, as his seat was viewed as a vulnerable blue dot in a sea of red. But he was able to maintain his seat thanks to an influx of cash ($3.4 million from the Pennsylvania House Democratic Campaign Committee) and a potent advertising blitz to keep Democrats in control of the state House.
One ad the Burns campaign ran capitalized on his conservative views, stoking anti-immigration based fear and casting Bradley as against Trump’s draconian immigration plans. “President Trump supports secure borders and putting America first. But Amy Bradley doesn’t,” the ad stated menacingly. It was a successful tactic for Burns in his otherwise deep red district."
That's a sign to me that people aren't as huge a fan of MAGA as one would believe and the voting base is more fluid. Not saying Dems should shift to anti-immigration / anti-abortion, but locally they should be more strategic about how they play these things. We don't have to agree with everything a down-ticket Democrat does... if they need to adjust their positions based on local sentiment we should be open to that as long as nationally we know where we stand.
That's what MAGA did with abortion...nationally oppose it, but claim to "give the choice to the states" to placate local fears. Localized and targeted messaging. If they don't want student loan forgiveness, don't run a single ad about student loan forgiveness in that state/county. If they mainly about immigration, make every ad about what the immigration bill would've done, that Trump/MAGA blocked it, that "BLOOD IS ON THEIR HANDS" as MAGA would put it.
Don't give up our overall ideals but start to better recognize that everyone has different priorities and we need to build a popular movement that connects with everyone.
Every and any avenue should be explored.
This is why I wish those voters had held their nose for Kamala
More harassment and attacks => more spending on health and mental care => economic stimulus
The system works! /s
The only flaw is that you are assuming they would increase spending
Thats socialism
Wow, the guy who bragged about how he sexually assaults anyone he finds attractive, talked about how he had the same "on the younger side" tastes as his best friend Jeff, talked about how he liked hosting beauty pageants because it gave him an excuse to walk in on girls while they were changing, etc emboldened other people to act the same way? Utter shock. This could never have been anticipated
This is who we are. This shit was out in the open for all the degenerates to see and vote for.
Cue restrictions on the freedom of movement of women. To "protect" them, of course.
Dude literally said he was gonna “protect” women whether they liked it or not. I took him at his word, but clearly a lot of women didn’t.
Clearly a lot of men heard what he really meant by that and liked it.
"whether they like it or not"
Remember that 53% of white women voted for this.
They voted for them and all women to be considered property.
College-educated white women backed Harris. All college-educated groups did. Maybe Democrats should work on making college more affordable, and accessible to women with small children. Frankly we should anyway. We should also start helping girls that get pregnant in high school finish with their diploma so college will be an option in their future. Especially since more of them are going to be forced to carry the pregnancy to term.
Unfortunately no one hates women more than other women.
Article filled with examples of men expressing hatred and misogyny towards women
"Ayup, no one hates women more than other women!"
Yeah, the "I do not want to vote for the lesser evil" crowd was literally saying the misogyny out loud for all to see.
Those of good conscience running in fear from orange stupidity didn't understand why others of good conscience were digging trenches: You can't outrun stupid. We fight or we die.
Bruh, I hate this timeline.
I feel like I accidentally triggered some portal and walked into a TV show / movie.
Nothing feels real anymore.
Tbh, for me, I’m realizing it’s triggering a sort of sea-change in terms of how I, as a citizen, want to interact with American society.
Laws, ethics, human dignity and empathy clearly aren’t important to people here. Money and power are. This is fully incongruent with my personal beliefs in a variety of fundamental ways. I’ve tried to aim my career at areas that are going to help better society - that’s a big part of why I work at an oncology-focused biotech now. But like… I’m faced with the realization that this country just doesn’t share my values, and doesn’t actually care that I willingly take markedly less compensation than, say, working at Meta, and it’s primarily because I want to make the world a better place.
I admit it’s starting to feel like an abusive relationship. I don’t think the world is going to become a better place in my lifetime. It’s going to get a lot worse in a lot of ways. My initial reaction was to begin taking steps to just fully fuck off from this country, and find someplace else with a society that hasn’t fully eaten itself. Try to keep my sanity and ethics in one piece by finding a new society to call home that’s not America.
But I ALSO have begun to realize in the last couple days that there’s another darker path I could take that denys the society I’ve honestly come to resent pretty strongly the my true capabilities and abusive consumption of my efforts: Malicious compliance. I could just fully jettison my ethical guidelines and engineering principles and simply min/max the absolute fuck out of comp and just retire early. Work for Meta or OpenAI or some health insurance company or whatever the fuck is the absolute most lucrative job I can find and just fully shoot for leadership metrics, not really fucking caring about the toxicity of the management class, the morale or well being of my team, the impact my work has on society, the quality, reliability, and integrity of the code I ship, or any of that ivory tower crap I’ve previously held as crucial elements to my profession. Stop trying to move the needle in the right direction. All gas, no brakes. If this country is determined to not give a fuck, why should I? Why shouldn’t I try to get to a place in my career where I can just retire, or do whatever I want without worrying too much about the personal consequences, because I can just fuck off at my own discretion due to money?
And the second, darker option has the added benefit that I wouldn’t have to essentially abandon my family here, who are definitely not considering moving away as seriously as I am. My parents are both not in the best of health; maybe I should try to at least spend some more time closer to them before I just fuckin leave - or at least, as long as I can stand it here before the “fuck off and leave” route is truly the only viable option.
It was December 21st 2012. The Mayans were right. A timeline ended and were falling into some clown mirror black hole ever since or something.
When does the current Mayan calendar period end?
Well after current human civilization ends.
the america the majority of americans want. sickening
A slim majority of voters. 68 million to 73 million last I checked. Not even a third of the population.
More like 22% when you look at the numbers. 40% of the electorate could give two shits who runs the country.
And people need to stop giving that 40% a free ride. They also wanted this. Fuck them.
We have the same issue in Ontario where our conservative leader Doug Ford won a majority with like 19% of Ontarians actually voting for him. This means for the majority of Ontarians they were comfortable sitting at home fingering their grandma. So fuck them yes they did want this.
5.5 million out of over 300 million is hardly a majority.
More like 74.2 millions out of over 231 millions eligible to vote. Still not a majority, but the 86 millions who didn't vote are at least complicit. And 160 millions are a majority.
Now we have both the middle east and the middle west
