Even when I was a milquetoast lib, it bothered the shit out of me how much campaign energy went into Not Saying Mean Things about the opponent. And that's a huge part of the reason we're here now.
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honestly people not being nasty enough to opponents has never struck me as a thing that is happening?? lol
more like "we are 90% aligned but we're gonna go at each other like one of us is a super space fascist" and then an actual space fascist steps over the carnage to win.
I'm mostly looking back at the useless discourse around, like, political TV ads back when those were relevant. Even as late as the early 2010s it was a serious smear to say that someone "ran a negative campaign" if their messaging addressed their opponent's record too much.
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more like "we are 90% aligned but we're gonna go at each other like one of us is a super space fascist" and then an actual space fascist steps over the carnage to win.