kirklonguski.bsky.social
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I don't think that section of voters is very big. Plus Harris over performed with people who watch the news, hard to think that people who don't watch the news are Gaza motivated.
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If you asked the voters to push a deflation button they'd break their finger on it despite that being a disastrous idea.
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The thing is, everyone was actually demanding "make things better" and were only saying specific policies because they don't understand the problems. The voters don't know anything about policy, they shouldn't be listened to about policy, anyone talking about policy should be shot with a crossbow.
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Incumbents get elected even when poor people exist. People change their perceptions of the economy even though poor people exist.
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Look at food and energy prices between 2008 and 2012. The economy is orthogonal to people's perception of the economy, they are unrelated.
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the problem is that you working backwards from catharsis to reason. just because pointing out how ridiculous a lot of people on the left are feels gratifying doesn’t mean it’s an especially productive political pursuit, especially in this moment. in fact it may be distracting you from some big stuff
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That's entirely possible but the Left isn't doing anything else either. I'm entirely in favor of popular or violent revolution but the Left never fucking does it. It's a bunch of people nodding and saying "some day."
Liberalism is the weakest it's ever been and you can't do shit with that fact.
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Yes! Losing elections is a fine price to pay. Democrats who lose elections are not the ones who suffer when they lose elections. That's the whole point of the "hostage no one cares about" metaphor and you just responded "okay enjoy your dead hostage"
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own incentives.
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Why? The center left will be fine even if it loses elections. "Give us some left populism or we won't vote for you." is taking a hostage no one cares about.
"Ah then why do liberals love talking about why the left should vote for them or suffer" because people aren't good at understanding their
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📌
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us" jolt of dopamine.
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They don't value intelligence and they're not concerned with being painted as stupid. The only kind of intelligence that they value is the sly "you can't trick me" sort that used car salesmen make them feel before tricking them. Calling them stupid just gives them another "college folks look down on
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This, too, is Stancilism
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They don't actually think that, they just say they do.
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Did you look at the company at the source of this stat?
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Did you look at the company at the source of this stat?
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The land sucks! The only reason they want to live there is ideological Zionism. They're leaving the most desirable zip codes in the world because Zionism is very un-material.
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If that were the case no incumbent would ever win, because prices always rise. Prices rose between 2000 and 2004, prices rose between 2008 and 2012.
Deflation would be an actual economic disaster.
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What resources
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What cheap resources
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People have a hard time understanding that the amount they care- or how good of a person they are- doesn't change how much good they do.
This person can rend themselves to pieces and be as pure as they want and they will still help Palestine less than someone who gives slightly more money.
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It matters if things are true.
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Inhibitions are part of your personality and behavior. If drugs make you choose to do things you otherwise wouldn't, then drugs are changing your behavior. Inhibitions are not some separate thing that is external to the self.
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Will you need to address the cat's media environment.
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Their end goal is a hierarchy of social order represented by trump. They don't need more gain. If they were purely motivated by "bank account go up" they'd be in venture capital, not media.
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No, a normal person would not.
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It's not a strategy, it's an ideology. They like trump and want him to rule as king.
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They like trump and want him to rule us as a king.
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The Entity is actually controlling the tariffs.
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Ugh here come a billion posts refusing to say the word twitter like its a slur
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Just as a matter of research every left-of-center commentator should be subjected to a crash course in gamergate via the Ludovico technique.
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Ineffective against a force user, that's why they had to have specially cloned troops for order 66. Mace Windu being there is them bringing out the heavy ordinance.
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I'm not sure that I'd attribute it totally to critical theory, but there was a real feeling that the Left only needed to defeat liberalism and then socialism would rise to fill the gap, the right wing would grudgingly accept social progressivism in exchange for economic populism.
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I got time for Wes Anderson haters. Got ammunition for them too.
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His frenulum is different in a very troubling way.
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It's actually something that would get to him I think, that's so funny.
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Why does opening outlook make my 3 year old laptop whine like I'm hitting its prostate
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Just buddy up with someone
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This is at least falsifiable and concrete! I have no criticisms, I hope that you're right.
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I think "progress is being made" is a claim that needs to be justified with evidence, unless you're saying the existence of the parties themselves are the point. The working class has gotten more right-wing due to degrading material conditions, not more Left-wing.
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There's been no noticeable change in dems for the past ~30-50 years, certainly no leftward change, so why haven't those parties materialized.
If the answer is "the two party system won't allow it" then why would that ever change?
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If the answer is revolution that's fine, but then let's get into the how of that and whether you see evidence of it.
"Material conditions degrade under liberalism" -> "popular revolution from the Left" seems to be not working.
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Democrats are fine losing elections. You've taken a hostage no one cares about.
"If you don't run Bernie/give us more Left-populist policies, we won't vote for you"
"Okay"
What is the next step?
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Prices are always higher than they were before because deflation is an economic disaster. If this was true then no incumbent would ever win.