I think we all have to come to terms with the fact that, thanks to rightwing agitprop/disinfo, millions of Americans live in a different reality than we do, and our realities are not compatible.
The fake problems really were fake problems. Nobody voted on them! Swing voters just said they did because, unlike hardcore MAGAts, they weren't comfortable admitting they voted their bigotries.
Problems real or fake: Republicans gave us this outcome. They should be killed for this. Down to a man, a woman, a grandfather or grandmother. They have destroyed our country. If a civil war starts im torturing the fuck out of whoever I can capture over this shit. If it ever starts...
One idea I've been playing with is that our problem isn't necessarily the two party system. It's that half plus change of organized politics in this country have little to no in-group consequence for lying. It's why Dems were load bearing *and* and don't have a clear path to an effective comeback
"I know not what problems the 2026 elections will be about, but the 2028 elections will be about really big problems."
-- the AI chatbot when I asked for political advice from the most genius smartypants ever to live, Norman Einstein
I find this fully plausible for the purposes of 2026/2028 but past that...
well, put it this way, I will allow myself to be very pleasantly surprised if the us electorate proves capable of not returning to hallucinating fake problems the moment the current real ones are even slightly out of sight
I’m like I don’t think you can say slurs to a coworker possibly ever … like I don’t think you could call a coworker a guinea, or a Mick in a law office in 1980 or 2000 either.
And you definitely couldn’t say the n word in casual conversation or as a joke even in the 1990’s. I don’t really know when saying slurs to coworkers was acceptable behavior that at the very lest would make you really unpopular at best!
I will forever be mad that we set the world on fire because people were still mad they had to be mildly inconvenienced by our very modest Covid restrictions and then memory holed how fucking terrible the entire first Trump term was
Just filed my taxes and was shocked there was no option to contribute $3 to the doordash delivery fund, only the useless and functionally obsolete campaign fund thing.
setting the united states constitution on fire because some trans girl three states over wanted to play on a girls middle school team, setting the united states constitution on fire because you're offended at seeing pronouns in names in work emails (?????)...
Hundreds of thousands of federal workers lose their jobs and some have to surrender their pets to shelters because video game characters didn't have big perky boobs
I don't see how electing the guy who is supported by third temple activists really helps the plight of the Arabs in Israel at all but sure, say the democrats lost for your pet interest ethnic conflict.
It's the other facet to this - A real problem, hijacked for ulterior motives by disingenuine bad faith engagement.
(Evident, given how the topic was basically buried as soon as the election was done and dusted, even though the IDF has only scaled up operations and expanded maximalist goals since).
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It's almost like the media ecosystem is blasted against Democrats.
Well, he's really got his finger right on the pulse today hasn't he.
Remind me why everyone is bowing and scraping before this decrepit, addlepated yutz, again?
-- the AI chatbot when I asked for political advice from the most genius smartypants ever to live, Norman Einstein
well, put it this way, I will allow myself to be very pleasantly surprised if the us electorate proves capable of not returning to hallucinating fake problems the moment the current real ones are even slightly out of sight
I wish those terms had been rare in white-dominated offices then. They were not.
You people have lost the fucking plot. 19 years old and already a better world isn't possible.
(Evident, given how the topic was basically buried as soon as the election was done and dusted, even though the IDF has only scaled up operations and expanded maximalist goals since).