psyniacle.bsky.social
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At what point do blue states stop paying federal taxes?
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social media has made these ppl think the president of the United States and his defense contractor are like, just influencers who are also their friends
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Republicans when things are for horses
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She’s taken such a hard right turn. I can’t tell if she really believes it or if she’s just another cynical politician who thinks this will make them powerful.
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They’re terrorists.
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What damage exactly has this done? Do you think that anyone who isn’t already polarized against Biden cares about this?
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Would it magically change the results of the election? Will it matter in the next election when Trump has inevitably destroyed virtually everything we consider American? It doesn’t matter. He’s an old man, he’s retired, and his politics don’t matter anymore.
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Like I kinda think they get off on the contradiction of the whole thing; their own supporters are confused, they don’t have united goals that range beyond corruption and pet ideological projects, but altogether they create an authoritarianism in the aggregate, which is the point of banding together.
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Like, I do think there are a lot of aspects that are relatively aimless. The blind dowsing rod approach to finding their way into fascism is part of how they get away with it in the 21st century; being deliberately stupid is self serving bc it gives them (im)plausible deniability.
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I don’t know if it needs to be calculated. You can accomplish the same effects just by trying to break the institutions for your own goals. It’s like crowd sourced fascism lol. Each of them have a different reason to want to erode law and the truth; together they create an authoritarian system.
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I mean I live in Denver and it’s very much a thing but I also work in the arts. Frankly I find it annoying but I don’t think it’s worth voting Republican over lol like who fucking cares
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The degree of lying is astounding. They lie as naturally as breathing. Something is genuinely wrong with their souls.
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I think the most obvious consequence of Trump winning this election is the death of rule of law. Crimes can be committed as long as they’re in service to the mafia state, which is supposedly okay bc it won the popular vote. I don’t know how we convince ppl the law is important.
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There’s like twelve watergates happening a day right now lol
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Is there a shortage or something? Like why does everybody have to be what Trump wants them to be
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I don’t really think the 2020 primaries made that happen in any real sense but believe what you want. What created Trump 2 is a deliberately manufactured rightwing media environment; we would not be on this site if it mainstream social media hadnt been used to brainwash millions.
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Maybe Bernie’s wing will win more when they stop attributing their losses to trumpian election denialism
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It’s been deleted what was it?
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Yup! A lot of unfortunate consequences downstream of a lot of completely fair elections. That’s elections! If Bernie is such a better alternative I wonder why he can’t win the votes that show that. Perhaps the electorate is just more rightwing than you or I would like them to be!
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There was a 2024 primary lol Biden won and none of the others ran
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Doesn’t really have anything to do with this topic but ya you’re right she pretty demonstrably was not the strongest candidate for 2024
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It really wasn’t that crazy. Frankly I think the worry at the time was less that Bernie would be president and more that he might’ve lost to Trump. He’s not that popular a candidate, which is why he lost the popular vote in the primaries two elections in a row.
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Well, yes lol, that’s the point of the consolidation. Is it just difficult to understand that different politicians have different policy goals and interests and so do their voters?
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Right… because they were ideologically aligned… like I don’t understand this frustration against consolidation, if the only way a candidate can win is via plurality they’re clearly not the strongest candidate. I understand it’s disappointing but that’s elections
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How is this feigned ignorance “we don’t know anything ever we’re too dumb to remember we don’t know what goes on in our admin” effective as a strategy? I guess it’s just the same vein of deception behind everything but it makes them look like complete morons, it’s a weird conscious decision
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Beyond selling a bible with his signature and letting a bunch of televangelists grope him I have not seen him really express much care for Christianity.
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It’s why I don’t understand why anyone trusts it. Everyone by now should have encountered it being wrong and realized that if they can’t trust it some of the time they can’t trust it ever. I mean, I know that’s sorta the same rule with the internet but with the web you get many sources to compare.
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Bc it’s endless fuel for the both sides fire. “See, politics is inherently controversial and all critical rhetoric is just campist attacks, don’t worry too much about criticism against us” it makes ppl who don’t pay attention think it’s all the same circus that’s been going on forever.
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You can’t live off of Medicaid…
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Didn’t they sway those voters when they won four popular votes in a row? I really think that actively asking people not to vote is not without an effect here. Biden won more votes in 2020 when the narrative was “stop Trump” than trump did in 2024 when the narrative had shifted to again, don’t vote.
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I am familiar with this loop and I don’t always understand it; if the advocacy is for giving up the position to the worst possible actor instead of broadly supporting the defense, doesn’t it show that the “not voting” culture failed,especially when we see the discrepancies in these past 3 elections?
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Why does this not seem like an emergency that necessitated the only available means of avoiding it? Why, as the country transforms into this dictatorship, are you still so focused on insisting that it was somehow not a danger worth the only available option? Trump is a product of the cynicism