thelittlestant.bsky.social
~Here to call out the hypocrisy of the UK’s Media ~ and a ✨ Brazen Hussey ✨ 🐜
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It was subtle
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Yes we did, Iris played a LOT
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Rare beauty does well, a good use of funds would be to take less of a pay check and take sales funds to help those being deported or funding legal action etc.
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Yes but winning the popular vote is not the same as being president is it? What’s the list of first world countries that haven’t had a female leader and let’s think about what company America is keeping. Because that sounds like an excuse to me.
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Hmm I think you ought to watch that video I linked you. You need to take into account global trends and how our window is shifting alt right due to issues with resources. MAGA offers a scapegoat to blame other people instead of dealing with issues. Have a think about this.
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And I would be careful of how accurate your polls are. All the polls leading up to your election fluctuated wildly.
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People are violent and aggressive - they fall for propaganda because it holds up cognitive biases.
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I was an ICU doctor during the pandemic - and I can tell you from my own experiences it’s unfortunately rare for people to behave well under pressure. If it taught me anything acting for the decency and common good is a rare trait. My partner also a doctor found the same as did most colleagues
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I would argue it’s the same thing, inaction against fascism is not acting against it, thus, you are for it. I obviously don’t know your experience with public services or acting for people in times of dire need but there’s a lot of evidence here that inaction leads to the same outcome as MAGA
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So inherently your ‘good people’ did not abstain from voting and voting for Harris and those who likely felt they didn’t suffer either way abstained from voting. This comes down to the ethical question is inaction as bad as the action of voting for Trump?
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I would also ask you to consider that overwhelmingly black women and mostly black men voted for Harris. Black women have been at the front of the civil rights movements - and were instrumental in bringing about big changes for white women
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How much front line stuff have you done? I’ve had a lot of experiences with how people behave when under pressure and it’s not nice. People don’t behave well even if it means hurting other innocent people.
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Hmm how many first world countries have never had a female leader? I think you need to ask yourself why that is.
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youtu.be/kWuzeHKXyCI?...
I think this is what you’re trying to describe
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Look - there’s a video on LBC I think you ought to watch, which actually describes the psychology behind this a lot better. I think this is too simplistic a breakdown.
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I think a lot of people will argue with you that Corbyn is not the same as the Democrats - however he was pro-Brexit and I’m personally not a massive fan.
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But go back and read what you’ve said: if people aren’t galvanised against a president who have been openly admitting they are fascist that says a lot about your voter base and what they will tolerate. It’s too easy to just blame the Dems and not reflect on that alarming fact.
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You need to back stuff up with action- not happening. It’s also difficult to accept that your country has deeply racist and bigoted roots (hey Brexit) and it’s easy to ignore global patterns in voting and the psychology behind it. But all this will do is swing the democrat party more to the right
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And if people want to admit they voted for Trump admit it and don’t hide behind Palestine. But let’s not pretend that a lot of what’s driving this is intolerance and racism as well as so called economic measures. People hear sound bites that back up their biases
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Oh please, we just went through this in the U.K.
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You have a responsibility to vote, no one said it’s going to be nice. We have to make hard choices arguing against it that somehow not acting against a fascist is, complicit action. There are plenty of examples that back this up, people don’t like it because it’s an ugly truth.
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If you’re not going to vote against fascism then you need to look hard at the history of German and wonder about complicity because it’s tacit consent. I don’t accept that argument - speaking as someone whose family was subjected to apartheid.
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I think people need to either accept America for what it is and has been for a long time or actually take action to change the system. I see very little of either of these things.
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It’s not an argument, the alternative was to allow a criminal who is a sex offender and was broadcasting how he was going to repeal basic human rights. Are the democrats a good party? No, but let’s no pretend people who ‘morally’ abstained are at the moment working to create more than 2 party state
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Yes but that’s the sort of person who would call their child a liar if they told them they were touched inappropriately by a sex offender - logic isn’t on the table
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Umm which democrats have been funding alt right parties in different countries? Have offered to send millions to reform in the U.K. and done Nazi salutes on internationally broadcasted TV? You can now argue due to ratchet effect that the next candidate will be trying to meet Trumps politics.
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But waving a flag around and pretending it was about Palestine I guess is easier than saying I voted for 🍊 due to tax reasons and domestic reasons 🤷🏽♀️ that’s why they become highly defensive.
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Oh I just had a long conversation with my partner about what you’ve just said. Between two hard choices which were both equally bad for Palestine it becomes a non-argument. So then you have to look at what’s underneath.
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Lord what a nepo baby, seriously it’s the bare minimum
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Thank you for so ardently making this point which needs to be heard.
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You’ve gotten a lot of abuse in this thread but thank you for ardently making this point. The counter arguments are nonsense, you’re not protesting by letting Trump win. That’s a fantasy people are telling themselves to feel better.
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Thank you for making this point, I cannot believe that people are still trying to say Trump and KH are the same coin. I can only assume the response is resting somewhere in bigotry and racism.
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I literally had the argument with someone yesterday who then accused me of micro aggressions (not the proper use of the word either) for pointing it out. I cannot believe people are so stupid as to try to cling onto this belief.