Hegar

voices told him to kill

I feel like i can understand why someone who’s hearing voices might not behave 100% rationally.

Ratfucking is a term that includes electoral fraud and strongly implies illegal conduct.

Trying to distract people from his shameful handling of the billionaire’s tax.

He’s still just a spineless servant of the rich.

It’s barely even hypocrisy. Hypocrisy implies failing to meet a professed standard or concealing your true beliefs.

They just earnestly believe they deserve things that others don’t and they’re not really afraid to act that way publicly.

Hate …

You’re thinking of money.

If you read their comment history, they are not a bootlicker. They come off more like a depressed californian who leans left.

I think their comment was refering to the ballot initiatives in ca, the wealth tax and the two counter-measures that billioniares bought.

What do you mean?

If anything it is a concession - making trump seem hated rather than laughed at may as well be a campaign ad buy.

Ken paxton is such a petty criminal, he literally swiped someone’s $1000 pen. Pure instinctive, crime-of-opportunity style larceny.

If ken paxton was not white, ken paxton would be calling for ken paxton to be deported.

Centrists are santa claus - obvious bullshit meant to dupe children.

Sure as presents come from mom, every adult knows centrists are actually right wingers.

We as a nation, i presume.

Fascist fraudster flavio flees fearing fetters? Fantastic!

There was a massive study from princeton over a decade ago showing that since the end of the civil rights era, not a single piece of public policy reflected public opinion.

The conclusion was that there is no evidence that the US is a democracy, and it explicitly said we’ve functionally been an oligarchy since the 70s.

I believe it’s just saying millennial/gen-z aren’t likely to start supporting republicans over dems, not that they’re strong supporters of the dems.

A lot of the article points at ways the dems have failed to engage with issues truly important to their base, so i think in context it’s clearer that it’s not saying dems are beloved.

Eighty-five percent of millennial and Gen Z donors favored Democrats, a trend that appears durable rather than something they’ll age out of. As this cohort entered its prime earning and donating years, Democrats should have been building the broadest grassroots fundraising base in the history of American politics. Instead, the spam model drove millions of these potential donors away. The party didn’t just fail to capitalize on its generational advantage. It actively destroyed it, trading a rising base that would have funded the party for decades for one that is being exhausted for short-term fees. Private equity firms call this “harvesting.” You stop investing in the business and extract everything you can before the foundation gives way. The consultant class has been harvesting the Democratic Party for over a decade.

Just one excellent point from this article. Worth reading to the end.

The depressing thing i fear is that polling on trans rights must be bad enough that some dems feel this is a position that benefits them. Newsom seems to think it benefits him, slimy amoral scumbag that he is.

The dems don’t want to accept any responsiblity for the perception that they’re not meaningfully different from fascists, but they also want to throw trans people to the wolves when they’re already one of the most murdered groups in society.

While netanyahu is a would-be autocrat, so we can talk about “netanyahu’s propaganda” in that sense, there’s a false narrative that tries to put all the blame for genocide on netanyahu.

The fact is that genocide enjoys broad support from a wide majority of israelis, who understand perfectly well what they are doing. Netanyahu has no serious anti-genocide opponents, because they have no realistic base of support.

I think centering netanyahu rather than israel in posts about the genocide risks supporting this false narrative that this is a netanyahu problem, rather than an israel problem.

That’s just the job description of a politician though right?

Even most of the fascists don’t really believe in what they’re doing. Some like miller are diehard ideologues but most republicans are just saying whatever vile lies the job requires of them.

Yup, i too hold my nose and do my duty at the ballot box.

Dems think peeling the “we hate trans people and also trump” votes will gain them more than in a few key races than the damage done by fueling the perception that they are not meaningfully different from fascists.

It’s never worked out before, but maybe this time…