Rookwood

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[–] Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 hours ago

Really doesn't matter and you're missing the point. I agree there was obvious voter suppression. But it was probably 1% swing at most. She might have squeaked out a win if the math works out in hypotheticals... at the end of the day it doesn't matter.

Point is, she could have easily crushed Trump if she had appealed to a better narrative. She stuck with the status quo and ultimately that was about as equally appealing to voters as fascism...

[–] Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Pakistan is essentially the cornerstone of Xi's Belt Road Initiative from the last decade. It's India 100%.

[–] Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Oh nice, we agree he's racist then.

[–] Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 12 hours ago

Tbf, it's been in decay since Reagan. Long time coming to get here. Trump was inevitable when we didn't address inequality, lowered taxes on the wealthy, and allowed Citizen's United.

[–] Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Yeah, everyone underestimates climate impact and the fact that we are already past points of no return. It feeds into the cultural nihilism we have today. We're kinda doomed. People just dissociating and pointing fingers at each other. The system is designed to cater to sociopathy and no good leaders can rise to the top to navigate us around the icebergs we're headed straight towards.

[–] Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 12 hours ago

Medical research.

[–] Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Oh yeah, I guess that proves he's not racist. /s

[–] Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 12 hours ago

Since when do you righties believe anything our government says? It's hilarious how a man who is proven repeatedly to be a consistent liar comes to power and you start believing him just because he preaches hate.

[–] Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Genocide is when we abolish landlords. /s

Meanwhile, when you use military force to take people's homeland, it's not.

[–] Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 13 hours ago

Extremely vague and therefore bullshit.

[–] Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 13 hours ago

I think you forget that they are being imported to the nation with the most powerful military on Earth.

[–] Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 13 hours ago

You're exactly right. Which is why my point is that in our two party system, the "left" has to put up an inspiring candidate to beat him. Hitler and Trump are essentially the same archetype, rejected narcissists who prey on people's fear by feeding them scapegoats. About 30% of the population has narcissistic, authoritarian sentiments at any given time. So for such a person to come to power, they only need to suppress the opposition below a plurality of 30%.

In Nazi Germany, Hitler came to power because the left was fractured by bickering among the many factions. They refused to unite into a coalition to address the problems of the Great Depression.

In MAGA America, we have the two party system which prevents voter fracturing, but the liberals are refusing to embrace the need for change and thus suppressing their own voter base below the 30% by platforming the status quo while people are suffering and unhappy.

 

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