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Also a big reason why the "weird" counters with pictures of gay/trans individuals aren't taking off: the median American, despite maybe some reservations around certain issues related to gay/trans rights (high school athletics being the big one here), doesn't actually *hate* gay/trans people. What a concept, I know. It's kinda "weird" how some people haven't figured that out in 2024.

Yeah I don't think it's going away.... Particularly the Project 2025 playbook still being operable.

It also manifests itself in a desire to turn Americans against versus one another versus bringing them together. At times, he has even suggested that our biggest enemies aren't China or Russia or other actors on the world stage, but rather our greatest enemies are from within. If there weren't real world consequences, I'd think it was pretty a pretty sad existence he lives. Incapable of love, incapable of joy or even the ability to laugh or show emotion.

One of the biggest mistakes these social media/online types in political circles make is assuming that everyone knows exactly what they are talking about, particularly when using inside-baseball jargon. It extends beyond the right (definitely see strains of it in the far left), but it seems like it's particularly pronounced with RW commentators.

This cannot be real....

Do you think the average American is going to go out of their way to figure out what Dave Rubin means when he says "NPC"? They just hear all that stuff and think it is weird.... just as they thought Blake Masters and Kari Lake were weird when they ran for office in Arizona during 2022.

Put another way, a reason why the "weird" attack probably works better than a lot of folks would to admit is because they very way that the Dave Rubin's of the world talk, using jargon that no one has ever heard of, is pretty foreign to people who don't spend a lot of time on-line. Which is upwards of 80% of the population lol And adding JD Vance to the ticket, who is a creature of that world, puts that out there on display and associates it with Donald Trump in a way that would have never happened has Trump made the smart choice and picked, say, Doug Burgum (like he reportedly wanted to but was talked out of by Uday and Qusay)

You realize that most normal people have never heard of the acronym "NPC", right? Which kinda proves a point, doesn't it?

Even Manchin thinks he's nuts

Really offensive...

Do I need to dig up my answer from two days ago on this very subject? That Harris has a record that she will have to defend, good and bad, but ultimately that Jesus Christ isn't on the ballot and this is a binary choice? I'm sorry that you don't like the answer, but it is an answer.

Rinse, Recycle, Repeat

And for whatever reason, some folks just don't appear interested to engage on it. It kinda goes to the old theme of "I don't like Trump, but [insert diatribe against some other politician]" meme that has come to symbolize the anti-anti-Trump class. It's inconvenient to engage on any of his flaws, lets pivot to something else.

I don't see how Trump being a private citizen at the time means that it was OK using his status as an elite in late 1980s NYC to whip up a mob against five innocent black men....

I work the construction field and am adjacent to railroads much of the time (haven't really dealt with railroad labor directly, but am aware of it due to my work).... the very nature of the work makes it easier for management and labor to row in the same direction versus other positions IMO. Take an IBEW lineman working for an electrical contractor.... they get compensated extremely well, but one wrong move and that employee can die. Obviously incentive for the worker, but also incentive for management, because dealing with a dead employee is a massive massive problem on many levels. Especially on the lower levels of management where one may personally know that employee and have a relationship with them.

I will say this for union employees, at least in the industry that I work in (as someone who has practiced in Texas and Illinois, I've seen both sides of this): Unions aren't perfect and the politics that come with them often create a lot of headaches, but in terms of training, union employees tend to be much more skilled, trained and work safer than non-union employees. There's a real tradeoff that exists between the two IMO, boiling it down to "they get paid more to do less work" doesn't really capture what I've seen.

As the young kids like to say... "Cry Harder"

The decisions we make at the ballot box effect us all day to day. No question But if someone is dealing with a medical emergency in their family, how can you not have grace for that?

Thank you for sharing. The stuff the happens on the day to day matters more than all of this stuff

He's such a mediocre guy, and a loser to boot. He never laughs, he's always angry. It's a codependent relationship that many have with it. We would be better off turning the page.

The Forsyth County story is actually one of hope... Sure, maybe demo changes have happened, it's more diverse than it used to be, but actual hearts and minds have changed since 1987 I'm sure as well. It sucks to reduce that to the regular partisan debate about crowd sizes... Or saying "look how white that crowd was"

I've never been to Forsyth County... But knowing the history, getting hundreds of people to show up for a rally supporting a mixed race politician, to paraphrase Jake Gittes in Chinatown, seems like news.