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Or in their car wearing sunglasses.

Silent Hill fuck?

Aww, is Tommy feeling defensive?

Brooklyn? 🤷

Plus your naked meth dealing neighbor has a pet alligator

That’s not really a likely outcome in Texas of all places.

It has probably the most rigged elections of any state, which is how the GOP manages to have near-absolute control in spite of there actually being more registered Democrats than Republicans in the state.

this is better than 500 million sitting off shore bank accounts

You’d think so, but not really. In terms of pollution, a mega yacht pretty much makes a private jet look like a bicycle.

He might as well just hand most of the money directly to a refinery in Cancer Alley.

A big part of the problem is rich people don’t spend their money.

True, but a bigger part of the problem is that when they DO spend it rather than pathologically hoarding it, it’s often on things that are actively harmful. Such as corrupt politicians, AI nonsense, and mega yachts.

i’m trying to say, at a federal level, we have never actually had democracy

And I’m saying that that’s not true, while conceding the fact that it’s always been flawed.

250 years of history containing oligarchs, capitalism, class warfare, racism, and manufactured consent does not leave room for any level of actual democracy.

Wrong again. You should REALLY let go of your false dichotomy that only a perfectly democratic system is a democracy at all. Otherwise you’ll never be satisfied OR right.

I love the argument that the Dems must run the ideal canidate

You may, but that’s not the argument I made. Please refrain from strawmen and other logical fallacies if you can.

That the reason Americans picked hate isn’t because they could possibly be prejudiced against women, but that they just don’t like centrists and need to be more inspired to do anything.

Again with the strawmen. Misrepresenting my argument isn’t a good way to bolster your own.

I think the answer is plainly far too many Americans are too hateful

Sure, you’d think that if you willfully ignore all of the contributing factors I and others have ever mentioned beyond “fascists are just voluntarily bad for no reason other than being bad” 🙄

Also love the “no you can’t use the example of the male centrist winning because that would make my point bad”

Again with the strawman. The male Centrist BARELY scraping by against the most hated incumbent in history SUPPORTS my argument.

You either have the reading comprehension of a toddler or the capacity for arguing in good faith of a Republican politician, so I’m not gonna waste any more time on your willfully obtuse ass. Have the day you deserve

a self-indulgent and overlong toboggan-ride over the top-most surface of whatever theme he claimed to be exploring.

That’s coincidentally also word for word the worst yelp review I ever got from a sexual partner.

First, democracy isn’t a binary. It’s not a case of “it’s either perfectly democratic or not democratic vat all”

Secondly, using the current day extreme thuggery of ICE as a refutation of a decrease in democracy compared to the recent past isn’t the home run you seem to think it is. In fact, it’s proof that you’re trying to hit the baseball for a field goal with a hockey stick.

Twice now American voters have picked the absolute worse person imaginable over a woman an awful candidate who refuses to consider the wants and needs of the base and happened to be a woman.

Fixed it for you. While I’d never go to such ridiculous lengths as to say that sexism isn’t a serious systemic problem, that’s not why Hillary and Kamala lost.

It wasn’t that people aren’t ready for a female president. It was that the vast majority of people to the left of fascism are more than ready for a president that listens to them more than to owner donors, strategists stuck in 1992, and other unrepresentative power brokers

The only logical explanation I can find is there is a subsection of the population unwilling to vote for a woman “Centrist”

Fixed it for you again.

Nobody except the aforementioned owner donors, strategists stuck in 1992, and other unrepresentative power brokers want “Republican mild” candidates with no substance except an almost religioud reverence for the broken system that has enabled them to fail upwards for decades.

Obviously yes each campaign had it’s issue we can go into

Understatement of the decade.

when you look at the opposition it’s hard to find the logic

Not really no. When you consider the following, it makes a sick sort of sense:

1. Republicans are many times more effective at messaging. This is mainly because they’re much less likely to be constrained by such details as objective reality, ethics, and authenticity, but their propaganda is nonetheless MUCH more effective than the thrice-measured sound bytes of the Dem leadership.

2. In the vast majority of states, it’s MUCH more difficult and time consuming to vote in the kinds of neighborhoods that skew more Blue and diverse than Red and filthy rich.

During covid, the number of absentee ballot dropoff points in the most populous county in Texas (Harris, almost 5 million) was decreased to ONE, all the while country clubs of a hundred members still had their own official polling station and even impoverished Red areas are typically rural so there’s not many people per polling station

3. The combination of 1, 2, and other election tampering means that it takes a LOT more to get the entire Dem base to vote than for the Fascist Party base.

As a result of this, Dems NEED a candidate that’s inspiring enough that even the most jaded will go way above and beyond the amount of effort it SHOULD take in order to vote for them.

Neither Hillary nor Kamala was anywhere close to being that candidate and they wouldn’t have been if they were men either.

And before you go “but the man Biden won! Checkmate!”, I’d like to remind you that he actually won the popular vote by a smaller margin than Hillary did, and that he did so during an active pandemic that the incumbent fascist had been failing to manage so spectacularly that anything other than a landslide victory would be extremely worrying for the future of the Dem party.

Theoretically

I mean, it’s always been a flawed system at best, but you’d be a fool to claim that it’s not even less democratic now than it was a decade or even a year ago.

I live in a world of ever-present, looming disaster.

I’m a sysadmin

That would be a great tagline for your memoir or schlocky mystery novel!

It’s near wherever you are.

He’s cheering on them arbitrarily abusing other people and then acting all surprised when they arbitrarily abuse him and his family.

That’s textbook LAMF.

This. 😉