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Pig Cups said:
The thing I find most concerning, however, is the fact that they have the full, vicious weight of the state on their side. And not just the state- they have the media, Silicon Valley, NGOs, corporations, etc. all pulling for them.
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A bunch of business barons have been moving much closer to the center lately. I suspect it's because the left couldn't keep its promises to them - woke ideology was supposed to create a cowed, divided population of ideal consumers but instead leftist policies are collapsing the country they do business in.
LeChampion1992 said:
The problem is some people will unplug and realize it was all bullshit. The rest however will double down and argue no were not in the wrong it's those evil conservatives. Some will self reflect and mature and you might see some even drop out. But a not insignificant number of people will feel so radicalized by the loss of power that you might see J6th but with actual oomph and not boomers waltzing around the capital.
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You're right that if Trump wins and he's as bad as the media says, the only recourse for the left is violence. That's what you have to do if you take their ideas to their logical conclusion. But do they have the stomach for it? The number of people they have who can fight effectively is small. I suspect most of them will consider what a civil war will actually entail and back down. They won't realize their ideas were wrong, but they will stop engaging much with politics.

It's similar to what happened to the communist student movements in the 70s. They believed for a while that revolution was just around the corner, but as Vietnam would down people lost interest and they realized their time was coming to an end. They broke down into smaller, increasingly irrelevant pieces, like the Weatherman organization and finally vanished. The important thing this time around will be to ensure they are eradicated completely and don't form sleeper cells to wait for another chance, as they did in universities after the 70s.
 
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CaddestSlown said:
Well, was she?
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WelperHelper99 said:
Nobody wants to fuck Rosie o donnel pal, nobody.
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OH.

That's who.

Mmmmmmmm... Yeah no I'm no expert on courting the ladies but she's always just kind of come off as visually... emotionally loud. Stressed? We've seen her smiling with her daughter.

When I was a wee clownlet, even I knew about her back and forth spat with Orange Man. In this context, it was mutual shitflinging so I'm not gonna recognize 'calling a woman too ugly to rape' a valid criticism against the guy. Takes two to tango and they were both vicious to one another.

Like full on LOATHING. Genuine hate.
 
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Vaclav said:
Here's my prediction. If Trump wins, and particularly if there's a Republican sweep in Congress, many of the leftists will go out with a whimper. I'm talking specifically about a lot of the activist base, the ones who are screaming about fascism on Reddit and DU, the ones organizing marches and protests etc. They've been whipped into a state of constant outrage ever since the Obama years and that takes a toll on a person. During the Trump years the constant fearmongering was driving some of them into a suicidal state, they went even crazier with Covid and they've been compelled to support Biden, a demented puppet who was as clearly unfit for the job as a president has ever been. Then they were told to fall in love with Kamala as Biden was abruptly dropped and the Dems are repeating all their classic panicked messaging again.

There comes a point where a person just gets overloaded with this stuff. I suspect that many of them are exhausted with this emotional rollercoaster and if Trump wins, and the "sky is falling" rhetoric gets turned up to 11 again, they're just going to tune it out. Ditch the Reddit group, turn off the TV news and find something else to do. Of course politicians and career activists will still be grifting, but I sense that many of the rank and file people are building up a distaste for ideology compelling them to support sleazy neocons because Trump is the devil, and if the media throws another hissy fit after Trump gets back in they're going to unplug from it, as much for the sake of their health as for any other reason.
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At that point most nations usually turn on the emigration spigot and allow these people to self-exile to somewhere else like Canada. I mean give me rainbows but I could imagine some sort of agreement made with Canada for this sort of thing.
 
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LowlyPheasent said:
So why are people so ass mad about the McDonalds thing?

I get it's a great little photo op and what not for him and ties in well to his No tax on Tips, but why the fuck are they pissy about it. Why not do something similar?
Legit why are they like this I don't get it.
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Because it makes Orange Man look too good. People weren't spitting in his face or telling him he's a fuckhead while he was working the window.

It's nice. They don't like him being associated with nice.
 
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LowlyPheasent said:
So why are people so ass mad about the McDonalds thing?

I get it's a great little photo op and what not for him and ties in well to his No tax on Tips, but why the fuck are they pissy about it. Why not do something similar?
Legit why are they like this I don't get it.
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Two reasons:
1: It's a direct and targeted shot at Kamala Harris's claims of working at McDonalds
2: Whenever Harris tries to do anything even remotely similar, she looks like an octopus piloting a human-shaped robot.
 
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LowlyPheasent said:
So why are people so ass mad about the McDonalds thing?

I get it's a great little photo op and what not for him and ties in well to his No Tax on Tips, but why the fuck are they pissy about it. Why not do something similar?
Legit why are they like this I don't get it.
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The PR of it is too good for him and it makes his detractors SEETHE.

Multiple people I know personally that have been politically left/centrist (in a both sides bad way) this election cycle have told me (because I'm the only vocally pro-Trump person in a few social circles) today that "damn Trump's looking pretty good (as in his campaign/PR) right now" because of the McDonalds photo-op (on top of the assassination attempts).
 
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WelperHelper99 said:
That's what makes Trump absolutely American.
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this country started with a president telling a guy to move his fat ass and try not tipping over a boat, and now it will be made great again because of another president telling a guy to move his fat ass (this time to the ballot!)
“Token” the Neigermiester said:
Who the hell thinks that’s funny!?
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that's a pretty bland joke, replacing your wife the second she has cancer. like there's a 90s drama all about it because it was such a go-to punchline in the decades before that. Madtv even made a sketch about it.
Lurking no more said:
but this is an excerpt from today's Gospel reading:
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i assumed those were just picked out by the local church, you're telling me the priests even follow a schedule and pre-written homilies?
Hey Johnny Bravo said:
. I will correct my stickers and admit that I was completely wrong.
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proven wrong 3 times in a weekend? ouch
DoomsdayElite said:
I'm sure she gave many a blowjob in their bathrooms.
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pretty sure i saw her go into a bathroom with some guy that looked like MC hammer on crack, but that was at a burger king.
Nuns with guns said:
he’s like the real world Homer Simpson.
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i think he's closer to Cosmo Kramer, Homer never had good ideas and was seen as the city slicker he was. meanwhile Kramer fit in with anyone, pimps, gangsters, businessmen, audiences, and the old. Kramer would 100% work at mcdonalds or try and build a wall or run for president. things happen to Homer. Kramer makes things happen.
 
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LowlyPheasent said:
So why are people so ass mad about the McDonalds thing?
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It’s really simple

Orange man…… BAD!

Remember these are the same people who made steak with ketchup or two scoops international news and proof of trump being an insane leader at the level of Caligula. Everything short of him dying is gonna make these people pissy
 
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