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DanteAlighieri said:
He's going to give those cities what they want and stop giving them federal funding. No leo resources, no federal aid, no support or information.
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Pointless Pedant said:
The current polarisation started in the 1990s and got worse until now, as I said. I'd put that down more to increasing differences of opinion between rural and urban voters than anything else.
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You cant rule out the effect echo chambers have had on radicalization. This site alone has more than enough examples to show that even the craziest of people can find some group to agree with them and give them support. Not only do they not have their views challenged but they start to believe they could never be wrong. Combine this with platforms that not only prefer one side of the political debate but amplify it and a growing isolated society and it's obvious how the internet has affected politics.

Let's take the topic of troons, initially their was a debate about whether or not they should be allowed in the opposite genders bathrooms then saying they shouldn't got you kicked off of twitter. The average person saw this as everyone excepting it and allowed bills to be passed that allowed it. Before people would call the average troon out for being a nutjob that needs help but that was deemed hateful and now not even J.K rowling can say anything mildly anti troon. Back in the old day you would talk with your friends or people about this but it's almost impossible to get someone to talk to you IRL about anything deeper than how their day had been. So you take the conversations you see more often and assume they are the normal. Combine this with media that re-inforces it being the normal and you can change the average persons mind.
 
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Pointless Pedant said:
He did, which was one of the biggest mistakes of his presidency.
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Regan fucking sucked - fucked Cali, made post 86 machine guns illegal, you had to register them if you wanted to keep them, and really kept them proxy wars going. Was he the worse president- no that’s insane, but I don’t understand the historical love when he fucked up like that.

I just view him as a neocon who had a fucking glow nigger as his VP.
 
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LMFAOForgotPw said:
Regan fucking sucked - fucked Cali, made post 86 machine guns illegal, you had to register them if you wanted to keep them, and really kept them proxy wars going. Was he the worse president- no that’s insane, but I don’t understand the historical love when he fucked up like that.

I just view him as a neocon who had a fucking glow nigger as his VP.
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After Nixon, Ford, and Carter, it's not hard to see him in a better light.

We haven't had a good president IMO since Ike.
 
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Robert James said:
You cant rule out the effect echo chambers have had on radicalization. This site alone has more than enough examples to show that even the craziest of people can find some group to agree with them and give them support. Not only do they not have their views challenged but they start to believe they could never be wrong. Combine this with platforms that not only prefer one side of the political debate but amplify it and a growing isolated society and it's obvious how the internet has affected politics.

Let's take the topic of troons, initially their was a debate about whether or not they should be allowed in the opposite genders bathrooms then saying they shouldn't got you kicked off of twitter. The average person saw this as everyone excepting it and allowed bills to be passed that allowed it. Before people would call the average troon out for being a nutjob that needs help but that was deemed hateful and now not even J.K rowling can say anything mildly anti troon. Back in the old day you would talk with your friends or people about this but it's almost impossible to get someone to talk to you IRL about anything deeper than how their day had been. So you take the conversations you see more often and assume they are the normal. Combine this with media that re-inforces it being the normal and you can change the average persons mind.
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JK Rowling is a billionaire who can say whatever she likes. It's ordinary people who suffer as a result of all this.

Adamska said:
After Nixon, Ford, and Carter, it's not hard to see him in a better light.

We haven't had a good president IMO since Ike.
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I'd more or less agree. The 1960s saw a load of bad decisions (Vietnam escalation, 1965 immigration act) and leadership has been dubious since then.
 
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SBG said:
Beards got way too popular as a way of hiding a lack of a chin line.
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Have a theory that kids and adults that saw The Big Lebowski were most deeply affected, as it promoted the aura of unkempt laid back manliness that a lot of them seem to attempt.
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My theory is that in the US at least, beards come to prominence after/during major wars. The exception is WW2. But look at trends during and after The Civil War, WW1, to a smaller extent after Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan. It sort of has a double whammy of being something the military minded do maybe due to the theatre, maybe due to do it once out of service, and the anti-war crowd doing it to subconsciously disctance themselves from the military.

Just an idea, really.
 
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Sekirodiealot said:
The comments there is just as autistic.

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Meanwhile, the Democrats are nominating a man who has, if not dementia specifically, then at least some form of cognitive decline, and it's only getting worse. I know some are diehard vote-blue-no-matter-who types, but then you have those who are rationalizing it by saying "I'm voting for the VP pick, of course they'll get rid of Sleepy Joe immediately after inauguration," which is even worse. At least the former is just blind party loyalty; the latter is willfully choosing to ignore the result of the democratic process and vote for a candidate that the country as a whole had no say in.

The one bit of solace i can take in all this is that these commenters are probably Millennials that won't go out and vote anyway.
 
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King Dead said:
Meanwhile, the Democrats are nominating a man who has, if not dementia specifically, then at least some form of cognitive decline, and it's only getting worse. I know some are diehard vote-blue-no-matter-who types, but then you have those who are rationalizing it by saying "I'm voting for the VP pick, of course they'll get rid of Sleepy Joe immediately after inauguration," which is even worse. At least the former is just blind party loyalty; the latter is willfully choosing to ignore the result of the democratic process and vote for a candidate that the country as a whole had no say in.
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I've long since come to the inescapable conclusion that it's not that Democrat voters don't know their party is lying to them and manipulating them, and it's not even that they don't mind this, they actually really like it. They not only expect to be lied to but enjoy it. On some level they sincerely buy into that whole "the electorate is too stupid to make its own choices and needs to be lied to and manipulated for its own good" thing. I'm sure if you brought it up on a case-by-case basis they'd insist they don't, that they're smart and can handle the truth, but the sheer amount of groupthink and eagerness to swallow the party's line all the way up to the reel says otherwise.

And before some wit says "herp derp Republicans too" no, not really, maybe in the past but if the Republican voter base was so easy to be baited and brought into line as that, President Hillary Clinton would be busy ignoring covid because we'd have wound up with Jeb! as the Anointed Republican Candidate.
 
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King Dead said:
but then you have those who are rationalizing it by saying "I'm voting for the VP pick, of course they'll get rid of Sleepy Joe immediately after inauguration," which is even worse
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I have no real response for the people that hold this kind of opinion. They're so lacking in respect for their countrymen and the general principles of our democracy that they would throw it all aside. If they wanted Kamala Harris, why didn't they vote for her when she was doing well? If they wanted Bernie Sanders, why didn't they vote for him when he was doing well? Joe Biden only happened because nobody seemed to give a rat's ass who the nominee was until it was too late.

And now they realize that they've fucked up and so as usual they're just going to ignore the rules, set up their own game, and pretend that this is normal and okay and that everyone else is crazy.

"It's really about the VP pick." Eat a dick.
 
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Too Many Catgirls said:
I have no real response for the people that hold this kind of opinion. They're so lacking in respect for their countrymen and the general principles of our democracy that they would throw it all aside. If they wanted Kamala Harris, why didn't they vote for her when she was doing well? If they wanted Bernie Sanders, why didn't they vote for him when he was doing well? Joe Biden only happened because nobody seemed to give a rat's ass who the nominee was until it was too late.

And now they realize that they've fucked up and so as usual they're just going to ignore the rules, set up their own game, and pretend that this is normal and okay and that everyone else is crazy.

"It's really about the VP pick." Eat a dick.
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Keep in mind that Biden was also the favorite of DNC ̶K̶i̶n̶g̶m̶a̶k̶e̶r̶s̶ superdelegates.
 
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