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Wood Goblin wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 9:53 pm Let’s maybe rethink the “voting against their [economic] interests ” garbage. I swear, Marxists are just as simplistic about economic motivations as Milton Friedman was.

If you’re a racist or a misogynist, then you didn’t vote against your interests.
Your point is relevant, but the exit polls indicated that a lot of people voted on what they perceived as 'the economy'. Their perception is mostly skewed, and not in a good way, but that's down to the normal propaganda.
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I think a lot of the "economic concerns" shit was coded language. Calling out Trump's supporters as racist and misogynistic could jeopardize a Bezos space contract. Billionaires have no principles.

Aside from higher prices, the economy is basically fine. He'll once again take credit for something that America's morons handed to him.
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handsbloodyhands wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 9:52 pm When Dems lose they bow in defeat, smiling and saying "good game".
And don't get me fucking started on,"There is more that unites us than divides us". +60% of your voter population have just rolled out the red carpet to fascism you fucking dolt.

Give those cunts their due though. I know it's far easier to destroy than to create, and that obviously gives them a substantial leg up, but at least they do their work. Where was the alternative 'Bible' to Project 2025? The one with UBI, a reduced workweek, education and healthcare reform from top to bottom, fully integrated tax reform, total commitment to addressing climate change impacts...and that's just the top line stuff.
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Hex wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 4:43 pm These assholes all need to fucking die, and more people need to encourage others to kill them
ok thanos. you've made your point several times. i'm starting to believe you now.
Yeah, you might want to tone down the rhetoric there, chief. LAst thing we want is the federales poking around on the good old PRF.
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I wonder if by voting the Orange Menace you dodged a civil war. It begun to look like there would be a lot of plaid shirted, tactical bearder grey men doing a lot of spec ops if Harris would've won.

I guess it's up to grass root movements to take care of your people in need. Jam econo for a spell.

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Krev wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 11:27 pm I think a lot of the "economic concerns" shit was coded language. Calling out Trump's supporters as racist and misogynistic could jeopardize a Bezos space contract. Billionaires have no principles.

Aside from higher prices, the economy is basically fine. He'll once again take credit for something that America's morons handed to him.
I think both things can be true here. Remember almost everyone is a Low Information Voter, that barely have time to relax, let alone pay as much attention to politics as most of us here. The media tends to interview Trump headbangers because it makes good copy. But a lot of people simply don’t care about the news cycle, see high grocery prices and smash the Other Guy button.

I don’t even think a Marxist “voting against self interest” take is needed because the Overton Window of economic empowerment by both parties is non existent. There’s nothing on the table from either party that will materially benefit anyone beyond a bit of tinkering around the edges.

Also the talk of a “landslide” is absolute bullshit. It’s one or two percentage points here and there. First Past the Post is absolutely ludicrous. The winner takes all nature of it generates this bullshit polarisation.
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Curry Pervert wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 7:59 pm buncha crap about Ukraine
Hey, watch out for that statue and commemoration day! That's your defense?

You're using statues of Bandera—an independence leader who died in the '50s and had a complicated, if murderous legacy (kinda like Lenin or Stalin in that respect, whose statues are all over Ukraine and the post-Soviet world to this day)—to partly justify the full-on invasion of a country and the abduction of nearly 20,000 children?

By that logic, newly independent Ukraine should have just dropped its '90s nuclear arsenal on Moscow b/c of all those Stalin busts the Russians made Ukrainians look at for decades—to use a far more brutal and genocidal "hero" than Bandera. Might have preemptively solved the problem.

Russia has been using Bandera's name as an excuse to imprison, torture, starve, and kill independence-minded Ukrainians—quite a few of whom had or have nothing to do w/him—since forever. And still does this today.

I'm w/Krev on this. Need I remind you of Ukraine's Jewish president. And of all the actual neo-Nazis in the West and Russia that sympathize w/Putin, believe conspiracies about a NATO/US plot, and don't think the majority of Ukrainians should determine when and how they leave Russia's political and economic orbit.

Your wanky-tankie narrative is not quite so "widely accepted" (your words) in the West as you say. I called it "largely invented" not to mean that you personally invented it—but of course you thought that—but to mean that it is... mostly a fabrication. A lot of it was promoted heavily in the '00s and '10s by Russian state media, RT's Western press blitz at the time specifically.

Some people on the left agree w/you, perhaps an equal or greater number do not. More accurate to say it's the subject of much debate in those circles. Your take is big w/conspiracy-minded dicks, Soviet apologists, and bros who get pumped when they see phantom Nazis everywhere.

But you know where your take is quite ubiquitous in America these days? The fuckin' far right!

The example of you aligning w/someone such as Trump (who, like you, thinks NATO provoked the Ukraine issue) and conservative America literally defines what "horseshoe theory" is. For real. (Unless, of course, you're a secret Republican or some other shit I totally missed. In which case, go pop a cork.)

Anyway, you should be thrilled. Ukraine is even more fucked now. And the guy calling the shots on this side of the pond sees the root cause exactly as you do.

Like I said before, discussing this w/you became pointless long ago.

Oh, but if I don't respond to you or I cool out again, I'm sure you'll just post some gloating nonsense again about shutting me up or whatever. Pfft.
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