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Most people don't watch politics, and people that do overwhelming voted Democrat in the last election. Mayor Pete or whoever isn't going to convince my dad that Fox news was lying to him the whole time. We really need a new media strategy that cuts the corporate network middleman out.

The contradictory belief that voters who backed Trump are too stupid to understand what they voted for, but nevertheless deserve pain

This so much. The "voters are too stupid" narrative defangs any attempt to talk about how our systems misinform (or don't inform) voters.

Are there no trans billionaires to object to being erased?

He was on the lighter side, from mainland China.

I get the impression billionaires are a big reason we aren't addressing climate change. Sad that the Children of Kali are our best hope.

I'm white and the only time cops have been a dick to me was when I was with my Asian friend. It's happened more than once. But the one time I was speeding by myself the police let me off on a warning and were rather nice about it. It's anecdotal so take it with a grain of salt.

Seems to me there is a big difference between attacking someone's identity and claiming the earth is flat or marijuana is bad. The fact the mods don't seem to address this is concerning.

With tariffs and deporting labor, I'm not sure if many will be able to afford rebuilding.

To anyone who says we just need to vote Democrats into power, how many more Dems were needed here?

I mean there has always been illegal speech, we just don't usually call it censorship.

You would be hard pressed to spend your money better than Luigi in regards to reducing medical debt. Anthem got scared and walked back rationing anesthesia during surgeries.

I hope Luigi sues them, I would donate to that fund.

Read "The Ministry for the Future" if you want a hard-scifi look into what's going to happen. Other countries, especially the global south, will have nothing to lose when they target the global oligarchs.

But Biden said he saw polling that makes him think he should have stayed in the race and won. The party won't learn anything meaningful from this exercise.

Also the more charitable thing he didn't do:

• Communicate effectively the good he has done

The Dems (Obama) bragged about not putting their name on the pandemic relief checks FFS.

We now know whether you voted for Kamala or Trump was widely a function of whether you consume political news. Biden failed to use the pulpit of the presidency to break through to "low-information" voters. Sure we can blame the average person for not being masochistic enough to wade through the news, but where do you go from there?

People are not a monolith. Those without standards have no reason not to vote Trump. Those with standards have reasons to not vote for either.

Seems our institutions are promoting barbarism at this point. As Luigi put it: it's just power games at this point.

The wealthy can't hide from the Children of Kali.

That should certainly be the expectation

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