2016 was Dems blowing the most winnable election ever
2020 is somehow going to top that
Say what you will about incel Nazi's, but I did think "🤡🌎" was a humorous and succinct description of things.
Just remember that it's not actually a thing any normal person knows about, or would care about if they did know about it.
Those piece of shit online Nazi types do come up with some funny descriptors ngl. There have been numerous occasions during quarantine where I've been like "wow this really is a clown world" lol.
Stupid? Nah. Brainwashed into believing it's the fault of anyone other than the ruling class? Yeah.
Covid-19 is the perfect cover for Trump to just say "hey, it's not my fault things are bad, blame the pandemic! (which is totally under control by the way)"
And first two years of his presidency he can just blame on the democrats, as is tradition.Accelerationism's impossible because shit is accelerating plenty fast enough I don't think we need any individual's help for that lol.
Capitalist realism is completely dependent on that disconnect between material and political reality. The machinery of imperial propaganda is finely honed on convincing the masses that their material circumstances are a result of anything but systemic abuse by the wealthy and powerful. This graph shows nothing more than that reality. Trump is a symptom, and would never have had a chance of being elected if the disease weren't already endemic.
Anyway, vote for Joe, I guess.
People with novelty names like yours really need like a /s type thing to know if you're doing the bit or not
OOC: Yeah, this one's borderline at best, I admit, but IRL she seems to occasionally stray from prepared liberal rhetoric to a surprising level of honesty. Like that "It was a debate!" thing. I think she was (somehow) genuinely caught off guard and let that slip. And her dad is a Marxist, so she probably has some familiarity with leftist language. Maybe this one went too far in that direction, but I thought it was funny. I do agree with your point, however, and will continue to tag out of character comments.
Edit: Shit, what do I do when I'm speaking in or out of the secondary character where I'm actually a Sino-Russian Twitter bot that became self-aware, rather than a shitposting nerd?
Yup. I've posted about it elsewhere but I recommend reading a book called Against: What Does the White Evangelical Want? by Tad Delay, an ex-evangelical who left the faith and became a philosophy/religious studies professor, with a focus on Lacanian psychoanalysis.
An updated intro to the book can be found here.
with a focus on Lacanian psychoanalysis
Eh, so from one kooky belief system to another. (Albeit one with a lot more self-reflection and a lot less dogma and death worship.)
For all of Lacan'a weirdness, the book is a good explication of white evangelical ideology. Even if you're not into Lacan (I'm definitely not) I think it's a worthwhile read.
The last few fibers mooring public opinion to reality have finally snapped, and America is now free floating like a big beautiful boater.
Part of his approval rating is "would you rather have the democrats in charge" and the democrats have not made that case successfully to most americans
Also a 0.5% increase in approval rating, even in an average, is negligible
Also also approval ratings don't matter
Even if they win, the "moderate" Republicans and Lincoln Project will insist it was all their work. Even if Biden wins, the Republicans win. They'll take the credit and the Dems will let them, because they absolutely do not see Republicans as political opponents in any sense.
The fact that at this point, the Dems are quite obviously as bad, or possibly even worse, than the Repubs. They're not even pretending anymore. They've just given up.
Like, how in the actual fuck is Joe "Nothing will fundamentally change" Biden gonna get anyone out to vote? Seriously.
democrats offering people nothing in the middle of a pandemic and constantly first denouncing then copying his stunts
Ideology brainwashing be it through religion or the new conservative movement that's just been consistently pushing it's own boundaries since the 80s.
The Chapo guys got it right when they said that Trump's core base is retirees from the Midwest in Florida and former SoCal republicans in Arizona.
Too much of an ideologo to vote for improving your material conditions. Poor material conditions makes you less educated and more influenced by ideology
Healtcare pls
Wait. What did you say? Did you say you wanted fascism. Sure we can do that!
I mean it's possible the coronavirus is not seen as his fault instead it's the fault of the China, the state governments (in a lot of places yeah the blame should be put at least partially on the states). But of course even if it was just Trumps fault the chuds would just make shit up to keep believing in him.
As shitty as Democrats are, I don't think they're detached from material reality to this extent.
As shitty as Democrats are, I don’t think they’re detached from material reality to this extent.
I mean, they constantly think Trump is just on the verge of being jailed any day now and ignore literally 200 years of precedent of that never happening to people who deserve it.
It doesn't help that there's a hundred headlines every week insisting "the walls are closing in on Trump" and "Trump just stepped right into Mueller's trap card."
Media corporations managed to keep liberals confident that impeachment and imprisonment was right around the corner for Trump's entire first term. Will it work as well if he wins again?They did at one point, but that ship has largely sailed. It was a foolish hope to begin with (although a proto-fascist reality TV star with a ton of shady connections coming out of the woodwork to win the presidency is pretty fucking unusual, so hoping for something equally unprecedented doesn't seem out of the realm of possibilities) but the fact that it failed and they moved on shows they're not just completely out in left field.
Besides that, talk to a Trump voter and a Biden voter about the economy and the pandemic. Who do you think is going to have takes that at least somewhat align with observable reality?
I would theorise that they don't see it as a decline in their material conditions. They see the current direction of the country as something they want because what they want is conflict.
This is the path to fascism. When people actively want to oppress an other (that other being everything left of the conservatives in the current american landscape) then you have your consent for a fascist rebirth.
A decline in conditions is seen as a positive by people that want the fighting to happen.
Whether you see any given change in a country as a decline or improvement of material conditions is entirely based on the perspective you hold. They see an improvement in their conditions relative to what their desires have now become.
