Libs sure do love the calipers.
Anyway, sure is a shame that "democracy" is a political system where fascism is an increasingly probable outcome from the billionaire grifters that play around with the pedals of capital
You think poor people and minorities should suffer because of blind hatred.
I think poor people and minorities should suffer because of a Harvard study.
We are not the same.
No, no, you misunderstand. Here's what the liberals are saying: liberals have a better education, so they are the only ones who should be allowed to vote. I completely agree, and I think we should find some way to prevent non-liberal "deplorables" from voting, with something like a Literacy Test of a Poll Tax, you know, so only the "right" people can steer the course of our democracy.
Who could've guessed a simple message like "Build the Wall" would be more effective than paragraphs of legalese? Not democrats apparently.
would be more effective than paragraphs of legalese?
nervous leftist meme laugh
I will now prove this. To paraphrase Lacan, the formative of the function of the I mirrors the formation of alienation and abstraction caused by the contradictions between material conditions and the "collective unconsciousness" or the societal superstructure. This disjoint between The Real and The Symbo, is itself sym...
I swear that every year I see some variation of this study that concludes Democrats are big brained and Republicans are baby brained.
I mean, the latter is true.
So logically speaking, us on the left, my Brothers in Bernard, must be universe-sized brains.
I remember lib me (me) thinking "HAHA we've got those dastardly neocons now!"
I was like that back in the day too, thinking "a-HA! We got ourselves a bell curve of our own!"
Needless to say, hogs don't exactly care that they're idiots. They always get what they want anywyay.
Exactly.
Sure, I may be smarter than them, but thanks to Hollywood pumping out a vapid culture. Their lack of intelligence makes them even more endearing to the masses. Plus they're the popular kid, they pretty much get away with everything as the world itself rolls out the red carpet wherever they walk.
This is probably true but isn't saying much... It's like saying one species of fungus is more versed in Shakespeare than another species of fungus.
Yeah absolutely, these kind of things are just meant for people to jerk off to themselves and feel superior.
Yeah, we know they’re idiots
Republicans: "We're using simple, concrete ideas and straightforward messaging to sell our policies on a national stage. Then we hammer away at policies we've championed as soon as we're anywhere near a position of authority. While we do alienate large portions of the electorate as a consequence, we also cultivate a fervently loyal base of supporters who dominate a critical set of rural, politically homogeneous states."
Democrats: "We bend over backwards to make things as arcane and confusing as possible, never clearly stating our positions or advocating any one particular common theme. We pander to everyone and please almost no one, then hide behind a veil of technocracy to explain why our bullshit is optimization you plebs can't fathom. This yields us periodic big wave wins when our opposition alienates too many people, but never gets us anywhere close to advancing the stated goals of our most consistent supporters."
Conclusion: "Democrats are Smart. Republicans are Dumb."
Aaron Burr does exactly this throughout the play and is painted by Alexander Hamilton as an opportunist
He's painted as a loser. Can't win Washington's affection during the war. Can't break into one of the bigger rival gangs of Congress during the peace. Can't do populism hard enough - and when you come in second place, you can't even take the Runner-Up VP spot, because Jefferson's cronies are so quick to cheat you out of it.
(who then supports fucking Jefferson because “at least Jefferson has values he stands behind”)
Jefferson and Hamilton have a working relationship, as they're both in the Washington inner-circle. Burr helped build the Tammany Hall political machine on behalf of Jefferson, but never officially "got in the room". Possibly because Burr was still a Northeast finance guy, while all the Jefferson cronies were Planters. Also, possibly, because Burr flirted with Abolitionism in the NY State House. Also, possibly, because he was simply too "bipartisan" - courting friends in both nascent parties - to be palatable to either camp's inner ring.
For all the ways in which the high school history books focus on the Hamilton/Jefferson rivalry - and the play leans heavily into it - the Hamilton/Burr rivalry was at least as pivotal. In many ways, Burr was more Hamilton than Hamilton.
That said, he still did shit, which is more than any modern Democrat can claim. So I'd be loathe to compare Burr (or Hamilton or Jefferson or any of the "Founders") to the collection of polyps currently built up within DC's rectum.
Were the libs also doing this during the Clinton years? I ask because I don't really remember those, and I know for a fact that the "Republicans are dumb-dumbs" mantra was already well-practiced when W. Bush. managed to roll into office.
Party loyalists calling the opposition stupid is a tactic that spans all of political history. Mostly, it involves tilting at strawmen and ignoring the material conditions that make one or another party attractive to a voting base.
The fact that plenty of state and municipal politicians are virtually interchangeable (often even explicitly changing parties as the wind blows) and voter recognition of these names has eroded away with a rise in strict partisan identification only adds to the degree to which politicians can camouflage themselves to be whatever the local plurality is looking for.
Calling the local Republican a moron for failing to favor Pete Buttigieg over Mike Pence belies a lot of what drives that voter to affiliate with the party to begin with and ignores what a politician needs to do to establish a local positive reputation in the voting district.
more simplistic modes of thinking than biden supporters
well yeah, you'd have to do some insane mental gymnastics to think Biden is good.
This is like that “predicting party affiliation by fridge” the NYT did. Lo and behold if the fridge was full of chocolate milk and pizza pockets it was a Trump voter and if it was full of expensive greens and name brand water it was a Biden voter
I always have chocolate milk in the fridge. Kratom makes me gag otherwise.
surely posting an explicit screenshot of people masturbating is against the rules or something
The other 10% percent is walls of deleted comments from fascists getting offended about the article telling them that women exist.
"I can't believe this study says that women have as rich an inner life as my own. Maybe I'll believe if it the study has 6000 participants instead of 600."
There's Science™ and science. I wish your average internet user could tell the difference. Science™ has become a religion, which completely ignores the part where you're supposed to be fluid in your conclusions when new information comes in. Now, things that are convenient to the lib worldview are canon, or to put it another way, part of the Science Cinematic Universe.
"study finds" (please accept this appeal to objective authority uncritically)
