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Lauren Boebert blames Barbra Streisand and Ryan Reynolds for making her switch districts
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this post was submitted on 01 Jan 2024
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it's going to be interesting when blaming Streisand effect ...triggers the Streisand effect and even more people discover just how dumb she is. because by bitching about... well you understand.
What it could do is show rich educated Democrats that they can accomplish something when they donate and show up
I’m looking at you, people who are hard headed and tech savvy enough to navigate the fediverse.
uhh those conservative democrats like everything exactly the way it is, which is why the struggle so hard to conserve it by not actually accomplishing much.. ya know, like when obama and clinton took a giant dump all over bernie and then wondered why they lost.
democrats are still playing the old, conservation game. republicans have moved on to straight what-can-we-get-away-with-fascism
and that leaves the general american public and the actually terrible 'economy' with fucking nothing.
You mean like get Biden reelected so nothing “changes” and we continue this slow slide into fascism?
Centrist democrats are the new conservatives. Republicans have shifted into regressionists- which is why they’re so concerned with deregulation and controlling women’s bodies, etc.
It's either that or Trump, which is basically just a full swan-dive into fascism. Is there another viable path?
All this really does is just lower the bar for future candidates. If every vote is either fascism or the current state of affairs, fascism is eventually going to win due to apathy
Right, fascism is all the fault of Democrats and not the fascists. /s
Did... I say that it was?
No. I didn't.
I may not have explicitly said this... but the point that you clearly are either ignoring (my assumption) or just didn't get... is that Biden is not doing enough to stop fascism. which is why, under his leadership the US is continuing to slide to fascism.
You don't win fights- be they full on battles, street brawls, or figurative fights- simply with falling back and staying defensive. if you want to win- if you want to defeat fascism- you're going to have to hit back. in politics, this means going to the opposite end, that is to say, by pushing progressive policies over the regressive policies of the fascists.
Nothing changes? Are you insane or just a cynical jackass? Have you even been paying attention?
yeah. have you been paying attention?
This is referred to as the Streisand Paradox, wherein one blames Barbra Streisand for something, thereby triggering the Streisand Effect. 
This is different, of course, than mentioning Streisand and Cloony together, which produces The Perfect Streistorm.