These are the comments that get people worked up?
this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2024
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Not really. Only the Democrats, who always have to be absolutely fucking perfect at all times, to get in trouble for such a benign comment. The Trump team have been literally goose-stepping around the country for the last year, and they have felt absolutely zero consequences for it.
None of the shit-for-brains neo-Nazis voting for Trump are going to suddenly say, “hold on, wait, this crosses the line!”
Exactly, just look at the results. Trump has done so many despicable things, and has said so many horrible things, yet it doesn’t matter for them.
But on the Dem side, if a candidate is not X or Y enough, then part of the voter base stays at home whining, to punish their party - though at the end they only end up punishing themselves.
This is about undecideds. Nobody in their right mind is trying to court neo-Nazis to vote for Kamala.
If someone is undecided at this point, they're either disingenuous and embarrassed about their support for Trump, or they're a moron.
you're right, but there sure seems to be a lot of morons in the electorate, so...
Nobody ever failed because they overestimated the number of morons in America.
I think George Carlin said it, and I’m paraphrasing poorly:
Think about how dumb the average person you know is, then remember half of people as dumber
They certainly as
Putin seems to be leading the race to disprove that hypothesis...
You have to remember these are just simple farmers.
These are people of the land.
The common clay of the new west.
You know....
Morons
Sheriff murdered, crops burned, stores looted, people stampeded...and cattle raped.
Now the time has come to act...and act fast.
I'm leaving.
A moron's vote for Harris counts the same a genious' vote for Harris.
I had a random conversation today with someone that knew absolutely nothing about politics and wasn't sure about voting. I would guarantee you that if Harris herself talked to this person they would go vote for her.
Here we have some serious selection bias. Not necessarily right vs left, but interested enough to be commenting about it on the fediverse.
There are a lot of morons out there. And some actually might be swayed one way or the other.
The votes are coming in right now. They've BEEN coming in for over a week. The people going to vote today are not going to hear about this story before they go vote. The people who hear about this story are not going to listen. Where was all this "you just effed up" rhetoric weeks ago, months ago, YEARS ago WHEN THESE CHUCKLE-FUCKS ALREADY DONE BEEN FUCKING UP???
I'm glad you got your headline, but fuck you all for pretending like Trump and Vance had any qualities or qualifications to occupy the Whitehouse. Even if Harris wins, if it's by anything less than a 25 point lead, then our country is still fucked from all the people who have been given the room to believe that Trump was ever an option.
I get your point, but the folks at MSNBC have been consistently more critical of Trump than the other networks.
And you're not wrong that the USA is fucked for even entertaining the idea of Trump, but you'll be waiting a long time if you're sitting around hoping people become less dumb, selfish and would cut off their nose to spite their face. Try not to lose sleep over it, but at the same time if you were able to get even one person who was Trump supporting, undecided or uninterested to vote for Harris that is a positive thing.
but you'll be waiting a long time if you're sitting around hoping people become less dumb, selfish and would cut off their nose to spite their face
This wouldn't even be a problem if Republican leadership hadn't been laser-focused on destroying the American public education system for decades. Americans as a group are stupid, and it's on purpose, engineered by Republicans.
You're right that they've been more critical, but the bar was set very very low...
“Oh, oh, oh, J.D. Vance. You just effed up in a way that I’ve never seen in my political life, and I worked for Sarah Palin,”
I'll never understand the personal insults/attacks, ever. That just tells me one thing, you have 0 arguments and 0 policies.
The moment someone goes ad hominem, they lose all credibility with their educated interlocutors. Sadly the base just likes the angry screeds.
interlocutors
I've learned a new word today. Thank you.
Ad hominem
The word I always forget. lol.
English is my second language, btw, that's why I'm saying all this.
I did a good thing today. :)
You absolutely did. High five✋🏽
Vance’s screwed up a lot recently.