It is not like we did not see this coming; a billionaire who controls the narrative.

I am not the only one who observed this, but Tate is clearly an insecure human being. He is not a bad looking guy and is quite successful, and yet spout these mysoginistic bs. That guy also needs therapy along with prison sentence.

Post it on 4chan so that people will dismiss the leaks as fake and gay.

Scientist speculated it’s because it evolved from its self(cloning behaviour)

So it is an abomination of some sort?

they’re not capable of self reflection

You missed the part where I said it is for the readers, not the cultists. It is not about convincing these ideologues, it is to warn the readers why the ideas of these cultists are bad.

A broken clock is right twice a day. And it is not like the Hungarian freedom fighters are mujahideen turned Taliban.

It is not to validate them, it is to discredit them and provide red flags to would-be readers how dangerous their ideas are.

In all fairness, the last 80 years of economic order has been shit for 99% of the population.

Yes and no. Millions of people were uplifted from poverty because of globalisation. The technology and wealth we enjoy today is because of international trade. But on the one hand, those who lost their jobs from outsourcing were not duly provided with alternatives, and now they are electing demagogues who are promising them easy answers to complicated issues. And on geopolitics, big countries act with impunity, stepping on less powerful countries. This also added for demagogues to use the lack of international order to rally people into nativism.

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If you know what you are arguing and argue with tankies/Nazis in good faith, nine times out of ten they will eventually lose their temper and make fools of themselves. There is no need to be hostile to begin with, they just defeat themselves basically because their ideologies are totally flawed (kinda like in real life).

Yes and no. There are places that are 90% tribalistic and won’t vote for the opposing party. But more often than not, there are party flip in regions that used to be reliable for one party, but switch to another party. That is what happened with former industrial manufacturing hubs in Appalachia and Midwest when they used to vote Democrats, but switched to Republican thanks to jobs outsourcing. The working class weren’t provided with alternatives. Their people left, communities abandoned with no prospect, many became depressed and resort to substance abuse leading to both personal and generational trauma. These communities are ripe for emotional manipulation by demagogues.

I still have a hard time understanding how people come to support Trump. Like what led people to become like this?

It is never just one reason, it is a myriad of different reasons compounding and mixing with each other. Intentional dumbing down of population, genuine economic anxiety, wealth inequality, algorithm corralling people into their own information bubble leading to polarisation, etc. It is important to put yourself into one’s shoes and think why they think that way. You don’t have to agree with the viewpoint you disagree, you just have to understand. Understanding is the key to defeating extremism.

It is starting to make sense alright. I remember someone telling me that Americans put too much focus on federal politics, even though what goes on in Washington does not necessarily affect them. And the news of American states “Trump-proofing” themselves is also starting to make more sense. This also explains why voter turnout for presidential elections is quite low compared to other democracies, because eligible voters feel they won’t be affected as much.

I heard he became a MAGA though. How ironic.

It is a socialist website, they still love to be edgy no matter how old they are.

As a non-American, the more i learn about US states, the more I realise that the country is more like a reluctant confederation than an actual unified country.

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It is easy to very feel disillusioned with the world, but it is important to remember that there are still good people all around willing to fight the good fight. And it is also important to remember that technology is not inherently bad, it is a neutral object, but people could use it for either good or bad purposes.

Neoliberals and centrists need to get this through their firewall of condescencion towards leftists

It won’t. They benefit from corporate greed as much as the right does. They are enablers of fascism.

That is what I am insinuating. But last time I promoted those, there have been pushback from neoliberals and trolls in the midst. Thought I was pushing an “agenda”.

Raising the minimum wage has been talked about for decades now? And yet the Democrats never really seriously wanted to implement it? The talk on economic progressivism is all performative; considering that time when Bernie Sanders criticised Trump at a Democratic convention, he was cheered on, but when he started talking about minimum wage and Medicare for all, he was booed. A staffer of Kamala cautioned then presidential candidate not to openly criticise the oligarchs and wealth inequality before going on stage (before the debate with Trump?), but stating in hindsight she probably should have done so. All of these really points to the Democratic Party not serious enough to dealing with more pertinent issues that affect ordinary people of all background.