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Anecdotally I’ve never had libs in my life be more receptive to positive Chinese news coverage and getting them to check out RedNote specifically has shattered their previous thoughts about China.
I cannot overstate how important getting libs into non-hostile media spheres is to breaking US propaganda.
It’s difficult to get them to this point, but highlighting that Ukraine cannot win this war because the US and Europe will never supply the support needed for them to win because they’re more interested in making the conflict a drawn out resource drain on Russia than actually enabling Ukraine to mount a successful resistance has at least gotten libs in my life to move to the “the war should end” state
Hoping this happens again because I think there’s a non-zero chance he paints a red mural on his ceiling due to being bullied in a videogame
If this isn’t top level post apologies, but what is the chance that the entire purpose of this stunt was to do a massive wealth transfer of non-Trump aligned capital without insider knowledge to directly Trump-aligned capital with insider knowledge of tariff implementation and pause timing?
It’s impossible for me to figure out the balance between the stupidity and corruption of this US administration.
I cannot fathom the amount of money inside traders made today.
Fine I’ll put Red Sun in the Sky on repeat again today
Burn the shithole down Don. Take the treats
I will never stop self hosting. I have converted some of my friends to self hosting their own stuff. We have automated encrypted offsite backups of eachothers critical/cherished data.
I will continue to spread this and no one can stop me.
You will learn docker (from compose files, including minimum shared networking), you will learn the *arr stack, you will use Audiobookshelf, you will learn about and deploy a reverse proxy, rclone usage is not optional, and I’ll eventually turn you into a hobbyist programmer.
I just pray their children can stand on my shoulders and convert it all to kubernetes some day because I refuse to learn enough to make arguably employable as a Jr. devops engineer.
Here is a comment of mine from two days ago:
"We’re not doing anything.
The US has simply decided to destroy itself because the idiot failsons/daughters of smarter imperialists took the reins as true believers of the past’s bullshit and took power.
Now it just burns because it burns"
We’re in lockstep in our thinking about this
Because it’s so absurd- yes, these are the people dismantling the US administrative state
We’re not doing anything.
The US has simply decided to destroy itself because the idiot failsons/daughters of smarter imperialists took the reins as true believers of the past’s bullshit and took power.
Now it just burns because it burns
It’s too funny. Someone add a “Death to the empire” category on speedrun.com
The amount of damage America has inflicted on itself 7 days into the Trump presidency is hilarious. I’m hoping by this time next month it’s full blown riots
No. It’s laying the categorical framework to create the 2025 version of the house of un-american activities committee
The collapse rhetoric isn’t because if the 54->51% R support in isolation, it’s more so that D support in the suburban whites group went from 38->47% as well over the course of 4 years.
Broader point understood though. In a uniparty bourgeois democracy like the US with such an intentionally stunted electoral system the boundaries of electorally viable candidates are defined by the capitalists way, way before any candidate thinks about running for a primary ticket.
It’s why when you see actual on-the-issues polling you get results like you’d expect in the or 60s-40s splits for issues but once capitalists create the electoral abstractions around elected government you see election-gridlock in favor of non-populist-action which results in the coinflippery you call out and downstream austerity measures and further privatization of services.
You’re right about 2016, but in 2020 republicans saw a collapse in the white suburban vote (from 54%-38% in favor of R in 2016 to 51%-47% in favor of R in 2020). The collapse of support in that group was the margin Republicans lost the election on.
It appears the US is also going to have the largest gender gap in voting in the nation’s history this election, so it “makes sense” that the democratic party who is entirely unwilling to decouple from its genocide platform has chosen this sole route as their theoretical victory. The more baffling thing is that they’ve identified this new core group they need to win but don’t even message effectively (abortion) on this flip wedge issue.
In case it wasn’t abundantly clear I think all of these people are monsters- just trying to provide the analysis of how the democrats think they may possibly win.
I think it’s even worse that it was in-store viewing services? I haven’t thought about Mark Robinson since I made that post originally but it’s worth your time reading about because he’s that wild of a figure.
Fetterman’s rabid Zionism is (unfortunately) probably immaterial to PA. PA is a hugely white (74%) older (20% over 65) state whose primary stated driver is economic decline (nothing novel here). The people seem to correctly recognize their quality of life and material conditions are declining, but there’s no real “reason” being presented by dems as to why other than Kamala’s campaign vaguely alluding to price-gouging which she’ll do something? about. Trump messages that the economic woes of PA (everywhere really) is due to migrants.
When the democratic ticket switch occurred people largely decoupled Harris from the Biden administration’s economic policy but consistent messaging from Republicans seems to have wiped that out.
People are feeling their material conditions collapse due to the continued financialization of basically everything under capitalism and neither party provides real analysis/plausible solutions under the existing system so figuring out specific voter grievances there is hard to figure out outside of individual vibes. Democrats are hoping the possibility of a federal abortion ban under Trump advances the white women vote delta past their inaction/various atrocities and Trump is playing towards generic populist racism with romantic fascist idealation.
PA also isn’t a state that I know a lot about relative to some of the other swing states so my analysis is probably lacking here but I’ve tried my best.
Copied from a post I made a few days ago:
This race is the most “who fucking knows” since I’ve followed US elections.
Some things of I think are of note
Republicans take the Senate
I think a 269-269 tie is an incredibly possible situation and I think it would fall under funniest timeline theory (for those reading this results in a Trump presidency due to tiebreaker rules favoring him).
Ask any questions you have and I’ll try to further expand with the few things that have changed (early voting data) since I made that original post.
The dems chosen path to theoretical victory is through a continued huge delta in suburban white women voters (trying to build off of 2020 and 2022 momentum in this group) flipping from Republican to Democratic tickets. They’re performing worse with men across basically every strata available.
Early voting leans dem but those previously huge margins are probably greatly lessened this time around (general trend that early vote is becoming less partisan but still is probably largely in favor of dems)
Georgia changed their rules from 2020 regarding absentee ballots which will likely depress mail-in ballot quantities. Whether those voters instead elect to vote early (GA is breaking early voting records and this is possibly part of it) is yet to be known due to not knowing the inpact of confounding factors like decreased partisanship in early voting trends.
This is why China seemingly has the most practical approach to all of this.
Bring religion under the eye of the state so that it’s incapable of manifesting its most destructive tendencies into reality and use that surveillance to quickly identify it and deradicalize if it happens.
Address the needs of community, mutual aid, and more broadly hope that religion satisfies at its best and work to provide that through the state. Allow the religiously-inclined to still practice while preventing opportunists who seek to use it against the broader interests of the people.