It’s pure brainrot. The right are the brainrot ideology, the internet is their entire personality.
Can’t wait until Ben Shapiro runs in 2028 and brags about his skibidi rizz.
“I just wanna grill for God’s sake!” - an actual politician
I’m slightly on the side of Harris winning.
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I’ll give dems this, they’ve at least begun to develop a sense of party loyalty that the gop has.
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Tim Walz was admittedly an attempt to appeal to some economic populism. I have no faith they’ll make good on this, but I as per usual hope to be proven wrong.
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The gamergate sauce is dying to some extent. Gamergaters have been in victory dance mode for 10 years after winning and even among apolitical people I’ve seen them tell these red-baiters to fuck off
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Hilary Clinton in particular had a LOT of baggage and even in 2016 Trump barely won
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tons of early voting. Generally dems do better when more people vote
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I think overturning Roe was the GOP’s equivalent of Obgerfell, the pyrrhic culture war victory that they didn’t want to truly win.
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Also I’ve noticed a bit of the idea of fully forming a “uniparty”, dems love kowtowing to the gop and if I were a fascist, I’d want my most vocal dissenters to get on my case for not being fascist enough.
Oh, and a lathe for the road. I can see immediately after a Harris win that dems will smugly tell the left: “see? We don’t need you after all!” even before they go back to brunch.
At this point. I genuinely want to ask Elon Musk what he’s playing at?
To me, he’s more of a liability to the right than an asset. Literally scamming republicans in particular when back then at least his “brand” was pretty bipartisan so he can grift both sides.
Weird hypothetical but here goes.
If fascists tend to co-opt and twist talking points from the left so they can take credit for our ideas, knowing people will listen to them and never us....has there ever been any successful application of the inverse? A leftist appropriates the aesthetics of the right to slowly sneak leftism into people's heads disguised as people the masses would listen to? I know this is a losing strategy but idk why.
If fascism is so successful on that, how come it isn't with the inverse?
It really is amazing that the tech scene as a whole is devoid of intellectualism, even though the whole idea of tech was built on that in the first place.
Leadbrain
New insult for CHUDs just dropped.
The blue party's selling point is that it's "just like the more popular red party America loves!" so in practice we have one "name brand" party in the GOP, and a generic brand version that doesn't even try to be an alternative.
U could totally see republicans proposing to re-introduce lead in everything and refer to it as the "manliness metal" because all those mental issues it causes....well it just enhances your manliness!
"We will throw you in jail for not having a job.....but none of us are hiring!"
So how about mass imprisoning picky employers because they're accomplices to crime?
IDK but whether win or lose I’m expecting a LOT of eyeroll inducing AI pictures. CHUDs can’t go a single second without putting any thought they have into an AI image.
But hey, an extra four years to better ready my exit strategy would be much appreciated.
I said it before and I’ll say it again: Aren’t techbros supposed to be smart?
Learning coding and engineering is no joke, so I’ll give them that. But seriously how are people that smart but still so much of them can be so foolish? I’m guessing self-interest is just one hell of a drug.
They actually said that? Pfft. That's rich.
I had to see a both sidesed video in school where it presented one of the drawbacks of green energy as "will we have to say goodbye to the American way of life?" Even I saw the situation as American businessmen and governments alike simply being too lazy, too hedonistic to do the right thing. We all know it's the right thing to do, but nope too lazy.
Even as a liberal kid that was an enthusiastic yes from me. Brits were on one side getting unviersal healthcare and living in a beautiful country with tons of architecture and I'm stuck on some boring ass shithole with nothing to do but go to walmart and consoom corn syrup?
Sorry, my inner BMF was coming out.
I remember hearing some people in California just have dentists in Mexico because of how utterly untrustworthy American dentistry is, idk about Canada however.
Can't wait until I'm fired because an AI believed my smile was fake and then I get fired over an email with an AI image of a sad person and their boss pointing and laughing in the background telling me that my attitude is bringing the company down (written by an AI, of course).
In tech
Are you sure you and your lot aren't just trying to sell us something? I think people forgot there's other smart people in the world other than folks in the tech industry.
MFW reactionaryism literally is the refusal to grow up.
This was fully intended. You think a bunch of cackling, card-carrying fascists actually have a convenient sensitive side towards babies? No. This was fully intentional as they are happy to utilize any avenue towards femicide you can think of.
To me, Silicon Valley is a confusing beast. I'm not sure if this is remaining liberalism but there are some things about it (on the surface level) that I find admirable: it's generally science-positive and is a beacon of intellectualism in the US, even if tech is not your cup of tea I like the idea of some people being in the "problem solving business", and if I must participate in capitalism then working for a company that helps with sustainability in SV doesn't sound too bad. Not ideal, but leagues more tolerable than working on an oil field.
However, this facade crumbles at even the quickest glance and it sometimes almost becomes just as nakedly reactionary as the oil and gas industry. Elon Musk is practically the poster child of Silicon Valley and was a lib that just needed one scratch to give up the ghost and go full fash. Silicon Valley is literally acting like an Ayn Rand villain. Silicon Valley has also practically soured my attitudes towards technology and some of that can be blamed on pretty much all new "innovations" just being inventing a new form of landlordism. Even many of the people in the supposed blue city are complete and utter fash, the whole thing feels like it's permanently an 80s Wall Street movie but with tech.
Is there like any books that can better explain Silicon Valley and what it actually stands for?
I know a huge thing that you see online is talks about different generations, and it almost seems as if to me that for some folks, “generational conflict” has replaced class conflict. Furthermore, I worry that the American dream was supposed to die so everyday baby boomers could buy houses and see their property values go up hundredfold and invite otherwise working class folk into an “honorary bourgeoisie” system. But ultimately this is still a class struggle rather than a generation struggle. Like I’m gen Z and I do not see baby boomers as my oppressor, there’s plenty of millennial landlords ready to rip me off because LinkedIn told him to liquidate his assets’ or whatever idk I don’t speak Porkuguese.
I’m no exception, I’ve made my guesses on why any given generation is the way it is, but I can’t help but wonder when did this focus on generation over class all start? Did baby boomers grow up identifying as baby boomers, and when they were in their 20s-40s was there this idea that millennials were going to be their designated bagholders? If so, did baby boomers always have a consistent culture and identity?
Sorry if this is a dumb question, it’s just that the generational struggle seems really flimsy upon further scrutiny.
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LMAO. CHUD gets what he wants and then gets bored from lack of brown people to lord over.
Whether fascists want to admit it or not, they need minorities but minorities don't need them. Ergo, making minorities superior to white supremacists.
