TemutheeChallahmet [none/use name] @ TemutheeChallahmet @hexbear.net

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Sure but there is no way to implement a policy that makes people's lives better that doesn't initially go against the will of a ton of people who'd actually benefit down the line. It is never going to be a process where you first convince everyone who'd eventually use something to get on board with passing it, it's always going to be you steam rolling that third of people polarized against it, and then when they find some occasion later to use the benefits you've passed, because "fuck it, they're there anyway," that the benefits become unretractable. There is no path to public welfare that lets you avoid paternalism and believing you know what's better for some people than they do themselves.

I think it is not a matter of punching up or punching down but how either is done. If you straight up tell rural poor people you want to make their lives better and build a better future for all it will simply not connect and perhaps even get you called "gay." If you meet them where they are and tell them their towns aren't shit and they have been voting for shit because they have been too demoralized to pursue what they are owed, they might actually say you are giving the tough talk that is needed and that you aren't mincing words like some bullshitter.

You are less likely to uplift the already downtrodden by starting off with a message couched in positivity and auspiciousness, it just is not how the terms of engagement in such societies are. I have lived in the poorest areas in India, China, Jordan and the US and I know this much to be true. That is not to mention that rural red area politics aren't a monolith, and there are good chunks of people who are liberal but outnumbered, hate the beliefs and policies of where they are, and are forced to hold their tongue due to social pressure, and such people are just waiting for a fearless shit talker left-leaning leader to galvanize them and finally make their displeasure socially acceptable enough to voice.

They cut a bunch of her stuff out of the doc, they just wanted to use her as a trans millennial face

Holy fuck why would they allow this to leak out about a guy their opponent has been calling "Sleepy Joe" since 2019

Alright have a great time

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I don't fully agree with her thread but this here is absolutely us larping

To be fair I don't know what they are supposed to do instead, if they like any of us have no way of changing anything but happen to have the means to ensure their own safety

In the White House this mantle is passed on via death; Jill holds the title succeeding Nancy, who herself succeeded Ike.

Biden during Israel-related Briefing: It's like I used to tell my good friend Golda Meir, if you want to tickle an Arab who's got some whiskers on him, you send on over a Prussian who knows the toothpainter's way through a cathouse.

Biden's AI Translation Tool: The president has agreed to authorize additional airstrikes on Lebanon

Yeah without a doubt the ruling is based on racism, but I wish people didn't just treat a rapper who heavily contributed to the corrosive materialism and misogyny in hip hop for his own gain to the tune of millions of dollars as some dissident poet or something. Most of popular hip-hop is reactionary and attempts to make poor black people feel personal shame for being poor, and this is literally the guy who pioneered "Bling Bling."

We love talking about CIA conspiracies but CIA could not have asked for a better psyop to fracture black solidarity and social mobility than the Cash Money Records brand of rap music. Even their in-house producer, Mannie Fresh, sometimes asks if they ruined rap music. And again, I am saying this as somebody who has listened to most of the stuff they've put out.

Biden Zoidberg

Sorry, but as a non-white leftist I don't get this site some times, and I am someone who's saying this while having a thorough knowledge of Cash Money Records. B.G. has a ton of songs about how he delights in beating women, and if the same verdict he got (which I don't agree with btw) was given to some manosphere chud or Stone Toss about their media output we'd surely go "chud BTFO" instead of invoking free speech arguments.

Meanwhile, if I so much as make a post here where I call Biden a "bitch" it gets deleted for being misogyny. I think US leftists, especially white ones, have this inclination to reflexively defend rappers because they are from a marginalized background and because of their countercultural/outside-the-system aesthetic, but any mention of the hardcore misogyny or homophobia in that subculture is often completely overlooked or blamed solely on systemic roots as if rappers and their fans have zero agency.

Her last retweet: Yes, Biden is 81. My dad is 81. My classic rock heroes are all around 81. My favorite actors are all around 81. My childhood sports idols are around 81. And I'd vote for any of them over the raping, lying, treasonous scumbag. #NeverTrump

This person is a top ResistLib comedian

If they play the lyrics of "Stay in Line Hoe" we'd all look bad for defending him

Every one of this guy's albums has a song about beating women, I wonder if it'll stay that way.