@brawlandanarchy @LinkofSunshine Just need to liquidate the 90% just like Comrade Pol Pot envisioned.
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Evan Bear
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@LinkofSunshine Sometimes you have to wonder how liberation will be achieved by 3% of the population who have any semblance of education and class consciousness on behalf of 90% of the population who willingly fight for the capitalists
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This is not coincidence. Autism is driven by organic food sales.
Steve Kirsch@stkirsch
This is not a coincidence. Autism is being driven by vaccines.
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@HMartok @rorynotsorry @Noahpinion A little bit, but it's like 60/40, not 90/10 or whatever. And a lot of those conservative guys are conservative in temperament, but aren't necessarily all that into politics.
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The thing is, women love to date conservative men, because they project stability and strength.
The thing is, "red pill" guys project something completely different from traditional conservative men - they come across as bitter, extremely online losers.
New York Post@nypost
Why women don’t want to date a ‘red pill man’: Warning as grim male trend erupts trib.al/pBzulJR
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@IlyaSomin Good thing you all get along since you're now all liable to get sent to CECOT together.
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It's notable that all of us say the answer is "yes," and in a big way, even though we have huge ideological and other differences.
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@bengrossbg It would in fact have helped her if she did that, but people didn't trust her to follow through.
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@shmr50 @ErlineP @mattyglesias Also, these male Latino Biden voters who stayed home were not base voters. They were unaligned swing voters with at least some conservative tendencies. The idea that those guys stayed home because Harris wasn't sufficiently gung-ho progressive is frankly laughable.
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@ErlineP @evanbear20 @mattyglesias Essentially, men- especially Latino men-stayed home. There was no economic crisis, and that's what brings out voters and gets them voting Democratic.
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@ErlineP @shmr50 @mattyglesias Yes. In fact, Harris benefited from the lower turnout, as polling indicated that nonvoters were more pro-Trump than voters were. If turnout had been higher, then Harris would have lost by a larger margin.
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@evanbear20 @shmr50 @mattyglesias It is a fact that a lot of people who voted in 2020 stayed home. A lot of people who voted for Biden stayed home. Kamala Harris lost ground in traditionally blue places and you think that's entirely due to swing voters?
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@ErlineP @shmr50 @mattyglesias Harris lost because voters who voted [Obama '12-Trump '16-Biden '20] voted for Trump in '24. Swing voters decide elections. One swing voter is worth 2x a base voter, and nearly all base voters turn out in gen elections no matter what because of their dislike for the other side.
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@evanbear20 @shmr50 @mattyglesias What you're saying makes no sense. Of course you have to turn out your base. Overall turnout last year was less than 2020. And thats one of the reasons Kamala Harris lost.
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@shmr50 @mattyglesias It *should* be the case that primary voters choose the most electable candidates. The problem is that it isn't. Because (a) many primary voters don't even try to do that, (b) the majority of them do try but they often do not understand what appeals to swing voters.
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@evanbear20 @mattyglesias ( Shrug) If you can't win the primary, you most likely can't win the general. That's the logic of primary contests- you pick the strongest GE candidate in a survival of the fittest primary. Bennett wasn't fit last time.
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@ErlineP @shmr50 @mattyglesias That's almost 100% false. Base mobilization is not a major part of winning general elections. If anything, it's harmful, because the tactics that juice your own base necessarily mobilize the other side's base too.
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@evanbear20 @shmr50 @mattyglesias Why do you think someone who can't win a primary can win a general election? Part of how you win a general election is getting your base energized to come out and vote for you. Voters staying home is often why candidates lose.
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@yhdistyminen Almost seems like abolishing due process isn't really a necessary means to an end for them, but the end in itself.
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I have been repeatedly assured by the brightest legal minds on here that we need to abolish due process or else it becomes impossible to enforce immigration laws.
Alec Lace@AlecLace
Bill Clinton: 12.3 million deportations - 0 injunctions George W. Bush: 10.3 million deportations - 0 injunctions Barack Obama: 5.3 million deportations - 0 injunctions Donald Trump: 100 thousand deportations - 30 injunctions
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@shmr50 @mattyglesias I don't think that's true. It's a small sample - our current polarized era has only been around about 20 yrs - but I can't think of a single person who had a strong record in statewide gen elections relative to his/her state's partisan makeup who then did badly in a potus race.
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@evanbear20 @mattyglesias Lots of people do well in statewide elections don't do well at the presidential level. Anyway he can try again in 2028. I strongly suspect the Democrats will play it safe and pick a tall middle aged white guy, so his chances will be better.
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@shmr50 @mattyglesias Yes, he was crushed in the primary, thus never got to run in the general election. Therefore, we don't know how well he would have done in the general election. We do know that he's run in statewide general elections in Colorado, a light blue state, and has done fine.
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@evanbear20 @mattyglesias Circling back to Bennett, he was crushed. Matt Iglesias liked him but hardly anyone else did. You can't win an election if you can't get people to vote for you. THE END.
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@RpsAgainstTrump Did he even get any power as part of the deal? Seems like he's just saying whatever they tell him to say, like a puppet.
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Little Marco sold his soul for power. What a disgrace
Tom Malinowski@Malinowski
When I ran the State Department's human rights bureau, few Senators were more interested in our work than Marco Rubio. If I'd purged from our annual reporting references to stolen elections in Venezuela or unjust imprisonment in China, he'd have called for my resignation. 1/
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@shmr50 @mattyglesias This is a just-so story. Kerry actually performed very well relative to fundamentals vs a moderately popular incumbent. Hillary had her faults but ran under much harder conditions than Bill (faced incumbent during recession) or Obama (lame duck ultra-unpopular 2-term Republican).
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@evanbear20 @mattyglesias Charismatic is a thing. Obama and Bill Clinton had charisma.Hillary Clinton and John Kerry just didn't. It mattered.
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@Wilson__Valdez Her district is not that conservative (R+6). She could lose next year.
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Constituent very politely asks her about doing town halls and she flips out and says 'fuck you' to him. And then posts it online thinking she looks good....
I really don't throw this out willy-nilly but this lady needs serious help. She is very mentally unwell.
Nancy Mace@NancyMace
Some unhinged lunatic, a man, wearing daisy dukes, at a makeup store, got in my face today. Dems are nuts. So I went off - and I won’t be backing down. I hold the line 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Try me.
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@jessesingal Also, what exactly is the "suicide" in this metaphor supposed to represent? In what way is the Constitution forcing us to kill ourselves?
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dude stop please i beg you
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry@pegobry_en
The Constitution is not a suicide pact.
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@shmr50 @mattyglesias Charisma is highly overrated in general elections (but it is much more important in primaries). That's one of many reasons why performance in the primaries is a very poor predictor of performance in the general. I'm not saying it's totally uncorrelated, but it's close.
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@mattyglesias Bennett is a good guy with the right policy chops, but he is about as chariamatic as a fire hydrant. Some people have the " it" factor, and some people don't.
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@predederva @lxeagle17 The difference is that Trump is a Republican, while Stephen A. would be running in the Democratic primary.
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Stephen A. Smith is a lunatic who happens to be good on TV. He would be very lucky to crack 15% in a single state in the 2028 primaries.
Elvis@ElvisElven
@lxeagle17 @Boat_Stairs Where you placing Stephen A?
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