I’d just like to go on the record to say that on either side of any recent election you could think of, provincial Ontario ones or any other important ones I might be overlooking, I liked and continue to like both communism and race-mixing
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His show The Majority Report is good for news too. Idk if I’d survive the psychic damage of watching that whole thing but I might try…need to stock up on ethers
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Using my ten minute post to ask you to clarify what you’re talking about
like the people in the video say a few times something like “the election said [thing I think that you now have to agree is correct because of the election]”
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Oh okay—not sure if it’s a new thing or not but I noticed that too. It fits into a lot of strange patterns of thinking that are becoming more prominent and seem to be the first rung on a ladder that ends with no longer having object permanence.
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I would trace this back to the Bush era, when the September 11 attacks polarized the country’s political culture around a single perspective. “This is America, buddy. Like it or leave it.” Even when the space for dissent started to open up, this expectation that any views arrived at through elections - more broadly, through any mass expression; more narrowly, presidential elections (the only kind of election the American public really gives a shit about) - compelled the entire political body to fall in line with that view remained. Future elections aggravated that assumption in their own ways: responding to birthers early in the Obama administration, the electoral college discrepancy of the guy after him, responding to accusations of “They stole the election!” under Biden.
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Kinda seems like Trump-style populism projection. Like, built up resentment from the Obama era, which seemed to make these kinds of dumb guys feel like it was suddenly no longer socially palatable to be racist, and the Obama Thought Crime Gestapo would kick their doors down and cave their skulls in simply for “just having opinions” and “just asking questions” about their belief about race being an indicator of the totally real parameter known as IQ (and nothing like that ever actually happened but obviously that doesn’t matter).
I think to these kinds of guys, Trump winning the election is like an indicator that some kind of similar and more obliquely reactionary sociocultural backlash has either happened, or must at least be on the verge of happening, in a way that is tangible and about to be actually enacted by the government soon, so you might as well conform now.
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what I’m seeing in the video is Seder discounting assertions that are incorrect or even just a matter of disagreement, then the debate goons just saying yeah ok, but “we” “decided” [something else] ?? very odd
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It’s the same thing as the “Trump’s your president” meme because people used to say not my president. I concede that he’s the president, that does not mean that I have to like or agree with even a single thing that any of you do or say. They win everything and still bitch because we still don’t like them.
Anyway, in the interest of post consolidation, I will add another .exe family fun fact to this post. In the early days of Shen Yun in America, we bought my mom tickets to see it with her friend for Christmas because she loves the ballet and loves Chinese history. She was very excited to go and when she came home she was almost giddy to explain to us that we had gifted her something so bizarre and terrible. She still talks about it all the time, how her kids taught her the evils or Marxism.
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It’s super frustrating especially when they argue that ‘well majority of people voted for Trump so dismantling DEI is great’ even though they don’t understand DEIA and constantly ignore Sam when he clarifies what DEIA policy in the context of employment of Government institutions. The notion that DEI is there to hire unqualified black people to meet a quota is right wing propaganda but they don’t care apparently.
Where do they get these clowns? How can you argue with these people? It’s pointless almost like arguing with crazy religious people.
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Re-education camp in the former USA later this century is gonna be crazy ngl
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Even that’s not true! Only ~22.7% of the population (77,302,580/~340,100,000) voted for the guy. Contemporary democracy hasn’t been democratic since…ever.
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- United States of America
- Divided States of EmbarrASSa
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I guess it’s just younger people (still adults though no real excuses) who ID as conservatives and then also want to be on youtube to debate a guy and then also want to do that in a format where they hold up lil flags and do musical chairs kind of stuff. So its not exactly the manhattan project level of intellect. And people in this setting are going to be motivated to appear to “win” in a public and widely disseminated video. I suppose if you want to assume good faith though because they’re young they havent absorbed the kind of humiliations and injustices of life in “the system” so cant conceive as a healthy 22 year old world as oyster etc how “fairness” looks as eg a 53 year old with diabetes, shit healthcare, bad job, and no savings
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Ip Man 1 mentioned
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Also if you see most of their other content that channel operates as disguised alt-right propaganda content maker. They present both sides debates where they platform hate speech and the wrong people end up just reinforcing what they believe.
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I could only make it to the part where the guy said that “government was abusing DEI” because white male actors in Hollywood are getting overlooked because they aren’t the right gender or skin color.
Setting aside that the entertainment industry is private and his premise is an argument for further diversity, equity, and inclusion… what kind of world do these people live in where the biggest victims of this DEI “problem” are actors, and the most actionable place for anti-DEI policy is in casting, and requires the government to intervene.
I can’t think a job where it’s more self-evident that not just anyone can fill any role through hard work and bootstraps. But to even make that point is dumb because there is no sense of scale or logic behind these grievances. The youtube ouroboros has validated so much ignorance and given rise to so many bad faith people pushing things further. We’re stuck having to assume these people are just really stupid or malicious or both.
(but yeah good on Sam for showing up, but this brainrot youtube format is just really depressing.)
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this is the only rapid debate with unevenly representated sides that is any good
(jubilee has always made content mill trash I would not expect anything politically worthwhile from the place that also makes social deduction clickbait!!)
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I think they mean of the people who voted. Just had a quick look - apparently the 2024 elections had a decent turn out for America being second largest turn out in history.
But it wasn’t the landslide victory that Republicans are claiming with only a 1.5 margin winning over Kamala.
I’m basing it off this
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