OccamsRazer

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And yet these people want to blame it for the election loss. I think "the manosphere" has more impact on them as an easy scapegoat then it does on general voters in effecting elections.

Ok, but how many or what percentage of men like this need to exist for it to be a talking point? If it's not generalized to a significant percentage, then it's not a valid point to bring up in the first place.

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I bet the party has sufficient power to restrict access to birth control. Seems crazy to consider, but if things got serious enough, I feel like they are capable of doing it.

Or maybe she wasn't a good candidate to begin with. She wasn't even nominated, so we don't know how a true, democratically elected, candidate would have performed.

There are like two of those people, not enough to be the driving factor behind Kamala losing.

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It's been an endless stream of reports of scandal and cruelty since 2016. How could you not get desensitized? The alternative would be to go insane.

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If you think she lost because she is a black woman, then you are ignoring a lot of other factors that are far more significant. It won't help anything to focus on that single aspect of her candidacy.

I don't think it's exactly a matter of appealing to progressives, but an inherent difficulty in trying to appeal to a wide variety of people with a wide variety of interests. You end up having to make vague promises in order not to offend anyone, which comes across as being boring or disingenuous, like you are only saying stuff in order to get elected and not because you actually belive in it. Conservatives can have much simpler and more straightforward messaging because their base is much more homogeneous.

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Yes but a lot of people who think they stand for something instead fell for anything.

Uhh... Terrorism where innocent citizens are targeted is worse than specific targeting of terrorists themselves.

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Seeing sports as a casual way to get exercise is fine on a personal level if you aren't an elite athlete, but you can't force that perspective on millions of people who enjoy competing or watching elite athletes compete. It's a weird take to want to rewire sports to accommodate a very small minority of people, most of whom wouldn't even agree with that perspective.

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They can start by developing indicators that actually work, instead of indicators that make them look good.

This is not what a matriarchy would look like at all, since men are physically stronger overall. A matriarchal society would have to be based on respect or some other acknowledgement by men that women should lead, since a domineering, physical, might-makes-right society would not end up this way. Not sure why or how (some) women feel the need to physically subjugate men and rule on men's terms, to use the rules of patriarchy to form a matriarchal society. It simply can't work.

This is the standard that was applied when a few nazi flags showed up at convoy rallies. You either need to reclaim the cause for your protest, or admit that it actually stands for something else and then ask yourself if you want to be part of that.

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I've never used an iPhone, been a die hard android user since the beginning, but I might switch because of this. I don't care about AI and don't want it on my phone.

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Death penalty isn't necessary at all anymore, as there isn't any risk to society in keeping them imprisoned. In the past we were sometimes forced to execute because there weren't viable long term prisons. That's the only legitimate need for the death penalty to exist in my opinion.

I can't imagine it works as a deterrent given the psychopathic nature of these crimes.

I suppose it could bring some kind of peace to a victim of aggravated rape, that their rapist had paid the ultimate price so that would be nice. I'm not sure it works that way though or if it's a healthy coping mechanism.

Overall it feels like it should be a relic of the past.

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The term RINO has actually been around for a long time, since George H Bush.

Also, do you extend this level of courtesy to events that make your political opposition look bad? It's easy to find the energy and motivation when defending your team, but it rarely goes the other way.

That wasn't so hard, was it? People tripping over themselves to find a gotcha and forgetting to use a little common sense.

There's actually a lot more bad choices but you never know about them because nobody cares.

I'm unclear if this makes it easier or more difficult to do an insurrection. What am I missing?

It's not. But it certainly is a wet dream for extremists on either side.

No, actually most people aren't blood thirsty lunatics who are willing to kill their political opposition. Most people are able to disagree with others without wanting them dead.

It's almost as if they are leveraging and exaggerating fear for their own gain.

Well sure, except that problems with social media are everywhere, even in suburban and rural areas where kids have plenty of places to go.

We escaped it by my wife quitting work, so that's always an option.

Yep. Even if she is telling the truth about her motives and if she uncovered true election fraud, she cant break the law to obtain that evidence.

You can't jump to full authoritarian without going through the first steps. I actually don't understand your second point at all though, about being a Christian.

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They get news from different sources than you do.

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No, but I'm also not sure where you are going with that question. I suppose hezbollah flags directly have something to do with the Palestine protests, whereas nazi flags didn't really have anything to do with the convoy, so maybe it's more understandable to have hezbollah/hamas flags there. But they are still terrorists, right? Or are we OK with them now? I'm just not sure what you mean.

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They totally knew he was there. There's a video of the counter sniper lining him up right as the shooting started.

Yeah it's in the toothpaste, but is also in the city water. Problem is there are many cities with way more than the recommended limits. It's one of those situations where the fringe weirdos may actually have had a point.

I'm not sure if these people are propagandists or just dumb. It seems like a very obvious non story if you actually read what happened.

They know all of this, but the only thing that matters is making the opposition look bad. The narrative is the only thing that matters, and reality or context are mere inconveniences. It's a politics thing. Annoying if you want the truth, but unfortunately effective in a popularity contest like the US elections.

I haven't dabbled with that stuff for years, but I could go back to that as well I suppose.

The entire system is being challenged from top to bottom, with supreme Court justices and Judges all over being called into question.

People aren't thinking about consequences when they commit murder, so it doesn't really matter how severe they are.

Ashli Babbit situation is totally different though.

Yeah I suppose they would hop on as well. The idea that my experience would be tailored according to unknown algorithm and agenda kind of scares me.

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It's a little confusing what Biden even meant. I assumed he was asking if white people were swapped out for Black people on Jan 6, and all else were equal.