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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Are the GOP officially Card Carrying Villains now? Because that's what it feels like.
Edited by SatoshiBakura on Aug 11th 2020 at 5:39:21 AM
Is it wrong to say the right is in full Good Is Bad And Bad Is Good mode?
If you aproach it thinking about the same way yes, but the reality is there is an entirely diffrent line of thought when you come from the right
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Rationalinsanity’s post[1]
a couple pages back is a good starting point if you want to learn about who Harris is and her history.
While other far-right mouthpieces on twitter who masquerade as leftists are presumably screening that she’s a white supremacist?
Edited by Silasw on Aug 11th 2020 at 9:44:20 AM
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranKamala Harris in short:
She's a former California Prosecutor of the George W. Bush era who was twice as hard on crime to get half the respect. However, her tough on crime and harshness managed to get her to the United States Senate in the Democratic Party. Leftists like me have never much cared for her because 'Tough on Crime' feels like it only makes the world worse.
However, she's a canny political operator and pro busing for schools along with other programs to improve life for black Americans.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Aug 11th 2020 at 2:45:22 AM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.I'm completely fine with Ben Shapiro freaking out about Harris.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"If I'm not mistaken, a not-insignificant-portion of GOP voters - particularly the more Libertarian-leaning ones - basically believe that all government is out to screw everyone over for the sake of calculating Machiavellian self-interest (or, rather, the Flanderized theme park version of Machiavellianism), and any government that claims otherwise is just trying to deceive you. Therefore, the party that doesn't make 'idealistic promises' is better because at least they're honest about trying to screw you over - or, more likely, trying to screw over some other group that isn't you - the moment you're in their crosshairs, then suddenly they're evil and need to be fought. :V
Edited by PresidentStalkeyes on Aug 11th 2020 at 10:52:49 AM
Those sell-by-dates won't stop me because I can't read!Someone I know isn't going to be happy. He really wanted someone from the Midwest- this would probably come across to him as "the coasts deciding what's best for the rest of the country". I don't agree with that line of thinking, but that's probably what he's going to say.
Edited by speedyboris on Aug 11th 2020 at 3:05:52 AM
Harris is what I'd personally call broadly progressive, and somewhere in the arithmetic mean of the Democratic party with regards to ideology. By which I mean she's flanked to her right by the "centrist" wing, aka center-leftists like Biden and Pelosi, and flanked to her left by the "progressive" wing, i.e. more radical types such as Sanders, Warren, Pramila Jayapal, and The Squad. On all issues for which there is a large body of support, she can be trusted to at least not act against the pro-choice, pro-gun control, pro-labor, and pro-welfare lobby.
She's on the left side of mainstream thought while remaining within the safe zone of the left half of the Overton Window, although she may hold views that those of us on the farther left side including social democrats and the less accelerationist democratic socialists find potentially disagreeable, and to us may be a big deal, but to mainstream and low-to-moderate information voters, matters of pedantry.
My biggest issue with Harris (and this is not an insignificant one) is her aggressive pushing of SESTA-FOSTA, which isn't openly anti-queer, but being a form of legislation motivated by Moral Guardians, has primarily been used to discriminate heavily against queer people, sex workers, and such marginalized groups, without actually making it easier for the people it claims to be protecting to seek help.
Edited by AlleyOop on Aug 11th 2020 at 6:21:36 AM
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Whitmer didn't want to leave her current position (between the pandemic and only being in office since 2018), and was seen as too moderate by many, and Klobuchar (whose name is loathed by auto-correct
) was dead in the water the moment the latest BLM protests took off, initially centered on the PD she was once responsible for.
Who else did he want?
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.So there is already speculation who will replace Harris in the Senate if Biden wins
. Newsom (the current governor who would have to appoint a new Senator) has stated that he won't do anything unless and until Biden wins.
A record number of people are giving up their US citizenship, according to new research.
Has this been shown before?
Now, I'm really worried about the State(no pun intended) of the USA.
Where would they even go?
Edited by asiacatdogblue on Aug 11th 2020 at 3:37:27 AM
Yep, I'm still here.

Trump' first attack video is out.
They're attacking Harris for... promising and expansion of health care and repealing tax-cuts during a pandemic.
Are they at least claiming that those things are BAD because something something socialism, or have they completely given up and are just presenting those things with no context?
Edited by PresidentStalkeyes on Aug 11th 2020 at 10:32:46 AM
Those sell-by-dates won't stop me because I can't read!