Plenty of people voted for kamala and are huge critics of how the campaign was handled. Both can happen.

Is it really how that works? No way! Ive literally never heard anyone say that! Definitely not over and over in this thread or anything!

Thanks internet stranger for solving the third party problem! Not all hero’s wear capes!

Sure they wanted to win but losing doesnt change Kamala’s or bidens lives at all. They dont have to bear the burden of the trump nonsense like average people might.

This is all very consistent with his legacy.

In regards to actors, it’s less their actions in a movie and how they carry themselves. Desdpool is actually a good example. Ask friends and family if they think Ryan Reynolds is a good person or not and why. For me the answer is simple, I have no idea mainly because I have never met him.

I agree with your comparison between Hasan and Destiny, although I’m not sure if Destiny has really figured out a repeatable process others could follow. Its been a few years since I listened to his content though, there might be a bunch of copycat Destiny’s making content successfully. Keep in mind though even he has limitations, as evidenced by his political campaign in Nebraska.

I’m also concerned that the bully and shame technique will just cause defensiveness rather than a change in perspective. I’m essentially of the opposite perspective though, people need to be able to tolerate being around others with vastly different views without getting aggressive or defensive.

A somewhat absurd example of this is that I think that Israel and Palestine will only ever be peaceful if they accept living in the same country together under equal rights. A one country solution so to speak.

Opinions can be worth a lot these days though, thats why people will offer them up to begin with. I agree it should be far more common to say, “I barely know anything about this, so I have no opinion”, but how do you incentivize that socially.

Noone becomes accepted/promoted/famous by admitting they dont know something, but you can do all of those things by putting out half-baked opinions.

I think I have a better example than religion. Famous actors. People often believe they are exactly the same on screen as in real life, despite them telling you they are actors. Its another thing as a society we have not decided on, but theres no reason to hedge your bet in this case I can think of.

People assess risks differently based on what the results could be. Burning to death trapped in a car is pretty high on the “avoid this” list, and americans likely are asking “if I get hit by a Tesla who do I sue?” If the answer is Tesla then thats a much higher risk than if its the person in the drivers seat.

Its about ehat types of mistakes can happen and how they are handled. Many prefer gas automobiles as they consider them less risky.

I just think even democrats had trouble trusting she actually stood for those things. Thats the problem. Its funny the democrats were arguing green party voters only come out and campaign every four years, when democrats seem to only have progressive values every four years.

This time they went crazy and tried to go conservative for some reason, thinking they could out republican the republicans.

They really thought republicans were reluctantly voting for trump. They really thought they could win without sacrificing all their corporate donations either.

People dont like Bethesda. The games are alright.

If all they were offering was a chance to elect the first minority president, then complaints about DEI hire are not entirely out of hand are they?

The democrats simply can’t win if they need to be funded by corporations but earn votes from the average american who are getting fucked by those corporations.

I watched the fox interview straight through, as someone who voted for her already, and was shocked that the interviewer didnt sound like a crazy person, and kamala didnt answer a single question she was asked.

Fox and co didnt have to make her look bad, she did a great job of it sounding like a salea person or brand marketer. Trump sitting down for unscripted podcast interviews helped a ton. At least trump wasn’t hiding who he is.

Okay now justify the cost it took to create the tool.

But look at that giant mountain in the graph! Its beautiful! Like the rockies or…another mountain I definitely know the name of! Uhhh Bahamas! I think thats one…

Anyways I like pretty graph!

They didnt reject her because she’s a woman. She was a bad candidate, just like Hilary. Bad performance, whether thats on her or her team who knows. Noones going to vote for someone purely because they think its fun to have a woman in the white house. Thats extremely low on peoples list of concerns for presidency.

Nobody operates on facts alone. Unless you were there when it happened, you have to trust a source to some degree.

Quite a lot of people just say fuck it, if its all varying degrees of shit, I’m not going to listen to any of it.

Thats how word of mouth type stuff ends up on fox news, because even they know a lot of right wing Americans wont trust professional news stories over their neighbors anecdotes.

We might think we use better sources, and check into things more vigorously, but our conclusions still require faith as much as any republicans beliefs.

We still haven’t even figured out how to refute religion conclusively, for example. Juries still out on whether religion is fantasy or actual reality, whether we think thats ridiculous or not.

People who are in an excited emotional state just aren’t going to do well thinking that stuff through.

I’m not immune to it either, I just dont have tiktok or facebook at all to avoid it.

Okay if its about men who say that, why are the news articles about boys saying it.

And no this isnt rape. Rape is rape. Shit talk is shit talk or whatever you want to call it.

The point I’m making is that people shouldnt assume a story has merit simply because its being written about in a news paper. They aren’t choosing stories based on merit, they are picking them based on revenue.

Its telling that most of the stories leave out Nick Fuentes name, or else people wouldnt click it because they know thats his schtick to begin with.

Good one.

You must be one of the good americans then, bravo!

Alcohol is a crutch.