Because fascists can always move father right. You can’t out Republican the Republicans.

Is she?

She just got on national TV and refused to support trans rights. Democrats ran to the right of fascists on militarizing the border. She is pro imperialism. She isn’t committed to climate change. She’s not going to meaningfully redistribute wealth. Looking at how desperate Americans are right now do you really think that coming out with a plan to raise the top marginal tax rate from 30 to 35 percent or whatever is some massive rallying cry that’s going to make people re-evaluate their worldviews? She’s not even that strong on abortion rights.

Weird that this has to be explained this late into the game but…

Trump is running on the promise of enacting fascism and using state power to mete out retribution to the ‘undesirables’ that his voters blame for their lack of power. To this end there is nothing he can say or do that will make them not vote for him. He is promising power and as long as he wins his promise is kept.

Kamala is running on a platform of ‘not fascism’ and to that end she does need to provide a coherent alternate worldview to mindless retribution. It’s not enough for her to walk the middle of the road and say as little as possible. She needs to give people a diametrically opposed worldview. She needs to be capable of explaining why fascist retribution isn’t good or helpful. She can not just be a diet Republican. She needs to have coherent answers to their obvious bullshit.

Hope this helps. Horrifying that the people who are a decade into Trumpism and ostensibly responsible for stopping it don’t seem to have the slightest clue what motivates it or how to counter it.

Does it? Or does it boil down to whether or not you are willing to rubber stamp the death of your loved ones.

When it’s theoretical gamesmanship people like you are more than willing to act like dispassionate chess masters but I have a hard time believing that if it was your family getting killed you would be so cavalier.

Easy to say when it’s not your family getting slaughtered.

But we all know you’re a paragon of rationality who would enthusiastically vote for an administration who has promised to kill your family because your love of lesser evilism outweighs anything else.

Probably not. But it doesn’t include your consent at the very least.

Maybe you’re a perfectly objective person who can still vote for your families execution. But I think most people would struggle with it, if they’re being truly honest with themselves.

Your vote is your consent.

Imagine for a minute that your perfect political candidate was running. The only catch is that if they win they are promising to personally execute your family in front of you. The other guy is gonna kill your family too so everyone tells you to stop being such a single issue voter and vote for the lesser evil.

Do you still vote for them? Or do you refuse to participate in the execution of your family?

Just not big enough for the left, naturally.

I believe all promises that are made within the last 30 days of an election!

Funny what you can believe when you just make shit up.

We’re going to start releasing who some of these people are, and they’ll be able to start tracing that history of where they’re at, and what they’re doing on the ‘dark web’ and how they’re organizing,” Walz said during one briefing. “I think our best estimate right now that I heard is about 20% that are Minnesotans and about 80% are outside.”

https://www.minnpost.com/metro/2024/08/outside-agitator-narrative-by-walz-community-leaders-was-wrong-but-helped-quell-2020-george-floyd-protests/

https://www.vox.com/2020/5/30/21275562/minnesota-protests-governor-walz-mayors-frey-carter-out-of-state-agitators-violence

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/08/tim-walz-protests-2020-encouraged-vance-george-floyd-frey-minneapolis/

Know what’s cool? You get to learn something today!

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/09/873592665/unmasking-the-outside-agitator

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/news-brief-cops-push-outside-agitator-line-exploit-real-fears-of-far-right-violence-to-delegitimize-protests

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/nation/what-are-outside-agitators-heres-what-to-know-about-the-labels-history-amid-protests

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/08/us/outside-agitators-history-civil-rights.html

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/outside-agitator-false-narrative/tnamp/

https://jacobin.com/2014/08/who-is-an-outside-agitator/

https://inthesetimes.com/article/racial-justice-protests-minneapolis-outside-agitator-myth

Pushing KKK style lies about “outside agitators” and sending in troops to crack skulls instead of meaningfully contending with the root causes of the protests is bad actually.

No. I want actual student loan forgiveness.

I mean yeah but didn’t Walz personally send the national guard against citizens during protests? Maybe let someone else field this one.

Did they forgive new debt or are they just discharging debt that legally should already have been forgiven?

Haha yeah the government that’s currently enabling war crimes is gonna totally make a commission to hold presidents liable for crimes.

This is why nothing changes. If you start looking at one of them you have to look at all of them.

Green Arrow - Yo La Tengo

Extending Russia, Rand Corporation 2019

The United States could also become more vocal in its support for NATO membership for Ukraine… While NATO’s requirement for unanimity makes it unlikely that Ukraine could gain membership in the foreseeable future, Washington’s pushing this possibility could boost Ukrainian resolve while leading Russia to redouble its efforts to forestall such a development.

Expanding U.S. assistance to Ukraine, including lethal military assistance, would likely increase the costs to Russia, in both blood and treasure, of holding the Donbass region. More Russian aid to the separatists and an additional Russian troop presence would likely be required, leading to larger expenditures, equipment losses, and Russian casualties. The latter could become quite controversial at home, as it did when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan.

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR3000/RR3063/RAND_RR3063.pdf

They literally tested one like a week ago.

We want Israel to win and we want Ukraine to be an expensive quagmire for Russia.