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Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
23m ago
They literally proved they could turn it on and off in 2020.
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27m ago
They stormed the building and got within a few dozen feet of Republican legislators while calling for them to be killed. I guess the real [D]ifference is that they weren't capped like Ashli Babbit.
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3hr ago
I believe in the American system Egyptian counts as white.
Nope. I personally know Egyptians roughly that age who had academic career ending scandals swept under the rug and then were given massive career boosts by the Obama admin. "Muslim outreach" was a huge deal during his years.
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3hr ago
She vandalized a military production facility during a period where 85% of children were going hungry due to a food blockade against civilians:
I'm sorry you believe anything coming out of Gaza.
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3hr ago
I've always heard that getting into med school is much more difficult than the program itself. El Sayed, AIUI, never did a residency or practiced medicine. I doubt the man is an idiot, but what would make you think he is more ELITE than, say, the 10th ranked student at an average American high school?
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8hr ago
El-Sayed is obviously whatever Hannania liked to promote as Elite Human Capital. If you are filtering for talent he’s the far right tail of Egyptian ancestry people and there probably are not many Egyptian Copts above him.
Is he? What makes him ELITE instead of "fairly smart Muslim boosted like hell in the DEI era".
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8hr ago
Manufacturing has been growing steadily with record foreign investment.
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8hr ago
One of his staffers is facing federal charges for hate crime vandalism and death threats against Jews. Another just had a viral moment where she chimped out on a Jewish journalist, assaulted her, assaulted the cops, was drug off screaming death threats.
Released within a day, no charges pending, obvs.
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9hr ago
67% of Democrats polled in 2018 believed the Russians hacked the voting machines and changed the totals to flip the result from Clinton to Trump. And yes, that's what I was referencing. Seeing and hearing a lot of "Elon Musk and AI are going to hack the machines and steal the election". When the Dems underperform compared to the polls as they have every election for a decade, this is what a supermajority of Democrats will sincerely believe. If the underperformance is bad enough to only take 0-1 parts of the legislature, I expect it to be a mainstream topic used to justify civil unrest if not insurrection crisis stuff.
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9hr ago
I think Kathleen Kennedy herself is a stronger argument. A lot of the core problems with the sequel trilogy do seem to come down to her personal character flaws, which at least rhyme with woke politics in a chicken-and-egg situation.
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16hr ago
At least some polls must be somewhat accurate, or else both parties would not pay for internal polling.
This is an argument against the polls being accurate. Harris' people admitted after the 24 election that their internal numbers never once had her in the lead. All of the problems have only gotten worse. Multiple straight up fake polling companies have been outed this cycle. Remember Ann Seltzer, the GOLD STANDARD?
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16hr ago
That's exactly what it means.
No, it does not. It's a fig leaf to cover the refusal to condemn. "I disagree with the timing." "I disagree with it tactically." "I disagree that it's a bad thing", even, would be perfectly in line with politician speak. He does not have a single word to say about what's wrong with it, just a clippable soundbite that supporters can use to blunt the claim that he obviously just hates Jews - like a Nazi!
Sauce for the gander, this is the devil turning round on you, etc, etc.
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16hr ago
This is more or less where I fall. Polling is just fake at this point. Dems are laying groundwork for a steal accusation and holding zoom meeting to plan out the insurrection after they lose. They don't look like people who are feeling genuinely confident.
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16hr ago
They thought they didn't need to. Coming off GWB, they were riding high. Hope and Change, Dempgraphic Destiny, and a strong majority to prove the obvious superiority of Technocratic Progressivism.
Then they got hit with the double-whammy of losing to Trump just as they were starting to grasp that Technocratic Progressivism was a total failure. The last 10 years has been the worlds longest toddler-tantrum shitfit, spiraling deeper and deeper because the only way out was to develop some humility and it was more cathartic to wallow in hate.
(How did that recent line from James Carville go? "If there was a pill that made me hate Trump more I'd take it every day"?)
No, it couldn't be that just being good at homework wasn't actually enough to "solve" major issues like healthcare or the environment. It was all those looters and wreckers! If only all the looters and wreckers could just be... stopped, in some sort of total and final manner, then they can just be right about everything again!
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1d ago
but "I do not agree with the ad" is clear.
Not by the standards his party has enforced for decades. The line immediately before that is "You people love to play the condemn game". It's just a game, he's not playing it, and here's a lesser statement that will allow allies a fig leaf. "I do not agree with the ad" does not mean the ad was incorrect or morally wrong. It's fey wording, and in the language of his people, it's a blatant dog whistle for being a raging Nazi.
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1d ago
"It's not communism guys, it's just a complete government takeover of the entire healthcare industry!"
So it is the branding doing the sinking.
No, it's the reality that does the sinking. We saw this play out with Obamacare. "Do you want Saint Obama to make healthcare cheaper, more accessible, more available, faster and better?" "Hell yeah!" "Even if your taxes go up?" "Oh. No, nevermind." And then in the real world none of those good things ever happened and the entire industry got more expensive and more opaque and it's also burdened with insane amounts of fraud.
Yes, everyone would like medical care without worrying about bills. They'd also like that for housing, food, Netflix and every other good. If you ask them "Would you like [accurate description of the Canadian or British healthcare systems]?" then support would tank into the ground.
And those problems keep cropping up in universal healthcare systems for the exact same reasons communism fails - no price discovery, lacking information from markets, bureaucratization adding hurdles and corruption and nepotism to access, etc, etc.
"I just want all the theoretical good parts of a communist system, but without any of the bad parts" is literal five year old logic.
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1d ago
Exact same thing. Deflect, rephrase into something more palatable, don't actually condemn. He can say he "does not agree" because it wasn't extreme and anti-semetic enough. No Republican has ever been allowed to get away with that kind of mealy-mouthed crap. The headlines would be "El Sayed Again Refuses to Condemn Anti-Semitism".
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1d ago
"Do you want Thing That Sounds Nice" is what gets high polling. "Do you want Thing That Sounds Nice But Has Real Costs and Downsides" polls much, much worse. The irony is that vapid branding on the level of "It's what plants crave!" is all that communism and socialism have to offer.
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1d ago
I could personally see this either way, as either sounding like you're disavowing it but not really, or maybe Sayed figured he already did and felt like Stevens was making him jump through hoops.
What, do you think the man might be new to the party? Democrats have been phrase-lawyering Republicans for decades. That quote there is what every single educated Democrat should recognize as a dog whistle.
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2d ago
Dots. I never get them any other time, but all of the ones in the variety packs I buy to hand out and whatever my kids bring home are ruthlessly consumed by the Daddy Tax.
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2d ago
Conveniently, those were different elections so I could root for them both to lose. In a head-to-head, I'd have easily picked Massie over El Sayed.
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2d ago
Tom Massie supported ending all foreign aid and they spent ~30 million on having him replaced and removed.
Tom also turned into a Epstein clown. Generational downfall, from one of my favorite congressmen into a retarded meme. Ron Paul to MTG pipeline was certainly one of the choices of all time.
Regardless, even if they don't, who cares? Why do supporters of this parasitic nation always engage in petty whataboutism instead of saying "Well, I'd rather we end all foreign aid but we can start with Israel"?
Can we get a plan for that that doesn't involve electing malevolent leftist-Islamists who hate me, my country, and my children?
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2d ago
Medicare at least helps Americans.
This is absolutely not a free claim. Every other leftist advancement into healthcare to "help" Americans has made the industry worse. I'd rather not spend money on Israel, but that's functionally benign compared to anything a figure like El Sayed would do with the money.
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2d ago
Ditching Ukraine would cost the US the affection of a big chunk of the European political class
Do we have such a thing to lose in the first place? As a Euroskeptic, what would you point at to convince me that Europe's political class has meaningful affection for America? AFAICT they don't even like themselves.
Why do you think people care about Iran so much? I don't think anyone besides my dad has said a word about it in my IRL hearing in 6 months. I catch occasional gripes about gas, but less than a 10th as many as four years ago. No polling I've seen places it anywhere near the top of the list of issues voters care about. Why do you think this topic is going to drive millions of votes as opposed to, say, the economy or immigration?
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