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1mo ago
Trump 1 started it, and Trump 2 finished the job: the PMC wine mom class has become about 2/3 as radicalized as the average right con voter, finally reaching striking distance of rhetorical parity.
Eg, they talk like they want unlimited jihad on the rednecks, death to all MAGots, let 10000 red camellias gracefully drop from the stem, etc. , all the shit I've been hearing from every Con that listened to too much O'Reilly and Limbaugh for the past couple decades.
I don't think people really understand how much bile civility politics was holding back; how much the Obama "They go low we go high" neolib loser meme had a choke hold on the normie dems. Them shaking of the illusion that the Right side of the Cons were playing the same game can only help them, given you can still get elected twice while being as crass and declase as Trump if you style on them enough from the podium.
They still have their fancy talking schmoozers who don't believe in anything, maybe they can get some people throwing bombs into the crowd who also don't believe in anything.
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1mo ago
It's interesting to what extent this is purely a luxury practice of the managerial class; how much of it is MBA's who NEED to see all their reports in their little cubicles from their fancy desk in order for their dick to get hard.
It's not getting solved either; even if WFH is cheaper and equally productive, the people who have been selected to decide how the economy actually is regardless of the facts have decided "My first priority is feeling like a big business man doing big man business".
The strivers would always congregate in order to get ahead, but the other 80% of those who just need to go along for getting along purposes would probably want to live walking distance from their family instead of paying 100000000000$ a second for a studio.
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1mo ago
I don't think people here understand how totally goulish "Mother of two shot through window of car as she tries to escape", "ER nurse who loved his dog and had a concealed carry permit shot in back X times by ice after his weapon was seized trying to defend woman", "Small child in cute hat taken into ICE van, has to be forcibly released by judicial order." looks.
You can look at the images on your screen, and no amount of "But the context! She was a radical! He was a terrorist who scuffled with the cops a week before! Little bro was illegal!" is gonna matter. It's the vibes that count here, and the vibes are rancid.
I might put something on the main culture war thread next week, but as a practice draft of that comment: This is the Worst Thing To Happen in optics since Iraq, a war so bad yet so important to the cultural right it got a black guy elected president and made a generation more atheist and more leftist than anything since the great depression.
If the rightists don't learn from the past, it's gonna happen again.
I'm sorry for the late response; but:
My first introduction to vulgar conservatism was setting in a work truck listing to christian radio with my boss and getting ocasional asides about how "Obama is a traitor to the country who should be shot" and also how that same logic applied to all other democrats, who were trying to kill every christian in the country by letting the terrorists win, etc etc etc.
It may not have been that bad where you were, but it was that bad where I was, and also in most other places. Why do you think the prolls chose Trump, a generational hater, over bush, a replacement level neocon?
It wasn't for the policy, it was for the venom.
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