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				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 2, 2026
			
		

	




	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I have a hard time explaining why this line of reasoning just does not land at all with progressives. To me it seems like a slam dunk. What am I missing?




Approximately no one is principled, no liberal really believes in "equality" the way you think of it. Soft bigotry of low expectations for the non-agentic noble savages.


I think the high-minded legal term here is antisubordination, as opposed to anticlassification.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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"I put a foreign country above the country I swore to serve" is good enough for me that they are incapable of following the Constitution, but I am aware that too many people disagree. Those people are wrong.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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the oath clause is pretty much pointless decoration, yeah?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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"Hot dogs are five cents cheaper"


"Make your own $20 burrito"


Good advice and true statements, unfortunately, do not win votes. As attack ad soundbites go, this one was probably the least obvious in the moment, though.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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have you seen these representatives in the last couple decades


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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Or have things meaningfully gotten more brazen over the past year or two?




The Trump shitcoin and the Qatari plane are new, and the two examples I've heard cited most.


The drug trafficker pardons were also supposedly linked to some payout, I think? Haven't really paid that much attention though.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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"immediately remove from office any people that profess their adherence to a foreign power over their actual constituents and this Constitution" really should've been an obvious rule to put in there, and yet, they missed it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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this is apparently an inexperienced Trump pick in Michael Whatley




as a resident of north carolina, my response upon hearing his name was "literally who?"


No debate, everything seemed to be attack ads on Cooper's record on releasing criminals, hardly anything positive anywhere. Cooper of course has decades of name recognition to build on, absolute shoe-in.




And then people can joke about how once Mississippi got a little educated they stopped being red.




oh god the idiots will be insufferable.




Pick another protein? I'd rather pick another senator" is the best political ad of the year.




ok yeah that was good.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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Voters are very clear that they don't like trans people participating in their preferred sports, but in general they actually trust Democrats more on the overall topic!




Voters are inconsistent and nonsensical is hardly news.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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The public's mood will almost certainly be let's just move on and forget the last 4 years ever happened.




it's Trump, not something easy to forget like a year of suspended civil rights and riots and extreme progressive racism.


a significant subset of the public and a massive supermajority of content creators will want to see him behind bars.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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Does it suit the Democrats to give him the boot, though?




they've been trying for 10 years and to backtrack now for political shitbag gamesmanship reasons might be its own failure mode according to their supporters.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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polls are braindead and useless but yeah overindexing here is never a good idea.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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i would read a whole book about trump's quirky language. it's such a funny signoff.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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made me slightly more optimistic about direct democracy initiatives, which feels like a dangerous mood. excellent way for the representatives to avoid having to take an actual stand, kind of like with making abortion a state ballot issue too.


i'm sure Colorado's state government will find a way to mess it up and commit a bunch of bigotry in the process.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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not sure how you shake off the abortion albatross though




you can get away with leaving abortion to the states and doing some mealymouthed "moderation" on it.


immigration's tougher. good luck getting bleeding hearts to stop that, short of the meme about providing special visas to huge numbers of Latinas and pretty East Asians.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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i think they are, like most people, constitutionally incapable of seeing the logs in their own eyes, and see no possible downsides to what they see as progress.


if such a downside becomes apparent (like BLM's reversal on bodycams), suddenly they've always been at war with Eastasia.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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there is no logical way to allocate limited national campaign funds to candidates, and funds would be wasted on helping someone win who didn't need any extra advertising.




This ignores that parties aren't perfectly logical and the Iron Law of Bureaucracies.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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the whole 2020/21 debacle driving every left-of-center into completely batshit racism means that anyone to the right of AOC quite reasonably distrusts the "but we were all crazy, shouldn't you just forget?" bullshit that they all try to pull.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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is a mindset that modern western nations have no desire to go back to.




and that's why they won't survive the next 50 years.


i'm still relatively optimistic about the US but Europe as Europe has existed for 1000 or 1500 years has been dying for 80 years now, and has seemingly no interest in recovering.


fascinating lesson for future civilizations. tl;dw "don't half-ass dominance."


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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My guess is he’s that type that still has a big chip on his shoulder




He's 5'6 and did research about Arab women will have lower birthweight babies with non-Arab fathers.