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Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026

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As @gattsuru notes, enough people have been in favor of it that it has already happened at considerable scale.

I've addressed this in my response to him here

I'm MAGA. I'm not interested in a "Red Tribe" without the MAGA tendencies. Those are my tendencies. I intend to keep them, and to coordinate meanness against anyone who would deny them to me. I'm not interested in asking Blues permission to live in pursuit of my values. Why would I be?

You're welcome to keep them and in enclaves you can enforce them. But if you're unpopular then you're unpopular and in a democracy that means you don't get to run the show unless you become popular.

What should Red Tribe do, in your opinion, if the Democrats were to win an election, legalize all the immigrants, and then win the next election in a landslide? What is the prudent, reasonable, responsible action we should coordinate behind?

Become more popular, in the future don't use your political capital to do unpopular things like invading Iran, enacting retarded broad tariffs on our allies, threaten to invade our allies, spread election denial conspiracies leading to what at least is easy to sell as an insurrection and then pardon insurrectionists or hype up the Epstein hysteria and then conspicuously fail to release the files. I'm sorry but losing political power because your coalition did self destructive and unpopular shit is just democracy. I don't like that it's empowered DSA lunatics, I wish Trump had not done it but that's politics.

My project is to point out that faith in the American sociopolitical system is disastrously misplaced. I am not the person who made that true. I merely insist on pointing out that it is true, and what the obvious consequences of it being true are. Things that have happened have happened, even when them happening is highly incompatible with faith in our present system of governance.

If you don't believe in the political project of the united states then you should leave.

This was why it was actually very important to keep them from happening, and failing that, to suitably punish those responsible and set a hard precedent that they wouldn't be tolerated in the future.

Then you should be in agreement with the people who want to punish Trump as the guy who hijacked the anti-woke movement and steered it right in the dirt with his actions.

Specific, deliberate Blue lies sparked the BLM movement and killed eight thousand Black Americans in a couple years, and they'll absolutely do it again.

Backlash to BLM excesses was a factor in getting Trump a second bite at the apple. I'm trying to explain to you that the betrayal was from Trump. He sold you out to be unprecedentedly corrupt. Can you stop doing "but they're worse" in response to every criticism of Trump and the MAGA coalition? Yes, the far left is bad and has a terrible grip on the Democratic party but the far right is also bad and has a terrible grip on the Republican party, we're ping ponging back and forth because we're becoming powered almost entirely by negative polarization. You can't just point out that they suck, you have to suck less yourself too and this admin has been a total suck fest.

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