Brave Little Hitachi Wand

The customer is always right, especially when they’re left.

They know that any charming or well funded democrat needs to be shat on years in advance of any presidential ambitions in order to make whatever groaning pork mound ends up on their ticket stands a chance

You do not recant? If my testimony cannot move you, it is doubtful that you yearn to accept a contradiction, though it pleases you to pretend it.

I have forsaken a friend of over twenty years on these issues. I have made myself and my family immigrants among the English, all because I have known for years that America was fated for fascism. Still I do not say all Americans are Nazis.

If you brainlessly admit no nuance into the matter, why say anything at all? Better to remain silent and sneer at those less fortunate, like a fucking nazi.

Shiggles, the way you said this makes it sound like you’re calling every American in America a nazi. I doubt whether you intended this, but that is the reading people are responding to.

They are responding to a heinously stupid stance. I hope and trust you will see this.

I am an American who has been boycotting America as an immigrant elsewhere for the last 4 years. I had the understanding, privilege, and nerve to know all of this was coming down the pipe and to act accordingly.

Most Americans are not Nazis. The electoral system is not only systematically, but also in specific regulatory and monetary senses, skewed in the direction of Nazis. This has been an issue arguably since the Powell Memo half a century ago, but the roots of this poison go back all the way to before the country was an official entity.

It’s a shame, too. If “states rights” ended up being the fatal flaw in a neo-Confederate coup attempt, that would be just desserts.

I was writing in the midst of a morning torpor, and could not think how to put such a fine point on it. You’re spot on.

I don’t want to discourage you, she seems like a worthy candidate. It’s this “even if they did nothing” talk that grabs me. The average dem voter is so accustomed to weakness that we’re starting to sound like a battered partner.

Please understand that they still will cheat if they can, because it’s more fun for them that way

More “survived a punch” than “won a fight”

I don’t think it’s conspiracism territory when you have specific people/corporations with definite short to mid-term goals that are concrete and realistic. Elites hate not controlling mass media, been that way since movable type. If we went back to having town criers they’d pass anti-shouting laws.

It’s almost like billionaires buy media outlets for a reason

Propaganda is OP, really can’t nerfed hard enough to change the meta

He did warn us that we’d get tired of winning.

We used to, but we still do

Curse of eloquence. I always know how to phrase things trenchantly, but I’m deeply ineffectual

Put on a green hat and plunge the toilet

I meant to write optimal, sorry.

The problem with trying to sway the GOP is that right now each one of them is about as charming as a poultry farm, and you need some charisma to build an oppositional faction within the party. If you were talking about a Schwarzenegger-led “normalcy” caucus we’d be cooking, but the current rogue’s gallery is as dull as dishwater and half as palatable.

It’s not an optional strategy even though it feels like it should be. With this kind of animal you either go tit for tat or scorched earth.

If I mention the Floyd protests are we going to start splitting hairs about what makes a protest vs a riot?

Charitably, it could just be kind of a fuck it, we ball energy