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Republican overconfidence

Wow.. Just like it was said from the school yard bully that was giving wedgies, until someone came and gave the bully (the DNC) a shampoo in the toilet with his own panties wrapped around his ears.
I suspect that you all need to learn to reap what you have sewn for the last decade.
WE are incharge now. I hope you like the taste of toilet water. We don't want you to be dehydrated, we care after all.
WE are in charge of nothing. Dem/Rep big dogs don't give a shit about you and me.
Opposite sides of the same coin.
 
I didn't say that that he was. What I meant was that anyone with a bit of power, in either party, doesn't care about anything but maintaining, increasing, or retaining power.
Trump has a clear populist message. I think his picks mostly reflect that message, especially the ones who have no history of accumulating and using government power.
 
This is one my the biggest critiques I have of DJT. I won't sit here and debate which party is better on crime. They are both awful. With the push of Kim Kardashian and other pro-criminal instigators Trump signed an atrocious get out of jail free bill. I thought he was terribly weak on crime and in fact he pardoned convicted murderers. I think the police in this country are extremely weak and ineffective and criminals are treated with kid gloves. Maybe there is some room to maneuver on marijuana type stuff, but for other offenses no bueno.
 
To do so would suggest they have any equity in the messaging to begin with.

And I don’t think they do. Nick Fuentes is a kook and I just don’t buy into the notion that politicians should feel obliged to denounce things that random people say.

I would think differently if he did have any equity in it - if it was said by somebody on their campaign or something like that.
It's not just Nick Fuentes and it's not just online--it's started to spill into the real world.

 
I liked your post, even though I agree with the premise.
The 'Republican ' Party has no standards or redeeming social values to distinguish it from the discredited wreckage of the Democrat party. Today, the democrats have lost the Presidency, House, Senate and the Supreme Court has the most originalist component in decades.
If the Trump populist coalition chose to do so, and founded a third party, both of the 'main' parties would dry up and blow away.
If they broke away as a third party the Democrats would immediately be the power party. Like day one.
 
It's not just Nick Fuentes and it's not just online--it's started to spill into the real world.

I love when they throw the statistics of that stuff in. Fuentes post was viewed 90 million times. How many of those views do you think were from outraged women directed to the post by other outraged women? And if you are a Russian or Chinese bot farm looking to cause the most chaos in the US, what better way to do that than pushing a gender war between men and women. Women saying 4b (and there is some pretty heinous stuff said in the comments of that, check out women's aligned sites on Reddit right now...) and men spouting back with rapey language. We have some schools saying kids were doing it and those are the "real world" examples. I could just as easily say that the histrionic reaction from movements like 4B already claimed a body after the election (the woman who killed her father).

Finally, a term increasing 4600 percent in one week could be one person saying it and 46 people talking about it. 90% of that discussion could be saying, "Can you believe this idiot" and they would all still be counted as a rise on the phrase being used and they would also be a drop in the vast bucket of the online world.

Articles like the CNN one want this to be a thing so they continue to amplify it. Taking and turning the parties into men vs. women is the ****ing stupidest idea on the planet.
 
I love when they throw the statistics of that stuff in. Fuentes post was viewed 90 million times. How many of those views do you think were from outraged women directed to the post by other outraged women? And if you are a Russian or Chinese bot farm looking to cause the most chaos in the US, what better way to do that than pushing a gender war between men and women. Women saying 4b (and there is some pretty heinous stuff said in the comments of that, check out women's aligned sites on Reddit right now...) and men spouting back with rapey language. We have some schools saying kids were doing it and those are the "real world" examples. I could just as easily say that the histrionic reaction from movements like 4B already claimed a body after the election (the woman who killed her father).

Finally, a term increasing 4600 percent in one week could be one person saying it and 46 people talking about it. 90% of that discussion could be saying, "Can you believe this idiot" and they would all still be counted as a rise on the phrase being used and they would also be a drop in the vast bucket of the online world.

Articles like the CNN one want this to be a thing so they continue to amplify it. Taking and turning the parties into men vs. women is the ****ing stupidest idea on the planet.
I, too, found that weird--as in a 4600% increase on a base 1 is how relevant? But I do find it potentially useful to track that stuff. I had no idea there were organizations out there that did that. I didn't post the article for that, though; I posted it for evidence of a report that this is happening in the real world, not just online. And it wasn't just school kids saying that--it was teachers and school administrator, wasn't it?

Re 4B, I have mocked it and think it is ridiculous histrionics, like you say. But there is ZERO moral equivalence between women saying they aren't going to have sex with men anymore and "rapey language." None.

I guess at this point, I'm not sure why we can't have broad agreement that things like this are wrong. Kinda like the Palestinian protestors targeting Jews and blocking them from class or blocking roads. Did it happen so much that it was really an issue of national importance? No, it was rare and limited pretty much to big cities or the odd college campus. But if it happens once, that's too much, and that atmosphere was enabled by those on the left and is troublesome on its own. And you had real leaders, like John Fetterman, standing up and speaking out against it--even though he didn't have any "equity" or responsibility for the conduct. That's what leaders do. They speak out and they stand up even to people who are in their tribe.

Anyway, maybe I shouldn't have linked this conduct--which my neighbor is really, really concerned about (he has two daughters)--and the concept of Republican overreach and overconfidence. But I find them of a piece--the crowing and football spiking seems to be a bit excessive right now among Trump supporters, and I think that kind of thing enables stuff like this. And if there is no blowback for it from the leaders on the right? Well, that clearly enables it.
 
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