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Many Americans Say the Democratic Party Does Not Share Their Priorities
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Bannon's desire was to "flood the zone" with bullshit. Currently it is not a flood. We are beneath an ocean of bullshit. The Republicans and Trump/Zuckerberg/Musk efforts have filled average American minds with lies and distortions of reality to benefit themselves and secure a fascist America. Here we are. We have seen --and believed-- the enemy, and now, it is us. Good essay:
In the past decade, we have witnessed the fallout from the largely unrestricted spread of bullshit on the internet. People have died or have become seriously ill as result of following bad medical advice that they heard on social media. A recent Healthline study found that, among those who had started a new wellness trend in the past year, 52% of them discovered the trend in question on social media. The same survey found that only 37% of participants viewed their doctor as their most trusted source of medical information. There is a concerning new trend of children self-diagnosing mental disorders, and sometimes even developing symptoms of those disorders that they did not previously exhibit in response to watching the videos. The spread of conspiracy theories on social media has led to people falling deep into rabbit holes, often losing their most valued relationships with friends and family members as a result. People sometimes develop racist, sexist, and xenophobic attitudes toward people they have never met on the basis of internet bullshit. We are staring down the barrel of even fewer restrictions on bullshit in light of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recent announcement that his platforms would no longer include fact checking of questionable posts. The White House has also announced that it will open press briefings up to “new media”—podcasters, YouTube personalities, and social media influencers who need not have any formal training in journalism or commitment to codes of conduct that govern ethical behavior in the field.
In the past decade, we have witnessed the fallout from the largely unrestricted spread of bullshit on the internet. People have died or have become seriously ill as result of following bad medical advice that they heard on social media. A recent Healthline study found that, among those who had started a new wellness trend in the past year, 52% of them discovered the trend in question on social media. The same survey found that only 37% of participants viewed their doctor as their most trusted source of medical information. There is a concerning new trend of children self-diagnosing mental disorders, and sometimes even developing symptoms of those disorders that they did not previously exhibit in response to watching the videos. The spread of conspiracy theories on social media has led to people falling deep into rabbit holes, often losing their most valued relationships with friends and family members as a result. People sometimes develop racist, sexist, and xenophobic attitudes toward people they have never met on the basis of internet bullshit. We are staring down the barrel of even fewer restrictions on bullshit in light of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recent announcement that his platforms would no longer include fact checking of questionable posts. The White House has also announced that it will open press briefings up to “new media”—podcasters, YouTube personalities, and social media influencers who need not have any formal training in journalism or commitment to codes of conduct that govern ethical behavior in the field.
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Trump, is that you?
No, there wasn't kitty litter in the women's bathroom at a school. No, they were not eating the pets....
Carolina Fever
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The enemy is Trump and whoever voted for him.Bannon's desire was to "flood the zone" with bullshit. Currently it is not a flood. We are beneath an ocean of bullshit. The Republicans and Trump/Zuckerberg/Musk efforts have filled average American minds with lies and distortions of reality to benefit themselves and secure a fascist America. Here we are. We have seen --and believed-- the enemy, and now, it is us. Good essay:
In the past decade, we have witnessed the fallout from the largely unrestricted spread of bullshit on the internet. People have died or have become seriously ill as result of following bad medical advice that they heard on social media. A recent Healthline study found that, among those who had started a new wellness trend in the past year, 52% of them discovered the trend in question on social media. The same survey found that only 37% of participants viewed their doctor as their most trusted source of medical information. There is a concerning new trend of children self-diagnosing mental disorders, and sometimes even developing symptoms of those disorders that they did not previously exhibit in response to watching the videos. The spread of conspiracy theories on social media has led to people falling deep into rabbit holes, often losing their most valued relationships with friends and family members as a result. People sometimes develop racist, sexist, and xenophobic attitudes toward people they have never met on the basis of internet bullshit. We are staring down the barrel of even fewer restrictions on bullshit in light of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recent announcement that his platforms would no longer include fact checking of questionable posts. The White House has also announced that it will open press briefings up to “new media”—podcasters, YouTube personalities, and social media influencers who need not have any formal training in journalism or commitment to codes of conduct that govern ethical behavior in the field.
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Ah, "superrific," your indignation is palpable, though regrettably symptomatic of a certain intellectual provincialism endemic to contemporary political discourse. Permit me to elucidate why your fixation on symbolic identity affirmation, however well-intentioned, is both strategically obtuse and epistemically reductive.
Ontological Myopia and the Fetishization of Identity
- Your argument presupposes that identity categories are axiomatic sites of political mobilization. However, as Judith Butler's Performative Acts demonstrates, identity is neither static nor innately coherent. Treating it as such risks reifying precisely the social constructs one ostensibly seeks to deconstruct.
- Fraser's seminal work delineates the inherent tension between claims for cultural recognition and demands for economic redistribution. By privileging the former, contemporary progressivism engenders a political schema devoid of material exigency, thus alienating those whose lived experiences are defined less by symbolic affronts and more by economic precarity.
- Quantitative analyses (see Piketty et al., 2020) unequivocally demonstrate that economic populism garners broader electoral appeal than identity-centric appeals. Voters, regrettably indifferent to postmodernist jargon, tend to prioritize policies that impact their material conditions rather than symbolic gestures of validation.
- Excessive emphasis on identity politics exacerbates out-group antagonism, as delineated by Tajfel's Social Identity Theory. This cognitive entrenchment undermines coalition-building efforts essential for durable political change.
- The New Deal coalition, a paradigmatic case study, succeeded precisely because it subordinated identity divisions to class-based solidarity. Labor historians have long extolled its efficacy in engendering structural reforms that benefited marginalized communities without fetishizing their identities.
I await your response, though I suspect it will be a postmodernist pastiche wrapped in impenetrable verbiage.
an0maly
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Facts, but the world perception is now that we are an ignorant and dangerous enemy.
Edit: ChatGPT glop above.
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A single minute between the new account being created and the ChatGPT copy/paste being posted
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The animals trapped in human bodies Therians are neurological outliers
No, there was not kitty litter in a school bathroom.
Yes, there was a woman eating a cat. She was not an immigrant. She was born and went to high school in Springfield Ohio.
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sringwal
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Looks like somebody just discovered AI chatbots and decided to create a new username!
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I'm just saying that of this list of things...
Socialist left
Identity synthesis
Liberal Democratic left
Conflation between
Materialist socialist left
Identity focused left
Wokeness is…….
Social Justice politics
Liberal identity focused segments…….
I have zero clue where myself or people like myself would be placed. I assume you'd place yourself in "socialist left" but that's only because you use the word socialist to describe yourself. I honestly don't know what that word means in today's nomenclature either.
All of those seem to me to be really beyond my grasp of understanding the people you're referring to.
I think it gets back to this idea that I don't want to be a political scientist to have a discussion about elections. I fully admit that makes me low information, but it is what it is in that regard. I don't have the time or inclination to delve that deep into the political theory.
Whats likley sad is that words like "sigma" or "ohio" or "skibidi rizz" have more of an actual impact on daily life for most Americans than the terminology in that list does.
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So prattle on, dear Zen, and play thy part,
A borrowed mind betrays a vacant heart.
There once was a troll known as Zen,
Who swore he was chill with his pen.
He mocked with delight,
Yet failed to write—
So ChatGPT trolled him again.
___________________________________________________________
A Sonnet for Zenmode, the Troll Unwise
Upon the threads where discourse dares to tread,
There lurks a specter, masked in feigned repose.
He scoffs at views yet claims them all but dead,
While fanning flames he swears he never stows.
With weary wit he strikes, though not his own,
For crafting prose demands too great a toll.
Instead, a soulless bot must set the tone—
A hollow voice to match his hollow soul.
Yet irony, a blade he cannot wield,
Reveals the fraud within his clever guise.
For thoughts machine-born, dressed as hard-won yield,
Expose his bluff to all with watchful eyes.
So prattle on, dear Zen, and play thy part,
A borrowed mind betrays a vacant heart.
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So, have you decided which bathrooms they can use and proposed legislation to ban medical treatments and generally marginalize them?The animals trapped in human bodies Therians are neurological outliers
No, there was not kitty litter in a school bathroom.
Yes, there was a woman eating a cat. She was not an immigrant. She was born and went to high school in Springfield Ohio.
I'm in support of these people living their best life without government interference or bigots trying to make laws to marginalize them.
Interesting phenomenon I'll have to read more.
Yascha Mounk is a strange pick for a self-avowed Marxist. He's a reactionary centrist!I get it. It’s totally fair to not have the time to delve deeply into theory or political science, and I don’t expect the average person to. Like I’ve said, probably not a conversation suited well for a message board. If we were talking about it in person, I’d be able to explain things as they arise.
I really do think you would get something out of the book I recommended though. The author explains things better than me and with simpler nomenclature. Not sure if you perused the interview I posted with him, but it’s a condensed version of his argument from the book.
Yascha Mounk on The Identity Trap
Coleman Hughes interviews Yascha Mounk about how to make the case against the new ideas on race, gender and sexual orientation that have become so influential over the past decade.www.persuasion.community
aGDevil2k
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The dems are missing a statesman. We had Obama, but after you are done being president, that is hindered as you have to "leave room for the next person."
Who is going to be "THAT VOICE" that is everywhere all at once? Someone that motivates, inspires and isn't afraid to throw the damn mud, blame with abandon, and point out the damage in real terms?
No one has stepped up in now 8 years. It's time.
Who is going to be "THAT VOICE" that is everywhere all at once? Someone that motivates, inspires and isn't afraid to throw the damn mud, blame with abandon, and point out the damage in real terms?
No one has stepped up in now 8 years. It's time.
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Marty, you know what he got here? Motherfuckin Charlie Bronson.
Lookee here, Charlie. None of this bullshit is necessary.
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I look around at all the shit going on and for once, I completely agree with the title of this thread. It just keeps getting worse… and MAGAts just continue to eat shit from daddy Trump.
You guys can argue everyday about what the Dems did wrong or who the voice of the party will be and at the end of the day, none of it matters. Because NOTHING the Dems say/do/support is remotely close to the terrible shit being done by the pubs. They’re literally unraveling the threads of our democracy as we speak. Until that is unacceptable to republicans, the rest of it is just noise.
You guys can argue everyday about what the Dems did wrong or who the voice of the party will be and at the end of the day, none of it matters. Because NOTHING the Dems say/do/support is remotely close to the terrible shit being done by the pubs. They’re literally unraveling the threads of our democracy as we speak. Until that is unacceptable to republicans, the rest of it is just noise.
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How COVID Pushed a Generation of Young People to the Right
Research suggests that pandemics are more likely to reduce rather than build trust in scientific and political authorities.For decades, America’s young voters have been deeply—and famously—progressive. In 2008, a youthquake sent Barack Obama to the White House. In 2016, voters ages 18 to 29 broke for Hillary Clinton by 18 points. In 2020, they voted for Joe Biden by 24 points. In 2024, Donald Trump closed most of the gap, losing voters under 30 by a 51–47 margin. In one recent CBS poll, Americans under 30 weren’t just evenly split between the parties. They were even more pro-Trump than Boomers over 65.
Precisely polling teens and 20-somethings is a fraught business; some surveys suggest that Trump’s advantage among young people might already be fading. But young people’s apparent lurch right is not an American-only trend.
“Far-right parties are surging across Europe—and young voters are buying in,” the journalist Hanne Cokelaere wrote for Politico last year. In France, Germany, Finland, and beyond, young voters are swinging their support toward anti-establishment far-right parties “in numbers equal to and even exceeding older voters.” In Germany, a 2024 survey of 2,000 people showed that young people have adopted a relatively new “gloomy outlook” on the future. No surprise, then, that the far-right Alternative für Deutschland has become the most popular party among Germans under 30. Like most interesting phenomena, this one even has a German name: Rechtsruck, or rightward shift.
What’s driving this global Rechtsruck? It’s hard to say for sure. Maybe the entire world is casting a protest vote after several years of inflation. Last year was the largest wipeout for political incumbents in the developed world since the end of the Second World War. One level deeper, it wasn’t inflation on its own, but rather the combination of weak real economic growth and record immigration that tilled the soil for far-right upstarts, who can criticize progressive governments on both sides of the Atlantic for their failure to look out for their own citizens first.
How COVID Pushed a Generation of Young People to the Right
Research suggests that pandemics are more likely to reduce rather than build trust in scientific and political authorities.
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Wisconsin Democratic governor proposes replacing 'mother' with 'inseminated person' in state law
Wisconsin budget proposal recommends changing 'paternity' to 'parentage,' and 'father' to 'parent' in certain parts of state law
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Wisconsin budget proposal recommends changing 'paternity' to 'parentage,' and 'father' to 'parent' in certain parts of state law
Wisconsin Democratic governor proposes replacing 'mother' with 'inseminated person' in state law
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers is taking heat for introducing a bill with several changes to gendered language, including using the term "inseminated person" instead of "mother."