We have a national narcissism crisis.

Fox News will and they will repeat it.

A lot of them are completely brainwashed by Fox News. It’s their primary form of entertainment. They will die believing the propaganda. They’re a lost cause unfortunately.

Putin pioneered this in Russia. He funded protests against himself to play agent provocateur and make anyone who is against him look foolish.

I watched a lady who studies dictators on a Wired video recently and she said about 30% of the population believes in dictatorship as an effective way to govern. She explained it as people who are generally dictatorial in their life. My way or the highway type people. Tyrannical microcontrollers. Helicopter parents, etc. These people seem pretty common in my experience so it made sense. And considering about 30% of the population voted for Trump and 30% voted for Harris and the rest didn’t vote it makes even more sense.

It’s the politicians job to get votes.

Democrats are complicit in this too. They refuse to engage with viable alternatives so they allow this to happen so that when the country is in crisis they can step in and offer nothing but level heads. Until people get upset again then they step back into the shadows to allow Republicans to do their fearmongering.

The first part is purely conjecture of their intent. It is irrelevant and unknowable. The facts are they leaked this to a reporter. They should be held accountable based on the facts, not their intent.

The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy [for the rich.]

We have to organize at the community level and do it without all the shadowfunding the fascists have.

Bernie is the only leftist in the Senate. So until that changes it will be impossible to move beyond him.

It already happened. I vaguely remember something my boss would tell me about him being gay or something like that. Idk it was some completely made up horseshit.

Walz seems like a good guy but I think anyone associated with Harris campaign is tainted and rightfully so.

Brother, than can always drain it even more.

It can be systematically deconstructed and defunded until it no longer works and is non-functional and frustrating to use and then that used as an excuse to eliminate it.

No hurry. Rome is just burning. Take your time. Don’t forget to consider how your actions will impact your investments first, however. That’s what’s most important after all. We want you guys to be completely comfortable. No worries, we’ll take the bullets while you figure things out and come up with a plan of action.

You want to argue that armchair psychology is more important in this situation than condemning doing a Nazi salute?

Autism =/= fascism or even being an insensitive moron. Autistic people are often highly sensitive to such topics.

You’re painting autistic people in a bad light. There is nothing about autism that excuses such behavior.

Minor clarifications aren’t the end of the world. The left is fine. Stop being sensitive

Not apologizing and then immediately giving a speech to AfD about not being ashamed of “cultural purity” beg to differ. Either way, him being an actual Nazi is irrelevant. There are 2 options:

1. He is an actual Nazi and believes in the ideology, which makes him a fucking Nazi. It should be noted that his grandfather was an extremely anti-semitic politician who moved to South Africa because he admired Apartheid…

2. He did it as a troll. In which case, at a POTUS inauguration he decided to behave like a teenage boy as the richest man in the world and make light of something that saw 6 million Jews slaughtered and remains as a threat to the security of Jews around the world to this day. Which makes him a colossal piece of shit.

Probably should just drop the term altogether then. It basically implies that being a moron is somehow virtuous.