Stellula
2mo ago
I hate blaming the refs, but it is extremely annoying that the moderators want to """fact check""" Trump but not Kamala.
Stellula
2mo ago
I think the tempering is because he was shot in the face about 2 months ago.
People are trying to kill him. He avoided death by about a centimeter.
I think that’s what caused the mood shift.
0% tax rate for people with 3 or more children.
The ultra wealthy would game this to pay no taxes, which would also make 3+ families a sort of status indicator.
The main goal is making it high status to have kids. It honestly seems like this is already starting.
On immediate material things: tax breaks for “pro kid” businesses. If you are a restaurant, bar, coffee shop, etc. with a dedicated area for children to play, you get a tax break.
A paramilitary force to aggressively remove drug addicts and anti socials from child spaces like parks and playgrounds.
Death penalty for child abusers and child traffickers (as a social signal that we care about kids)
I will say until the end of time that the most politically brilliant thing Biden could have done was to immediately pardon everybody involved in J6, commit to blanket pardoning Trump for any stupid bullshit anybody tried, and leaned hard into national unity.
If he had done that, even with the rest of the woke bullshit, I’d probably be campaigning for him right now. Instead we got pseudo angry grandpa, endless lawfare, and more endless division presented as unity.
Stellula
2mo ago
Are there any other industries that AI has really had an effect on aside from coding and graphic design? Search maybe?
I use it daily for these tasks and I think most people like me do, but are there other industries like this?
Stellula
3mo ago
Do you realize that Elon Musk has absolute domain expertise in several, unrelated engineering disciplines (aerospace, rocket engine design, electric vehicle design and integration, and manufacturing for all of these), and that before he got started in his current arc he had domain expertise in several other unrelated engineering and regulatory disciples (software and banking regulation)?
Stellula
3mo ago
She’s is to white women what The Beatles are to redditors/college freshmen men.
Imagine no religion
Its easy if you try
Wow poetry.
Stellula
3mo ago
I think you answered your own question.
The republicans don’t do a good job of communicating this.
Look at people like Elon Musk, though. You can see about the time he started believing this (about when his son was victimized by it), and the effect it had on him. I choose him because he is very public, but I think every parent has friends who have gone through the same transition.
It’s the conservative version of getting “woke” (the original meaning before it became an insult - basically becoming aware of something which radically shifted your perception in one direction)
Stellula
3mo ago
For those wondering this is from a poem called “Tommy” by Rudyard Kipling:
(This link has better formatting: https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_tommy.htm)
I went into a public 'ouse to get a pint o' beer, The publican 'e up an' sez, "We serve no red-coats here." The girls be'ind the bar they laughed an' giggled fit to die, I outs into the street again an' to myself sez I: O it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, go away"; But it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins," when the band begins to play The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play, O it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins," when the band begins to play.
I went into a theatre as sober as could be, They gave a drunk civilian room, but 'adn't none for me; They sent me to the gallery or round the music-'alls, But when it comes to fightin', Lord! they'll shove me in the stalls! For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, wait outside"; But it's "Special train for Atkins" when the trooper's on the tide The troopship's on the tide, my boys, the troopship's on the tide, O it's "Special train for Atkins" when the trooper's on the tide.
Yes, makin' mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep Is cheaper than them uniforms, an' they're starvation cheap. An' hustlin' drunken soldiers when they're goin' large a bit Is five times better business than paradin' in full kit. Then it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' Tommy, 'ow's yer soul?" But it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll The drums begin to roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll, O it's "Thin red line of 'eroes," when the drums begin to roll.
We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you; An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints, Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints; While it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' Tommy, fall be'ind," But it's "Please to walk in front, sir," when there's trouble in the wind There's trouble in the wind, my boys, there's trouble in the wind, O it's "Please to walk in front, sir," when there's trouble in the wind.
You talk o' better food for us, an' schools, an' fires, an' all: We'll wait for extry rations if you treat us rational. Don't mess about the cook-room slops, but prove it to our face The Widow's Uniform is not the soldier-man's disgrace. For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' Chuck him out, the brute!" But it's "Saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot; An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please; An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool - you bet that Tommy sees!
Stellula
3mo ago
It’s also a believable story for a coming of age story. My wife and I both read his book, and had to ask ourselves if that story was really in it or not.
Stellula
3mo ago
This is exactly what happened in Canada during the trucker protests, and to some degree what has been happening to American conservatives since Trump was elected.
While memes aren’t explicitly illegal in the US yet, we have thrown at least one meme artist in prison: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglass_Mackey
I suspect that one of the reasons that the right isn’t memeing as well as they were in 2016 is because of this.
I also wonder if the person who started the JD Vance couch meme will go to prison or not (I doubt it).
Stellula
3mo ago
Is there a way to ask this legitimately though?
I’m actually just curious if the undertone isn’t coming through in translation. It seems totally reasonable that a non native English speaker would interpret what Trump is saying here literally and not understand the implied meaning.
Stellula
3mo ago
It’s: submit to us our your opponents will mutilate and sexually abuse your children.
For parents, this is an extremely compelling argument.
Stellula
3mo ago
Is English your first language?
That very clearly reads as him attacking her for choosing what group to identify with based on convenience.
Stellula
3mo ago
Oh other than the 1 hour absolutely hostile interview he did with 2 people who despise him and a crowd of people who probably despise him?
That's a big deal, and that is the exact type of thing I would like to see Harris do.
Stellula
3mo ago
I really wonder if your random normie dem voter is actually familiar with the depravity on display on LoTT all the time.
I doubt my Dad knows who the clothing thief guy is.
Stellula
3mo ago
The reaction to JD Vance has been hilarious to me. There was a clip from some speech that Tucker Carlson was giving during the convention and he said (paraphrasing): "Here's you know how JD Vance is one of the good guys: all the bad guys in Washington DC, who want to keep you in permanent wars, that want to ship your jobs overseas, and that hate you, your children, and your way of life, those people all hate JD Vance. They're furious that he's anywhere near power."
Tucker Carlson...I don't know, but the reaction to JD Vance from all of the worst people that I see on twitter/reddit/etc. does seem to match up with this. This joke (very mean spirited, be warned) from twitter sums it up pretty well: https://x.com/grandoldmemes/status/1817666334823518436
Mainstream republican votes don't think JD Vance is "weird", they would look at you like a weirdo if you ever made a joke about JD Vance and couches, they certainly don't think that JD Vance should be inspecting the wares of every single vendor at every single gun show he has ever attended and doing background checks on all of them before being in the same building, etc.
They like JD Vance. The reaction validates him to me.
Stellula
3mo ago
Because it works. “Donald Trump will end democracy” or “Donald Trump will make woman’s healthcare illegal” is something I hear almost verbatim from my lib friends.
Stellula
3mo ago
You see her walk to the counter, get some hot pads, then walk to the stove and get something, then take it to the sink and turn on the water.
When she starts cowering down when the cop points his gun at her, she no longer has it, and later after he has shot her in the head and he is doing something to her dead body, you see that the sink is still running.
What do our think is the something that she got off of the stove, or why might she have turned on the water?
You guys are seriously reaching with this.
She walks to the stove, turns it off, then carries the pot to the sink and it sounds like she dumps out the water and starts rinsing out the pot. You can hear the water running. In fact, at 16:20 here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=HFun2GydGyU you can even see that the sink is still running.
At 28:18 here in that video you can see that she has set the pot down in the sink, and when she cowers down after he starts pointing his gun at her, she only has the pot holders in her hands.
Stellula
3mo ago
Just want to echo your sentiments.
Especially during the Kavanaugh hearings, and then the VP debate with “I’m speaking….Im speaking.”
She comes across as a bitter “cool wine aunt” who doesn’t understand her place in the world.
Recently "hell" and "damn" have become a way for politicians to signal anger. It's really annoying.
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