corman
9d ago
Yes, I believe the Deep State tried to have him killed. My first thought after Biden's disastrous debate performance was that they would attempt to do so. Way too much was at stake for them to not even attempt it.
corman
9d ago
They tried to kill him so obviously they consider him a threat to their power.
corman
10d ago
100% this. It's social pressure designed to wear you down so you grudgingly accept the woke madness America voted to unshackle itself from. You won and you have a mandate, act like it.
corman
10d ago
The latter is a good problem to have, even if you're chasing after increasingly marginal edges with each additional dollar.
Only if it's not also in direct conflict with your "get billionaire funding out of politics!" messaging.
corman
11d ago
And, although she lost, I'm not sure you can say it was badly spent. As stupid as it is that paying Beyonce to fart in your direction can make voters want to vote for you, if you're flush with cash and you think it'll help, why not? What else would the campaign spend it on? Yet more clueless college grads to run social media accounts and spam Reddit with Kamala memes?
This is glossing over the miserable optics of paying (out of touch) celebrities to be your friends. Of course this wasn't known prior to the election results but it's another count amongst many in which the democratic are currently a laughingstock.
corman
20d ago
Actually, Harris supporters are garbage.
And this is the level of discourse you're inviting here.
corman
3mo ago
The better attack line against Democrats now is that they're just kind of stupid.
I also prefer this line. It's also impossible not to reflect on the state of rhetoric;
ur weird
ur stupid tho
corman
3mo ago
That’s a bad thing, that you shouldn’t accept. If native Americans / Brits don’t participate, either someone else will or your entire nation will suffer. That is my point.
Would you tell this to jews who were offered the choice to collaborate with nazis?
corman
3mo ago
You're a 21st century aristocrat expounding on the idea that you wouldn't get on with 16th century outlaw bikers. This is not the argument you think it is.
corman
3mo ago
Literally who cares what anyone else thinks. If society at large is having a masculinity crisis that likely includes many men who speak on TheMotte. Average testosterone levels have dropped dramatically since the 1980s. Frequent time sitting at computers does us no favors in this regard. Taking up a martial art is one of the best things a man can do to counteract this trend. Learning to be cool-headed in direct physical confrontation goes a long way toward establishing an emotional base for further success.
corman
3mo ago
Because there are fundamentally different optics for the two of them. They're competing for the office of the presidency, a position in which it helps to have a fearsome reputation among your enemies. Trump plowing through women is a sign of strength and vigor, moral arguments notwithstanding. Kamala sucking dick for clout makes her sound incompetent and submissive. These are not Commander In Chief qualities.
corman
4mo ago
And now we get to gleefully hammer home the point that Dems are going to nominate for the position of Commander In Chief a casting couch girl. Any man with an ounce of testosterone will be viscerally repelled by the image of their Executive on her knees under a mahogany desk.
corman
4mo ago
OP is almost certainly not a boomercon and her writing style is a near exact match for rdrama's favorite reddit mod Bardfinn or ex-Mottizen Impassionata.
corman
4mo ago
I can only describe this sentiment as a serious game theory L for red tribe.
corman
4mo ago
I say this with love TW, histrionic breakdowns of any sort are an invitation for the wolves to circle. They embolden your enemies, an indication that their needling is effective. I don't know if we're tugging on the same side of the rope here but there's enough in your writing that reminds me of myself and should I ever encounter a new article of yours in the wild again I will read the whole damn thing even if only to humor that connection.
corman
4mo ago
We're operating on the oppressed/oppressor paradigm now bud, turnabout is fair play.
corman
4mo ago
Meanwhile, in America - show up, pay taxes, get a job, and learn to cheer or boo the Cowboys depending on where you live, and welcome to America. Pass the burger. We even threw on some veggie ones for Vivek and Priya even though I'd never eat any.
This is like a 2024 neoliberal Leave It To Beaver headcanon of race relations in America.
corman
4mo ago
It's beneath my dignity to be manipulated. Thinking empty things isn't thinking.
Well said.
corman
4mo ago
and to go full old man
If it makes you feel any better, due to an unprecedented general decline in IQ and the attendant competency crisis, the old man complaining about people being dumber and society getting worse is looking less like a grump and more like a leader these days.
corman
5mo ago
Democrats cry wolf about a lot of things. But not Trump.
The lesson of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" is that it doesn't matter if the wolf has arrived, the boy has repeatedly abused his responsibility and fostered the conditions for a disaster.
At a certain threshold (we've crossed it!) any villager who comes when the lad calls is a sucker and if the town is ruined by this convergence of circumstances the boy is at fault.
Any self-respecting game theorist would be a fool to heed Blue Media's wailing and gnashing again.
corman
5mo ago
Overall, if in an intellectual debate space like this one somebody can unapologetically assert that he dislikes women when they argue with him, I'd say that's pretty suggestive that many men are uncomfortable facing the possibility of being intellectually bested by a girl.
Or rather that the experience of arguing with women is, among men, a universally recognized miserable time and bad idea.
corman
5mo ago
Every single metric you listed as being "incredible" right now is material and even that is only pertinent to the economic elite. Wage earner's buying power is going down and they are uninterested in your exploding portfolio.
You don't understand Trump voter's social grievances. All you think about is number go up. This election is bigger than that.
corman
5mo ago
It baffles you because none of the politicians you support are likable, they're nakedly predatory and contemptuous of the plebs. Blues are struggling against the fact that they're squares and stiffs. Tomato's screed reads as "dear subhuman filth" does. The online right have been using the sentiment as a recruiting tool for years.
It's /r/drama slang. Reddit mods saying "ya'll can't behave" before locking a thread/banning users turned discussion being shutdown into "getting yall'ed".
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