@KohenX99 @DandanShots Yeah all she did was save the grieving soul of a woman from oblivion through a moment of heartfelt empathy and compassion while the other MCs were too pensive to act, but whatever.
@icedmoccatea A common sentiment among NK defectors is that if it wasn't for the starvation they would prefer living in NK cause SK culture is so toxic and isolating.
@nikicaga I think Stencil was vindicated in his assumption that control of media narratives and media ecosystems ultimately matter more than the policy or actions of any politician/party themselves.
@johnlk_80@bdquinn I think we're already seeing it in the ICU. This election has absolutely burried it and showed that there is no popular support for the "fuck the cops" style progressivism even in the populations it claimed to represent.
@PelosiTracker_ Gonna be real fun watching people who elected Trump on broadly populist sympathies realize all of his inner circle council are the same hedge-fund elites who'd turn the working class into biofuels if they could.
Hm maybe Democrats could walk some picket lines, funnel a ton of money into infrastructure, put some aggressive antitrust regulators into the FTC, oversee tight labor markets and income growth concentrated in the bottom quartiles, that should fix it.
@wil_da_beast630 Record turnout specifically (and only, really) in key swing states. In blue areas where dems were supposedly safes they didn't show up, pointing to Kamala having worse enthusiasm among her own base than reported.
@SecretBaboon @holymacanoli @williamjordann Dog running a more progressive campaign would have been worse America shifted hard right it's difficult to see how this is anything but a sound defeat for lefty belief in a popular progressive spirit in this country.
@revived_topaz @TrueSlazac Good news, after this admin America likely wont be the hegemon anymore! You'll have China and Russia decided shit for you too!