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I love how the U.S. spent like 90 years building up soft power around the world and we are giving it all up in like a 3 month span.
Every person in charge of an agency, is literally not qualified to run a grocery store let alone the agencies they run.
Its alll about loyalty now, and its going to send the U.S. back into the dark age.
Hitler came to power because the treaty of Versailles devastated and humiliated germany. what the fuck are historians going to point at in the US that lead to the rise in fascism? fucking gamergate? The self-inflicted 2008 crisis?
I can at least tell you why people vote Trump. All right here:
How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind
Posted that many, many times, but it's important enough to post forever. As true now as it was in 2016.
I've been on both sides of what the author is talking about, seen and experienced everything he touches on. Give it a read, it's important.
Yeah and it’s a good piece, but there’s a huge hole or two in the reasoning. Namely that rural areas are aiding and abetting the forces that beat them down despite clear and rational evidence - in abundance - to that fact.
They’ve given up on reason. They’re hoodwinked, bamboozled, conned, and every other synonym despite clear facts and science.
And cities bad is not new, but it’s also where their hero lives. So ?
Also the thing about cheering for assholes is kinda thin.
I think it’d be better to make these arguments through the media trump voters consume. That’s the underlying mechanic of his argument anyway.
That tracks, it's Jason Pargin. He's the king of oversimplifying an argument and then hammering it into the ground, but it's always at least entertaining.
Careful, that's how I used to hear Joe Rogan described.
There's a pretty wide fucking chasm between Jason Pargin and Joe Rogan, but I take your point. Honestly I'm not sure it's necessarily a bad thing, the left could use a Roganesque figure; especially one who isn't afraid to call people on their bullshit rather than buy into it.