As always, point me towards someone supporting Trump on here and I promise I'll give them an earful. There just aren't a lot of them on here. If I spend less time arguing against voting for Trump it's for the same reason I don't spend much time on here arguing against puppy murdering - because most people already agree that murdering puppies/voting for Trump is bad.

Sorry for disrupting the circlejerk, I guess? Like yeah I guess we could spend all our time denouncing puppy murderers and complementing each other over being enlightened enough to recognize puppy murder as bad, but I'd really rather not.

Most of the documents we have were already partially declassified but with redacted parts. We now know more about JFK's rift with the CIA and how the CIA was wiretapping the area Oswald was working and actively recruiting double agents from there.

Skeptics will continue to treat it as equally insane as saying the moon is made of cheese unless they see an official, released document saying, "Please kill the president for me, sincerely, Alan Dulles," but there's about as much evidence as a reasonable person would expect to find in a universe where it happened.

Lmao "rumors swirl" means "we made it the fuck up."

Residential streets aren't generally intended for through traffic. They're meant to provide access to the people who live there. These are areas where kids play and people go on walks and stuff, having a bunch of cars run through trying to get from point A to point B as fast as possible is not ideal. That's why you get cul-de-sacs, intentionally designed with one way in or out, to prevent drivers from cutting through.

• Obviously, the main reason for record turnout in 2020 was COVID.

• Biden actually has decent political instincts and has actually won elections before. Kamala didn't even have to pass a primary and bombed out of the one she did participate in in 2020. She was "untested" to put it mildly.

• The economic situation was different.

• Regardless of to what degree he was responsible, under Biden the US got entangled in foreign conflicts in Palestine and Ukraine.

• It's not that there are 10 million commies that liked Biden but not Harris, it's that us commies believe that you can win over the working class by appealing to material interests.

• Biden didn't campaign with fucking Dick Cheney

It's not really all that complicated. The Democrats represent the status quo. The status quo sucks. The Republicans present themselves as an alternative to the status quo. So, people vote Republican.

All the centrist messaging just makes it worse. The Republicans can explain why things suck by scapegoating the poor and marginalized. But the Democrats won't call out the rich and powerful who are the actual reason things suck, so instead they just try to tell people that things don't suck at all. They "reach across the aisle" to people like Dick Cheney who are clearly part of the political establishment which only serves to help Trump present himself as an outsider. They adopt all these right-wing positions on immigration, the military, etc, but the people that appeals to already have a party waiting on them hand and foot, giving them exactly what they want. And all the bad shit he does doesn't matter to them because they believe in lesser evilism and hate the establishment.

Of course, Trump is part of the billionaire class and isn't any sort of real alternative to the existing system, but as long as Republicans are able to paint themselves that way, and are the only "alternative" game in town, people are going to turn to them when they dislike the way things are going, no matter how shitty they are.

I felt surprised and confused in 2016 when Trump won, but it's been 8 years. It's long past time to start figuring out where the Trump phenomenon came from.

People being terrified of cities and public transit.

Hitler didn't win because he beat Hindenburg after Thälmann split the vote. He lost to Hindenburg, the center-right candidate endorsed by the social democrats, then won anyway because Hindenburg appointed him Chancellor.

The social democrats were the ones who refused to back Thälmann, the only anti-Hitler candidate in the race. And the same way that the communists called them "social fascists," the social democrats used similar rhetoric, frequently saying that the communists were no different from the Nazis, that there was no difference between the far left and the far right.

But also, we don't have to keep rehashing 100 year old grudges from another continent.

Antinatalism isn't just a personal decision to not have kids, it's an ideological belief that having kids is morally wrong.

Humor really takes them off-script. If you say, "I'm not a Russian agent," well, that sounds like what a Russian agent would say. If you try to say, "There are legitimate reasons for an ordinary person to believe what I'm saying," well, sounds like you're using that as an excuse to spread more Russian propaganda. It's a solid conspiracy theory with a response for every angle, but they just don't know what to make of it when you start doing a bit like that.

That was also the thinking behind my Phoenix Wright theming, that, and that I could get away with being like, "Do you have any evidence to support that claim?" I kinda dropped it because it got old fast but it's nice to have in my back pocket when they get ridiculous.

“made up languages”

I think they're referring to terminology.

I recently saw one of the top minds of .world claim that using "liberal" correctly was, "intentionally confusing. It’s a Russian psyop tactic that tankies have picked up."