[-] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

The opposite, this was how he actually died but some propaganda outlets on Twitter claimed he was "liquidated."

[-] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I mean it is myopic but I get how it arises. If a suburban Afro-Carribbean lady goes downtown and is sexually harassed by some overfamiliar black dude with "no home training" it will color her perceptions of working class black Americans in the same way it would shape a suburban white person's perception. And for black immigrants to America and suburban black Americans things like code switching, having non-stereotypically-black hobbies or fraternizing with white/non-black people extensively are not inaccessible or taboo things, so such people more easily navigate spaces where jobs and opportunities for wealth are more plentiful.

It's myopic to pin all this on Black American "culture" of course because Black Americans are a people who have never had sovereignty or been the stewards of their collective destiny, and most of the "negative" behaviors blamed on "culture" are downstream from generations of targeted segregation/economic deprivation. But I do think if the white liberal/leftist response when say, there is a viral video of a group of black kids beating on a white kid is only silence, apologism, or tiptoeing, then the angry conservative response even while racially charged is sometimes actually closer to what middle class black Americans/Black immigrants actually want to say about such an event and it's participants.

There needs to be a frank but forward moving vision involving some sort of direct reparations and mending the faults caused by historical race riots/redlining, to actually resolve key issues surrounding "Foundational Black American" neighborhoods.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

By pandering to the 2016 micro aggressions discourse people saying "coconut could be a slur" or having whoever is today's equivalent of Lena Dunham speak at the convention, or leaning too much into "yasss queen" stuff that is more about worshipping the candidate than centering the policies they support. The Republicans currently wield the mantle of being really annoying and weird, Kamala would do well to not help libs reclaim it. Also, just no more smugness as a response to Trump's wacky shit. Hillary was too into that annoying Colbert Report era "I think therefore I am liberal" winky snark. She kept doing it in the debates and it lent itself to no good sound bites, just a feeling of condescension while general voters thought Trump's panicked tone at the least matched their anxieties.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That is the liberal belief, but there is no historical proof that that will be exactly how things unfold, it's just conjecture. In fact 38% of people polled already believe it was his fault, is it really impossible to get maybe 13% more people to also believe it?

Liberals have completely lost faith in the art of persuasion, and don't think vividly enough when they try to game strategies out. How we say that it is his fault matters just as much, and if we say the Dems had policies which could have prevented the shooter from getting his gun, that we are just worried about whether the chaos of that rally will reflect the chaos of his presidency, these are the types of approaches that can make an on the fence voter go, "huh, that kinda makes sense, I never thought of it like that."

It of course has a chance of backfiring but it also has a chance of cutting down the polling bump he gets from being shot.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I wish QAnon had as small of a base as Biden stans because cultish motivated reasoning just collapses into flailing like this when there is not a critical enough mass of people invested in the political outcome and narrative

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

NAFO libs finally coming around on this replace Biden thing

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Would literally be a more consistently effective response to Trump throughout a debate

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They are too trapped emotionally by the modern brand of campaigning via parasocial relationships, if Biden is sad about being forced out, they will be sad too. To them it's like being unable to say no to their grandma who has dementia and arthritis, when she asks to hold their baby. They just tell themselves that the baby will probably be okay, then cross their own fingers when they see hers begin to tremble heavily.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yep, they got it wrong the name's actually Robinette Joseph-Biden

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"You know, I once played Frederick Douglass in a one-woman show that the University of Maryland Diamondback called ‘too confusing to be offensive.'" -Liz Lemon

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I am not a short king but I am a straight cis Asian guy, and this at least somewhat true and I did not know it until I did serious work on myself and actually pinpointed the behaviors of mine that were clearly my insecurity and desperation to be liked seeping out (speaking in generalities to myself and others, name-dropping stuff I thought would make me cool, reacting by matching my tone and enthusiasm to that of the person speaking to me rather than giving a more organic response that's less of a departure from what I felt deep down.)

A lot of these short guys, like Asian incels, bond over insecure feelings and observations they independently arrived at due to them being the first level thoughts of any guy who's unlucky romantically due to having a stereotypically negative trait. They believe these feelings and observations are them getting a peek at an unlocked well of truth, rather than equally resigned quitters validating one another's ideas borne out of self loathing and the need to have a mentally placative answer for indecipherable and unpredictable social dynamics.

Just like how, when an Asian incels sees an Asian guy being confident with girls they auto-assume that guy was adopted by whites/had Americanized parents/is gay, then tell each other that as if it's a shared universal rule, bitter short guys will see some short guy who dates women taller and hotter than him and tell each other that the guy must be rich/famous/large penised/ex military.

These kinds of online social groups/subreddits are literally anti-achievement and self-growth. The more their shared lore is outspun to try to comprehensively and objectively catalog the hard and fast rules of a nebulous and volatile reality, the more detached from normalcy they become and the further they are away from having dating success or even natural human interactions.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What is up with disgusting racist British freaks having fucked up affairs all the time? Oswald Moseley fucked his wife's sisters and stepmom, Katie Hopkins fucked some married dude in the daytime on a public field, and Boris Johnson is fucking a lady who seems too stupid to consent.

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