electoralism

It helps if one is curious about how the world works. Many people, in my experience, are incurious in general.

I just listened to punk albums as a teenager and worked minimum wage retail. That's all it took for me.

Yes but the basic empathy that led us here is not easy to learn. Is it even possible to get people like this to care about anyone else?

While that's true, even before looking at political positions, there are just so many Americans that don't have even a fragment of empathy or care for human life (let alone any other form of life). It's a nation of misanthropes.

It took a certain set of material conditions which drove us to care for things outside of ourselves. It is a different set for everyone to some degree, but these people are purely self interested and that will not change with access or exposure to "political knowledge." It won't be until some tragedy or existential experience personally impacts them that they begin on a path that will allow them to grow politically. This is precisely why no revolution will happen in the imperial core

Does your entire current events knowledge come from what you heard on a three minute segment of your hometown news broadcast?

Yes, I have extended family like this.

Worse, it comes from a Facebook post reacting to the three-minute segment by some grouped named "REAL PATRIOTS ONLY"

Same guy weeks later, drenched in blood: I'm going to kill another 500,000 people

Person: How could we have known???

literally

An NYT 1922 classic:

But several reliable, well-informed sources confirmed the idea that Hitler's anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded, and that he was merely using anti-Semitic propaganda as a bait to catch masses of followers and keep them aroused, enthusiastic, and in line for the time when his organization is perfected and sufficiently powerful to be employed effectively for political purposes.

A sophisticated politician credited Hitler with peculiar political cleverness for laying emphasis and over-emphasis on anti-Semitism, saying: "You can't expect the masses to understand or appreciate your finer real aims. You must feed the masses with cruder morsels and ideas like anti-Semitism. It would be politically all wrong to tell them the truth about where you really are leading them."

But the Democratic Party (the politicians and the rich faction of people they actually represent) don’t actually want any of those things to happen. They would rather lose than do the right thing. Being in the opposition is easy for them, because the Republicans can do all of these things they don’t disagree with ideologically (but their voters do) and they can feign resistance in order to capture more PAC money. Their strategy is working: they will promise nothing and expect your vote regardless. If they win they will suddenly not have the power to reverse any changes fundamentally. If they lose they will throw up their hands and wait another few years to promise nothing and expect you to like it. They have been doing the same thing for decades and people still think that things will change

Absolutely. This should prove--prove--that the American electorate is not voting based on policy. American elections, especially at the national level, are purely vibes based. The Democrats' sweaty triangulation and technocratic wonk proposals will never win them elections, because their vibes are rancidly bad and that is all that matters. Nobody is paying attention to your policies. Most people don't know what your policies are or even have policy preferences themselves.

The funny thing is that if you told me a lib said that I would've believed you. They really have a lot in common.

what is the context of this odd lady head? I've seen it used before but I don't understand it.

What is she even referring to here? This one was so funny because I'm just baffled as to what she's even talking about.

Killed lots of Gazans, gutted lots of Federal Agencies like Dept of Education and the CFPB, passed the Big Beautiful Bill, massively increased military and federal enforcement spending, cut taxes and regulations, invaded and attacked multiple other countries, his stupid tariff game

Every single one of these accomplishments is evil, and harmful to the average American, but he did accomplish things

He's hurting some of the right people in their eyes. Their issues are with the packaging and (maybe) getting a little sloppy with it.

Famously not an intellectual people

Confusing Nazi Germany and Joss Whedon TV shows.

Yeah, I had to transcribe the parts I quoted.