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Sounds like some shooting the messenger stuff, alright

Even if that is the case, “republicans cheat” isn’t a great argument to get non-voters (not those who purposefully abstained) to vote.

So what you’ve accomplished here is that (from your point of view), leftists are more likely to vote Republican and (from my point of view) non voters are demoralized further by their lack of sway in a place where democracy is already dead, causing them to stay home. People don’t like participating in rigged systems where cheating is common. If you didn’t want republicans to keep winning, you should probably delete this post lol.

You have to realize that this kind of question just makes people go straight to “death to America”, not “we have to vote for a more polite team to continue America’s long and bipartisan tradition of genocide, slavery, and imperialism”, right? Your framing is likely making people less likely to vote if that’s what you care about.

Democrats care about messaging (especially to centrists and republicans). Leftists care about actions. Leftists tend to hate imperialist action with a progressive hashtag more vocally because it’s just as deadly and twice as deceitful.

Assuming the metaphor is that western society is a mouth of teeth, it was full of rot before we were born. Republicans want to eat more candy. Democrats want to eat the same amount of candy republicans ate 4 years ago but brush every couple years at the voting booth in the hopes that the rot gets brushed away. Leftists want the rotten teeth pulled since it’s starting to affect the entire system now and will soon ~~destroy the world~~ cause heart disease if action isn’t taken.

Wondering how you respond to people saying “fuck cancer”

This. The left starts at anti capitalism. Imperialism being the highest stage of capitalism means that if sanders isn’t fully against genocide, he’s not left of center.

If I ever write a manifesto, I’m running it through a jar jar binks and UWU filter first

I have no idea why it became so popular, but to try to make a real distinction from stereotypical plot-based porn, maybe it’s the difference between sex with a stranger vs sex with someone you know? Are people listening to porn with the volume up? If it’s muted, it might just seem like an awkward will-they-won’t-they(but they definitely will) of a legitimate friendship turned sexual.

It might feel a bit more passionate to watch someone have sex with someone the actor supposedly already has a relationship than a random pizza boy or mechanic etc. I don’t know how popular “watch me have sex with my girlfriend” videos are, but I feel like people who are substituting relationships with porn would specifically avoid those because of their shame and jealousy of not having a partner? But if you’re watching someone so without shame that they’d have sex with a step sibling, the viewer doesn’t have to think about their own needs and issues as much. They get to be more “pure” when comparing themselves to incestuous siblings while still getting off.

Theres also probably something people find hot about taboo shit in general too. Maybe it’s as simple as “Stranger is to Secret-sex-in-public-porn as Known-person is to Step-sibling-porn”.

But I’m ace, so what the fuck do I know.

Do you have any experience or opinions on the quality of programs like the Michel Thomas Method? I don't really have the time or resources to spend on language learning at the moment, but if I could prepare for next year or the year after with an audio tape on a commute, it might help a bit if the learning device is suitable?

Same thing the Panama Papers did

(Christ was that leak really a decade ago?)

Rags will be like “oh it’s ‘presumed’ this and ‘alleged’ that” for rich assholes in the spotlight, but when it comes to car wrecks, it’s automatically classified as an accident. A little oopsie. No need to look any further into it besides the wholly truthful police report. The words crash and accident have very different legal meanings. This is just a presumed accident, but a definite deadly wreck.

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