And here you have it: the serf mentality of the median American. Speaking out against your in-group, lest things could ever become better? Madness, better tell everyone to shut up about the fact that the ship is sinking, at least we’re not directly ingesting arsenic. If things ever become better, thank the heavens that they happened to fall down that way, because that behavior leaves you at the behest of whoever is leading the chorus, even if that person had been clearly screwing up for months, with no hope of ever influencing it yourself.

Plenty of people on Lemmy immediately attacked you if you mentioned that Biden was going to tank the election or that he had mental health issues, and even though they became a little bit less aggressive after the debate, they still insisted and would call you a Trump supporter if you even suggested that the Democrats should have someone else run. Now that Biden is out of the race and Kamala is projected to have a much better chance than him, they’ve been proven wrong, but none of them will apologize for having denied reality.

I can forgive someone for being disconnected from reality, but when that someone goes and berates others for stating that a person obviously suffering from age-related issues does, in fact, does suffer from age-related issues, insists that it’s impossible for anyone else to compete against Trump, and has the knife ready at their hand ready to jump at you with accussations of being a Republican for raising very reasonable concerns, that’s a pretty heavy issue, and plenty of Lemmy users have done one or several of those things to the point that, frankly, discussing politics on this site has been just almost as unbearable as doing so in Reddit.

I’m not going to receive apologies and I’m not expecting them, but I’m at least going to ask you to take a long time (weeks, months) wondering from time to time if you’re suffering from cognitive biases in your opinions. This is not an insult, everyone suffers from cognitive biases, I did suffer from pretty heavy ones a long time ago, but if they’re provoking harm (and most specially, doing political damage), you should at the very least take a look at them.

On a side note, I have to say that I didn’t expect much from Kamala other than having a reasonably better chance than Biden of preventing the US from further falling into fascism, but she has surprised me positively by confronting with Netanyahu as soon as she got a bit of spotlight.

Biden managed to get a bunch of unions to endorse him for the elections, both due to negotiations and his policy. Given that Kamala was in his team, the only thing she needs is the will to declare that she will continue along Biden’s lines.

This is unironically good for Kamala’s chances. The average person in the US is racist, but not racist enough to not to feel second hand embarrassment from such overt comments, which may, ironically, make them a little bit less racist and make them think twice before voting Republican in 2024.

How would they react if they were told that they’re using the colors of the trans flag?

All of these participants had received a sample of the shock and reported that they would pay to avoid being shocked again.

From: https://news.virginia.edu/content/doing-something-better-doing-nothing-most-people-study-shows , so the chart is actually measuring the second shock.

When you minmax your masochism stat.

Don’t ask what’s it like for our remains in the future.

Yeah, I mentioned it as a factor, not as an all-determining fact that explains the whole of Israeli demographics.

Your average law enforcement agent already has a worrying tendency to be a moron. Now imagine if that person is also a conspiracy theorist.

I think… I think it’s one that begins at “Il” and ends with “legal”. So it’s legal after all! Nothing to see here, folks, move along.

There’s a very logical filter at play here: if you didn’t think seeking beef with Arabs and participating in a colonialist project in the 50s/60s/70s was a good idea, you would have stayed in the US, and otherwise, you would have moved to Israel. This made it so that Jews in the US lean liberal and Jews in Israel lean ethno-nationalistic, in very broad terms.

AOC - Pelosi’s protege? With all respect that is possible, this opinion is disconnected from reality.

I’ll just paste the top headlines of Googling “AOC Pelosi”:

Inside Nancy Pelosi’s War With AOC and the Squad - Apr 15, 2021

‘She got so mad at me’: book on the ‘Squad’ details AOC-Pelosi clashes - Nov 30, 2023

Why AOC is behind Biden — while Nancy Pelosi is not - 5 days ago

Video features deepfakes of Nancy Pelosi, Alexandria … - Apr 28, 2023

The clash between AOC and Nancy Pelosi is now a play - Jun 26, 2024

AOC says her life ‘completely transformed’ for the better after Pelosi stepped down from leadership - Nov 30, 2023

Ocasio-Cortez Said Nancy Pelosi Mocked Her Because Of Her Age, New Book Relates - Nov 30, 2023

Also, Reddit is flooded with coomer level maniacs who are desperately looking for any kind of discussion. To the point they misread shit intentionally just to start some shit.

That’s extremely frequent here too.

I see Israel is working hard to achieve that peace deal /s

“Allowing the guy I’m beating up to kick me in the nuts is a dangerous escalation”

Ok.

Do these fuckwits get off on messing with little kids? If things worked properly around there, the feds should investigate those cops’ computer files.

And AOC didn’t even get the sharpest part of the blade. Those would be Omar, and most especially Bowman.

My worry about AOC as candidate is that she’s relatively alone in her political space, and is far from having Bernie’s weight as of today. She’s in the Democratic party, sure, but she’s in a very small faction inside of it, which may lead to a Corbyn situation: she takes the helm of the party, but centrist figures begin attacking her from her own ranks with the support of the media until she’s forced to concede to a moderate.

On the other hand, if you manage to get 100, 200 elected representatives in the Democratic party who are clearly ideologically aligned with AOC, making her the nominee is no longer a battle, but rather, it becomes the natural consequence of the balance of power within the party.