Today I Learned

almost!?

I was doing work in Tennessee the first round of trump and was big irritated to see "women for trump" signs. They seemed more irritated to see a woman working in the sewers. Sorry Barb some of us women enjoy manual labor and didn't grow up when everything was super cheap and have to work for a living. Quit voting for shit you won't be alive to see the consequences of you old bat!

Plenty of Republican women voters are post-menopausel already. Plenty are insistent that their daughters get pregnant already, or that their son's sexual partners carry a fetus to term.

This isn't a gender thing nearly so much as a class thing.

Are you sure that's how it feels to be grabbed by the pussy?

Anyway, I think its time to say "pussy" in public ....like hey! Man! Stop trying to grab me by the pussy with these prices!

Or: my dentist grabbed me by the pussy again with two fillings and a crown.

Or: Dude I just filled up my truck and dang! Like they grabbed me by the pussy!

This should be normal speech now.

The Latino vote I fully understand. They are predominantly Catholic and strongly oppose abortions. The Latinos voted for ICE boots on thier neck rather than women's rights ... and they got exactly what they voted for.

Let us not forget our fine Latino men and women. Men 50% women 43%.

Lots of expats from Venezuela and Cuba who see Republicans as patrons for their clans. And Republicans reward these blocks with special privileges - prioritization for immigration, exception from state violence, lucrative positions in both the legal and illegal economy.

Marco Rubio got his start selling concaine on behalf of his brother in law Orlando Cicilia, for instance. He was able to rapidly rise through the political scene by playing in an industry the CIA had long staked out for Cuban exiles.

What's astonishing to me, as an American who grew up in white conservative rural and suburban areas, is that the racism is just one facet of a much larger shitty state of existence.

I see the same things IRL from ordinary people, like extended family, that I see from the people in the media who seem like hyperbolic caricatures trying to test Poe's law.

It's just an existence based in negativity. Every request has a hurried frustrated tone. Every discussion is composed entirely of complaints. The complaints about others are bigoted sure, but also very focused on money and material possessions which those other people never deserve and the speaker is neverrrrr jealous about. Personal identity is built from all the things you don't like.

I have a good relationship with my family, but they are still miserable and draining to be around.

Seeing Americans label Obama as the most “divisive” president was eye opening…

Meanwhile, Trump was saying Obama isn’t even a US citizen! All while specific persons are saying Obama is dividing the nation…

It’s disgusting…

it’s incredible how most white people have become extremely right-wing extremists

Whoah whoah whoah there. Not most, just a very loud, very visible minority which receive signal boost from the Epstein class's media consent manufactories.

I’m a white American from the northeast and I felt the same way. When trump won the first time, it felt like I’d just discovered that the floor underneath my bed was rotting away.

I was blind to it because I didn’t need to see it, but it was always there. My relative privilege insulated me and ensured that I contributed to the problem

As an American I feel exactly the same. There absolutely were holdouts of racism, but I felt we were moving forward and leaving them behind. Obama’s presidency set the stage, then trump and covid set everything on fire and the mask came off. “Draining the swamp” just meant revealing the scum at the bottom of it and setting it free. I was shocked at how many racist, petty, selfish, aggressively ignorant people there are in the US.

After Obama, it’s incredible how most white people have become extremely right-wing extremists

That hasn’t been my anecdotal observation. Obama’s election definitely freaked out the existing White racists and motivated them to get more politically active, but I haven’t seen non-racist Whites suddenly become racist because a Black man finally got elected president. Where are you seeing this? Better yet, is there research or polling data documenting it?

Disclaimer: the following is just my opinion and not to be taken as gospel. This is not financial advice.

The hope for them is that one day, after proving their ability to suffer a boot upon their neck, they will have proved themselves worthy to put their boot on someone's neck.

How does one perpetuate slavery?

Turn some of the slaves into masters.

Many Latinos are super religious. It’s not just the billionaire propaganda machine it’s centuries of indoctrination from the Catholic Church. Even if the billionaire propaganda machine didn’t exist and every news media outlet is factual, independent and transparent many will still vote for an R because of their religious beliefs.

I don't think Latinos are idiots who believe whatever they read. I think they're generally as smart as any other racial group, and they possess the ability to think critically and make informed decisions. I have spoken with many Latinos who voted for Trump. I think many people don't understand that Mexicans and South Americans are generally socially and fiscally conservative. They're often Christian and have strong proletarian work ethics.

That kind of contextual information is useful, but beware of anybody giving it to you without the bigger context of absolute numbers before and after. Liberal media loves using shifts like this to imply there's a bunch of centrists who decided to change which way they're leaning instead of "dems failed to improve the material conditions for their constituents, so fewer people voted dem. Meanwhile 12 black business owners voted republican instead of 6, an increase of 100%"

In 2016, CNN and MSNBC spent months using that type of framing to blame black people for Hillary's loss, essentially calling them ungrateful, homophobic, sexist, conservatives.