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h2odragon 8 months ago | hide | past | favorite



A good first step would be to stop "programming" them before beginning the "deprogramming".

Was just reading about far-right parties in Germany doing well in polls because they're taking a stand against gas boiler bans. That classic far-right topic of wanting to continue importing expensive fuel from foreigners.

It may turn out that climate change is only the second most catastrophic calamity that the fossil fuel industry has inflicted on the world if they don't stop funding these incompetent clowns.


Hillary needs to be thrown in the van by her handlers again.

So good that the bumbling idiot who casually drops terms like super-predators, deplorables, etc. is still doing media. She's long irrelevant now and spending her free time just handing bullets straight to right wing pundits... not that they need them, given they'll happily claim terrible things without evidence, but still, why wave the red flag in front of the bull?

What kind of idiot comment is this anyway? What do you mean by deprogramming? What does that even look like? I can't think of a single charitable interpretation of that concept where it doesn't attract criticism. Why attack voters anyway? That never works out well! All those oppositionally defiant people get their hackles way, way up when they get referred to like this and would vote trump just to see people be upset by it, even if it costs them directly, whereas maybe at least before some of them may have stayed home.

Unfortunately politics is a game in America and it is brazenly cavalier to go about turning people away like this by writing them off, and when you keep doing it over time the effects do stack up. I would be cursing Hillary right now if I was a democrat in government.


This says a lot more about her than it says about anyone else.




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