The trolley problem makes sense in the context it was developed for, which is to be an ethical thought experiment. It's got nothing to do with politics unless you're just a lazy thinker (which Biden fans pretty much are.)
Trump isn't adding to his base either. a lot of independent voters think Trump is corrupt. he is not very popular outside of his base. Biden's strategy is run on anger at the abortion decision and "saving democracy" which might be enough to put him across the finish line but it should be a blow out for democrats if someone who wasn't Biden was running against him.
If Trump was president, then the mainstream narrative would be that the genocide in Gaza was simply because of Trump and Bibi's leadership.
The media didn't care about Israel sniping people during the Great March of Return. When Trump bombed Syria, they bent over backwards to say that was the moment he really became President. It's possible more liberals would care about the genocide if he was in office but the media would likely still back Israel bc that's what the US natsec ghouls want.
She doesn't though. People in the US openly talk about sex online a lot (even in front of children) but she only goes after queer people and allies saying queer people should be allowed to exist.
idk about this. Following this logic a cis het dude into feet or BDSM would be queer and I don't think they should count bc they aren't being discriminated against the way a LGBT person is. I do think there's certain kinks/ways cis het people could be considered queer but I think this definition obscures why Pride exists to begin with.
I think part of queerness is not fitting in traditional gender and/or sexuality roles. Like is the libs of Tiktok lady coming after y'all just for existing?
I'm not hating on y'all and you're definitely welcome at Pride imo but it feels weird to say everyone who has a kink is queer when kinks are so normalized that it would basically mean everyone is queer at that point. I also feel like that definition makes things weird for asexual people (who definitely are a part of the community bc they do face similar discrimination and marginalization.)
this is partially why people in rural areas end up being so conservative to begin with. when the government doesn't do anything but lecture you about how good you have it while the Republicans are giving some explanation for why things suck for you (even if it's wildly reactionary and clearly wrong), you're probably gonna end up right wing since the fundamental right wing premise that government doesn't work seems true when the government never works for your benefit.
I live grew up in rural Missouri and if they did something like that here, the democrats would flip the state. rural voters are starving for the government to do ANYTHING to help them. even the DNC special where whatever is means tested to shit would go a long way to improving Biden's performance in rural areas but nope, we can't do that, we gotta waste a bunch of money on ads people are gonna ignore instead.
It's all very predictable and another 4 years of Biden won't prevent these things happening, just prolong them and probably make it worse somehow by bottling it up for longer.
it would likely manufacture consent for these things happening much like it has manufactured consent for libs to want stricter border laws and mass surveillance.
Is it? campus protests are spreading all over the country so it's rapidly getting to the point where a lot of young people at least know people who were at the protests and seeing the Democrats crack down on them looks just as bad as project 2025 (which also the Democrats don't really bring up that often IRL so many don't even know what it is.)
Part of it is because the Korean war isn't over, part of it is racism against a socialist project that refuses to submit to western imperialism, but there's also a geopolitical interest bc having another widely accepted threat in region gives them more leverage against China since you could use weapons in South Korea against China fairly easily.
I wonder if that state democratic party is gutted like ours is. that's part of what drives me crazy about the election cycle, the libs keep yelling at me like we can flip the state blue with no party infrastructure and a centrist genocider at the top of the ballot. lol I'm writing myself in for governor
To be fair, we need to be forming that serious leftist org asap for a billion other reasons but yes, I tried to get libs to care about trans rights beyond tokenizing us when I was in DSA and a lot of cis people still don't get it
The trolley problem makes sense in the context it was developed for, which is to be an ethical thought experiment. It's got nothing to do with politics unless you're just a lazy thinker (which Biden fans pretty much are.)