I don’t know what policies Mark Zuckerberg is going to run on (well, I mean I kinda do) but I don’t really care, I am already very dedicated to not voting for him
I very much do not put it beyond the democratic party to nominate The Zuck for President. But I don’t think he’ll actually win if they do.
New leaks confirm Trump still living internet meme.
Remember when Republicans pretended they were fine with legal immigration
If they don’t do something, then there is no future for the Republican party.
But don’t worry. In about ten years I’m going to be asking “remember when the democrats made fun of marrying your cousin instead of calling all objections racist?”
Maybe Dems shouldn’t brag about Demographic Destiny™ next time.
“If they don’t do something, then there is no future for the Republican party”
We can hope!
I love when conservatives implicitly admit that too much of their ideology is racist or xenophobic to ever appeal to enough people of color to sustain them.
I’m not really a Conservative, or at least Conservatives would not consider me a Conservative, I voted for the Clintontron 3000 last election and I support the establishment of a national wage subsidy program for low-income workers.
Apparently it takes multiple generations for “desired level of government interference” (or whatever it was) to revert to the national mean, and apparently most incoming groups from most countries have a higher level of it than the current national mean.
So if you’re the “less government interference except for abortions and military spending” party, then, logically…
Remember when Republicans pretended they were fine with legal immigration
If they don’t do something, then there is no future for the Republican party.
But don’t worry. In about ten years I’m going to be asking “remember when the democrats made fun of marrying your cousin instead of calling all objections racist?”
Maybe Dems shouldn’t brag about Demographic Destiny™ next time.
“If they don’t do something, then there is no future for the Republican party”
We can hope!
#change their policies to attract different voters
Yes, yes, very funny.
The Republicans should clearly support expanded welfare, mass migration, and culture war against the country’s ethnic majority. That won’t upset their base at all and just make them a more sucky version of the Democrats.
Honestly, if they actually started changing policies to appeal outside their party in a way that wasn’t stupid… they’d be looking to pick up Asian voters by expanding the definition of white to include them. There are already risk factors for this in the current environment, it just remains to be seen if the visual difference is too much of a leap.
And if that happened, the democrats would quickly throw Asians under the bus. Socially, I mean. Apparently it isn’t mostly white people that are displaced by Affirmative Action, etc. There have been lawsuits about this.
Of course they won’t actually do this, because both the Republican and Democratic parties are never going to actually get smarter. Maybe if we didn’t have FPTP.
“Culture war against the country’s ethnic majority” is a fucking nuclear take. As if every poltical institution in this country doesn’t uphold white supremacy. what world are you living where the democrats pose a threat to whiteness?
Their goal seems to be:
“You can’t have oppression by an ethnic majority if you don’t have an ethnic majority.”
So not immediately, no. After all, Hillary Clinton was their presidential candidate. But it does seem like the plan is “let’s defeat white supremacy by making the whites a minority,” which might work, or might not work.
I live in a world where democrats periodically talk about how eventually all those darn old racist white redneck men will die off and America will be significantly more racially diverse, and the GOP needs to “get with the times, grampa”, so to speak. It’s also a world where the democrats describe opposition to immigration as fundamentally rooted in racism, and just last week I was arguing with someone I knew IRL that said America has an obligation to take in all peoples because it is on land stolen from Native Americans (and therefore not only can immigration not be decreased but we can’t even have limits on countries which lack functioning governments to vet newcomers).
This is, of course, ignoring all the various other progressive leftists grouped in with the democrats that are much less, hm, “gentle” and just looking at the mainstream of the party. (Again, Hillary “super predators” Clinton was their candidate, not their opinion columnists.)
Anyhow, “mass migration” is also a bit of an overstatement regarding current immigration policies, so “culture war against the country’s ethnic majority” is also a pull in the other direction for contrast with where they are right now, depending on just how you define culture war.
Though… once the demographics change, do you think they’ll actually stop trying to fight white supremacy? Or will they just change focus, like how women are the majority of undergraduate university students, but we mostly hear about how STEM needs more women (even though the fields of biology also flipped majority women recently, IIRC)?
And perhaps more importantly, do the Republican Party and their voters believe it will stop?
Anonymous asked:
theunitofcaring answered:
I think the sources on the effects of the last decade on Venezuela’s economic situation seem pretty reliable - that is, they are using statistics that existed long before the crisis, the statistics paint a consistent picture, that picture matches what I’ve seen written by people currently living there, and I haven’t seen them seriously contested. So, yeah, it looks like the last few socialist/communist governments of Venezuela have been steadily consolidating power by murder where necessary, have destroyed the country’s health system, access to food, and access to necessities, and are tightening their dictatorial death grip on the country they steered off a cliff.
The leftists I’ve seen defending this seem to fall back to ‘well, it’s this or allowing U.S. imperialism and U.S. imperialism is even worse’, but I find this amazingly callous and horrible - if the best alternative your ideology can offer to U.S. imperialism is ‘wait in line for ten hours for inadequate amounts of basic necessities, sham elections where even though people are shot for not voting turnout is basically nothing, massive human rights catastrophe and desperate poverty for everyone’, then your ideology is terrible and should die. And the thing is, I do not actually think that that is the best alternative the left can offer - so for the love of g-d offer a better one, instead of doubling down on the insistence that this is all you’ve got!
Unfortunately, Leftists that are less terminally stupid/corrupt about economic management than the Venezuelan government (a bar quite a few leftists pass! just not many Bad Tumblr Commies) have no feasible method to seize power from the Venezuelan government.
friends, followers…..ppl who went to public school….
are chads/jocks real or just a meme
are they actually mean to nerds or is that a Hollywood lie
there’s a hierarchy, but it’s mostly: bullies > their wingmen > bystanders > victims
It really depends on the public school you go to.
Remember when Republicans pretended they were fine with legal immigration
If they don’t do something, then there is no future for the Republican party.
But don’t worry. In about ten years I’m going to be asking “remember when the democrats made fun of marrying your cousin instead of calling all objections racist?”
Maybe Dems shouldn’t brag about Demographic Destiny™ next time.
“If they don’t do something, then there is no future for the Republican party”
We can hope!
#change their policies to attract different voters
Yes, yes, very funny.
The Republicans should clearly support expanded welfare, mass migration, and culture war against the country’s ethnic majority. That won’t upset their base at all and just make them a more sucky version of the Democrats.
Honestly, if they actually started changing policies to appeal outside their party in a way that wasn’t stupid… they’d be looking to pick up Asian voters by expanding the definition of white to include them. There are already risk factors for this in the current environment, it just remains to be seen if the visual difference is too much of a leap.
And if that happened, the democrats would quickly throw Asians under the bus. Socially, I mean. Apparently it isn’t mostly white people that are displaced by Affirmative Action, etc. There have been lawsuits about this.
Of course they won’t actually do this, because both the Republican and Democratic parties are never going to actually get smarter. Maybe if we didn’t have FPTP.
Remember when Republicans pretended they were fine with legal immigration
If they don’t do something, then there is no future for the Republican party.
But don’t worry. In about ten years I’m going to be asking “remember when the democrats made fun of marrying your cousin instead of calling all objections racist?”
Maybe Dems shouldn’t brag about Demographic Destiny™ next time.
Gentle reminder that I don’t think that men are bad or that women are bad, but the discourse around them dating is bad:
surely human relationships are the most difficult thing people ever attempt.
Hot take: making human procreation depend on human relationships was a bad idea.
Ice cold take! You are like 85 years late at least!
I was gesturing towards arranged marriages more than eugenics and artificial wombs, but either way I was hoping that this take was so cold it became hot again.
Sterilize everyone and have the State raise all children from embryos!
… h-hey! p-put down those torches and pitchforks!
Ice cold take! You are like 85 years late at least!
You’re talking about a right-wing blogger and a blogger that synthesizes right-wing ideas. Maybe we just like our takes Traditional™ and Culturally Authentic™*. How could you not have considered this?
(* within certain parameters)
“Privilege Bandit with his Ill-gotten Man-gains” could be a blog heading here on Tumblr, tbh.
