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Kinda sad how fascists seem to be so much better at taking down fascists than anti-fascists are.

Kirk has been diving too deep into Elder Scrolls lore

During the 2020 campaign I saw video comparisons between him in 2020 vs him at the Repubilcan primary debates in 2016.

It was really crazy to see him speaking in complete sentences and stringing points together.

Where were these people in 2017?

Oh you sweet summer child

What else do these all have in common?

They all have art styles that are purposefully designed to be really cheap and easy to make. The same choices that helped these studios crank out hours upon hours of formulaic content also helps the rule 34 artists.

Why not a Binstance?

I keep seeing this point repeated on the internet, that Harris's campaign tried so hard to appeal to conservative voters.

How? What platform did she run on to do so? Did she run on banning abortion fully? Outlawing trans people? Giving billionaires tax breaks? Rolling out environmental regulations? Disemopwering unions? Granting ICE more power? Starting a trade war? Privatizing the post office? Repealing the ACA?

She accepted the support of some of the old traditional Republicans like Liz Cheney who has already been essentially kicked out of the GOP. They ran some attack ads pointing out how ridiculous, theatrical, and hateful MAGA is to try to win over some Republican voters who just want lower income tax. It seems as though the media has run with that, both at the time and retroactively, to paint Kamala Harris as being a fascist?

Eh it's more like "right wing people are masquerading as centrists because they want to get laid"

Well there's the issue of defining things and crossing up a bunch of language, trying to smash multiple different points together.

The headline of the original post suggests concern that Joe Biden is basically the same as a Republican. In order to identify whether that is true or not, you need tofirst define what a Republican is and compare that against what the Biden administration actually did (executive orders, appointments, legislation supported and passed, regulatory changes, etc). Accounting, of course, for the checks and balances of the US Federal Government. So for example, Biden forgave hundreds of billions of dollars of student loan debt, but the conservative (Republican-appointed) Supreme Court shot most of that down. There were limits on what they could pass through Congress without a supermajority. This is even easier to do today because we have several months of Republican government to compare against and the changes are really obvious. You canook at the creation and catastrophic consequences of DOGE, or the foreign policy changes that have abandoned Ukraine and worsened the Palestinian genocide (the handling of Israel is probably my biggest criticism of Biden and Harris, but Trump has been far worse). Tons of government agencies are being refunded, there is a "war on woke". Critical infrastructure that keeps our food and water supplies safe are being abandoned. The EPA has been gutted. The IRS has been gutted and is essentially being forced to stop auditing the wealthy and focus on the poor instead. ICE is being weaponized against unions, trans people are being pushed out of the military, US citizens are being illegally detained and sent to El Salvador, the Secretary of Health is an anti-vaxxer who wants to create an autism registry, tarrif nonsense is destroying US trade, and I'm still waiting for the price of eggs to go back down. Claiming Biden is a Republican is only possible if you completely ignored both Biden and Republicans.

The blurb under the headline is almost completely irrelevant to all of that. It's starting to get to what the article is really about: individuals who self-identity as Centrist or Moderate whose values are truly conservative and often align heavily with the Republican party. Especially with regards to online dating. This is nothing new - it's a phenomenon almost as old as online dating, and may date back to printed personal ads or older (though much better data exists for online dating). Conservative men know that their mispgying views don't make them popular with women, so they are trying to hide that. These people don't have much to do with Democrats or Biden whatsoever.

And then in your response, you lost a picture-of-a-tweet claiming that "Democrats spent 4 years desperately trying to get "moderate" Republicans to break from Trump". First of all, with no source- this is just whoever owns that account saying shit. But if you stop to think about it- there were a ton of "traditional", non-MAGA Republicans disillusioned with their party going after Trump all the way back in 2016. Most of them have already broken from Trump after historically voting for people like Bush and Romney. It would have been foolish to ignore that contingent of people, so the Democrats were absolutely correct in running attack ads against Trump and his followers in red states trying to win those votes.

If the Dems had changed their policies to be more conservative and attract those voters, that would garner some heavy criticism from me. But they didn't. The only policy I can think of that I would criticize them for is their support of Israel, which is moreso because of their wealthy donors who want to do business there than any courtship of Republicans.

If you look at what he accomplished, or if you're lazy and just want to look at an outlet that evaluates presidents for you, there's pretty much unanimous agreement that Biden was the furthest-left president since FDR. Harris ran on a platform of essentially continuing that. And progressives chose to stay home on election day rather than vote for someone who isn't 100% in agreement with them on everything. And that's how you get fascism.

Oh cool another "both sides are the same" meme. Daring today, aren't we?

Their horrendous app release last year was catastrophic, and their response was weak. They've been cratering since that in particular.