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Fast forward to 24’ when i got my f1 visa and was excited to study in ‘murica,
Trump got voted as the forty somethingeth POTUS…
At first, i didnt want to make any rash statements and tried to see the positives, but it’s pretty hard to find them when you have news about Ice agents in your campus ARRESTING PEOPLE JUST LIKE YOU. Sure, some of them might have criminal records, but how does a DUI justify shooting people? How does having a gun for self defence make you kill them?
One of the funniest yet saddest moments was when i was walking around downtown and i was talking to my gc, and they said ‘hold on, tell [stereotypical white friend] to go with you.’ Because cities with ICE spottings are genuinely that unsafe.
That doesn’t mean that the democrats are good. Theyre two sides of the same coin. Just… one side thinks people like me shouldn’t exist.
"if voting truly didn't matter at all then they wouldn't spend so much money trying to convince people to vote one way or another or get away with lying"
. My post is still there btw, where did I intimidate you? You made a false implication and i corrected it. I am still open to debate btw, I suppose you're not a fan of "facts and logic" when it's applied to your own viewpoints
god forbid i say anything remotely negative about a dead person
... anyways, this is how any fox news/new york post article feels to me
mainstream media is trying increasingly hard to divert to culture war right now by creating some WNBA trans athletes controversy that was resolved almost 2 years ago, and doing their absolute best to find every sliver of slightly problematic news that they could use to "cancel" progressive candidates, when in reality, progressivism & socialism (despite a ton of minor setbacks) is flourishing in the US.
(i thought the rational and reasonable opinion to hold on that is pretty simple, hereby: 1. who gives a fuck, this literally affects nobody at the moment and 2. we are talking hypotheticals upon hypotheticals upon hypotheticals 3. this conversation quickly escalated from one interview and trans people in sports to the existence of trans people altogether, which is NOT okay and also incredibly bad-faith, and 4. it is practically impossible to create a trans-exclusionary sports policy without excluding cis or nonbinary women as well or just women who don't conform biologically or physically and finally 5. if we're just talking about high school college sports, genuinely who CARES except for some butthurt parents? the odds of you going pro are so miniscule, just enjoy the damn sport! i've rowed with trans people before and nobody cried wolf or raised a massive protest about it-)
I've seen so many false equivalence (DSA = leftist MAGA, socialist = communist), etc, thereby creating a 2-party horse race again and furthering a gap in the DNC. i was especially shocked to see a USA Today opinion blogger bringing back the old "nazis were socialist" argument to try and imply that socialists will take control of the government , notwithstanding that one principle of socialism is to allow for indivdual freedom by holding those who try to restrict it and commoditize it accountable, AND that histocially, the Nazis used the name of socialism (a tactic described by multiple german historians) to elevate theur party, although in reality they explicitly opposed socialists/leftist immediately prosecuted socialists & SDP (social democrats) before any other group, making said commentator's implication incredibly and deliberately misconstrued.
What else?
it means progressives are starting to deliver wins to their communities and the general democratic party is losing their grip on establishment candidates. It means that voters are sick of the same old recycled neoliberal policies, and want true social change, not just empty words of affirmation. If it's true that leftist candidates will fail, you would think they wouldn't try as hard to stop them. notably, of course, i don't think there's a catch all. the democraitc party is a big tent party, so it's not unreasonable to imagine that those more fiscally conservative democratic candidates can keep holding down the fort in more purple areas. Still, it's certainly never a long stretch to imagine a progressive dem winning in a mixed area -- take a look at james talarico and abdul el-sayed's senate campaigns, for example, both in historically red or purple states that have been ravaged by redistricting.