“You know, I once played Frederick Douglass in a one-woman show that the University of Maryland Diamondback called ‘too confusing to be offensive.'” -Liz Lemon

It’s just terrible UX anyway, to link to the general website and not directly to your policy page.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4746076-biden-debate-failure-pod-save-america/mlite/

That was actually Pod Damn America’s Jake Flores, the Pod John response was that Biden’s debate performance was a “fucking disaster,” which drew insane ire from their listeners and the staffers who feed them guests.

Some of them do have a larger reach, but many others do not and are just everyday people, and most of those with reach generally built it from nothing. And regardless of what algorithms put in front of them these people are often directly courting the attacks by quote tweeting and replying to the chuds they come across.

I do not believe the odds uniquely overwhelm most people in the way you describe, and the ones that are so overwhelmed of course can totally disengage to preserve their well being. But I hope that most of us are not disengaging permanently, and find some sort of inner resolve that can steel us against inflammatory rhetoric enough to articulate cogent and unyielding responses at least on some days.

Like, I stopped reading Twitter, but I still reply when an Instagram/YouTube comment I come across is hateful or ignorant to lay out what the commenter is overlooking, even at times when that comment already has a ton of likes. And even when I leave a mean response to the ignorant or hateful person, I don’t forget to also leave positive and sincere praise for the person being attacked or a similarly marginalized person. I think that’s something most of us forget to do when we are too focused on countering incoming attacks, not focusing enough on putting more positivity out there.

I am going to say something controversial, which is that while it is totally appropriate for some of us to completely avoid spaces online where there is misogyny, racism, and transphobia to protect our mental well being, we can’t afford to all do this at all times, unless we want to just let the hate toward marginalized groups multiply in this culture.

There are plenty of irredeemably hateful people online but there are also a lot of people who are just suggestible, or have only ever been presented one side of an issue, and if leftists do not actually wade into at least some online discussions veering toward bigotry, in order to unapologetically state a pro case for the humanity of marginalized groups and win over these on-the-fence people, then pretty soon they could find bigotry becoming so ubiquitious that no amount of blocking accounts will make it avoidable.

The only people I regularly see these days actually wading into hateful/reactionary spaces to unyieldingly and pointedly defend things like LGBT rights, polyamory/promiscuity, social justice, etc. are libertarians, Evo Psych people, and fucking Mr. Beast and Will Stancil. They readily face the ratio-ing and barrage of hateful responses to do this. A lot of leftists/liberals, on the other hand, just shy away from directly addressing any prejudicial talking points that they don’t feel they can counter with sufficient resonance, allowing those talking points to grow in popularity and cause new panics unabated. It’s sad that Shane Gillis and Joe Rogan made the point to their chud audience that it’s unfair to smear all gay people by publicizing individual incidents of a gay guy behaving inappropriately with someone, and we are too invested in thinking that that sentiment should be self-explanatory to also try saying it sometime to the politically uninitiated.

The people on the left, who supposedly support the marginalized the most, tend to observe their most prominent defamers from a distance, and tell just tell one another “OMG, can you believe what xyz said about so and so?” That, or they exclusively call out people in their in-group for being problematic. Not saying those things don’t have their place, but until we have people who can stand proud and undaunted in online and real-life environments where we might get triggered by ignorant and hateful people, and make persuasive arguments directly countering the false-but-salient attacks on the humanity of the marginalized, our movement of love will only contract while theirs of hate grows.

And if you can’t withstand the heat of something like defending the people you cherish unvarnished in the face of a ratio by Nazis, you can at least go out of your way to leave some earnest, positive comments on the posts of people who face harassment from bigots. You possibly even leave your comments as replies their harassers. It doesn’t feel like this will do anything, but if a ton of people all do this, the hateful voices will find themselves outgunned and drowned out.

People really underestimate the power of unbridled and sincere positivity toward, and arguments in favor of something, or maybe are too afraid to put themselves out there to demonstrate such. But such might be our most effective tool against this newly burgeoning wave of bigotry, and at least some of us need to stop being afraid to enter proverbial lion’s dens to put it forward.

The fact of the matter is running on anti-trans issues is a proven loser for Republicans, but since the sliver of wealthy older Dems who steer the party don’t really understand, and are even at times weirded out by trans people, they project their discomfort onto the Republicans, and say that being too pro-trans or woke is a stance that will alienate general voters. This is their socially acceptable way of telegraphing that they themselves are swayed by the Republican anti-trans panic, and personally wish to halt Democrats’ pushes for trans rights.

When Turning Point USA tried to troll him by asking how many genders there were, and he replied “At least three.”

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Sonichu

Edit: Jk, it’s from Watchmen

Yeah they need that feeling of intellectual elevation at all costs, it’s why they hate simplifying their pitch to the American public in any way even if it would win them popular support, and love to cite technicalities to shut down people’s hopes for Dem leaders to do anything.

Yeah either Obama or David Axelrod forced the Pod Jons to issue semi-apologies.

They used to have a Salted Caramel one that I thought was just as amazing as the other flavors, but they sadly discontinued it. At Grocery Outlet I found a variety pack of small bags which was great because they keep me from eating a whole bag in one sitting.

The Parmesan Garlic flavor is not good though, barely any flavor compared to the others.

Not mentioned here is how her posting led to her divorce and how her Netflix special was dreadful

Let me be clear: let Joe be unclear

I think if you believe this glasses eyed old lady college professor could win against Donald Trump, you live in a complete echo chamber and have zero non-PMC friends. Christman was right when he said Warren was the candidate for Millennials who made it, and this is why her whole core was second gen Asians and celebs in their 30s or younger. They fucking deified her and SNL gave her one of the most venerating sketches I have ever seen, as a cold open! Warren was like the NFT of the lib media class, extremely limited in appeal, but that appeal happened to be centered around culturally insular people at the levers of power.

Horse-riding arrow shooters, even

I remember them hyping her up as Hillary’s attack dog against Trump, only for her to fall into his trap of taking a DNA test and getting called Pocahontas for life

Screenshotting this of all things and posting it to your feed probably adds more to people’s annoyance with liberals than it engenders favorability towards Biden. And I can’t believe people are still sharing David Sedaris to make themselves look cultured, he’s old and played out too!

Until libs get over chasing photo ops that make something seem epic exclusively on the surface, they will keep collapsing. On the day of the 2016 election I remember a bunch of women putting ‘I Voted’ stickers on Susan B Anthony’s gravestone, a photo of which the whole lib internet jerked itself off over, until that night when Hillary lost to the real-life manifestation of the villain in a sexual harassment training video. Sick of fucking dumbasses like RBG trying to make their lives into scenes from a movie rather than weighing what actual outcomes may be borne out of those theatrics.