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Reuters claims Harris leads Trump by oversampling democrats in their poll. This is how they will convince people the upcoming steal is legit. if anyone cites this poll, expose it.
I'm still looking forward to the DNC fallout. The media and establishment appears to be all in on Heels Up now but hopefully the Obama faction or somebody throws a wildcard in. Even a surprise VP pick.
The plebs will forget. The TV man will order them to.
Stopped by my grandmother's. Canadian MSM was blaring "Kamala good" non-stop.
Actually, Harris's appeal is super weird. Lot's of Progressives despise her. However, there's a sub-sect of Progressives that are Harris zealots. Something something black woman. And, it may unify some of the jew-hating faction of Leftists that are currently screaming about "Genocide Joe".
That's what philosemites so often miss, antisemitism is a great gateway drug to reel in disillusioned leftoids. And once you get someone to join in on a bit of cheeky antisemitism, the n-word loses its bite.
Nothing personal against any given individual with Jewish ancestry, but for whatever reason antisemitism is a lot of fun and really gets people to work together.
None of it is philosemitism or antisemitism, jews aren't a race, and they are certainly not the entirety of semites. No one saying hatred for Bashar Al-Assad is anti-semitism.
Jew-Hatred is really the core here. It isn't used to 'reel in disillusioned leftoids'. Fundamentally, jew-hatred is a core component of Leftism itself, and the harder you assert Leftism, the more inevitable your hatred of jews becomes because Capitalism is literally nothing more than a dog-whistle against what Marx asserted was the inherent nature of jews. It's why he believed that it was impossible for jews to exist within a Socialist society, and they would disappear as assuredly as the state would.
The only reason jew-hatred isn't the norm on the Left is because jewish intellectuals who were already Leftists wanted to try and carve out jews from the Marxist narrative. They wanted to secularize it more, and they saw Zionism as an explicit form of Progressive Nationalism. After the Holocaust, they kept trying to repeat that there wasn't anything within Socialism that supported jew-hatred, and that somehow jew-hatred was "rightist/conservative/reactionary. This effectively amounts to the earliest form of Holocaust Denial.
Where everything started to go wrong was when despite the Zionist movement have succeeded in foemen ting the state of Israel, instead of allying with the Soviet Union, and becoming a full Socialist state, the Orthodox jews that the Zionists had allied with rejected atheistic Socialism and allied themselves with the US. The Socialists and Communists never forgave them, and as the Left has moved slowly away from "racialist policies are exclusively right-wing" we see the inevitable re-emergence of jew-hatred among the Left, which was always the previous norm.
Jew hate has been around since the Romans, what the Nazis pioneered was racialized Jew hate. Even the premise of the Inquisition was that ethnic Jews were claiming to be Catholics while secretly practicing Judaism, and Torquemada himself had Jewish ancestry.
Marxism is opposed to Jewish culture, not Jews as an ethnicity, as like Christians before them Marxists just wanted Jews to abandon their traditions and convert to the universal faith.
I'm not so sure, yes the NatSocs racialized Jew hate and certainly were the largest and most thorough proponents of it, but I don't know that they originated it. Frankly, I think Zionism probably did more to racialize jew hate by racializing jews. It's why I specifically avoid saying anti-semitism, because it's an inherent misnomer that tries to conflate jews as a race, rather than a religion or ethnic group.
I feel like, during the red era around the late 1910's-1920's, Leftist jews were kind of all over the place. Was Zionism a nationalist movement, a socialist movement, a religious movement? Could you be an ethnic but irreligious jew? Are jews a race? Does that fit into the concept of racism? Is anti-jewish racism an act of Capitalist oppression? What of eugenics?
Leftist jews just seemed to try and slam a square peg in a round hole and it ended up with a Holocaust, and no Leftist jew ever taking responsibility for adhering to an explicitly anti-jewish set of beliefs.
I'm really not convinced of that. Part of the problem with the genuine jew hatred from the time period is that a lot of the tropes that the NatSocs would eventually use are all from this time, and are popularly held within Socialist circles. Marx is asserting that jews just won't exist when the socialist state arrives. Clearly to Braum and Marx, you'd have to abandon everything that makes you a jew, in order to be a Socialist. But then the question becomes, can a jew ever not be a jew. The sentiments that they seemed to espoused appeared to me to be a resounding "no". I think that's the first step in racialization: asserting that these traits are biologically innate.
Hmmm...
That's a perspective on this topic I haven't heard before, and I don't mean that in a passive-aggressive way. It's pretty intriguing, actually.
I can tell you with near certainty that almost every "radical leftist" in the US is just a shitlib who's pissed off that following the instructions of their parents and teachers merely lead them to being baristas with college degrees and assloads of debt. All they really want is a bureaucracy several times larger so they can be petty tyrants too, and if or when they finally get that the "radical" LARPing will vanish as quickly as the anti-war movement vanished once Obama was sworn in.
Every ounce of vitriol they spew towards "liberals" and "reformists" is nothing more than envy.
They will fall in line with the next patch update. They always do
Desperate push polling to try and build the "excited" narrative.
Frankly, I don't think they are doing this to deceive or demoralize Republicans; I think they are just desperate to avoid a contested election in Chicago.
We'll see if they can, it's a maybe at this point.
No matter what the polls say. No matter what happens. I expect them to steal it again.
I don't buy the claim that it'll be too difficult for them to steal it this time around. Democrats control every major city in every swing state. If Trump gets 90M votes, Kamala will get 90.2M. "Energized to vote against Trump" and all the usual hits.
And really how much more fuckery can happen this time compared to last time? Early morning ballot dumps almost all for Biden. Scanning ballots on camera after sending everyone home. USB drives being carried around by random people. Software updates the night before the election which is a blatant violation of the rules. Short of a video with people admitting they cheated on camera, all the hallmarks of fraud were there and we have even fewer mechanisms to expose fraud this time around. And even with video evidence I'm not sure that would be enough for boomers. Let's not forget that regardless of what they say in public, 90% of Republican politicians don't like Trump.
Sorry for dooming but that's how I feel. I want nothing more than to be wrong.
I honestly agree, but that should never keep you from voting. It's free and take only a few hours. A few minutes if you decide to mail it in.
Hope for the best, expect the worst.
Even if they intend to steal, every vote they have to fraudulently match is resources they have to spend, paid patsies are cheap but they aren't free y'know.
Even if you don't expect to win a battle, at least make them pay as dearly as you can
Simply put, the infrastructure isn't there for them to get 125% turnout in counties.
I think Arizona is still risky at the moment, but a 7 point lead is nuts. 13 in Nevada. The numbers keep getting worse and worse for the Dems. Fraud normally can't swing 7-10 points. The best and most organized fraud that seems to have occurred in 2020 was by 5, with mass mail-in ballots which aren't even available in a lot of places anymore.
It's not the Boomers you have to worry about anyway, it's the courts.
I hope at the very least that James O'Keefe and other people like him have some double agents on the inside ready to catch these fuckers redhanded this time around.
Edit: if I lived in a swing state I'd volunteer myself to get on the inside, while having my IRL social media be nothing but pozz. But since I'm in a solidly blue state I doubt they'll bother pulling that shit here.
That might not work as telling the MAGA they're going to lose, they'll vote as hard as possible, while the leftist side things they don't need to vote for the bitch if she's going to win anyway.
You just tried to kill the guy, ordinary rules no longer apply to get people back to the reservation..
Remember it's still July. The news moves fast, the normies will forget within a month.
Voting is such a joke sadly
Will be interesting to see if they dare steal it again. At this point I don't quite know what would be better though. If Trump ends up just being a release valve for 4 years with no greater progress towards normalcy, I will be disappointed.
If Trump is in on it, This is what I expect.
This just in, Kamala to win almost unanimously based on a poll of random adults near the exit of the DNC around the time it was over.
The catch is she's not the official DNC nomination for President unless Biden resigns.
The poll is bad faith as anything serious until she's nominated.