Oddbean

Remember the good ol days when people would hate each other for a couple of months. Then we'd have the election and everything would go back to normal? I'm old enough to remember that the Dems broke that. Now it's all day hate and people claim to be cats. Not sure who needs to hear this, but that hateful atmosphere ain't maga... You guys have burned down cities, come out in droves as pedos, satanists and sexual deviants. You've attempted 2 assassinations while claiming MAGA are dangerous, racists and haters. You've threatened to pack the supreme court, end the electoral college, and have censored speech and tried to ban voter ID. You've imported more immigrants in the last 3 years than probably the last 10 combined while denying it to the bitter end. You lied about Jan 6 and continue to talk about threats to democracy. Friend. You are the threat to any and all democratic processes. Productive and mentally sane people are ready to move on. #Trump2024

before you blame all of this on the left you should consider the hastert rule and the man who it is named for. this is a not a red blue issue, its a broken political system based on broken fiat incentives. projecting blame on the other side, whether right or left, is playing into the problem. (which is why its designed that way, placing the blame on 'the others', rather than the ones stealing from us all).

Grow up and give it a rest with your moral equivalency. We've already had a taste of trump. We had lower crime, lower taxes,ore jobs and no new wars. It wasnt rednecks burning down cities. There is, in fact, a side to blame for the current state of things... And they've been in power for 12 of the last 16 years.

this post comes from someone who lacks perspective. They're jaded by what they see, but lack the experience to see how far outside the norm we are. If age was on your side and you understood world events, you would understand that this isn't politics as usual. Communism has one foot in the door.

you complain about packing the supreme court and trump appointed 3 justices and conservatives have a 6-3 majority. then you claim Dems have been president for 12 of the last 16 which is true but how about pointing out that it's been each party in power for 12 of the last 24 years? the period from 2000-2008 slip your mind? your posts lack objectivity. it's a bad look for you....too much simping. ( and yes for the record I agree with you the Democrats stink.)

I just cant even take you seriously. Are you a deviant and/or a socialist? You say you agree “the democrats stink” but you have statistics to back your democrat comrades. What excuse do you have to justify the fucking chaos we’ve endured the last 3.5 years?

You are objectively an idiot. A pseudo-intellectial that lacks any real understanding of the current state of affairs. it's not entirely your fault. You lack context and reference point of sanity. I remember 2000-2008 very well. I was an adult then too. Judging by your luke-warm stance and need to be morally equivalent, I'd say you are in your early 20's and unmarried. You have a child's worldview. Still looking to figure it out with a "cool apathy". Here's a hint junior. Between 2000-2008, we didn't celebrate mental illness as a virtue. No one identified as a cat and we recognized that healthy debate was the foundation of democracy, not a threat to it. You clearly don't understand what packing the supreme court means. The rest of your post isn't worth commenting on.

Or maybe more people are visible to you because of the internet? He met his partner at a fury convention… I’ve no skin in this horse to be honest, whoever wins the US election they’ll be funding war in the Middle East but I want truth for all the folks in the past identifying as cats. 🐈

Look dude, of you want to encourage mental illness as a path of success for a nation. Then go for it. You're part of the problem. And we can all use that tired trope of more taxes and more war with either party, but we didn't have that with trump. We had less tax and he closed out virtually every arena of war. He also forced NATO counties to own their contractual obligations so that we were not on the hook for paying their wars. Abrhamic peace accords... Bringing peace to the middle east. This is not an election like any other. Trump broke that paradigm. Not sure if you noticed, but he's equally hated by the entire establishment. Boths R's and D's. People need to wake up.

Ive found that nostr is mostly centralist but non political. I Agree completely, as do most of the people that opt to not comment for the reason I just stated. Either way, ty for posting a thoughtful post.