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I wouldn't call it "planned", average people do stupid things all the time

If I was running a conservative PR firm, or was running a foreign intelligence agency, this is exactly the type of discourse I would want to create within the Unites State/The West

By making the working class/the population at large attack one another, I am increasing internal conflict and decreasing awareness of class concerns. Which is useful if I am opposed to working class/national solidarity

How would you feel if the hypothetical was asking if you'd rather encounter a bear or a Muslim?

What about a bear or a person who is black?

Or a bear vs an immigrant?

See the issue?

Also, when we dehumanize or other an entire sex (which is what we're doing here) who do you think suffers the most irl from that dehumanization?

Because it isn't rich white men in gated suburban communities. It's the black and brown men who are already viewed as inherently harmful and are disproportionately violently victimized by police and the state.

If we want more George Floyds then we should keep spreading memes like this. Because this contributes to the mindset that allows us to view men of color as inherently dangerous superpredators

What is the penalty of a Supreme Court directly overruling precedent?

Answer: there isn't one

The only thing that will kill the GOP in its current state is lack of power. That would require people to band together and consistently vote Democrat, whether they like the candidate or not. That would force Republicans to adopt more liberal/libertarian policies in order to capture more of the vote.

If power is the only thing that influences the GOP (which is true) then why would they acquiesce to election results?

They don't care about the rule of law, except when they can use it as a sword to advance their agenda. So why would outvoting them change anything?

Putin cannot be removed from power in Russia by an election, even if he were to somehow lose an election. This is because Putin has a monopoly on power and will not give that up merely because of election results. Why would we expect the GOP to behave any differently?

The United States is a democracy only if oligarchies are democracies

So you're being a hypocrite given what you're criticizing and what this site is

Elitist white college kid attitude right there

Says the person using Lemmy

The correct term is "progressive."

The term is actually Democratic Socialist. Which he has repeatedly reiterated in highly televised settings for 9 years, and in less televised setting for decades before that

Though Social Democrat may be more accurate in some respects.

Either way, "progressive" is a weasel word label that neoliberals use to cloak themselves in the language of the left. See: Hillary and Pete

Vermont, at worst, will elect a moderate Democrat. And likely will elect someone similar to him as a replacement. Things can't really get very messed up by his untimely demise

Which is the opposite of how things were with RBG