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If a Republican crippled a historic enemies military without a single soldier dying and did so using a fraction of the US military budget they would put him on Mt. Rushmore, but since Biden did it they, and the entire media apparatus, called him a bumbling fool and senile.

Just like how Reagan gets credit for 'ending the Cold War' when a ton of the legwork for that was put in place by Kennedy, Eisenhower, (yes Nixon too), and LBJ and Carter.

Biden has flaws, and I wish Biden really did more to help Ukraine in the beginning of the war, but him helping out and clearing so much equipment to them was a genuinely good thing that he did while in office.

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They're also coopting far left groups to further their goals as well. Lets not kid ourselves.

Where do you think all the 'don't vote because X' reasons suddenly came up a few months before the election in leftist circles?

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What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ?

Man it's like the majority of people here don't have 'regular guy' friends.

The way to get to regular dudes, is to make them feel fucking included. Yes, diversity is fucking awesome. Yes, having women in leadership roles is fucking awesome. But for your average guy... who do they have to look up to on the left side of things? In the news? In congress? Who is on the national stage for these things? Who is talking to those people?

There isn't anyone. There are tons of people talking to other groups of people, but there has been flat out no courting of the white dude demographic outside of White Dudes for Harris (which was brilliant but came too late).

Speak to the issues these guys are facing. Talk about dating. Talk about career struggles. Talk about feeling alone, and feeling vulnerable. And then, talk about solution based problem-solving for these things.

Why do you think the right wing latched onto guys who do the whole personal betterment thing? It's the same shit that white supremacist groups do. They'll get you with things that anyone can agree with like 'Hey man if you work hard you'll succeed. I fucking believe in you when no one else will.' Then they go into the right wing bullshit because now they have you at an emotional level.

There is no online left presence doing these things, and there are multiple right wing people doing this shit.

Make a left wing Joe Rogan, and bro-dudes will watch that shit like shit on velcro. But it has to be a dude-bro talking to them. It can't be Rachel Maddow or AOC, it has to be someone who comes from that background.

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Netflix Shows Are Suffering Because It Takes Too Long For Them To Return

Disney+ learned this lesson, and for the Marvel shows at least, they're going back to yearly releases. Daredevil Born Again season 2 is well into production right now and will come out again next March, for example.

I am 100% out on Netflix shows for this reason. It's been how many years since One Piece live action came out? It's been how long since the last season of Stranger Things? No one gives a shit anymore.

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Not like anyone wants to shoot up in a bathroom

This kind of circular bullshit is exactly what makes modern day America pathetic.

There used to be a can-do attitude here in this country. People would look at a problem and go 'okay lets fucking fix it' and then we would (or at least fucking try). Now, way too many fucking people just want to sit and bitch about problems and something not being perfect, and refuse to do anything to fix said problems. This can't-do attitude bullshit is fucking infuriating.

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What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments?

I'll give you a huge one.

Purity tests (when cosplaying as liberals). If a person isn't super-duper liberal on every single issue then you can't support them.

There's tons of this on this very site. People who will tell you they'll stay home and not vote for someone, if they only support 80% of what they seemingly want. People see this, then emulate said behavior.

Somehow, liberals would rather get 0% of what they want instead of 50% because of the missed 30% that the candidate doesn't support.