The famous video of Trump “looking lost, confused, and frozen” was carelessly and obviously edited. But Kamala is retweeting it, so faithful followers are taking it completely at face value, even though it would take under 30 seconds to find the original.
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This is why I’m not paying any attention to election political stuff right now. It’s pointless at this point.
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These people aren’t going to stop lying and manipulating after the election. This is what they do. Manipulate the plebs.
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Yeah, and I feel every new video/meme out there is made with the sole purpose of manipulating people, truth and facts be damned.
It’s interesting there has been so little talked of postmodernism lately. I feel we’re truly living in a postmodern world right now.
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Absolutely. This is the postmodern “truth doesn’t exist; nothing is serious; everything is simply word games.”
That’s exactly why people feel that everything is off and this doesn’t look like a real election.
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“faithful followers are taking it completely at face value”
This tweet…. resonated with me. It doesn’t feel like an election at all, much less a presidential election. I have trouble articulating what it does feel like and the closest I can come is…. school play or show. It’s what happens when institutions have been destroyed or gutted of function and meaning…. pretense.
https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1846195456675836114
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Empty ritual.
We are going to do the election thing. We have the script and the costumes from the last 10 years. They’re dusty and worse for wear, and nobody’s enthusiastic about it, but it’s on the schedule so we’re gonna do it anyway.
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That sounds metaphorical. But if you’re doing trick or treat Halloween outreach that would be so cool. What costumes do you wear? Do you all do the door to door thing or some kind of trunk or treat?
Our municipality does trunk or treat at the local park [i don’t know if they’ll be able to clean up in time because of all the flood and wind damage but we’ll see] — which is a little boring but maybe safer for kids? [I loved walking all over the neighborhoods as far as I could go on foot to get as much candy as possible when I was a child. I kind of feel sad not to see kids walking around b/c of fear of getting run over.]
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Lame Duck Jo and Camel Toe Ho, both go on Nov 5th when Trump wins all 50 states.
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OT: For the US citizens who are registered to vote — have you figured out who you want to vote for in the local races and for any state amendments?
I’m doing research right now and it’s disappointing that my local reps at the state level legislature level are not even having boilerplate to address what they want to do about local issues.
My House rep isn’t saying fuck all about what matters to me and my pocketbook. Cool, I’m socially conservative in my actions. The nuns who taught me would be thrilled. What are you doing about bread and butter issues?
I’ve turned into a person who talks about comparative overall tax burdens and the Laffer Curve v “how much extra money do you need to offset the services you have to self fund because the government is staying out of it?” and the price of things now versus when I was a child.
I’m still looking. As someone who pays taxes, manages property and has to have insurances as part of personal life and business endeavors, this is disheartening.
I’ve already decided how I want to vote on a couple of the better funded amendments and most of the non publicized ones.
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Yeah.
I’m mostly showing up to vote “no” on proposed constitutional amendments. Most things people want to tack onto the state constitution are things that they think will fail in the regular legislative process, because they’re too stupid/expensive/horrifying.
All the candidates I’ve researched are shilling for the rich.
Only one of them is even talking about “affordable housing” but everything she is proposing will only benefit investors, and people who already own their houses… not people who are being priced out of the market.
The only ones who don’t suck, are not up for re-election this year.
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My state has some kind of homestead exemption every cycle. Why are these always amendments and not passed as state laws?
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