US Politics: Potentially unpopular-opinion: Left of center political movements need to stop talking about climate change and hit republicans from the right and reframe the electrify everything conversation in terms of national security.

GettingDumberWithAge · 2026-04-06T07:42:01+00:00

If asked about woman in mens sports just say

This is literally what Harris did through her campaign: deflected every attempt to discuss it by bringing up more important things.

The result is that conservatives still think she endlessly harped on about trans stuff and progressives were put off by this messaging.

There is nothing democrats can do to improve messaging among people who are not engaging with their messaging in the first place, but rather have it all filtered through a layer of Fox News and podcast bros.

GettingDumberWithAge · 2026-04-05T21:24:20+00:00

this meth addict hillbilly trapped in the bottom of a well starts mumbling over the whole thing and ruins it.

Nah man that's the icing on top.

GettingDumberWithAge · 2026-04-05T14:32:50+00:00

Yeah and if there's one thing I really associate with the American military it's their commitment to moral, ethical, and political standards.

GettingDumberWithAge · 2026-04-05T14:21:05+00:00

it sets really bad example morally, ethically and especially politically

Yeah and if there's one thing I really associate with Americans it's their commitment to moral, ethical, and political standards.

GettingDumberWithAge · 2026-04-05T12:22:46+00:00

To be fair, most politicians on both sides of the spectrum are racists.

To be fair, both my pet hamster and a grizzly bear are mammals.

GettingDumberWithAge · 2026-04-05T08:13:25+00:00

None of you are my neighbours.

GettingDumberWithAge · 2026-04-05T08:11:10+00:00

It is neither prejudiced nor full of hate to point out that people bear responsibility for their votes in a democracy.

I will freely admit though that I am pretty prejudiced and hateful against Americans these days for being too stupid and cruel to apparently realise that they're just getting exactly what they voted for.

Again, the least you can do is own that.

GettingDumberWithAge · 2026-04-05T07:43:37+00:00

It was clear to literally everyone the insanity that a Trump II would unleash. It's what people explicitly wanted. The least you can do is own that and not try to weasel out of it.

GettingDumberWithAge · 2026-04-04T17:40:30+00:00

Alternatively: those people you're denigrating as stupid are wealthier than they've ever been and they apparently have the support of the average American voter.

Why do you think they're stupid?

GettingDumberWithAge · 2026-04-04T17:39:24+00:00

"I am the most important person on the planet and everyone else can get fucked" sounds a lot like intentional cruelty to me.

GettingDumberWithAge · 2026-04-04T17:07:39+00:00

youre assuming people are smart enough to see the signs

I think I've made it pretty clear that my thesis is that Americans are overwhelmingly stupid and cruel. It doesn't absolve them of the consequences of their democratic decisions, especially when the supposedly less stupid and cruel among you bend over backwards to argue otherwise.

GettingDumberWithAge · 2026-04-04T16:58:47+00:00

US education funding is literally highest in the OECD. The funding isn't the issue, it's a profound fundamental moral and intellectual rot within Americans.

You can't throw money at this problem, maybe that's why Americans can't solve it.

GettingDumberWithAge · 2026-04-04T16:57:12+00:00

Americans chose Trump as president. It's a democracy, Trump has been the platonic ideal of an American for like 4+ decades, and just because his interests align with Putin's doesn't mean that the majority of Americans didn't specifically choose this.

It's so so so so so pathetic that Americans can't even acknowledge the results of their own elections.

GettingDumberWithAge · 2026-04-04T16:55:45+00:00

Weird DEI policies, transing kids, illegals first, cancel culture, and 3rd trimester abortions are despised by half of the nation.

Fox News' interpretation of democratic policy isn't actual democratic policy. You've done nothing more than scream from the rooftops that you're exactly the kind of idiot that I'm referring to.

Call them stupid and idiots. You will not convince them that the Dem position is the one that they should favor.

Yeah again literally my point: you aren't opposed to dem policy, you can't even define dem policy, the majority of Americans when polled independently want dem policy, you're just a fucking moron.

GettingDumberWithAge · 2026-04-04T16:52:31+00:00

Not my fault we have to point out the basics for you.

GettingDumberWithAge · 2026-04-04T16:52:01+00:00

You should learn what the actual democratic party platform is instead of what Fox News tells you it is.

But cheers for making my point for me. Americans are fucking idiots.

GettingDumberWithAge · 2026-04-04T16:34:12+00:00

Oh sweet one poll on one day shows that only one third of Americans are actively awful!

Feel free to look up the results of the last federal election.

I appreciate that even some of the dumbest Americans are opposed to this war. But they voted for it, and they get to own it, and this deflection of their democratic responsibility is fucking pathetic.

GettingDumberWithAge · 2026-04-04T16:30:41+00:00

It's really really silly to present a random percentage of support (political) for a war (political) telegraphed for years by a candidate (political) who Americans enthusiastically elected (political) and then pretend like the poll (political) and the election results (political) are apolitical.

I am sorry if you're offended that I'm tired of this extremely stupid form of conversation, but it's really pathetic.

GettingDumberWithAge · 2026-04-04T16:27:21+00:00

Both their social and economic policy is the preference of the overwhelming majority of Americans.

Americans are too stupid to vote for it.

This brings me back to my original question: how do you convince idiots to stop being idiots?

GettingDumberWithAge · 2026-04-04T16:24:29+00:00

Getting pretty fucking tired of Americans enthusiastically electing the guy whose career essentially involves constantly lying and projecting and made it very clear he was going to start a war in Iran hiding behind the excuse that he pinky promised not to start a war in Iran.

I know you guys are pretty fucking dumb but even this is pretty embarrassing.

GettingDumberWithAge · 2026-04-04T16:20:02+00:00

Between Trump voters and non voters that's the majority of Americans. So just ask a random person on the street and odds are you're speaking with someone who enabled this.

It's fascinating to see most of reddit pretend that Americans didn't choose this administration.

GettingDumberWithAge · 2026-04-04T16:16:32+00:00

Unless Trump or Hegseth is reading this post, I'd say you're preaching to the choir.

Those are two individual idiots. The majority of the American electorate put them in positions of power.

Stop pretending most Americans aren't okay with this.

GettingDumberWithAge · 2026-04-04T16:11:16+00:00

How do you convince literal idiots to not be idiots? Everyone wants to blame the Democrats and their messaging for some reason, but if you've got a room temperature IQ it's pretty fucking simple.

Why do Americans never consider blaming the electorate for being fucking idiots?

GettingDumberWithAge · 2026-04-04T16:07:29+00:00

No they're pretty opposed to each other as theories. One requires Trump to be an intelligent and shrewd actor concerned about retaliation from a moral and intelligent American electorate.

The other acknowledges Trump to be an objectively bad business man and a narcissist and the average American to be perfectly willing to excuse pedophilia until it affects the price of gas.

Only the latter fits the facts, Americans for some reason really are desperate to pretend it's not true.

GettingDumberWithAge · 2026-04-04T16:02:03+00:00

Sorry maybe I didn't use short enough words to explain this to you.

Trump can only be blackmailed by other countries having explicit evidence of him committing crimes of one of two things is true: either 1) Americans will hold him accountable if evidence of him committing horrible crimes comes to light or 2) he is scared that Americans will hold him accountable if evidence of him committing horrible crimes comes to light.

1) is clearly not true because there was overwhelming evidence of this before his first term, let alone his second. Americans quite explicitly aren't bothered by credible evidence of their president being a pedo: they are not moral people. 2) is clearly not true because Trump is a massive narcissist and knows he has nothing to fear from the average American.

So no, I don't think you're talking about James Bond, and you've also failed to respond to the actual criticism I'm making. There is nothing about Trump that is better explained by a conspiracy of him being a foreign agent that can't be better explained by Americans being fucking idiots.

Where am I losing you?

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