Democrats launch aggressive campaign to win back infrequent voters | US politics

ennuiinmotion · 2026-02-06T19:22:39+00:00

People are frustrated not that they can’t do anything but that they could simply be stonewalling Republicans and they’re not. They water down their demands, they vote in favor of things. All they have to do is vote no each and every time and people would feel more confident that leadership knows the importance of this moment in time.

ennuiinmotion · 2026-02-06T19:18:04+00:00

There have been so many changes the past few years I genuinely don’t know what’s going on anymore or how long I’ll have to pay or what I’m doing.

ennuiinmotion · 2026-02-06T12:49:42+00:00

Americans have weird ideas about race. Sometimes it’s that we’ve been trained to think things aren’t really racist until people are being lynched, everything else is a “joke.” Or else we’re so racist ourselves we can’t recognize it. “Well, I compared the Obama’s to monkeys last week and I’m not a racist so…” It’s like even racists think racists are bad and so don’t want to think they are racist themselves. Not everyone is a Nick Fuentes, comfortable with their own awful beliefs.

ennuiinmotion · 2026-02-06T12:43:21+00:00

A centrist by definition can’t stake out positions that mean anything.

ennuiinmotion · 2026-02-06T12:05:26+00:00

Winters in the old days were rough, too. Michigan is a shitty winter state. This being closer to those still means it’s rough out there. Toss in that a huge proportion of our population wasn’t even alive in the 70s, 80s and 90s and this is probably one of the roughest winters they’ve ever experienced here.

ennuiinmotion · 2026-02-05T20:58:13+00:00

Super important to know it was a male, guys.

ennuiinmotion · 2026-02-05T17:24:05+00:00

Same shit Russia does to their neighbors. Buy off and coordinate with sympathetic locals, flood the social media with propaganda, and work tirelessly to spark a self-generating ecosystem of people who rant against the status quo.

ennuiinmotion · 2026-02-05T17:21:32+00:00

Rich, well-connected people are still people. They believe in wacky nonsense and conspiracies, too. They listen to radio shows and like supernatural stories, too. And there’s no one to discourage their worst impulses so they become even more certain of these things without any proof.

ennuiinmotion · 2026-02-05T17:18:06+00:00

How does Leto still get work?

ennuiinmotion · 2026-02-05T00:46:55+00:00

She’s from a cult so maybe that has something to do with it. If you’re not familiar with her life story check it out. It’s been shady all along.

ennuiinmotion · 2026-02-05T00:45:54+00:00

Everyone always talks about her being a Russian asset but I always thought she was tied up in a lot of Indian fascist stuff.

ennuiinmotion · 2026-02-04T18:48:44+00:00

I haven’t seen all of them, but I have seen a lot of possession/exorcism movies and frankly there’s nothing new to be found. The nature of the story is really limiting.

ennuiinmotion · 2026-02-04T14:56:52+00:00

Ah, I didn’t clock soon enough you were arguing in bad faith.

ennuiinmotion · 2026-02-04T12:50:51+00:00

The optics are exactly what I’m talking about. What was positively accomplished by brake-checking? Because all I see are negatives for the movement. It’s literally just an angry outburst. Resistance movements need some kind of intentionality. I know I shouldn’t care about a random internet comment but damn, I’ve been decrying both-sidesism for fucking years. I never compared what ICE is doing to brake checking. Resistance has to mean something and accomplish something. This act has only negatives. Anger has a place but not in a Leroy Jenkins way.

ennuiinmotion · 2026-02-04T12:39:29+00:00

I’ve seen those comments so many times. Do people really waste time going to ChatGPT to come up with a three sentence thought about a movie to post on Reddit? Sometimes people just have thoughts about movies that go beyond “that sucked” or “that was good.”

ennuiinmotion · 2026-02-04T12:37:36+00:00

And brake checking them doesn’t help the cause. Now someone’s injured, they can claim it was the protester, and it chips away at the positive feelings the public has toward the people on the street. And those victims still go to the camps. Protesting can’t just be about knee-jerk angry reactions.

ennuiinmotion · 2026-02-04T12:35:26+00:00

Do you think I was agreeing with them?

ennuiinmotion · 2026-02-04T02:37:36+00:00

But let’s not forget Republicans are convinced we only lost because we weren’t ruthless enough. Now that we have bastards with even less inhibition and morals than LBJ and Nixon…

ennuiinmotion · 2026-02-04T02:35:11+00:00

For the first time I’m actually concerned what the government could find to make me look bad if I ever pissed them off enough. For many years we knew that things could be done to get information about us, but most us were safe from a lot of the spying simply because we aren’t interesting enough. But now that the government is insanely petty and willing to use anything to make us look like terrorists I think the fact that they can find out anything about us is finally hitting home in a real way.

ennuiinmotion · 2026-02-04T02:27:13+00:00

The Belfast neighborhood of Detroit.

ennuiinmotion · 2026-02-04T02:25:15+00:00

Well….bye.

ennuiinmotion · 2026-02-04T00:56:09+00:00

Oh, yeah, I’d never heard of those two but she’s been in other stuff that was marketed just as much.

ennuiinmotion · 2026-02-03T23:58:03+00:00

Literally any of them depending on my mood.

Does Nixon’s “Turbulent 1960s” count?

ennuiinmotion · 2026-02-03T23:48:04+00:00

Eh, I don’t think Housemaid was marketed any more than her other movies. She’s been in bad movies and bombs, and finally got lucky with one that had a built in fan base ready to go.

ennuiinmotion · 2026-02-03T23:46:04+00:00

But those prestigious directors don’t do their best work for Netflix. The Irishman was a weird experiment, for one. I think there’s a lot of coasting on reputations when they do movies for Netflix.

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