We've just seen that stepping aside is pointless without a popular candidate to step up. Neither the Liberals nor the NDP have anyone.

I thought to myself before the election. If the Dems lose it's not entirely on them this time. The (non-)voters will have made their choice.

I still stand by that. I know the internet trolls are feasting on the Dems bad narrative. This one is just as much is on those voters as it is on whatever failings will be pinned on the party in the coming future.

Count us out. Canada has our own Trump wannabe lined up. He's been like 20-30 points ahead and we're no where close to election time.

Ontario the biggest province stayed home and didn't bother to vote out the conservative premiere who has been fucking shit up. They all stayed home and handed him another majority. In a year or so we will elect our analog of Trump. Make no mistake he's stocked the party full of MAGA and Proud Boys. I'm not being dramatic. It's literally what it is. Within 4 years Canada will be openly aligned with Trump.

Fox News is a vestige of the 20th century. Social media is the 21st century Fox News. Everyone knows it's bad but we have not reckoned with it. Everyone agrees it's bad then everyone returns to scrolling their echo chamber.

Unfortunately the social media oligarchs side with Trump. We're all fucked.

Underground railroads. It's basically already a thing again with abortion.

Good news for pollsters. They weren't so wrong after all.

We'll finally see what Cannon actually looks like?

Double standard. Trump wins 2016 and it's 4chan and reddit won it for him. Democrats finally get a clue 8 years later an start using social media but this time it doesn't factor.

The broadcaster in Canada interviewed a young Trump supporter woman. She said all the abortion fears are made up. And that abortion isn't real healthcare.

Well damn. This is as much a referendum on the character of America. What a searing indictment that it's even close at all.

So anyone have NAMBLA on their bingo card?

Reddit posted their own site metrics showing much of the traffic came from a US army base. It's a US propaganda outlet.

For these social media ad companies to profit, self awareness had to be done away with. The profit machine stops working when the crowd realizes they're trapped inside of it.

I don't think the older internet was crude. It was more polished than the social media garbage of today. Corporatized internet had to mess all that the old internet worked to achieve. Because if everyone starts understanding the meta-dynamics of the internet again, then crowds will realize they're trapped inside corporate internet. The profit machines would stop working.

You ever notice how the old internet figured out the basic rules of teh game decades ago. But trying to tell the social media crowds how these things work is like talking to a brick wall.

Their premise is that the free market drove up the price of houses. Deregulation that is to say end of social housing programs led to this. Is that not neo-liberal? High construction costs come mainly from high cost of labor. The market driving up costs isn't free market? What protectionist policies are there? When have property values been under threat of dropping. They've been ever increasing due to market demand. You say "lack of good investment". Others say investors determined housing was a prime investment. Ditto for your last point.

a bunch of 5-over-1 in mixed zoning

What does this even mean?

The goal has always been engagement prisons. Where people never leave the platform. With generated content this must seem like a final step. They don't need to make people to interact with each other in ways that keeps both of them engaged. They don't need to leech content from other sites while preventing people from going to the site. With generated content people will interact with themselves while engaged in completely fabricated content. It's even more dystopian than ever.

Hang around them long enough. They will slip. They inevitably use right wing colloquialisms.

And become a beta cuck? No, thanks.

Which Democrat policies are saying that?

I've suspected such for a long time. Many years ago I used to watch his streamed press conferences. Back when hardly anybody gave a shit about him. He appeared to be the one who does no work at all but hogs the stage during presentations pretending as if he's the big technical brains of the group. I had a feeling something was off.

I remember on a particular stream during QA time, one of the nerds was able to speak and basically said what Elon was talking about was completely wrong. But in a diplomatic way. That was probably a pivotal moment when I started to figure he's full of shit. Like when you see it then you can't unsee it anymore moments.

I don't know how some people are still asleep at the wheel on this. America is nazifying.

I mean they've literally announced loudly at the MSG rally that they want to purify the country. They've been saying it for the last 8 years or so with more coded language. To be fair some people seemed to have gotten a clue these past few days.

I don't think we've ever seen Republicans support the Democrat candidate in the manner before? That alone should be a wake up call to anyone who is still some how living under a rock.