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  • A danish news organization will have articles about what Danes think of tariffs. The same with a Canadian news organization, a German one, etc. Yet for some reason almost all of what American sources talk about is what citizens of other countries think.

    I think the fact that American establishment publications put out more articles about what citizens of other countries think of tariffs than what Americans think of tariffs is part of the reason why Trump won.

    The upper 10 percent of liberal America seems to think of themselves as citizens of the world, and seems to spend more time caring about anything other than Americans outside their hyper-specific socioeconomic niche.

    The end result of this mentality is that Trump was able to make huge inroads with groups that were historically democrat’s bread and butter in 2024. Even if he was lying through his teeth, he and his team made real efforts to appeal to issues that were important for demographics.

    I’m willing to bet you could find people from Hawaii to Mississippi altering their spending habits in fear of Trump’s tarrifs. Maybe the press should spend more time reporting on them.

    Obviously, neither Trump nor MAGA is the answer. However there needs to be a way to talk with how out of touch so much of our establishment is without sounding like a Trump supporter.



  • That’s actually exactly what I mean. Eight years ago is “almost a decade”. Since his defeat in the 2016 democratic primaries:

    • Bernie sanders was named a member of the Senate democratic leadership
    • Members of Bernie’s 2016 run were incorporated into the demo
    • Bernie sanders was runner up in the 2020 democratic primaries, winning a several states and beating out more establishment candidates.
    • Joe Biden agreed to adopt several progressive policies as recongnition to the movements power within the party
    • Bernie Sanders endorsed Biden, and acted as a campaign surrogate in a way he was never asked for for Hillary
    • Bernie Sanders declined to endorse or encourage a challenger in the 2024 democratic primaries
    • Bernie Sanders took the establishment position of backing up Biden after his absolutely disastrous debate.

    Dude has had massive political and social pull for a long time now, and has very little to show for it.




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    A huge portion of reddit is OnlyFans promos. Reddit is making zero off of all this, because traditional advertising doesn’t want to associate themselves with porn. A bunch of these “paid subreddits” will basically be a reddit’s attempt to compete with OnlyFans.

    I honestly think it’ll work. There’s a lot of money in porn.n