For the record Im a #proud squeaker and I have a mask so I can sound and look like a child, so passing wont be a problem. Was just wondering if the dignity think is worth it

Vice President Harris could win the presidential election next week. But fingers in Democratic circles are already being pointed behind the scenes, in the event that she falls to former President Trump.

While some Democrats say they are increasingly hopeful that Harris will win, others have expressed mounting frustration about a string of factors that have plagued the campaign from the outset.

Fingers are being pointed at Harris and her campaign when it comes to disappointment over her messaging, particularly on the economy.

But some Democrats have already looked to pin the blame on President Biden, who some think took too long to step aside.

"People are nervous and they're trying to cover their butt and get a little ahead of Election Day," one Democratic strategist said of the sniping. "It's based on anxiety, stakes and the unique nature of this cycle.

"We didn't have a traditional process for this election. We didn't have a primary. People just had to fall in line," the strategist added, saying "it's not surprising to me" that some of the blame game is happening even before Election Day.

If Harris loses, "there will be a mad dash to assign blame," the strategist added.

The vice president's decision to pick Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) as her running mate over Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) surely will be second-guessed if Trump wins the Keystone State.

"[Harris] is going to look real silly for not picking Shapiro," one former aide in the Obama White House said.

A Democratic donor agreed: "I'm not sure Walz got her anything. A lot of people I'm talking to say he seems like a great guy. Would I want to have a beer with him? Absolutely. But let's face it, he wasn't a great choice."

Biden put himself squarely in the news cycle on Tuesday evening when he appeared to liken Trump supporters to garbage.

The president walked back the remarks, and the White House insisted they had been taken out of context. Either way, they stepped on a largely successful speech by Harris on the Ellipse in Washington. The speech, which Harris delivered with the White House as a backdrop, was a pivotal moment in the final stretch of the campaign because it represented her closing argument for herself and against Trump.

It is nearly impossible to believe the comments did not greatly irritate the Harris campaign, though the vice president said the issue did not come up when she spoke to Biden on Tuesday night.

"Talk about an unforced error and so close to the end," one strategist said. "How could anyone not be annoyed by that?"

On Wednesday, Harris was still cleaning up Biden's comments.

"First of all, he clarified his comments, but let me be clear. I strongly disagree with any criticism of people based on who they vote for," Harris told reporters as she departed for a three-state campaign swing.

Harris has kept Biden at a distance during the final stretch of the campaign, even as she has appeared alongside surrogates, including former President Obama. The move has irked Biden loyalists who say the president had a successful administration and should be out there — however awkward — to help campaign for his vice president.

"He should be out there," one loyalist said. "The reason she's where she is, is because of him."

But even before Biden's "garbage" comment, there were whispers he would be responsible for a Harris defeat.

These voices say Biden's withdrawal from the race in late July didn't do Harris any favors since she hasn't had enough time to properly telegraph her biography.

Others said he never should have run for reelection, and that he should have allowed the party to have a full primary to pick his successor.

The unusual part about the quiet finger pointing going on is that Harris could very well be elected the next president next week.

She leads in most national polls and continues to lead in various polls of key swing states. New CNN polling released Wednesday found Harris with a 6-point lead in Wisconsin and a 5-point lead in Michigan. The new polling found the two candidates tied in Pennsylvania.

If Harris wins all three states, she will almost certainly win the election.

"Harris is closing strong with big energy moments and rising momentum," Democratic strategist Joel Payne said. "She's the more popular candidate, she has a broader coalition and she's got a higher ceiling than Trump.

"Democratic anxiety is understandable because of the threat of a Trump second term, but there's a lot to feel good about related to Kamala Harris and Democrats up and down the ballot coming down the stretch," Payne added.

At the same time, the race is incredibly close, meaning either candidate has a strong chance of winning and neither side can feel all that certain.

That creates nervousness and paranoia, a perfect atmosphere for second-guessing and backbiting.

There will be second-guessing if Trump loses, too.

The former president has doubled down on caustic speech in a bid to bolster his support among men, which could lose him critical female voters — where Harris enjoys a large lead.

If Harris wins, Republicans will second-guess their decision to ride with Trump through a third presidential cycle. They'll also wonder why he had to hold that rally on Sunday at Madison Square Garden, where a comedian's off-color jokes about Latinx and Puerto Rico won negative attention.

"It's a terrible look for the campaign," one Republican strategist said. "He should stick to the message and only the message. If we go off of it, he'll lose."

May all dramanauts be blessed today!

!animalposters !cats !catholics

this actually might be good, im kinda stoked

Live feed of the best moderator on the internet, straight into your veins.

Here's todays official post from the BARDCHIVE:

10/14/19 22:14:14 with a score of -1: https://old.reddit.com/r/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns/comments/di0kmc/ahem_frick_contrapoints_and_anyone_who_support_her/f3stu4x/?context=8

You can make your entire life be about shouting about the relationships and networking and collaborations of people who never sought nor needed your permission to do a thing, and will never, ever hear or read your criticisms --

Where will you get your sense of purpose in your life, when the reason for your sense of purpose is taken away?

Buck Angel is not "truscum". Buck Angel's acknowledged the existence of non-binary people and voiced respect for them -- even if in the past he made statements that didn't respect non-binary people. No, I'm not going to point you at the statements; They're easy enough to find, and the purpose of this comment is to teach you something:

You can either allow yourself to remain ignorant and react to every rumour and innuendo, and be spurred into flying into a rage by anyone who knows that you're ignorant and can be pushed into a rage,

or you can stop holding and espousing strong opinions about what you don't understand, and go out and actually find out about things and people, and stop taking the word of an outragemonger mill machine run by wretched and jealous people.

Natalie's made several videos and statements in support of individual enbies and enbies in general. Criticism or Bullying (which was published 3 years ago) is pretty unequivocal in her support and respect for enbies. She's made statements on her livestreams about how self-ID is proper and should be recognised by society and governments.

I moderate /r/ContraPoints -- I do 75-80% of the work on the subreddit -- and I'm 100% to the top of my teeth fed up with this toxic crab-bucket rumourmill, straight out of every textbook about how women bully other women. If Natalie were remotely anti-enby, or promoting a doctrine of transmedicalism or truscummery, I'd have resigned with a long, detailed, and incisive analysis of exactly who, where, how, when, and why Natalie had betrayed the community and my trust.

PLEASE stop repeating unsubstantiated vicious gossip. PLEASE. It's actively harmful of other people.

is going to stop our porn, eroding womens rights as soon as he is president

to support your local remember to jerk it at least twice a day and join /h/glory

!nonchuds !khive Let's kneel to the wikigod

• The "Donald Trump and fascism" Wikipedia page was created on September 21, 2024, the same day The Guardian published a 4,000 word essay titled, "Is Donald Trump a Fascist?" --- and which is cited as a source in the Wikipedia article

• Contributions from just two editors comprise 91.2% of the "Donald Trump and Fascism" article's content, suggesting a tightly coordinated effort to control the narrative

• While the "Trumpism" Wikipedia page argues that Trumpism "has significant authoritarian leanings," describing it as "far-right," "national-populist," and "neo-nationalist," it relies on a source that argues exactly the opposite

• One of the next major citations to the "Trumpism" article that claims that the movement displays "significant authoritarian leaning" is sourced to sociologist Richard Hanmann who was eulogized in 2021 as "a committed leftist, an anti-imperialist, and a true activist-scholar"

The October surprise of this year's election cycle has, at least so far, appeared in the form of a talking point: Donald Trump is a fascist. This idea has been blasted out by Kamala Harris, the DNC --- which recently projected "Trump Praised Hitler" on the wall of Madison Square Garden during the MAGA rally --- and Hillary Clinton.

But for months the idea that Trump is a fascist has been quietly seeded on Wikipedia, lending it credence in the face of deep skepticism from the public. This includes an article on "Trumpism," which mentions some variation of "fascism" 31 times, the article on "Donald Trump and Fascism," an article on "Fascism in North America" that includes a dedicated section on "Donald Trump and Fascism," and an article on the "Racial views of Donald Trump" that includes a comparison to Hitler.

As I've documented in previous reporting for Pirate Wires, radical ideologies are laundered by Wikipedia into the mainstream. The key to this is Google, which boosts Wikipedia articles to the top of search results, and often includes a knowledge panel that gives the appearance they've been vetted by the search giant, even though they aren't.

In this case, if you Google "Trump and fascism," one of the top results will be the article on "Trumpism," which mentions some variation of the term "fascist" 92 times. In its lead summary, the article states: "Trumpism has significant authoritarian leanings, and is strongly associated with the belief that the President is above the rule of law. It has been referred to as an American political variant of the far-right and the national-populist and neo-nationalist sentiment seen in multiple nations worldwide from the late 2010s to the early 2020s."

The first source in the article (for the claim Trumpism is a political movement) is a 2016 article in Scientific American by psychology professors Stephen Reicher and Alexander Haslam. In their article, Reicher and Haslam reference the work of sociologist Theodor Abel, who studied the rise of the Nazis. But what Reicher and Haslam actually wrote in their article makes no comparison between Trump and fascism or Hitler whatsoever. In fact, the source article explicitly states the opposite: "We are not comparing Trump, his supporters or their arguments to the Nazis in any way. Instead, our goal is to expose some problems in the ways that commentators analyze and explain behaviors of which we disapprove."

Reicher and Haslan's critique was not of "Trumpism," but of the media and commentators (and ostensibly, Wikipedia editors) who contort the discourse --- particularly by demonizing constituencies --- to advance political agendas. The authors of the paper cited a Salon.com headline smearing Trump's supporters as "hideous, disgusting racists," as an example of how the media does this, in part by making hyperbolic distortions. The very title of their article --- "The Politics of Hope: Donald Trump as an Entrepreneur of Identity" --- made their position clear. Yet their piece was used by editors of the Wikipedia article to buttress claims that Trumpism is a form of authoritarianism.

One of the next major citations, this one for the claim that the movement displays "significant authoritarian leaning," is sourced to sociologist Richard Hanmann who was eulogized in 2021 (by the "Marxist sociology blog") as "a committed leftist, an anti-imperialist, and a true activist-scholar." This is a pattern across the Wikipedia articles drawing comparisons between Trump and fascism --- the citations are often radical leftist or Marxist academics.

One of the most egregious instances of editors laundering far-left sources comes in the Trumpism article, which attempts to re-position the populism associated with Trump as neo-fascism, claiming, "Some commentators have rejected the populist designation for Trumpism and view it instead as part of a trend towards a new form of fascism or neo-fascism."

The main source for this claim is a 2017 essay by Marxist ecologist John Bellamy Foster --- billed as "one of the world's outstanding radical scholars" (by his own magazine and his personal website) --- in the socialist journal he edits, Monthly Review. To publicize the essay, *Monthly Review *included a blurb by a Marxian economist who argued revealingly that, "By rejecting the term 'populism' that is widely used to describe the Trump phenomenon and other similar ones around the globe at present, and using the term 'neo-fascism' instead, John Bellamy Foster has done a great theoretical service to the Left."

The majority of the content on the "Trumpism" page (50.5%) was contributed by a single editor, J JMesserly, who was the editor responsible for arguing that fascism, not populism, is the correct characterization of the Trump movement. To implement this, J JMesserly removed another editor's contribution that stated, "Some historians have argued that [characterizing Trump as fascist] is an inaccurate use of the term, pointing out that while there are parallels there are also important dissimilarities." In its place, J JMesserly added the very opposite claim, citing radical scholars to make the point: "Some commentators have rejected the populist designation for Trumpism and instead view it as a new form of fascism, such as Judith Butler, Noam Chomsky, Juan Cole, Henry Giroux, Paul Street, Enzo Traverso, Davide Tarizzo and Cornel West."

The Trumpism article links to a separate article called "Donald Trump and fascism," which extensively compares Trump to Hitler. "Trump's embrace of far-right extremism and several statements and actions have been accused of echoing fascism, Nazi rhetoric, far-right ideology, antisemitism, and white supremacy," one section of the article asserts, citing the Los Angeles Times, Associated Press and Washington Post as sources for these claims. The article prominently features a painting by an otherwise obscure Dutch artist that merges the faces of Trump and Hitler.

The "Donald Trump and Fascism" article was created in last month --- in the thick of the presidential campaign --- by a user called Di (they-them). The contributions of Di (they-them) and another user, BootsED, comprise 91.2% of the article's content. Curiously, the article was created on September 21, 2024, the same day UK leftwing newspaper The Guardian published a 4,000 word essay titled, "Is Donald Trump a Fascist?" --- and which is cited as a source in the "Donald Trump and Fascism" Wikipedia article. The Guardian essay hits many of the same points made in its Wikipedia counterpart, and while ithedged by averring that Trump is not literally a fascist, it concludes that he could be "a cause of 21st-century fascism" who "could yet be one of its enablers."

As the Trump fascism rhetoric continues to rage in advance of the election, it's likely that more voters will turn to Wikipedia to clarify the matter. And while the seemingly dispassionate statements of alleged fact found in the Wikipedia articles might sway them, what voters will not see are the edit wars waged to get these points on the site --- or the radical and Marxist scholarship used to justify them.

!nonchuds reminder to vote for Kamala if you don't want Trump to win because of dumb and delusional inbred white monkey's voting for their cult leader.

They're still junk food but they have more protein and fiber

!goyslopenjoyers

soonest a presidential candidate has won a state ever in history! What cant she do?!?!

Sorry to stop the hate train, but just wanted to remind everyone:

    His presence at the hearing was not required.
    The State judge allowed the status quo to continue.
    Removal to federal court is a routine procedure when there is diversity jurisdiction.
    His pledge asks people to affirm the First and Second Amendment to the Constitution, and therefore should not be seen as politically biased. In other words, someone could sign the pledge, vote for Harris, and get the $1 million prize.
    Musk is a citizen and cannot be deported.
    He paid $11 billion in taxes in 2021.

Donald Trump is going around telling Michigan Muslims he'll end the war, be the peace president, and how pro-Muslim (!) he is.

Meanwhile, Dems sent Bill Clinton to lecture Michigan Muslims on how it's all Hamas's fault that Israel is massacring kids and killing civilians holding… https://t.co/rsL6pVWbwy

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) October 31, 2024

!nooticers !chuds

Bill Clinton in Michigan:
"I understand why young Palestinian and Arab Americans in Michigan think too many people have died — I get that, but…"

"Hamas makes sure that they're shielded by civilians, they'll force you to kill civilians, if you want to defend yourself." pic.twitter.com/cYzlsmWTGo

— Prem Thakker (@prem_thakker) October 31, 2024

@BWC

Chat GPT isnt even owned/run by microsoft

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT

meanehile in Kentucky

https://rdrama.net/h/maxn/post/312735/videomarseyprojection-shows-kentuckymarseymoonshinevoting-machinesmarseyamogushaving-odd-malfunction

!kino

A couple of newspapers are deciding not to endorse a presidential candidate this year which has completely broken the minds of their audience, who they have been coddling and shaping the opinions of with their poorly sourced drivel for years, screwing their audience to a drooling r-slur, left-leaning semi-human. Papers have found out that endorsing a candidate is literally too on the nose and seeing as how no one trusts them are attempting to back peddle as their trust levels fall into despair. Now they are losing the audience they have cultivated for years because, like toddlers, if you don't give them everything they will through a tantrum and fling shit at your walls.

/r/minnesota literally can't face the reality that Kaham is just terrible

/r/minnesota, within two posts are already delving into numerous conspiracy theories with regarding to the owner. My knowledge of Minnesota sports says he should sell all their sports teams cause they all fricking suck shit (except their WNBA team, they actually win! )

People admitting they actually read the OP-ED section when they don't realize they can skip that since the whole paper is an op-ed.

I can assure you the only reason rural Minnesota would buy your newspaper is to stock up on fire starting material for winter.

"People" actually bought the "Democracy dies in the darkness" bullshit

There's plenty more seething in the thread!

!journ*lists !chuds

Yesterday's Reddit manipulation thread https://rdrama.net/post/312115/reddit_lies-gets-an-article-published-in

stupidpol

https://old.reddit.com/r/stupidpol/comments/1gflpfr/harris_campaign_caught_manipulating_x_to_censor/

/r/politics

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1gfm64q/block_community_notes_we_dont_like_harris/

Day two of federalist bullshit here we go

chudservatives

https://old.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/1gfl3kp/harris_campaign_caught_manipulating_x_to_censor/

!chuds !khive !trump2024

I strongly condemn the barbaric violence against Hindus, Christians, and other minorities who are getting attacked and looted by mobs in Bangladesh, which remains in a total state of chaos.

It would have never happened on my watch. Kamala and Joe have ignored Hindus across the…

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 31, 2024

@Sasanka_of_Gauda @zombiedick

I strongly condemn the barbaric violence against Hindus, Christians, and other minorities who are getting attacked and looted by mobs in Bangladesh, which remains in a total state of chaos.

It would have never happened on my watch. Kamala and Joe have ignored Hindus across the world and in America. They have been a disaster from Israel to Ukraine to our own Southern Border, but we will Make America Strong Again and bring back Peace through Strength!

We will also protect Hindu Americans against the anti-religion agenda of the radical left. We will fight for your freedom. Under my administration, we will also strengthen our great partnership with India and my good friend, Prime Minister Modi.

Kamala Harris will destroy your small businesses with more regulations and higher taxes. By contrast, I cut taxes, cut regulations, unleashed American energy, and built the greatest economy in history. We will do it again, bigger and better than ever before—and we will Make America Great Again.

Also, Happy Diwali to All. I hope the Festival of Lights leads to the Victory of Good over Evil!