Presidential Election 2024

Bishop2b5

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I’ve likened it more to the famous Bagel Boss video, short rotund little man screaming at everyone. It’s quite sad, but shouldn’t be unexpected at this point. But you should think for yourself!
A few weeks ago I offered to help you be better at Internet insulting. I offered to let you tell us your best insults and I'd help you pump 'em up and make them more effective, but you didn't take advantage of the offer. You seem unaware of how this sort of thing works. For an insult to be effective, it has to have an element of truth that hits an insecurity. That means you need to know or understand your target. You insist on trying to insult me (this is like the 10th time) for being short and fat. Have you ever gotten the reaction you seek from that? There's a reason: I'm neither short nor fat. But by all means, if that makes you feel like a big boy, you run with it!

Now, if you want to know how to do it, hit an actual weak spot. For instance, if I were to insinuate that you were a beta male, it would bother you so much that you'd follow me around IE for weeks whining about it and asking, "Am I the beta?" "Is it me?" See how that works when your insult hits home? Or, hmmm, maybe if I were to ask you if you really believed a man transitioning into being a woman was a real woman and bait you into saying you 100% did, then ask you to name one you'd sleep with if you were single, then follow you around all weekend trying to get you to man up and answer instead of dodging and running while half the board laughed at the free show... now THAT would be an effective shot at a person. See how that works? You come back now, you hear!
 

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Don't mean to pick on you Lax - just amazes me how many people vote on feels.
 

IrishLax

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You follow Adam Kitzinger and Happy from Avengers and you are surprised there is another side of the story.
I don’t follow any of those people. And that's a different Jon Favreau. It's the "for you" tab, and I'm assuming it's because I've liked tweets over the years about how much of a buffoon Trump is they now "curate" a nice little echo chamber for me.
 

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Don't mean to pick on you Lax - just amazes me how many people vote on feels.
I'm not voting on feels though, I truly hate his economic policy and think it poses unnecessarily high risk to tanking the economy and I would prefer not to do that. Especially with one toddler and another kid on the way.

So I have to weigh social policy that I think is ruining America against economic policy that may ruin America, and another 4 years of DEI isn't gonna affect my ability to pay the mortgage.

(Also, to be clear, I'm not voting for Kamala either. Sitting this one out and hopefully the Republicans nominate a non-tariff, non-insane tax policy, non-bankrupt the country candidate in 2028.)
 

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I can respect disagreement with Trump on policy, plenty to swing at. I can't respect enabling commies b/c people can't make adult decisions on lesser of two evils.

I have prime, war age children that are not in the 70% unfit to serve category. War is good for the economy of DELMARVA so you aren't wrong about who is better for your economy.

You do illustrate why I don't visit the "for you" section. Pure garbage. Social media is terrible.
 

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Wrong Jon Favreau. That's the dude who was a speech writer for Obama and runs Pod Save America lmao
I know I'm doing something right when I don't know these things, just like when Bluto or Toronto champions some right wing loon I've never heard of they are trying to staple on my back.

Social media is evil - when you pay any attention to the material they are pushing on people and how quickly they try to run people to one extreme or conspiracy its just criminal. Their goal is to make sure nobody believes anything. Which is why nobody cares when the CIA admits to killing JFK and turns around the next day to call anyone crazy who thinks the feds aren't boy scouts looking out for them.
 

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A few weeks ago I offered to help you be better at Internet insulting. I offered to let you tell us your best insults and I'd help you pump 'em up and make them more effective, but you didn't take advantage of the offer. You seem unaware of how this sort of thing works. For an insult to be effective, it has to have an element of truth that hits an insecurity. That means you need to know or understand your target. You insist on trying to insult me (this is like the 10th time) for being short and fat. Have you ever gotten the reaction you seek from that? There's a reason: I'm neither short nor fat. But by all means, if that makes you feel like a big boy, you run with it!

Now, if you want to know how to do it, hit an actual weak spot. For instance, if I were to insinuate that you were a beta male, it would bother you so much that you'd follow me around IE for weeks whining about it and asking, "Am I the beta?" "Is it me?" See how that works when your insult hits home? Or, hmmm, maybe if I were to ask you if you really believed a man transitioning into being a woman was a real woman and bait you into saying you 100% did, then ask you to name one you'd sleep with if you were single, then follow you around all weekend trying to get you to man up and answer instead of dodging and running while half the board laughed at the free show... now THAT would be an effective shot at a person. See how that works? You come back now, you hear!
I didn’t rattle you at all, you’ve definitely proven that.

I wouldn’t sleep with the person in your photo, does that make them a man?
 

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I didn’t rattle you at all, you’ve definitely proven that.

I wouldn’t sleep with the person in your photo, does that make them a man?
Sigh. This is your best? Come on, I'll help you just to show I truly mean well. Give me your ten best insults. You can even direct them at me. Really dig in and go for blood. Won't make me mad. I'll help you make each of them better and actually effective.
 

TorontoGold

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Sigh. This is your best? Come on, I'll help you just to show I truly mean well. Give me your ten best insults. You can even direct them at me. Really dig in and go for blood. Won't make me mad. I'll help you make each of them better and actually effective.
Why can’t you respond to anyone else and show your data to support your position about the polls changing over night? Your humiliation kink is tiring.
 

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This whole election reminds me of a song we used to sing as kids.

'Skunk in the barnyard....pew wee!
Who put it in there....not me!'
 

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Just getting caught up. Think everyone needs to chill a little. Lol
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NorthDakota

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I don’t follow any of those people. And that's a different Jon Favreau. It's the "for you" tab, and I'm assuming it's because I've liked tweets over the years about how much of a buffoon Trump is they now "curate" a nice little echo chamber for me.
The social media apps do a great job of creating echo chambers. I muted a ton of the cheerleaders (left and right) and my feed has gotten much healthier. It's still on life support...but I don't see as many of the loons.
 

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Ron DeSantis was available. Such is life I guess.
Ron DeSantis has negative charisma.
At the same time, the Atlantic i believe has already started articles that JD Vance is worse than Donald...so might just be time to accept the mainstream media will continue on it's quest to make every republican nominee worse than the previous iteration.
Well Trump certainly served this one up on a platter to them.
 
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