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  1. honeymoon is alive liked a post in a topic by honey dew in AOTY and SOTY 2024   
    2024 was shit for music my aoty is Butterfly by Mariah Carey

  2. Cult Leader liked a post in a topic by honey dew in AOTY and SOTY 2024   
    2024 was shit for music my aoty is Butterfly by Mariah Carey

  3. jazzlessbaby liked a post in a topic by honey dew in AOTY and SOTY 2024   
    2024 was shit for music my aoty is Butterfly by Mariah Carey

  4. cheaptrailertrashglm liked a post in a topic by honey dew in Lasso - Pre-Pre-Release Thread   
    I wonder if Rock Candy Sweet has anything to do with Lasso if this album is 4 years in the making   
  5. honey dew liked a post in a topic by Mer in Donald Trump & JD Vance Win 2024 US Presidential Election   
    To me, it’s simply a sign of desperation. People who are struggling so badly, they would rather swallow a Trump shaped pill than vote for another 4 years of the same. That’s a terrifying sign of how our country is treating its citizens. 
     
    I’m privileged in that I don’t necessarily understand where they’re coming from firsthand, but I don’t want to judge them for it, or write them off as stupid. 
  6. honey dew liked a post in a topic by Mer in Donald Trump & JD Vance Win 2024 US Presidential Election   
    I don’t think anyone in the last few pages of this thread is defending Trump as an individual—but refusing to understand the legitimate reasons the majority of US voters voted for Trumpism, and turning this thread into a bunch of “everyone who voted for Trump is a moron” posts is boring. I find the last few pages of discussion interesting and stimulating, and I don’t see a lot of radicalism or off-base comments. 
  7. honey dew liked a post in a topic by cheaptrailertrashglm in Donald Trump & JD Vance Win 2024 US Presidential Election   
    Socialism can never work in the United States. It’s too big. 
  8. honey dew liked a post in a topic by Mer in Donald Trump & JD Vance Win 2024 US Presidential Election   
    A "socialist style economic justice platform" is not in Americans' best interests. Healthcare wait times would skyrocket with socialized healthcare for 300 million people (not to mention how quickly the population would grow with a fully open border, further straining resources), prices for everyday goods would also sky rocket as America would lose its position as a world superpower and trade would suffer, inflation would be rampant just like after COVID stimulus (and the only solution would to be pump more money in, further exasperating the issue), and the US would probably fall into complete anarchy and unrest--with a power vacuum so large, a real dictator installs themselves in it's place.  
  9. honey dew liked a post in a topic by Mer in Donald Trump & JD Vance Win 2024 US Presidential Election   
    The median voter, the ones who decide elections, do not give a flying fuck about LGBTQ+ issues. These are the fringest of fringe issues. I've said it before, and @cheaptrailertrashglm is echoing it again, this election came down to if the middle class felt that they were better off today than they were 5 years ago under Trump. The answer was a resounding "no." 
     
    75 million people did not show up and vote for Trump because they care about trans women in sports. 70 million people did not show up and vote for Harris because she will continue to allow gender affirming surgery for prison inmates. 
     
    The Democrats (the establishment ones--not Bernie and AOC's flank) need to realize that they do not have a winning coalition without white, middle class workers. 
     
    What the conservative talking points on LGBTQ+/trans issues did help the Republicans with is that it solidified their message of being "the common-sense party." Even though our small, left-leaning LB community may not agree with that, the majority of the US thinks that spending time and money on LGBTQ+ issues is a waste, and nothing but "wokeism". 
     
    The next generation of Democrats needs to realize that they need to simplify their messaging. They cannot be everything to everyone. They cannot be pro-fracking in PA, and in the same breath also be the party that believes in climate change. They cannot be the party of economic growth, but also implement carbon taxes. They cannot promise to be the outsiders who will go against the elites, and then bring out Lady Gaga and Beyoncé to campaign stops. 
     
    The Democrats need to position themselves in the next election as "common sense outsiders," promising to make the economy better for everyone. Kamala Harris's "Opportunity Economy" was just a remarketing of the "American Dream" ideal that everyone can and wants to be an entrepreneur. That dream is dead, and most Americans don't want an "opportunity economy", they just want an economy where they can work 40 hours a week and not feel like they're still coming up short. After they are elected, they can devote some time, quietly, to expanding LGBTQ+ rights, access to abortion, and other socially progressive agenda items--but they cannot run on it. 
     
    (They also need a way to build a non-traditional media apparatus, because the venn diagram of people who read/watch traditional news and vote blue is becoming a circle, but that's a different conversation.)
     
    If 2028's Presidential nominee does not win, the Democratic Party will be dead for the next decade. 
  10. honey dew liked a post in a topic by cheaptrailertrashglm in Donald Trump & JD Vance Win 2024 US Presidential Election   
    I haven’t met a single person, outside of online platforms, who cared this much about lgbt stuff. People who I know who voted for him it was based on the economy and how poorly Biden acted as president. also Kamala wasn’t very popular either. We all know the politicians have been pandering to the online population rather than every day Americans who are working their asses off to survive and don’t have time for online discourse. This is where they missed the mark.
     
    I don’t think we will agree on anything tho because reading your responses in most threads you sound like you spend a lot of time in online discourse rather than talking to your fellow coworkers (or something). I don’t mean this as a bad thing but for people, like me, who have families, we aren’t worried about men in women’s sports. I didnt vote for Trump simply for his stance on the climate, but I could 100% see why an everyday American, around my age, would vote for republicans. America’s gone to shit with dems in office and like I said before, PEOPLE ARE TIRED. They don’t care about lgbt shit when they’re trying to feed their families
     
    Literally will take the weirdo anti vaxxer if it means I don’t have to worry so much about what is in mine or my kid’s food.
  11. honey dew liked a post in a topic by cheaptrailertrashglm in Donald Trump & JD Vance Win 2024 US Presidential Election   
    It doesn’t surprise me at all that Latinos’s vote more conservative because they literally value conservative things. Democrats are disrespectful towards religion. They are pro-choice and they don’t value the same way. Conservatives do and Latino people are extremely family oriented.. It doesn’t surprise me at all that they would vote Republican just for those reasons alone.
     
    our political system is fucked regardless they need to have term limits because they have so much power but it doesn’t matter if they’re Republican or Democrat they really don’t care about the American people
  12. Candy Necklace liked a post in a topic by honey dew in Chloe Qisha   
    Yay yet another generic alt pop girl 
  13. Dark Angel liked a post in a topic by honey dew in Lasso - Pre-Pre-Release Thread   
    Alotta people gonna be eating their words when this best ever album drops September 32th 
  14. honey dew liked a post in a topic by Smoqueed in Israel's genocide of Palestinians and war on the Middle East   
    The long term geopolitical plan for the Middle East has been in motion for years. That is why each American president donates more and more billions of dollars with each succession to Israel. That is why the territories that oppose, and can’t defend themselves; or don’t have outside support, have found themselves carved up and controlled. That is why the more robust territories that oppose and can’t be controlled, are demonised. This is why Saddam Hussein was removed (he stopped playing ball with his CIA handlers). Same with Muammar Gaddafi (he was actively distancing Libya from Western economic subservience). This is why there was an attempt to remove Bashar al-Assad; until Russia (arguably for their own self serving reasons) stepped in!
     
    Iran is however the ultimate thorn in the side of the long term goals in the Middle East. Goals which have two primary objectives- oil (and resources in general). And the smiting of poor old Israel’s (self made) enemies. 
     
    This is why Trump was (s)elected. The deep state require a charismatic (like it or not!) and popular president, in order to boost military support for a seemingly inevitable war with Iran. Harris just doesn’t have the same appeal. 
     
    The anti-Iranian narrative is getting more traction by the day. I understand that an apparent assassination attempt on Trump; of course, by an Iranian asset, was recently thwarted!
     
    Watch this space as the anti-Iranian (and Russian/Chinese) rhetoric gathers pace, and the Wests’ “enemies” are created for us on MSM!
     
    Sorry to be all doom and gloom!
     
    Sending peace and love.
  15. honey dew liked a post in a topic by Veinsineon in Lykke Li   
    girl who asked for eyeye reversed 
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