Comments by "HomerOJSimpson" (@Homer-OJ-Simpson) on "Russians Are Snitching On Friends and Relatives Who Oppose the War" video.

7:55 You missed on the opportunity to put them on the spot. Should have asked him "If the government was lying to you about something, would you consider someone a traitor for telling the truth?"
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@discord stuff I know you cannot convince them but it at least either gets them to think a little or embarrasses them. These people know their govt can’t be trusted but they just trust them on this issue because of their prejudices against Ukrainians. And yes, they prejudice is based on their govt propagnd but they believe their opinion is shaped by other information.
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@discord stuff on a smaller scale, im seeing the same with the majority of trump supporters. They blindly Believe what Trump says even when evidence all around them is showing trump is lying. When the evidence against trump is just experts, they say experts are paid to spread false info. If the evidence is physical or video or audio, they say things like “well he didn’t really mean it” or as a last resort they use whataboutism and say “but others have also done it!”.
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@discord stuff Biden isn’t bad. He’s old though but he’s basically Obama on policies so that’s why he won. The alternative was Bernie Sanders who was very anti capitalist and turned off a lot of people left of center who ended up with Biden. But the whole problem is the US is a two party system. The right wing party has been taken over by Trump and his support is based on attacks in facts and democracy. The left is also polarized which is why it went with the “safe” bet. There was a candidate nearly as left Bernie Sanders but she failed because she didn’t speak as ideological and polarizing as Bernie Sanders so the further left voters of the democrat party dropped Elizabeth Warren and went for Bernie early in the primary campaign process. She was 10 years younger than Bernie and biden (still old but reasonable old at 70) but left of the party want pure anti capitalist, pure ideology, etc. She’s the second smartest of those who ran — the smartest was Pete Buttigieg. His problem is he was only 38, was unknown and he’s gay which scared some voters. He’s like Biden on policy but is Oxford and Harvard educated, brilliant, great debater, and young. He’s a very nice guy and no scandals. He probably has a chance in 6-10 year if being gay isn’t an issue at that point.
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@discord stuff in summary, two party system leads to polarization. The right wing party was taken over by the Trump types (ideological, mean, facts don’t matter, conspiracy theory types) and the left has an issue of a split between the ideological strong left that is anti capitalist (Bernie Sanders) vs moderate who are mostly very old (Biden) or too young (Buttigieg) or too controversial (former nyc mayor Bloomberg).
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@discord stuff just wanted to add one more thing that was implied. The right wing party, the Republican Party, is mostly inline with Trump or his type. The old previous generation republicans are disappearing like John McCain, Mitt Romney, and Bush jr and Bush Sr. Those are right wing economics, moderate social and behave like what you expect of politicians— well mannered, keep false information claims within reason, etc. Replaced by cultural conservative, nationalist, brash / mean behavior types that don’t necessarily have traditional right wing economic views (I guess they are right wing nationalist economics?). The left wing party Democrats are what’s called a big tent party. It’s basically anyone that doesn’t fall under Republican Party. It includes some of moderate former Republican Party voters (right of center economic but moderate on everything else), it includes Biden moderates (moderate economics and left social), Bernie types (strong left on everything) but also includes cultural progressives of all back grounds. It also includes immigrants who would generally be republicans with their more conservative social beliefs and right of center economic views but despise the republicans for being anti immigrant. Big tent parties are going to have a problem deciding on a leader and Biden was the compromise.
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