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    Jfc Americans. How did any one not know about project 2025?

    The rest of the world is watching you elect your new supreme leader eternal and you guys are just sleep walking it through.

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        …the not fascist was bad at speaking one time, so I’m just gonna elect the lying/rapist/felon fascist person by not voting

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          Let’s not be ridiculous here, he’s had plenty of times where he’s struggled to articulate. I agree it’s insane to not vote for him, but these type of statements just give ammo to trump supporters to point to Biden supporters and say how clueless they are.

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            Biden is old, but the man has also overcome a pronounced stutter. I’m more interested in policy and the people he puts in place.

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              Agreed. But pretending that this has just been a one time thing doesnt do anything but make you look like you haven’t been paying attention at all

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            Struggling to articulate is very different from bad speeches. He has never sounded like he did at the debate. It was him at his worst, ever. Probably because he had a cold and tried remembering every single data point that supported his successful presidency.

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      It’s how bad our media silos are and how disengaged many people are. Not a good sign.

      My wife who has enough on her plate working in trauma just texts me out of the blue yesterday with something like, “just read about project 2025. Holy shit!”

      I was like oh sweet summer child lol.

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        I told my wife the minute I heard about it a few months back… Do you not talk to her?

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          My husband has specifically asked me not to talk to him about politics. He has verbalized he feels powerless and wants to focus on things he can control more within his immediate realm (dont worry guys, he’s still voting Biden). He’s also asked me to decrease the amount of depressing topics I share with him overall. I did tell him I recommend him read up on it because its “scary AF” and that I was quite scared

          However, I do agree with other posters that its the lack of news coverage on the topic is why so many people are uninformed. We need more individuals to share and educate about this.

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            This is pretty much the identical conversation that occurred with my wife. She tries to remain upbeat and outgoing and gets anxious and depressed by an onslaught of that kind of news. I tend to get more fired up and focused, but my circumstances admittedly permit that more.

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          We have kids, work opposite schedules, and she deals with death and stress on a daily basis that few other professions compare. I let her decide when she wants to tune in because she tends to get overwhelmed by it all. She and I see eye-to-eye and it changes nothing on how we vote anyway.

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      Calm down…

      Our news outlets are too busy reporting on Biden right now. Please give them some room to breathe…

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      When I’ve shown people Project 2025 they often don’t believe it’s real. Despite evidence to the contrary.

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        it’s real but is it “real” like how the border wall was “real”? I think that’s where a lot of people are at.

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          There’s a level of apathy that has been a part of American politics my entire life, the logic is that all politicians do is make promises that they never fulfill and anything said about or by a candidate really doesn’t matter, and it’s treated as an axiom.

          Obamas years in office without the Hope and Change we all desperately wanted when he was first elected cemented this in the minds of my millennial peers and it was already pervasive in the older generations.

          Not pinning it all on Biden here but his quote from 2020 “nothing will fundamentally change” is very much what i reckon the average American believes. Very few believe anything good or ill could happen here.

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      Most people in all countries are extremely ignorant and disinterested about politics. Do not expect more of American voters than you’d expect of your own country’s voters.

      A great example of that is Brexit in my own country. People voted for lots of ridiculous reasons both for and against, and in the end we got a crazy close but negative outcome. Just under 52% voted in favour of brexit, but I guarantee much less than half that number truly understood the issues and knew what they were voting for. It was a vote that should never have happened - it was all an arrogant ploy by David Cameron to increase control over his own party and instead it has torn the whole country apart.

      People complain about the news media but its just a product of the lazy and disinterested electorate. Mass media doesn’t cater to fact and debate, it caters to shock value to try and get people watching.

      That’s why biden has to go - most people don’t care that trump is a lunatic or biden has had successes. Not enough will care about Project 25 even though it will damage many of trumps own voters. All they care about is that biden looks old and sounds like he’s dementing because that’s all that’s cutting through.

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      american politeness requires that we not talk about politics in public and that encourages americans to ignore everything until it impacts them; broaching the subject will label you a malcontent.

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        american politeness requires that we not talk about politics

        Is that really a thing?

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          People who talk about politics and religion at work tend to get hated at best and fired at worst.

          People who talk about politics and religion on social media risk getting lectures from relatives and losing friends.

          So yeah, people do not talk about politics and religion in America a lot of the time.

          Honestly, the only reason my mother-in-law and I have maintained a really good relationship over the decades is because we just don’t talk about religion or politics. My wife and I are pretty much on the opposite side of the map from her on both. So we just don’t talk about it rather than become enemies. Maybe that’s not the right way to go about things, but it’s saved a lot of stress where we don’t need it.

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              I have no idea. I was just explaining to the person above why we don’t talk about it much.

              And these days, with MAGA fanatics, there’s also the possibility of actual physical harm.

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                the possibility of actual physical harm

                Not only physical harm but social, economic, career and mental harm. They will definitely hurt you because the truth hurts their feelings.

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              I don’t know about everywhere but in France we can talk about religion and politics everywhere we like without risking much. Sometimes we’ll argue loudly for about an hour, and then the next day everything is forgotten. Or at least that was the case. I don’t know how it will go if the fascist far-right wins the election tomorrow though…

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                That’s one of the things I’ve loved about France since university; a deep and unbridled passion for politics and no shame in standing up for what one believes in.

                Tomorrow is going to be an interesting day.

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            we just don’t talk about it rather than become enemies.

            She surely won’t worry when they cart you and your wife off to Gitmo because you probably had it coming to you.

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              Would it be better if we ruin our relationship with my wife’s elderly mother? What would it achieve? Do you think she would vote differently? How would that improve anyone’s life in any way?

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          In my experience, yes. Mainly because for as long as I’ve been alive, if you have a dissenting opinion people tend to get very heated.

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          Obviously we still have political protesters and things like that but nowadays things are so divided politically that it is typically a topic that you would avoid in everyday conversation. If you were to bring up anything political with your coworker at a get together after hours for example and you find that you are on opposite ends of the political spectrum it could make it very difficult to work together at best and potentially endanger you at worst.

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        It’s considered impolite to espouse political views here in Australia.

        However, I’ve found that taking about issues rather than identities, with a modicum of diplomacy, is usually fine.

        I think this would be a lot more difficult in the US with the issues at hand because you’re not deciding mundane things like whether to subsidise roof top solar but rather, whether autocracy would make a nice change.

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          You used an conservative American political dog whistle when you mentioned identity politics and you’re part of western hegemony as an Australian, so I would be a bad leftist if I let it be.

          It’s a dog whistle here because everyone has an identity that comes attached w perpetually unaddressed needs and the ruling class of people only considers their own identity to be the national discourse; establishing that other identities are little more than causes for division.

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      How did any one not know about project 2025?

      Oh, the whole world knew about it, except here in 'merica where the media was gonna surprise us after it was installed.

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      Election news is especially dismal this year considering who the candidates are, so I think a lot of Americans are tuning out until the last minute.

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        Election news is especially dismal this year

        This is a very effective psyops tactic to disengage voters.

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            Well, one of them has managed quite well for the past few years. Sure he is old. Sure he might die. Is he a bad option because of this? No. He dies, you get Harris. Maybe not exciting but not Republican crazy bad.

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              And he might not die, he might just keep getting less able to do the job. Either way, that’s really not someone people want to hear all that much about unless they’re already invested in the horse race.

              Most people don’t want to hear about crazy grandpa or boring grandpa unless they’re at grandpa’s house.

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                If might was money, we’d all be rich. He might not. Missunderstand me correctly, I know it’s not optimal and I would have preferred something else. All I’m saying is, there are not two bad choices. Only one bad. The other is eeeeh.

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                  I understand what you’re saying, and if the populace was rational, I’d agree. But they’re not. They see two bad choices and I really don’t think that can solely be blamed on the media. Part of it is just that they’re both really old.

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        I tried putting off state and local election stuff until a canvasser came to the door last week and asked about public education funding, because the republican chain all the way up in this state wants nothing but charter schools (along with turning this place into even more of a cesspit). I would’ve found out closer to November, but now it’s going to haunt me for months instead of weeks.

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      Total corporate media capture pulling the wool over eyes of primary voting blocs.

      Most of the rest of us are too busy working 3 shit jobs to barely survive to be paying any attention to politics.

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      So you’re on truth social, the Fox News comments section, OAN, and other far-right American outlets (you know, the people who most need to hear it) saying this too, right? Right? Of course you are. You’d be hypocritical af not to.

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    Trump World sounds like the shittiest theme park. Even worse than that Willy Wonka Experience.

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      You’d be surprised at just how little the average voter knows about politics. There’s a reason a lot of people wish politics would go back to being boring and not something everyone talked about.

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        Indeed. Pretty much everyone I know over the age of 50 gets all of their news from Fox/CNN and maybe facebook. They’re oblivious and make up the majority of the people that actually go and vote.

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      A couple days ago, new evidence came out about Trump’s pedophilia. I have yet to hear about it in mainstream media.

      Jane Doe vs Trump & Epstein. All of the corroborating depositions are out there. Nobody cares for some reason.

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        About goddamn time. We heard more about Hunter Biden’s dick than how Trump rapes kids the last seven years.

        The media wants Trump back in power. He generated so many clicks for them.

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      The fix news affect. My mother thought all of these policies were coming from democrats, for some fucking reason

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        Plenty of them are informed, and DGAF.

        Tribalism and decades right wing propaganda mean that they’ll vote for anyone on the GOP ticket, even when they are clearly terrible and debatably conservative.

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        I was so naive so as to think there was no way we’d elect Trump.

        Now I just assume we’ll do the dumbest thing on offer.

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      Trump got too many votes in 2016, and even more than that in 2020, and you’re surprised at how uninformed American voters are?

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      Our press is too busy with far more important issues than Trump’s advisors plotting a fascist takeover of the country. You know, like Biden being old.

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    my job has me on i40 in Tennessee a good bit and there was a huge mega porn store off one of the exits

    it has been shut down and reopened as a Mega MAGA Store

    trump beat titties official the country is fucked

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    Please, weaponize this! I know the last place you want to go is a Fox News comment section or FB posts but these people need to see how they will be personally affected too.

    Weaponize the cuts to social security and medicare as much as you can. Yes, lots of conservatives are a lot cause. But I’m not asking you to reach them on the moral issues, I’m asking to get them rightfully scared of losing social security and medicare/medicaid. Make it personal.

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    “trump world” sounds like the most disappointing and predatory theme park ever.

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    BS. This is exactly what Rump world wants. They love consolidation of power, Christian nationalism, and taking power away from non-white men. They are worried that centrist and moderate red voters will hear about it.

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    They were proud of it up until not long ago, trusting to the ignorance of the “average American” about policy details. Then the Supreme Court ruling came.

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    My family is pretty politically aware and my brother only just started talking about it, so it will take a bit for word to spread.

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    Sadly my Right Wing friends insist it’s “Just the Heritage Foundation” and that the “REAL” GOP already rejects it

    So naive…

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      No conservative voter thinks poorly of Project 2025. Every conservative in the U.S. is either fine with it or excited about it.

      A conservative who pretends it’s not their platform is lying, either to placate you or to save face.

      Every word uttered by a conservative is deception or manipulation, even when those words come from friends or family.

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      I heard an NPR listening, CNN watching person tell me yesterday that the Heritage Foundation was conservative extremists and not to take them seriously.

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    The thing that pisses me off the most about Project 2025 is that there’s no Project 2029 from the left.

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    If he is elected, they won’t keep trying to pretend that they are against these positions.