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Kamala Harris Election Campaign

CarbShark said:
No other enemy of the US is actively plotting and supporting terrorism against the US and allies.

At the moment neither China nor Russia are our enemies. So which country would you say gets the honor of being called "America's Greatest Enemy"?
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Russia not the enemy?
Looks like you haven't read any news from Europe lately.
 
johnny karate said:
Is that your big play to prove that democrats pander to the hard left? I sincerely hope you have something better, because it’s not even remotely challenging to find more extremist pandering on the right and I don’t have to go back four years to find it. I can stick with things Trump has said and done in the last two months and do far better.

Do you have anything else?
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He probably doesn't understand what the "defund the police" movement was demanding, and never will.
 
jimbob said:
See also the left in the UK
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The left isn't the problem. It's the centrists who would rather see an awful right winger gain power than the left within their own party who are the problem. At least the right wingers will protect the vested interests of the rich over the needs of the country.
 
CarbShark said:
No other enemy of the US is actively plotting and supporting terrorism against the US and allies.

At the moment neither China nor Russia are our enemies. So which country would you say gets the honor of being called "America's Greatest Enemy"?
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The only country supporting terrorism against the US or its allies is Russia. What Iran is doing vis a vis Israel is the minimum possible pushback against Netenyahu's Hitlerite policies and actions.
 
The Great Zaganza said:
Russia not the enemy?
Looks like you haven't read any news from Europe lately.
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Russia is a rival, but we still do business with them and they still do business with Europe. We also have diplomatic relations and cooperate in several fields. (Same with the EU). We are not shooting at them and they are not shooting at us.

That's not how enemies behave toward each other.
 
CarbShark said:
Russia is a rival, but we still do business with them and they still do business with Europe. We also have diplomatic relations and cooperate in several fields. (Same with the EU). We are not shooting at them and they are not shooting at us.

That's not how enemies behave toward each other.
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Just because you're not shooting at each other directly doesn't mean you're not enemies. We are giving weapons to people with the express intention that those people will use those weapons to kill Russians, which they are in fact doing. That is very much how enemies behave towards each other.
 
Gulliver Foyle said:
The only country supporting terrorism against the US or its allies is Russia. What Iran is doing vis a vis Israel is the minimum possible pushback against Netenyahu's Hitlerite policies and actions.
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Are you under the impression that terrorism against Israel is the only form of terrorism that Iran sponsors?

That's stupid. And wrong. It's stupidly wrong.
 
Brainster said:
Because it didn't really mean "defund the police?"
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Well, the liberal "Defund the Police" movement was about scaling back the needless militarization of local police forces (remember how well all the military cosplay worked out in Uvalde?) and reallocating resources to social services that are better equipped to handle encounters with people experiencing mental health issues, etc.

The conservative "Defund the Police" movement, on the other hand, is about making it harder for corrupt Republicans to face accountability.

Which one are you referring to?
 
arthwollipot said:
I think it might be a reference to the murder of George Floyd and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests, a few of which were disrupted by violent rioters but the vast majority of which were completely peaceful.
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Its hard to say which of the violence was initiated by protestors, police using 1890s Pinkerton tactis, or right-wing terrorist groups like the Proud Boys.

There are no such questions regarding the domestic terrorist attack on January 6.
 
Ziggurat said:
Just because you're not shooting at each other directly doesn't mean you're not enemies. We are giving weapons to people with the express intention that those people will use those weapons to kill Russians, which they are in fact doing. That is very much how enemies behave towards each other.
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Ziggurat said:
Are you under the impression that terrorism against Israel is the only form of terrorism that Iran sponsors?

That's stupid. And wrong. It's stupidly wrong.
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Examples for both your two posts
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8e15yr1gwo

Russia's intelligence agency has been on a mission to generate "sustained mayhem on British and European streets", the head of MI5 has said.
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MI5 had also responded to 20 plots backed by Iran since 2022, he said, although he added the majority of its work still mostly involved Islamist extremism followed by extreme right-wing terrorism.
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Emily's Cat said:
Neither Trump nor Biden had any material impact on the progress of the virus, and neither should be held accountable for when a virus showed up and decided to terrorize the human species.
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Bollocks. Trup's actions before the pandemic began and during the pandemic materially worsened the effects of the plague.
 
Back to the actual topic of this thread and discuss that - the topic is quite clear for this thread. There are plenty of other general USA politics and other specific topic threads to post in as well as this one.
Replying to this modbox in thread will be off topic  Posted By: Darat
 
I did not want to start a whole new topic (maybe I should), but I am looking for a term or maybe academic concept for my idea. Why is it people are confused about issues and are often labeled low information voters? It is, I clai, because there is just too much stuff ouit there. Most of it is not factual. Compare this to the union worker in 1900 or the TV news of the 70s with Walter Cronkite. The worker read his newspaper daily cover to cover. Especially election years. He read the comics too, it toook 5 minutes. The TV watcher got the general idea of Vietanam from Cronkite. The war was going badly.

Now compare to today's Internet news consumer. There is too much. They lose interest. They are more likely to click around with sports, entertainement and everything that is not news.

Is this a concept in academia? The idea that the quantity of information available turns people away from current events etc. to plain entertainement. We are not dumber, they just make it harder to weed out facts from "news" that is no longer news.
 
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How that relates to Harris is explaining the policy ideas to those low information voters.

Harris: we will do this, which will then result in this. That then eventually helps us all.
Trump: we will round them up and send them all home.

This is her problem. The low information voter does not care about the explanation. They want immediate action.
Trump: I will punish China with tariffs!
Kamala: that is a tax because bla bla bla

She has lost them.
 
Yeah, that's broadly "information overload" though theres probably also a pithier term for that effect. Like the Neuromancer guy said when talking about how the information landscape has changed since Orwell's time in the '40s; that outright censorship is more or less impossible and truths will now pretty much always come out:

"I say ''truths,'' however, and not ''truth,'' as the other side of information's new ubiquity can look not so much transparent as outright crazy. Regardless of the number and power of the tools used to extract patterns from information, any sense of meaning depends on context, with interpretation coming along in support of one agenda or another. A world of informational transparency will necessarily be one of deliriously multiple viewpoints, shot through with misinformation, disinformation, conspiracy theories and a quotidian degree of madness. We may be able to see what's going on more quickly, but that doesn't mean we'll agree about it any more readily."
 
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