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I kind of look at normalization in terms of the Overton window, as in what topics are up for debate politically. I completely agree that there is always a gap between how a society sees itself and how it actually behaves, but I would argue that the stage where a society starts to openly embrace its crimes is the one to be really worried about.

It's polyworking now, get with the times!

The only good Russia is one that's Balakanized and exploited by western oligarchs.

welcome to the real world child

What do our findings say about democracy in America? They certainly constitute troubling news for advocates of “populistic” democracy, who want governments to respond primarily or exclusively to the policy preferences of their citizens. In the United States, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule—at least not in the causal sense of actually determining policy outcomes. When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the U.S. political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it.

Nah, it's the same kind of genocide on both tracks, but one track allows liberals to pretend to have morals.

Ah yes, 99% Hitler is obviously a reasonable choice. 🤡

The fact that you don't understand how utterly imbecilic this argument is means there's no point having a discussion with you.

The argument basically comes down to you being fine with genocide as long as it doesn't affect you personally.

That's why PSL exists.

That's right, liberals just want a genocide to be done with a certain level of decorum that allows them to ignore what's actually happening.

That's a self fulfilling prophecy. Your whole argument would be like a German in 1930s saying they just have to vote for the nazis because that's the only option on the table. If you don't see the absurdity of that then you're beyond all hope.

Voting for Kamala is a vote for genocide plain and simple. You can do as much sophistry here as you want, but it's not going to change that simple fact. A better option is obviously to vote for a party like PSL that is not supporting genocide, but again you don't actually care. You're fine with genocide being conducted in your name as long as you're not affected. That's the truth. You know it and I know it.