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Re:Support for Third U.S. Political Party Up to 63% by bigger_inside on Thursday October 12, 2023 @10:01AM (#37857284)
the "sane vs lunatic" was always a media construction. In US politics, for half a century, it was always "warhungry imperialist vs warhungry imperialist", only with a different color (and sometimes one of the warmongers had a nobel peace price). I mean, the Simpsons famously spoofed that in, what, 1996?
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Re:Support for Third U.S. Political Party Up to 63% by lotsofpulp on Thursday October 12, 2023 @10:14AM (#37857460)
It is not a media construction that my mother/wife/sister/daughter can get the necessary healthcare in the event they have a problem during pregnancy. Nor is it a media construction my wife got 5 months of paid leave versus just 3 months of unpaid leave per federal rules. Etc etc.
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Re:Support for Third U.S. Political Party Up to 63% by two_handfuls on Thursday October 12, 2023 @10:15AM (#37857488)
“Gestures vaguely at everything that happened in the last few years.”

“Sane vs lunatic” may have been a media construction at some point, but it sure is real now.

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Re:Support for Third U.S. Political Party Up to 63% by wing-_-nuts on Thursday October 12, 2023 @10:40AM (#37857837)
For real. I speak as someone who has voted for both sides in the past; One party has very much went off the rails and radicalized into something I can no longer support.
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Re:Support for Third U.S. Political Party Up to 63% by Izkata on Thursday October 12, 2023 @06:34PM (#37864010)
Futurama, 1999, Jack Johnson vs John Jackson: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ll3iyvbsRDM
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