I don’t remember you citing anything that falls into the criteria,
COVID misinformation in the Philippines? The rampant lies leading up to the Iraq War? Those things fit your criteria.
Also, don't try to pretend that you're only excluding historical examples, you're also excluding recent examples, because "Trump isn't representative of America." Who knows what you'll exclude next, maybe Bush isn't representative either because he lied and that contradicts your worldview.
Also very funny to me that you'll exclude history from like 40 years ago but cite history from 80 years ago (WWII) as still relevant.
Then stop saying stupid shit if you’re not making any substantive points? What’s the point of saying they don’t do shit to you because they’re not in a position to do so? wow, thanks for the enlightening insight.
If you were able to shut down the hyper-partisan moralistic urge to constantly opine on who the "good guys" and "bad guys" are long enough to actually listen to anything I'm saying and look at reality as it is, then you'd understand my point. As it is, you've missed it completely.
I'm not interested in discussing, like, who's more likely to get into fucking heaven. Christ. It's completely and totally irrelevant to the conversation.
If one person has a gun pressed against my head, and another person doesn't, then I'm more concerned about the guy with the gun against my head than the other guy. Maybe the other guy is a worse person, maybe the guy with a gun to my head volunteers at the soup kitchen every day and the other guy kicks puppies, but my concern is removing the gun from my head.
What I'm saying is that American billionaires have a gun to the head of the American people in a way that Russian billionaires don't. And your response is to talk about how the Russian billionaires are bad people and have guns to other people's heads. Irrelevant to the conversation.
Bro, this isn’t about YOU
Yeah, it's not about me specifically. It's about my class, which has the same material interests as me. If you want to write off my class because it's "not about us" then, you know, good luck in the next election.
If you want to objectively compare how each government treats their own population
I don't, thanks. Why would I? I'm interested in pursuing political objectives that help me and my class. I'm not interested in evaluating each country moralistically and then picking a team to stan like it's football or something.
Because you're trying to argue that it's something that has a direct material impact on the average person. Again, as always, you're getting distracted by moralizing, "This should be an issue" but that's not what we're discussing. The fact is, regardless of what people should or shouldn't care about, regardless of how bad a given event is or isn't, the fact is that people care the most about things that materially impact them or people they know personally. Inflation, therefore, is more important to the average person than January 6th, and if you go on and on about Jan 6 while failing to address their economic concerns, you will lose. Again, like what happened.
Again, it's not about what is important or what I think is important, you're getting distracted by moralizing. It's about understanding reality as it is. And reality as it is is that people care about things that affect them in direct, material ways more than things that don't, and January 6th had no direct, material impact on the vast majority of people.
You can whine all you want about how people "should" be more concerned about it, but all you're doing is railing against the realities of human psychology. It is what it is, not everyone cares about the stuff you care about, even if the stuff you care about really is genuinely important. You might as well complain about the laws of physics, maybe the universe would be better if the second law of thermodynamics didn't exist, but that doesn't really matter, because you can't change it, and, similarly, you can't wave a wand and get people to stop prioritizing their direct, material interests.
Understanding and adapting to what voters actually care about is what allows you to win elections which is what allows you to take power and address the concerns you have and keep the other side out of power. It doesn't matter what you think is important if you can't win.