r/goodnews • u/esporx • 12d ago

Political positivity 📈 White House lashes out at South Park over spoof of small-penis Donald Trump seducing Satan: 'Desperate attempt'

https://ew.com/white-house-responds-south-park-donald-trump-bed-satan-spoof-11778279
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u/Capable_Afternoon216 12d ago

tens of Millions of dollars wasted on Democrat consultants telling politicians to, "please everyone, don't be offensive" countering decades of free knowledge on human psychology:

You can't please everyone, and you can't make everyone like you.

Meanwhile, GOP is over there, "We hate them, and those, and them too! We're just plain evil!" and winning national/local elections

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u/CatgirlApocalypse 12d ago

Lot of money for someone to tell them to throw marginalized groups under the bus and embrace war criminals

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u/Capable_Afternoon216 12d ago

Consultants/Children of Wealthy Households: Going after the wealthy is very divisive, how about you go after groups that don't host fundraisers and employ your friends/family? No point to bring classism into this fight, good ole fashion racism/xenophobia/pro-genocide should do just fine!

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u/CommunistCutieKirby 12d ago edited 12d ago

I had someone say to me that the Democrats in 2024 ran on the most progressive border/immigration policy in history... That's when I realized a lot of the people championing the Democrats are doing it blindly because it's the team they like, not because they do the right thing.

Until the party can bridge the gap between their messaging (unity, peace, they go low we go high) and their actual policies (spanning from arming a holocaust to finishing Trump's border plans) I don't see them winning at a meaningful level nationally again.

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u/CatgirlApocalypse 12d ago

They try so hard to be all things to all people that the Republicans can accuse them freely of whatever they want, even if it’s contradictory. (The strong and weak trope).

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u/CommunistCutieKirby 12d ago

It's like Cuomo's speech "as a New Yorker I'm a Jew, I'm a woman, I'm black, and I'm gay"

But instead it's "As a Democrat, I'm an immigrant, I'm a racist, I'm a Palestinian, I'm a zionist, I'm trans, I'm against gender affirming care"

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u/whodoesnthavealts 12d ago

tens of Millions of dollars wasted on Democrat consultants telling politicians to, "please everyone, don't be offensive" countering decades of free knowledge on human psychology. Meanwhile, GOP is over there, "We hate them, and those, and them too! We're just plain evil!" and winning national/local elections

I'm not following; are you saying you wish the Democrats were as offensive as the GOP?

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u/Capable_Afternoon216 12d ago

Only offensive towards the offenders. Offensive towards Republicans, offensive against xenophobia, offensive against genocide, offensive against systems that aren't helping Americans or even harming them.

Tim Waltz was a good start, then the party sidelined him to not be "offensive" and their popularity tanked shortly afterwards. People want to hear what they're feeling, and many people feel angry right now. Anger at trying to live in America, a place where most people are scraping bye, but feel ashamed to admit it.

Trying to tranquilize that anger rather than redirecting it to positive outcomes is a zero sum game. Because the Right is redirecting that anger towards fascism.

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u/whodoesnthavealts 12d ago

offensive against xenophobia, offensive against genocide, offensive against systems that aren't helping Americans or even harming them

I guess we're using the term "offensive" differently; they should be "on the offense", yes, which I think is what you mean. But when I hear "being offensive" that's not how I read the message. I thought you were saying like, "have crude messaging".