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Working with or around the more democratic candidate seems a sensible move.
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@aimless-melissa.bsky.social
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At minimum, can point out that trump invented (via executive order) schedule F when he was still in office and that Biden undid it before any employees had been reclassified
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Interesting. I see it as a rebuttal to the “you have to vote FOR,” as “anti-RN” seemed the coalition commonality. (Though I also think voting “for” vs “against” is mostly semantics, but perhaps it does still work psychologically and politically, or depend if one or the other is more abstract.)
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Not sure if this counts, but I have a weakness for Jaan Pehechaan Ho youtu.be/FyEnG_DEB1I?...
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But the media coverage also immediately followed the debate. Not sure which is the bigger driver, but I know I personally didn’t start freaking out until I saw NYT calling for Biden to drop out
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@aimless-melissa.bsky.social
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Hah, I was thinking of the recent scotus opinion on presidential immunity
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Make America Great (Britain) Again
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Hear you, but who knows? Some wanted to water it down even more just to improve the odds of passing something. Remember “kiddie care”? Obama and Dems aren’t even close to perfect and should face criticism on the regular, but we also can’t pretend we gave them FDR-like majorities/support
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The ACA was quite hard to accomplish. There were many stumbling blocks and all sorts of concessions had to be made. All the while they were racing the clock because they only had a supermajority for something like 70 working days. Wikipedia details a bit of the legislative history
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@aimless-melissa.bsky.social
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True enough on winning the presidency without winning a majority of votes. But I also mean more than presidential elections. We need big majorities to make big progressive change, which means doing the work to build broad coalitions
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Yeah we seem to be in a cycle of letting the terrible party make a mess, so we get motivated to vote them out, but then repair or progress doesn’t happen fast enough, so we get discouraged and let the terrible party have another win. Repeat.
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Technically, we could say “we the people” did nothing, no response, for decades. Big change requires big majorities. Did we let the opposition have a SCOTUS supermajority because we keep letting them win elections?
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Plus, after a revolution, (assuming they survive at all) how do they make things better? Do they just make people do it their way at the end of a gun? Not sure there’s a good shortcut available
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Largely agree. My personal take is that it’s completely reasonable to be upset at Biden, even if he didn’t make a hard promise. Though I wasn’t clear he had even hinted (for lack of a better phrase) at this until today, so I stand corrected on that
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Yeah neither of those are even close to promise. But in the meantime, I did find this. (This “transition” language is also not a promise, but does sound an awful lot like he wanted people to think he would only serve one term.) thehill.com/opinion/whit...
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People keep claiming this, but is it true? When did he promise that?
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Also, trump did make racist comments about “Black and Hispanic jobs”
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The best outcome is to prove your hypothesis; the second best outcome is to disprove it.
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My bad. I’m just trying to point out that they don’t have the votes right now, so it’s not something Dems can hurry up and do. I’m with you that dems should absolutely be concerned that there are a bunch of zealots on the court
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I perhaps should have mentioned that I’m with you in spirit
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I’m with you in spirit, but we need to keep electing more progressives until they have the votes
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My bad - I don’t mean to discourage, just trying to set expectations. I keep seeing people discouraged from voting because major progress doesn’t ensue
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@aimless-melissa.bsky.social
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Exactly - when progressives win enough elections to have commanding majorities. It will likely be a slog though
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Yeah but Manchin, for example, is likely to be replaced by a Republican. I do like the idea of court reform, I just think we keep skipping over the expectation that it will take significant work
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Don’t think that would be enough though. We need some big majorities so that the few like Manchin don’t effectively have veto power
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Well, also you need the votes to expand the court
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Yeah but we need the votes to do that
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Yeah but with what votes?
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There seems to be an anti-both contingent on the left that claims to judge both terrible—and therefore won’t vote for either—rather than, say, pick the one that has the best shot of furthering the goals they value. It is maddening
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Yeah, oof, those comments arguing for being mean to trans kids were some of the milder comments I encountered
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Saw people in the comments claiming barring trans kids to from sports was “for the greater good,” because there are few trans kids. I guess promoting a society that is kind and inclusive doesn’t count as the greater good
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Deleting a reply bc it wasn’t clear I was talking abt breakthrough vs novel infection. Let me instead say that I gather longer time to positive (rapid antigen) test isn’t a variant thing, it’s an immune response thing, (which I find fascinating)
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Oops. How so? I may not have done the best job of communicating novel versus breakthrough
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Yeah I have a bad habit of scrolling to find some informed, empathetic commenters, and yikes
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Ok. I hear your point
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Look I was just pointing out that the comment “I never said speeding was harmless, although technically it is” makes little practical sense, bc by the same logic, pretty much all traffic violations could be harmless. Not interested in quibbling “speeding is a factor” vs “speeding is sole factor”
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I don’t think we are getting anywhere but pretend there aren’t character limits and I used the slightly longer word “speeding” instead of “speed” above, if it helps.
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Was pointing out problems with your “technically harmless”logic as applied to traffic violations. But sure, even if speed is clearly a factor that affects time to react and impact force, there could be other factors in addition to speeding in play as well, and I even included some in my hypothetical
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So, by that logic is crashing at speed technically harmless too? I mean, one could drunkenly run a light and crash at speed into a pedestrian-shaped balloon in a crosswalk and not cause harm. Still, we deter drunk driving or speeding or running reds because they are contributing factors of harm
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Yeah I don’t get the advice that solely relies on some arbitrary length of time from onset. It’s my understanding that rapid antigen tests provide a rough idea if one’s viral load is enough to be contagious, but even if tests didn’t exist, maybe at least take some symptoms into account?
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Vote your conscience, but at minimum, shouldn’t we vote for the candidates that have the better chance of advancing the interests we value? For the upcoming presidential election, the two choices will be far from equivalent. Working with or around the more democratic candidate seems a sensible move
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Sorry if my question came off as terse back there, but I think we do it largely the same way we always have. Given where the country started, we’ve made enormous progress, albeit hard won. Have we really missed a shortcut that doesn’t involve the work of winning over the opnion of large majorities?
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And after the revolution, how do you make things better? Do you just make people do it your way at the end of a gun? Or will we still need to do the work to build broad coalitions interested in making progress?
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Discovered a subreddit of the same name when attempting to research ceiling fans. Maybe I’m easily amused, but it got more than one laugh from me as I clicked the supposedly NSFW posts
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Oh no! Assuming you qualify, you may want to look into antivirals to help keep the infection mild and short, but I believe docs and pharmacists wont prescribe if too many days have passed
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I think maybe acrylamide gel?
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Dumb question, but can you not sue the agent (or his employer) for the cost of any repairs due to encouraging you to remove the inspection contingency? Perhaps they can in turn sue the seller to recoup some of their loss, but it seems like they need to learn a lesson here too
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I mean, even without looking up the exact definition, it’s a clue that “public” is right there in the word.
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Not to state the obvious, but “winning elections” means more than just one presidential election. To make big change you need big majorities and mandates. But even a small majority would’ve, for example, gotten Obama’s scotus nominee confirmed
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Respectfully, I think that’s a false binary. There’s a contingent grasping at conspiracy theory to explain, for example, normal DoJ workings; makes sense to discourage that thinking. Lots of issues and root causes to get upset about w/o misplacing anger at DoJ actions that can’t save us anyway
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Maybe side effects of COVID-19 vs flu vaccine? I know I never experience symptoms (other than minor site soreness) for flu shot, but expect to not feel well after COVID vaccine
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