The campaign has been changing its tone depending on audience. In places like Michigan they’re doing this, but outside seing districts they’ve been banging the war drums for Israel.
So the lack of faith in the messaging isn’t without warrant.
I guess we have reached a social austerity phase of oligarchy.
Airlines nod accordingly
No one is really checking where and how people are operating from for those nuances to come out.
Judging from the points being made here in this thread, clearly there was little reading of the article to begin with.
Even article headline uses ‘Arab-American’ and ‘Pro-palestinian’ interchangeably. The perfect level of wrong that creates a bunch of uncertainty and confusion.
That super cool one with Dean Philips and Marianne Williamson. But frankly there wasn’t really a ready pool of willing candidates, and there still isn’t.
The very public V.P. courtship process was sort of the de facto primary we got. Or the closest thing to it.
You know the GOP elites weren’t really outvoted. A lot of them are comfortably still in office. A bunch of others just retired and handed them the keys. The biggest gift Trump gave the GOP is his ability to be a lightning rod of controversy and dominate the news cycle.
He is the best cover and distraction from their dogshit policies they could ever have dreamed of.
I assume these are some random internet takes and not actual points that being made academically or with any authority? I recall a recent thread where people were confusing post WW2 famine in the USSR with the Holodomor, which parallels a bit with what’s up here.
First, let’s elevate the material conditions of 1.3 billion people to ‘Average American’ status, then we’ll talk.
their customers to jump ship?
To where?
This is the calculus.
I am interested to see how downballot elections are impacted. It will be interesting to see how pro-palestinian candidates that survived their primaries compare to the presidenial race.
Will they win where Kamala loses? Or vice versa, etc?
I’d hit up a Golden Corral before an Applebees.
But seriously I infinitely prefer the non-brand local diner, usually named after the street it is on, over just about any sit-down chain.
He really should’ve brought a cowbell to signal the audience.
Glusencamp-Perez ran on opposing Biden and working with Republicans.
Kent ran on opposing Perez for being a Democrat.
Absolutely insane.
no politics, merely the human hierarchical structure of control.
I’d love to hear the perspective where this makes sense.
Two parties, one donor class.
TBH HK-47 likes a harsh master too much to be a libertarian.
I used to be worried about having to idle on a hill while driving a manual transmission vehicle. Like backsweat.
But I got used to it. Time and practice. You start to see all the subtle motions and patterns; you start to know what you didn’t know you didn’t know.
Now it is just a basic part of the driving experience. It’s a road condition, like weather. Voting, especially in federal elections and especially the general one every four years for president, is not the only or even the main course of politics.
Same story with parallel parking–which would be, I dunno: primary voting in this metaphor. Where the promise of a better way gets crammed between two other poorly parked cars and you always end up a few inches too far from the curb.
I mean that’s why I referred to this as a parody: the point is with the trolley dilemma is that you’re being forced to participate in an immoral choice (the lever), not just that the lever applies or absolves the user from a moral liability.
A major part of the exercise is that the choice seems simple to flip the switch as plain harm reduction, but that people change their calculus the moment the single victim has a personal connection: (it is their parent, spouse, child being killed instead of the other 5 strangers.)
The forced immoral act (killing) ceases to be the moral quandry and instead harm reduction is the level of personal connection and culpability that people begin to weigh.
Since these memes tend to portray the trolley effectively running down both tracks with one outcome, the whole premise is kind of defeated.
SCOTUS: Yeah… the votes mattered there!