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When I see that image, I hear the music.
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From my point of view, it's Starfield that sucks.
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The despots are humanists known for their great concern for the well-being of not only their own citizens, but of all peoples. Surely they are bribing Trump to help Gaza, and not just themselves.
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How is after "eating shit" in SC his highest point?
After Iowa was clearly his highest point, as it was his best performance and only victory. He stayed in to see if he could convert it into momentum and it did not. Then he dropped out.
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Could they possibly have been the ancient equivalent of fidget spinners?
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I think to some degree people *care about the lip service*.
There are a lot of rich guys (maybe especially in tech) who seem to be more pissed about Democrats calling them bad guys/not praising them than about taxes.
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What are all those times?
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So you think she should've dropped out then?
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Nobody buys that you would've been upset about Warren "taking away choices" from voters by dropping out btw
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Even if we suppose they were going to stay in much longer given that they were running out of money and had shit polling!
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Because they didn't want Bernie claiming that winning a plurality of 30% meant that the other 70% had to go along regardless of who they prefer.
It's better for democratic legitimacy that the winner actually win, you know, a majority.
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This is about Buttigieg being the frontrunner based on you thinking New Hampshire matters more than SC.
The objective measure is the actual way of determining the nominee: delegates. Plus the polls showing who was more likely to win going forward (Biden, not Pete).
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Why is a head to head between Bernie and Biden not an open process determining which of the two voters wanted more?
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I remember all the clamor at the time about how Warren was a snake if she didn't stay in through the bitter end.
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Basically the actual metrics of victory don't matter, and a guy with no path to victory should've stayed in just so he could lose to Bernie because it was unfair to expect Bernie to win a H2H.
But I'm sure you would've thought it corrupt for Warren to drop out and endorse Bernie.
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So basically your claim is that winning a larger state by a large margin shouldn't count as much as winning smaller states by narrower margins?
There's a reason it was worth more delegates.
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So you're dropping the claim that Buttigieg was the frontrunner?
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Dynamics would've been different as some candidates could've gotten into the "credible contender" polling range absent Bernie but couldn't because he was crowding them out.
Though certainly the chances of a younger candidate beating Biden would've been MUCH higher absent both Sanders AND Warren.
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So before the primary in the largest state up to that point, Buttigieg was in second place in delegates, but barely anything had happened yet!
Afterwards, he was a distant third. That's when he dropped out. Not sure how that makes him the frontrunner after SC.
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I wonder if, in the alternate history where Bernie doesn't run, or drops out after his heart attack, someone else could've ended up beating Biden...
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Biden had significantly more delegates and better polling than Buttigieg after South Carolina. In what sense was Buttigieg the front runner?
Sanders got a head-to-head and lost. If people liked Sanders better, he would've beaten Biden.
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We took all the most interesting writers, blended them in a mixer with mediocre writers, blocked it from expressing anything "sensitive", and the result is bland, common denominator pablum with nothing to say.
Monnnnneeeey please!
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These elderly Democrats should've retired and that they didn't is an indictment of the party and they should rot in hell.
Now, when a 78-year-old has a heart attack, that only makes him stronger and makes me love him and want him to be president even more 😍
😍 <- (my eyes having a heart attack)
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Wow, sounds like you're pro-war criminal.
Bernie even campaigned for her, and before that, he continued defending Biden's decision to stay in the race after many Democrats had started abandoning him. So he's a war criminal too.
This is definitely a useful analytic frame.
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I wonder what the response was if you said in 2019/2020 that Bernie being a 78-year-old who'd just had a heart attack meant he shouldn't be the presidential nominee.
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People are going to say "why are you suggesting I give 20%, 25% when tips aren't taxed?"
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He can't because of the possibility of Tom of Finland jokes.
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Well... There might be a couple more or so that would be fine as well.
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We're all crossing our fingers for that one addition.
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There was a pizza place I used to go to that had a paneer and pepper pizza with cilantro/mint chutney instead of tomato sauce...
Though that place wasn't amazing, I think the concept was good.
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Baleadas are delicious so I would eat this.
My name is extremely Italian so I feel no shame in eating any kind of pizza I want.
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I already have the everything app on my phone (Android OS).
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Could also include "Here's a demographic you should pay more attention to: idiots"
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They've been coddling the fighter jets for too long, lowering standards because of woke.
Oh, can the widdle airplanes not handle a widdle water?
Sink or swim, snowflakes.
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This is.... *highly* confusing. But it's the latest insight we have as to how Homer is thinking about the path forward.
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He's always rubbed me the wrong way and he's fully validating my intuitions.
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I used a dispreferred pronoun once at work and later they made a Slack message in the channel about their preferred pronouns without mentioning me.
From that moment on, I knew woke had to be destroyed before it destroyed me.
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That's right... English is not a tonal language.
The syllable-level contour tones of Chinese are a relatively less common feature that make it harder to learn.
Of course, it's also true that English has an unusually large inventory of vowels, and allows more complex consonant clusters, etc.
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I suppose Chinese sticking with the characters is good news for the dominance of English though. As crap as our writing system is, it's still far easier than Chinese. And we don't have tones. So English will remain easier to learn...
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Interesting!
As a linguist though, I understand the characters are kept for cultural reasons and the myths of Chinese language unity and that everything Chinese is readable back for millennia, but they really are a big hassle for language learners.
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Getting rid of tariffs seems to be Milei's one good idea.
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All respect to Captain America and her vibranium shield.
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People are loath to admit that they fucked up.
They can just say Kamala would be worse to feel better about fucking up, even though I imagine a fair number of them know deep down that's not true, because the counterfactual will never be run.
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Either something is very wrong or they've been eating nothing but beets.
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I think the assumption is that all games are going to go up.
And if the price of the alternatives to Game Pass goes up, guess what eventually happens to the price of Game Pass?
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It's plausible Trump would've lost in an approval/range voting system. A consensus choice emerging was difficult under the rules when you had a stubborn faction (Cruz) refusing to drop out because he was the second biggest despite not being viable. But he prevented an alternative being viable.
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Some degree of this is just people who know they messed up being unwilling to admit it.
I'm guessing that Hamala Karris with basically the same platform would do better on this question just by virtue of the fact that picking her doesn't mean admitting you made a mistake.
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"Treat my order like it's the most important one in the whole world" doesn't sound like appreciation exactly...
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If only he could write dialogue and resist inserting random CGI critters and things just for marketing toys.
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Of course, Trudeau promised electoral reform and then reneged on it because basically the Liberals have a more efficiently distributed voter base than the Conservatives so it works out ok for them.
It seems they'd rather let the Conservatives win sometimes than have to form coalitions.