freevirgilhaas.bsky.social
(he/him)
Nerdy dilettante; fond of games, cats, and enthusiasts, in no particular order.
Scadian, neo-hellenist, leftist.
Nonexistent accounts whose posts are merely the product of my troubled mind DNI.
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I mean... I like Leo and all, but I also liked Francis. Is Leo really all that much better than Francis that he's 'a breath of fresh air'?
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Unrelated: nice profile; Box of Rain, and indeed basically everything The Dead ever did, absolutely slaps.
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Yeah; I'm fairly confident that the DNC leadership flatly prohibited her from doing anything that would distance her from Biden's foreign policy stances (among other things probably), either not realizing or not caring it would cost them the election.
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Exactly so. Plus, the GOP has the right sewn up; no Dem is ever going to get anywhere by dodging right. Their only hope is to appeal to the left, so Liz Cheney was probably the moment the last remaining people still thinking a Dem win was on the table realized it wasn't gonna happen.
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Do you honestly think that if everything about Harris were the same except she were a white man Harris would have won? I'm not saying it wouldn't have helped, but I seriously doubt it would have changed things meaningfully. Biden hamstrung her and the Dem leadership did it again for good measure.
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Can we stop with phrasing it this way already? She was the Vice President of the United States, so the reason to refer to her simply as 'the black woman' would either be to downplay her achievements or to perpetuate the misconception that being black, a woman, or both cost her the election.
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It's particularly troubling that not everyone clapping stands to gain; our capacity to get tricked out of standing for our own interests is staggering.
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If you think trump actually wiped out nuclear sites, and that we WON'T experience blowback, terror attacks, years of a ridiculous war, and billions of dollars wasted before we pull out in shame..... You might be MAGA 😂
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Nice when they volunteer like that.
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Very much so.
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*MIDST
I swear to God I'm trying, but I am really struggling with the fact that news articles aren't edited for spelling and grammar anymore.
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Regardless of any misconceptions I may have tho, my primary point stands; the GOP has the right sewn up. Dems will never win by moving right. If you're saying they can't do it by moving left either, then they simply can't win. I think they've never tried it in earnest tho.
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The neolibs definitely say she's left of center, but only because they're pretending they are too; the right obviously does because anyone left of Mussolini is according to them; everyone else I've talked to seems to know what words mean. (not that *you* don't; just that the poll respondents don't)
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No, I get what you're saying, but based on all the conversations I've had with all kinds of people in the last decade it's more likely that this reflects the nature of who is likely to respond to a poll than anything else. Doesn't mean I'm right; just that I'm more likely to believe my own eyes.
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I really don't mean to go all dunning-krueger on this, but you're asking whether I'd believe a poll from the intelligencer or everything I've personally observed for the last 8 years. I think the polls are probably skewed by the rate of disenfranchisment.
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I'll grant that 42% shows that significantly more US citizens don't know what words mean than I'd thought, but I maintain that 42% does not constitute a majority.
The main takeaway though, is that poll respondents, or at least this group, probably don't accurately reflect the average citizen.
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Idk what to say except either the polls you're citing are unreliable or you aren't interpreting them correctly, because there's simply no way the majority of Americans would even *consider* referring to Donald Trump as a moderate. And again, supporting the right to respond =/= support for genocide.