mavwreck.bsky.social
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This is what the alt-right was saying about Trump in 2016.
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Computer – erase that entire personal log.
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I’m not sure how I feel about mixing shellfish & melted cheese…
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Even without this, assisted-dying opponents have been afraid of small-scale pressure from family members - or even just imagined pressure in the patient’s own head.
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At this point, I don’t know if they’ve officially done it, but I think we have to bite the bullet and admit that Covid is endemic (or close to it - there’s no steady baseline but there’s no way to stop it short of major scientific developments or a massive hit to everyday life).
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Both of them running as independents would make a victory for either of them very hard, that’s true, but between them they could sink a Dem that would survive only one.
TBH, Adams might cannibalize Sliwa as much as Dems (assuming Sliwa is mostly running as a law-and-order Guardian Angel).
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A lot of liberals have concluded:
1. The American voter is really that bad & we have to take this into account when we choose our candidates.
2. In the face of a global reactionary right wave, the best we can hope for is to hold our ground for a decade or two. Pushing for more is doomed to fail.
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1. de Blasio won as a Dem. Having the WFP nod wasn’t a big issue.
2. Trump had won once and didn’t win the popular vote. His victory was seen as an aberration. His second win (with a popular-vote lead) is seen as an endorsement of horrible things by a big chunk of the electorate.
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The GOP avoiding non-captured interviewers isn’t cowardice, sadly. It’s smarts.
They’re not trying to swing voters their way with reason. They’re trying to do it with fear. They can do that with scare stories and attack ads. They don’t need to take an interview that can go wrong.
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And how much of that is because moderates are afraid in a three- or four-way race with a progressive Dem on the ballot that Adams or Sliwa can win?
Remember, Trump just won. A lot of people have taken this as a sign that the conservative backlash has won - and are afraid it’ll happen again here.
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This, 100%. And Trump turns that up to 200%.
Trump seems to have a magic ability to make voters believe they’ll get only what *they* want out of him, and not what his other supporters are asking for - or even what he has explicitly promised.
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Progressive economic policies may get infrequent voters on the left to show up, but they also turn frequent swing voters from D to R. And those infrequent leftist voters just aren’t consistent enough to rely on.
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No, I think they look at places like the South and the rural Midwest and conclude that the policies might be popular in isolation, but the candidates who espouse them and the philosophy as a whole have too many opponents. They’re just too easily demonized to win a nationwide race.
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That would be a good idea! Sounds sorta like @katmabu.bsky.social ‘s campaign - do some good outside of the campaign while spreading your message.
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Moderate liberals often don’t see policy differences with progressives as the main problem. They’re more worried those progressives can’t win a general election.
They see voting for those progressives as a false compromise. They think it just gives the race to the GOP & thus gains them nothing.
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2. The national GOP has largely been captured by their extremists. Centrists have no access to power there & have been largely forced out. The Democratic Party is the only place they have left.
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1. NYC is one of those areas where Democrats have *a lot* more power than Republicans. That’s why there’s so much attention on the primary - it might end up essentially deciding the general election.
In a more moderate part of the country, people like Eric Adams would already be in the GOP.
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True. I remember reading somewhere that one of the reasons you saw so many quick campaign stops in swing states in 2024 was to get earned coverage from the local media. I guess the same thing applies here.
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How much local media in rural areas isn’t controlled by conservative owners?
I’m not saying Democrats shouldn’t try this, I’m just not that optimistic it would be all that effective.
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People who are afraid that assisted dying will either (a) be used by people with mental illness, or illnesses that aren’t acutely terminal but cause significant suffering, or (b) lead to pressuring people who don’t actually want to die yet to use this route.
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There’s not much that they can do about deportations that they’re not already doing.
As for Israel…there’s too much inertia amongst older Democrats to move their stance there. You’re never going to move them to actively stand against Israel. The most you’ll do is cool their support.
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My favorite has always been the Bill-Hillary debate thread over on the old hellsite.
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Is that Sonic?
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He didn’t. The March to the Sea started there.
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And not just domination on the issue of slavery! Any peaceful solution would have at the very least kept the Senate evenly split between slave & free states, thus probably preventing the use of taxes for internal improvements and everything else the Slave Power opposed.
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Ooh…you’re right! I think I mis-read the prior poster’s statement as “no Muppet with *static* eyes” for some reason. Never mind.
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A Gritty reference! I’m going to use it as an excuse to post one of my favorite memes.
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And sharing one of my favorite memes just for funsies.
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Y’know…after what the other orange monster did this year, I can’t even hate on the Habs without feeling bad.
Yet another reason I’m mostly unhappy Florida just won another Cup.
(The only two positives are Marchand getting another & the residual humor in the Canadian Cup drought.)
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He was already an Antifa icon.
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His eyes may be fixed, but they’re fixed at differing-yet-jaunty angles that strongly resemble googly eyes.
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He’s already an Antifa icon…that would just solidify his legend.
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19 °C? That is cold for an air conditioner. I have central air in the US and I normally have that set at 76 °F (24.4 °C) in the summer. I have to admit I do have ceiling fans to help the room I’m in at any given time.
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Quickscam is a part of an interstellar civilization…their standards have to be a little bit higher.
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It reminds me of an old-school Hetzer from Battletech, or a tank from the old video game Spectre.
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I wouldn’t be so sure. The Aztec is so aesthetically offensive that it can summon alien elder races who find it *that* offensive. www.vexxarr.com/archive.html...
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Exactly. Auto insurance is just like this. You’re not legally required to have collision or comprehensive insurance (which pays to fix your car). You are required to have liability insurance to pay for damages or injury you caused someone else.
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Yep. Berkshire Hathaway also owns Gen Re, a major reinsurance firm.
And for others reading this, the term for insurance holding premiums until they have to pay out is called “the float”. www.npr.org/sections/mon...
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That 1 person who gets in the accident takes the $100 x 100 = $10,000 out of the account and isn’t ruined by the expense. Everyone pays $100 to protect against the risk of a ruinous expense.
Insurance like this is not meant to be an investment vehicle.
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Health insurance is used to the US isn’t really a true form of insurance anymore. Insurance is more about risk pooling.
Think of it this way… If 100 people each have a 1% chance of getting into an accident that costs $10,000 they can each put $100 into a joint account.
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This may be an old graphic. June 19th is on a Thursday this year.
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I’VE GOT STRENGTH
OF THE SOUL
(guitar riff begins)
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The best solution I’ve seen is “buy a somewhat inexpensive nonstick pan, treat it carefully, and only expect it to last for a year or two.”
This is what I bought ~2 years ago based on that. It’s still doing well, though I use it less these days for unrelated reasons. www.amazon.com/Tramontina-8...
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Cutting PEPFAR and USAID comes close.
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Oh absolutely.
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- Clerk of Orphans’ Courts (sometimes combined with one of the other clerks)
- Jury commissioner(s) (not always considered a row office, sometimes 1 D & 1 R)
Fun fact - even though there are 3 county commissioners, you can only vote for 2. This means they’re almost never all of the same party.
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The other row officers usually are:
- Clerk of Courts (for criminal courts)
- Controller
- Coroner
- District Attorney
- Prothonotary (clerk of civil courts)
- Recorder of Deeds
- Register of Wills
- Sheriff
- Treasurer