TheresNodiee

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[–] TheresNodiee@lemm.ee 25 points 4 months ago (9 children)

I'm reading his "safe" comment in a bit of a different light. The Harris campaign was playing "safe" politics by ooh rah-ing about the military, guns, and the border. By throwing their full support behind Israel and shouting down and cutting out concerned for the Palestinian people. By running around with Liz Cheney.

Their campaign started off strong. Kamala was brat, Walz was calling Trump and his allies weird and joking about Vance fucking his couch. There was energy but they dropped the ball by switching to the "safe" Democrat campaign book. They didn't go out to speak to the people where they were at town halls like Walz said in the article, they didn't have firebrand Walz shining a flashlight on how bizarre Trump's people are, they didn't have a message that would excite the people and really shake up a statue quo that was slowly and inexorably draining Americans of their economic prospects. They just played the safe Democrat game of incrementalism and subservience to wealth and power rather than the people.

Obviously Walz didn't say all this, but I think the "safety" he refers to absolutely refers to Kamala's campaign adhering too closely to a traditional campaign style that was not going to win them much enthusiastic support.

[–] TheresNodiee@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

Just the usual conservative tactic of underfunding public healthcare to push brake healthcare practitioners and patients into privatised healthcare services, which leaves public healthcare services understaffed and just further snowballs into worse staffing issues at public healthcare services and leaves the state of access to healthcare in the province in an abysmal state.

[–] TheresNodiee@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Ironically, while Ford might be doing a pretty good job staying tough against Trump, he's doing his level best to try to drive Ontario right to the back of that healthcare line as well. So save us a spot?

[–] TheresNodiee@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

"Democrats have taken genocide off the agenda" how's the weather in that fantasy land that you're living in?

[–] TheresNodiee@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Of course it was only in the story because the plot needed it! Most things are only in a story because the plot needs it! And there was plenty of setup for it beforehand--an entire book's worth in fact.

The fact that it was introduced and then never used again even though it is obviously unbelievably useful and apparently available enough that a 13 year old was lent one to attend extra classes definitely deserves some criticism but at some point you kinda just have to make peace with the fact that it's a kid's book and it's really not that big of a deal.

You're really doing nothing to dispel (no pun intended) my suspicions that Sanderson readers can't understand anything that isn't explicitly explained to them.

[–] TheresNodiee@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago

At least some Dems stood by him and sang along in I guess protest of his censure. It's not enough but it's far more than pretty much any Dem has been willing to do.

[–] TheresNodiee@lemm.ee -2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It's their job to prove to the voters that they're party is worth voting for. Their actions should be based on the support they want not the support they have.

[–] TheresNodiee@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Yeah. I don't think you understand what a deus ex machina is.

[–] TheresNodiee@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago (5 children)

She hints at it throughout the whole book/movie by showing that Hermione had a chronologically impossible course load and having her suddenly show up in places that she didn't seem to be mere seconds previous.

[–] TheresNodiee@lemm.ee 8 points 4 months ago

Yeah work that almost none of the Democrats are fucking doing!! Politics isn't just voting sometimes you have to get loud, get obstructive, and make yourself fucking known!

This attitude is the reason that the US is going to become the fucking handmaid's tale.

[–] TheresNodiee@lemm.ee 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

As if there aren't countless examples of Republicans putting on ridiculous theatrics to disrupt Democratic majority house business without ANY consequences.

The fact remains that when a Democrat stands up and causes he disruption he gets thrown out and censured by members of his own party, but when the Republicans do it nothing happens.

Don't be fucking pedantic, there is absolutely a double standard at play here.

[–] TheresNodiee@lemm.ee 19 points 4 months ago (3 children)

The punishment they're talking about is the censure. Nothing happened when MTG did it but Al Green was censured with members of his own party voting in favour.

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