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Judging by the number of people who showed up at the Stormy Daniels trial the army is pretty understrength.

I won’t say they are not dangerous but I think there’s like a couple thousand of them that are actually ready to go to war at this stage, which if it doesn’t grow, is nowhere near enough

I think Godwin’s Law died out around the time the actual Nazis came back. It’s actually sort of difficult to talk about some elements of politics and media in the present day without referring to the historical parallels, and one particular parallel is absolutely significantly more parallel than the others.

But you don’t have to justify to me, man. You can abandon the conversation at any point you feel that that’s what you want to do. All the best.

Labor is strongest when it ruins the capitalist economy. That's the fucking point. It's a class war and the enemy is winning, we need to hit back. Make the markets scream!

I think wanting this to happen sounds great. Like I say, I agree.

Waiting for a president who will provide it before you take any political step, even if what happens while you're waiting is that you go into a concentration camp for being queer or communist, while the genocide in Palestine actually accelerates and starts being replicated in a lot of other places across the world; I don't think that is a good idea. Do you think that is a good idea?

Michelle Obama, why not?

I asked you a serious question. Who should win the election in November? If you were running the Democrat's strategy, who would you nominate instead of Biden?

Yeah this is a somewhat bad guide at least as far as some of these entries

I would also add:

• ad hoc = sort of made up for this one situation; "ad hoc attendance system" means they're not following the structure; carries an implication that it's more or less working but maybe not the best way
• de facto = it doesn't have the designation but regardless of that, the meaning of the designation is what's happening; "de facto manager" means they don't have the manager title but that's the job they are doing
• per se = I'm being nitpicky about details so please be careful not to read anything into my statements other than what's specifically said; "he didn't drive off the road per se, but he skidded on the turn and he was way out of his lane"

Yeah maybe that's fair

My point is largely based on that I think the LLM is going to do an incredibly poor job of this. Something like the Pearson readers, I think are fine, because they're accomplishing this important thing while (a) preserving the literary merit (b) IDK, something about how this is marketed makes me think it will be aimed at people who should be developing their reading skills but want easier-than-adult-English level for whatever reason, not at places where it actually makes sense and is perfectly reasonable to have an easy-fied version.

My point was that Gatsby is perfectly readable for an adult reading level. If someone's not at that level with English then fine. Can we compromise on the importance of preserving the important elements of the book, if we're going to make a simplified version of it, instead of just having an LLM make a bad job of it and then pass off the result as something that's going to do something for anybody if they read it?

I feel pretty aggressive about Biden aiding and abetting genocide, supplying Israel with enough bombs to turn Gaza into a death camp.

Agreed

I feel pretty aggressive about Biden just coming out against gender affirmation surgery for minors for no fucking reason.

Sure

I'm also still feeling pretty fucking aggressive that he broke the railroad strike, but that was years ago so you probably forgot about it.

He strengthened the NLRB for the first time since any president that I can remember to the point where it's backstopping all this historic union progress at Starbucks, UAW, Amazon, all this shit that union people are fighting for finally has some legal backing behind it which is a pretty key force multiplier which in my book is a win.

He did break the rail strike, because it would have fucked up the economy for everyone in ways that led to inflation that actually was sort of his fault, and given how incredibly aggressive everyone is about blaming him for inflation that wasn't his fault, I don't think that's trivial. And, his labor dept. kept working the issue afterwards and got the workers the sick days they were striking for anyway, when there was nothing for him in it.

I realize that the rail strike is a pretty good talking point, because I actually sort of agree with you that in a perfect world he should have let the strike happen and fuck up the rail companies and if the price of bread goes up then oh well treat your workers better America. But trying to extrapolate from that to that he's a bad labor president when on every non economy ruining strike he's been 100% on the side of the workers which is incredibly rare for a US president, I think is unfair.

But at least it's something I can shove in your fucking face so maybe you'll pressure the Democratic Party to replace their nominee.

Who would you want them to replace him with? If you don't want Trump, then I think it's fair to ask what is the course you would want to chart instead of Biden?

I actually have an answer in mind that I like, far more realistic than some that I've heard, but I'm curious what your solution would be.

Biden and his blue MAGA cult.

Fascinating

I didn’t even know about this

I watched one of his speeches at random just to see what the guy was about and TL;DR I wasn’t impressed and I would not be at all surprised to learn that the Republicans are trying to trick leftists into getting behind him. But I hadn’t heard that he also dislikes NATO. That seems like a weirdly specific and incongruous stance for him to take, given how extraordinarily nonspecific was a lot of the stuff he was saying when I watched him.

Yeah. Those guys I'm fine with. I was around in the 90s, man; you don't have to tell me that the Democrats don't have my back.

My point is that that subset doesn't spend all their time on political forums picking on the DNC. Their time on the internet in my experience is spent in anarchist / activist forums or just on other, non political things; their not caring about electoral politics is a lot more universal and they don't get all amped up talking about it or want to spend all their time on it (and specifically spend all their time on criticisms of only one of the parties, a lot of which are sort of made up and weird if you look at them closely.)

Throw some Costco Ghirardelli brownie mix in a mug

Add a little milk and stir

Microwave for roughly 45 seconds, until it starts bubbling, then quickly stop

Throw some vanilla ice cream on top

Eat it up with a glass of milk on the side

Fuckin delightful man

Stop climate change, stop killing Palestinians, economic justice for working people

There are various strategies you could use for any of the three, with various levels of timeframe involved and chance of success and all, but "let Trump come to power" is not a real good solution to any of them, to me. "Stop supporting the Democrats until they suddenly decide to start supporting them" also seems weird to me and unlikely to succeed. People have been not caring about politics (with every righteous reason) for quite a while now, and it doesn't seem to have made the politics or the level of leftism progress in the equation any higher, to me.

What, you mean those guys that looked at Bernie Sanders and Gavin Newsom and Cory Booker, and said naw we want the guy with the crazy hair who is absolutely guaranteed to be unacceptable to the American electorate, to be the spokesman of the Left and specifically in this presidential election and we want people to take the world’s most bizarre strategy on his behalf which will NOT cause him to win or advance any leftist cause but MIGHT get Trump elected and destroy any large number of leftist causes

And, also, are totally uninterested in any leftist causes more strategic or logical than this weird and counterproductive single quixotic stand in this general election

You mean those guys WEREN’T trying to win the election for leftist causes, like they said they were?

That’s nuts man