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Any chance the Dems will learn from Obama and Harris that younger and energetic candidates that stand firm will energize voters and increase turnout?

Best I can do is a bunch of DC consultants whose clients are all 120 years old who will say naw this is a one-off.

In fairness, they did that too, with Biden. I also sent messages to all my congresspeople back when they were voting on aid for Israel (not that it did anything). Putting pressure on Harris at this point to pull her towards the side of humanity in her forming Israel policy does seem like some level of sensible thing to do.

I absolutely think that the level of pressure the activist left has been putting on the Democrats has been producing an impact, which is absolutely a good thing. Pretty much the only part I disagree with is the attempt to solidify some sort of linkage as if the Democrats like what is happening in the Middle East right now or have explicit policies in favor of it, that aren't posited on pure political survival in our misled and largely war-criminal-friendly electorate.

Dude or just have a fuckin Gaza rally

Protesting for peace in Gaza strikes me as a much better way of achieving peace in Gaza than does heckling the most pro-peace-in-Gaza candidate available

Or, hell, even organizing an "uncommitted" vote or etc. Or finding a coalition of voters that can make specific demands of the Democratic party in exchange for votes. Or doing public protests to raise public awareness, so that the Democratic candidate won't be faced with this awful decision of either funding a genocide or facing defeat in the election because most of the American public doesn't understand that it's a genocide. There are a lot of things that will better influence American public policy than will heckling the Democratic candidate when it is still uncertain whether she will win against the pro-genocide party.

But what about when the rate of migrants dying of heatstroke while constructing it outpaces the rate at which they can coercively import them

What then

Oh, I don’t at all think it is a bot - I think it is a 4chan type edgelord who is cheerfully inserting “joking” fascist bullshit into the narrative. The whole point of Snyder’s piece is, the stuff is damaging whether it comes from bots or paid actors or people who have just picked up the habits of interacting like they do.

I actually have some more, somewhat more damaging (because they are more real-looking and thus harder to spot) examples: people doing the same thing of saying discouraging nonsense that favors one side particularly of the political discussion. I don’t think they are literally bots. Like Snyder says, it doesn’t really matter at the end of the day; the messaging and what impacts it has and how to react to it productively are the important things.

When I was in undergrad some of the chemistry students would do parties where they would dump ice cream ingredients into a big bowl and then dump liquid nitrogen in and stir vigorously to make instant nerd ice cream and then we would all have some

Idk if it was safe but it was delicious

There’s a good chance that those will become too hot for athletes to compete in in most cities (or their former sites) by a few decades later. Of course long before then, the Olympics will have stopped happening as the apocalypse takes hold for real.

Ask me if I am joking, if you are unsure

Here’s a pretty on the nose example. There are others more recent but that one, and the structure of the discussion after, are unusually crystal clear.

If that was meant to help me help myself to flourish, I’ll remain unflourished.

TASS is same factualness category as Al Jazeera (“mixed”)

Good to know I guess, thanks MBFC bot

This is from a year ago

Don’t forget Mrs. “I’m with Her”’s nod and wink to the coup in Honduras that fucked things up in pretty permanent fashion there up to and including to the present day

Better than literally any other president in living memory. Which is to say, still genocidal dogshit. He put sanctions on settlers, pushed for a ceasefire, paused weapons shipments to try to pressure them to stop killing, and then said aw what the hell and gave them $60 billion worth of weapons anyway.