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@ Objection @lemmy.ml

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If someone claims something happened on the fediverse without providing a link, they're lying.

Evidence or GTFO.

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  • Sources that I’d prefer to regulate in terms of animal rights, but every time that comes up, you people divert the conversation to “if you’re not gonna be vegan you’re evil either way so it doesn’t matter” and everyone tunes out.

    Pack it up, vegans. This person was going to wish upon a star to regulate animal agriculture, which would've done it, but we just had to go and advocate for making material changes on a level we have control over, and that forced them to be explicitly fine with abuse. If only we had your thoughts and prayers, what a horrible miscalculation on our part.

  • Obama On Trump's Recent Odd Behavior: 'Can You Imagine If I Did That?'

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  • I never claimed that the Republicans are not unreasonable. As you say, the Tea Party was very unreasonable, and republicans at that time stonewalled Obama, despite his all of his attempts at reasonable compromise. That's my point, it isn't new.

    My issue is that the narrative of reasonableness is tied to the status quo. When the status quo is failing, then people will be more prone to drastic changes then staying the course. If the two sides are "the status quo" and "not the status quo," then the worse the status quo gets, the more prone people will be to consider the "not the status quo" option. If you think things are generally headed in the right direction, I suppose that's fine, but if you feel, as I do, that conditions are deteriorating, then that's a problem, and if that continues, then it becomes inevitable that the strongest "not the status quo" option is going to win, whether now or later.

    That's why I think it's a better strategy for the left to embrace progressive policies in a very bold way, in order to present an alternative vision of the future that is distinct from both the status quo and the far-right. Those policies would be the best chance of setting us on a positive path that would prevent things from falling into chaos, while also offering an alternative to the failing capitalist status quo that isn't fascism. Because the road we're on currently makes fascism an inevitability.

    If what you say is true, and the democrats are now assured victory on the basis of being the only reasonable party left, then why is this election still a toss-up?

  • Obama On Trump's Recent Odd Behavior: 'Can You Imagine If I Did That?'

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  • The democrats have been pushing that angle with Trump since 2015, and with republicans in general before that.

    "Reasonableness" is at the core of democratic messaging, and that's a problem because what that does is allow the right to set priorities and values uncontested. Bush went into Iraq and Afghanistan, and Obama didn't stop that, he just said he would conduct the war in a more "reasonable" way. The same thing with Biden's attempted immigration bill that would've expanded the executive's ability to crack down on immigrants, the idea that cracking down on immigrants is necessary is uncontested, it's just about doing it in a more "reasonable" way. And when someone's electoral pitch is being reasonable, it puts them in a weaker position because they're expected to be reasonable and willing to compromise even when the other side stonewalls them, which republicans always do.

    Apart from those things being bad, it's also not really an effective strategy. Many people are more concerned with whether a politician is on their side and representing their interests rather than whether they are being reasonable. On top of that, many Americans are straight-up anti-intellectual and so the reasonableness angle doesn't resonate with them. And there's a certain extent to which reasonableness is socially defined, and so if the current system isn't working for people and they want it to change, then they're probably not going to be concerned with existing norms of what is and isn't reasonable. Essentially, the reasonableness angle can at least potentially come across as elitist.

    The democrats squeaked out a win with that angle in 2020, in the middle of Trump's terrible mishandling of the pandemic, and it's possible that they'll squeak out another one now, but if reasonableness was such an effective angle then every election against Trump should've been an absolute blowout.

  • Man who threw away $500M Bitcoin hard drive sues city for right to search landfill

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  • Technicians that will probably demand a commission not a flat rate.

    Never heard of anyone in that field doing this. If you walk into a computer repair place and say you need to recover data off a hard drive and they say they need to know how much the data's worth before they can tell you the cost, you should probably just immediately walk out and go to a different store regardless because that's probably a skeezy place.

  • This Is Exactly How an Elon Musk-Funded PAC Is Microtargeting Muslims and Jews With Opposing Messages

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  • Other countries' affairs should be a bigger deal in our elections. If the US is going to play world police, then it ought to represent the people it's policing. Since those people can't vote, US citizens have a responsibility to learn and understand things from a global perspective and to place their interests on equal level to that of our own. If the US wasn't so intimately involved in other countries' affairs, you might have a point, but as it stands, prioritizing one's own concerns over the people who are being killed and oppressed in our names is unethical and undemocratic.

    Also, with just the money we've sent to Israel, we could end homelessness. Also, many of our police travel to Israel to be trained in their methods. The violence there also creates refugees which affects immigration. There are lots of domestic issues that are affected by foreign affairs.

  • Trump: Biden is Too Tough on Netanyahu

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  • Bush is up there but if Netanyahu hasn't already passed him, he definitely will as the genocide continues.

  • Trump Breaks Down Onstage | At a campaign event last night, Trump got bored—and weirdness ensued.

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  • Real classy language you got there.

    No, dancing doesn't indicate any sort of cognitive impairment at all. There's plenty of legitimate shit to criticize him for, this is just petty bullshit.

  • Trump Breaks Down Onstage | At a campaign event last night, Trump got bored—and weirdness ensued.

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  • The liberal position is that dancing means you have brain damage and if you don't agree you're the enemy. Interesting tact.

  • Trump Breaks Down Onstage | At a campaign event last night, Trump got bored—and weirdness ensued.

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  • I wouldn't have thought anything of it when he was running for president.

    Like, I said he was having cognitive decline because of stuff like this. Dancing at a campaign rally isn't a sign of cognitive decline, it's just making a mountain out of a molehill to have material to fill the news cycle. And I guess to "settle the score" or something, since liberals still seem to be holding onto this idea that calling out Biden's decline was somehow unjustified. If anything, you could make a better case by finding a clip of Trump saying something incoherent (not hard), but coming out hard against dancing just sounds like the bad guy in some boomer movie.

  • Trump Breaks Down Onstage | At a campaign event last night, Trump got bored—and weirdness ensued.

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  • Lol ok.

    I don't just assume people are in cognitive decline every time they do something spontaneous. Besides, Trump is obviously unfit regardless of his mental state. I guess when you're fully in on partisan brainworms you just have to reaffirm at every moment that everything the other side does is The Worst Possible Thing in case someone doubts your loyalty or commitment. Honestly part of why I don't give a shit about appealing to that circle, because it seems really boring and narrow. The world is so much larger than that.

  • Trump Breaks Down Onstage | At a campaign event last night, Trump got bored—and weirdness ensued.

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  • What makes you think this wasn't a conscious or cognizant decision?

  • Trump Breaks Down Onstage | At a campaign event last night, Trump got bored—and weirdness ensued.

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  • It's just kinda weird to me to hold up this as a refutation to the idea that "both sides are the same" when this specific thing is purely about aesthetics.

  • No country still uses an electoral college − except the US

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  • It wouldn't fix the system at all but it would still be a move in the right direction.

    I have no idea how this could be called "thinking short term" or how getting rid of the electoral college would "turn into a bigger problem later." It's possible that at some point in the future, it could benefit Republicans, somehow, but only if a majority of the people were voting Republican. There is never going to be a situation where I would miss the electoral college, lol, get rid of it and it's gone forever and we can continue addressing other ways our elections are messed up.

  • Trump Breaks Down Onstage | At a campaign event last night, Trump got bored—and weirdness ensued.

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  • Yeah, and that was bad.

    I'm not sure how that's relevant here except as a reason why doing that sort of thing is generally a bad habit.

  • Trump Breaks Down Onstage | At a campaign event last night, Trump got bored—and weirdness ensued.

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  • Trump Breaks Down Onstage | At a campaign event last night, Trump got bored—and weirdness ensued.

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  • I wouldn't think anything of it if Biden did it.

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    An Actual Marxist, Angela Davis Endorses Kamala Harris.

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  • The guy who appointed Hitler as chancellor was the "lesser evil" who was "the only way to stop Hitler."

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    An Actual Marxist, Angela Davis Endorses Kamala Harris.

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  • Trump Breaks Down Onstage | At a campaign event last night, Trump got bored—and weirdness ensued.

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  • I'm glad to know where your priorities lie, I guess.

  • No country still uses an electoral college − except the US

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  • Areas with larger populations would have more influence, because there are more people there to represent. That's how democracy works. It's not, I don't know, landocracy.

    But every vote would be equal, so there would be more incentive than there is now to campaign across a wider cross section of people, including in less populated areas, because as it is now, the majority of those areas are in safe states where there is zero advantage whatsoever to a politician trying to win their votes.