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Also and to be clear, I don't know and will have to evaluate when we know what 2028 actually looks like, but staking out this position now makes having to make that choice later less likely. People are doing politics by arguing strongly for a position when it's the least relevant electorally.
Of course, that also means he misspeaks, but that's something someone like Mamdani seems able to avoid by having an extra scoop of charisma. I just don't think we win by alienating existing voters, and I doubly don't think we do that in the name of people who wish they were still Republicans.
For me, it's why I prefer Walz to most other 2028 options. He doesn't speak in signals, he rather plainly states his position and will try and argue for it. I find that far more persuasive and in my Blue Guy in a Red State experience, you get far more respect for doing it that way.
In what other field do we ask academics to be less precise with their words because they might get taken out of context by a potentially politically signed journalist who, in their ideal world, would be in the opposition party?
Academics and activists are also "in industry," them using jargon isn't the problem, people digging up academic articles using that jargon (because it's the precise and technical term i.e. birthing person) and then claiming it's a Democratic problem are.
Yes, she absolutely would. I'm not sure I would, either. Newsom is helping make a meaner world for people we care about because he seems to think it will win him votes attacking trans people today, but why trust that it stops there?
(sorry for the multi posts, I'm still used to Reddit and not great at condensing my thoughts)
To paraphrase a smarter person than I, a whole lot of people who had fully bought in to the ideals of liberalism saw our leaders support a blatantly betray those ideals for Palestinians even as they supported them for Ukraine, and rather than accept "realpolitik" as an answer they kept the ideals.
If you think it's a genocide, someone saying "nothing with fundamentally change" isn't going to really help. Harris was kinda screwed over and had to simultaneously defend the admin she was a part of while also distancing herself.
I'm firmly in the "speak plain English" camp for most politicians, but chiding people in industry for using industry jargon isn't that, and that's most of the examples given when I've asked.
I have friends in similar boats with various red lines, generally for personal life/work reasons. I also don't see people insisting politicians use them, but the Tom's chide the party for people like them (low level cogs in non profit machines) using them as if they're party operatives, actually.
Depends where you spend your time. My sister has a social worker type job and uses them and absolutely will not vote Newsom, as an example.
It is absolutely criminal that as the GOP crows about urban crime, every Dem isn’t on TV saying, “Look, Larry Hogan is a so-called ‘moderate’ Republican and crime in his state’s largest city has plummeted since he was replaced by a Democrat.”
If you saw Gaza as a genocide, and many do, I don't think it's hard to understand. A whole lot of people gave themselves trauma watching non-stop horror and he was the American most able to do anything, and he mostly enabled the horror.
Doesn't mean I agree with those people, but blaming them isn't going to help, it just drives a deeper wedge between the people who show up and the party. Doubly so if they also doubt the party's commitment as Newsom clears homeless encampments or casts doubt on commitment to trans rights.
And as I said, it's that attitude that loses more voters than the word itself. The sort of person using those terms is also the person volunteering for the party, putting non party members over them is discouraging. And it's about far more than just words people use, that's just the most recent.
The attitude that "they're already committed, appeal to the right/center" is at least as much the issue as the specific examples. All it takes is a few people not voting here as some still voting but not volunteering there, and it's at best a wash and I'd argue somewhat harmful.
Some assets certainly are, others are surrounded by farm fields or forests. Why assume people saying the US would have to degrade that AA mean "bomb Beijing?" climateviewer.org/history-and-...
Some are in cities, much of it isn't. www.ausairpower.net/APA-PLA-Seco...
I think this is specifically @bretdevereaux.bsky.social's nightmare American education system.
Again: you're the only person insisting the US degrading Chinese AA means specifically means hitting population centers. This is a pointless convo until you recognize that you're steelmanning a hypothetical Chinese surprise attack while strawmanning the retaliation.
I think it's because Tom in particular very much isn't a "liberal" (but is anti Trump!) but insists liberals should say and do things that alienate the party base to attract a handful of former opposition voters. If they had the numbers, I don't think they would have lost the GOP on the first place.
Honolulu isn't a major population center? Attacking like for like isn't an escalation, you're the only person who insists that degrading Chinese AA capabilities in response to China doing the same means attacking specifically population centers, as if that's the sum total of assets.
If the people don't matter, I don't see why you keep using proximity to population centers as a metric? Why is the assumption that China's attacks are fine and non-escalatory but the American response is inherently so? You keep talking about hitting downtowns in China, but only bases in US.
I think attacking US assets on US territory in close proximity to US civilians, yes. You keep downplaying that, do you consider. Guam and it's people lesser than downtown LA? Hawaii is an actual state, why are they less important than LA? What if it's just Portland or Seattle?
No, I don't think you have ulterior motives, I think you're flatly wrong and advocating for a policy that would lead to more war and death and destruction, not less. In the scenario we're discussing, they already struck populated US areas, doing the same simply isn't escalation.
Or rather, retaliating in kind is escalation, actually, and therefore shouldn't be done in your opinion.
You're saying retaliating in kind is off limits, how you choose to dress it up doesn't really matter?
So you're saying the correct response to being attacked unprovoked by a peer power to to simply accept it and do nothing? Sorry man, that's cowardice. I'm not saying this because I think it makes me brave, I'm saying it because it makes the US far less safe and future attacks far more likely.
No, the escalation was bombing US soil. Rolling over and letting China bomb US soil and not doing the same isn't de escalation, it's cowardice. You set the precedent that they can bomb us but we won't do the same. If anything, it makes escalation even more likely.
Except we'd already be at war, the strike being discussed hits US based on US soil. Attacking Beijing to kill leadership is also very, very different than attacking anti air installations.
If we're in a shooting way with China that includes hitting US territory and aerial fights over/a naval invasion of Taiwan, no, there are no other real options unless we want to fight to not lose, which is a great way to ultimately lose anyways.
I'd feel less weird about it if there wasn't so much overlap between the "kick the foreigners out" types and "chicken tikka is British cuisine" types. But yes, food fusion is a wonderful and beautiful thing, the history of dumplings is one of favorite since you can see it evolve East to West.
I would also accept We Shall Overcome. youtu.be/AsrYA28CtYQ?...
My who knows how many great grandparents came here fleeing starvation during the Blight and my great grandparents came fleeing civil war after the Easter Uprising, fuck anyone who wants to make it harder for the current or next generation to do the same.
I know that movie solely because my high school gf had a crush on Keira Knightly and they ripped off the RotK game for GameCube. Ah memories.
The White Earth Nation’s bison herd welcomed its very first calf, marking what tribal leaders call ‘a new chapter’ in returning mashkode-bizhiki (bison) to Anishinaabe lands. Bison are being reintroduced through a partnership with the InterTribal Buffalo Council. buff.ly/XMsVVPs #ShareGoodNewsToo
Wild interception for Miami, cheeky backheel pass from the Miami defender who missed the ball on the leap
SOAD killed it, opening with Soldier Side was a great choice.
A7X was never quite my cup of tea, but they do put on a good show. It's a bummer they left the flaming bat skull at home.
First stadium show and I'm hype. I've seen Serj before, but never SOAD.
Boise State volleyball player Nora Hayd has been called a "Gothlete." This implies the existence of Gothletic directors, which is now the job I want. www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic...
Gentrification is what we call it when demand exceeds supply. It is not caused by bike lanes. The answer is not to suppress demand by enshittifying cities, or to justify endangering & killing people outside of cars as a rent control mechanism, but to increase supply.
The whole exchange is weird. Yeah, Trump is a draft dodging coward, but you were only 90% right when you claimed to have a combat award you hadn't officially been given yet and that's the real concern.
Alabama is under .500 for the first time in the history of our community, founded 17 years ago. 🤯
my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
10/10 He's trying his best. 😊 #dog #dogday #bluesky
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
I went to listen to Pete’s federal forum yesterday at the Nebraska State Fair. He touted $50 billion for rural hospitals, but failed to mention rural hospitals are projected to lose about $150 billion. He’s giving us $30 but taking away $100. Total B.S.
I think there's an argument for Marshall, but he also never directly commanded a battle, "only" ran most of the Allied war effort spanning the globe from his office in DC while also juggling the egos genuinely great generals who thought even more of themselves, and MacArthur too.
I think Grant probably knew more about supply and administration from his time as a quartermaster and I think the Vicksburg campaign is some good evidence, but then Sherman does have his march to the sea. Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan are probably among the greatest team of generals in history.
I'm not going to get excited until they play Swan Lake on the radio
That would make sense, I could just see Tolkien being the kind of guy to actually write the book in his fake language since he was already the kind of person to create multiple fake languages.
Captain Aubrey was full of those.
Trusty jeans and a T, good for all seasons, especially when paired with a decent hoody.
So I thought I was pretty on top of my Tolkien lore and I know Westron is meant to be the language it was translated from "in universe," but are you telling me there's a full version he wrote in Westron as well?
I don't want a single Dem vote to raise it. If I trusted the GOP, it would be fishing for concessions, but I trust the GOP as much as I trust my dog around unattended steak. It's their Congress, let them be the adults.
"Keepin' it country" is a wild thing to say about a business that only exists in and around mid to large cities.
No one but the people who voted that way deserve it, and I'd still rather they have public service than not. But we lost that fight, massive cuts did happen, and it's going to hurt rural voters more than urban. It's a bummer, but I'm not going to support cutting hospitals in my city, they can drive.
They just said that people should get the policies they vote for, you're the one pretending that means everyone who suffers as a result deserves it. And yeah, people should get what they vote for, protecting the electorate from the worst of the GOP is why they dismiss what they say as just words.
Can you point to someone saying whole states deserve it? I've seen people saying people should get what they vote for, but deserve has nothing to do with it. Instead of saying it's bad, we need to constantly and incessantly remind people this is what Trump ran on and what he wants for them.
Will go* not should. We just cut a trillion dollars from the health care budget, people *are* going to suffer, it's too late to avoid that one.
Maybe, but it's also just how democratic societies function. We all get the policies the majority/plurality vote for.
They ran on cutting Medicaid and there were endless stories about how precarious rural healthcare systems were. I'd rather cut no funding, but there's a trillion dollar hole now. What communities would you rather have eat the cuts?
So context matters now? None of those kids voted for it, and that's your argument against triaging healthcare funds, why doesn't it matter now?
Yes. That's how voting and living in a society work, on the most basic level. Thankfully Omaha has the population base to eat these cuts without too much trouble, but that means they will be cutting rural outreach which costs more and serves fewer people.
No one deserves it, it's simply the reality we live in. Your anger should be with the people who voted to cause this, not people trying to minimize the impact by stretching funds as best they can.
Do the children in the countries we sanction vote for the things we're sanctioning them for? Hell, did anyone in most of them? I agree they shouldn't suffer, it's a shame more people voted that they should than shouldn't.
Solidarity isn't a suicide pact, the shitty situation we find ourselves in won't get better no matter how loudly you insist it should. So what communities are you arguing to see cuts instead of rural ones? Don't give me some wishy washy BS, these are the questions we need to answer right now.
You may as well say you're in favor of candy and unicorns. These are actual budgets involving thousands of jobs, we need actual plans on how to handle the bills already passed and going into effect.
And the military shouldn't be engaged in occupying American cities. But both those ships have sailed, hospitals have already announced they will be closing as the budget cuts come into effect, now it's a matter of which hospitals stay open.
Not maybe, it is already happening, and you aren't going to cut my urban hospital funding to support rural ones that serve a fraction of the population.
It's not collective punishment, it's a triage and rationing of now far scarcer resources. Shit sucks, wish people didn't vote for it, but they did, and now here we are.
As a red state liberal, no you. People *are* going to suffer, the chance to avoid that date was last November. Now it's just a matter of triage, and urban areas do the most for the most with the least amount of money.
Mike Johnson is a traitor.
We're at the "just following orders" excuses already.
Fuck yeah!
That's a hilarious shirt and I hate it.
😂😂😂
Sooner or later they gotta actually grab him as he blows out of the pocket, right?
Reminds me of Zach Taylor, but Taylor knew how to slide.
Shhhhhh, don't tempt the gridiron gods.
This is how I learned there are novels. I started watching the remake and fell in love, just wish they had dubbed the movie seasons.
Woof. Got the 1st but either that was an ugly run or I've been very spoiled by our rushing QBs.
He should speak for himself, the only way I see to keep Nebraskans safe is to vocally and consistently oppose the wannabe autocrat.
Oh look, more Peter Thiel. Almost like this has been a long term plot by an evil oligarch looking to destroy liberal democracy.
I look forward to the day these fuckers get their just reward.
Ain't no ball like Big10 ball.
New at FFP: Flora Cafe — a new-to-downtown Mexican spot — jogged some memories for food writer Sarah Baker Hansen, particularly those of a favorite brunch dish from a long-gone Omaha classic. 🔗 buff.ly/LQX3Ftn
I think it's the early 20th century aesthetic, it seems to be catnip for AI/the people using it so if you aren't familiar and look quickly, it all looks like AI.
It’s disappointing but not surprising that Sen. Bosn denied our request for a public hearing on the Governor’s plan to hand over a Nebraska prison to ICE. These are not questions that can be answered behind closed doors or in private conversations.
Lol, I'm in the the blue dot in Nebraska, but I appreciate the sentinment. I'm sure you can relate, the plains/midwest is similar enough and empty enough that I just feel a sort of kinship with anyone who lives here than I don't for the coasts, South, or mountain west.
Let's be real, we all need to find humor where we can these days.
I don't think it would even take that long. It's funny how many on the right are terrified of "gun violence" in cities or whatever, but also those cities are just gonna roll over and take it if The Cool Times happen. Nah man, I'm pretty sure Chicago alone has more gun owners than most states.
Drives me up a wall. I'm not *from* the rural parts of my rural-ass state, I just spent a lot of time out there with family and for work. The hate they have for cities is deep and intense and no amount of Medicaid or SNAP will change that. Shit sucks, I wish people didn't vote for it, but they did.
It's fate showing it's love for being the only community-owned franchise in American professional sports.
I think it's also because the East lived under the USSR and especially later in the 70s/80s, if you were anti-Soviet then the aesthetics of the Reich were an easy anti-Communist aesthetic to latch on to, and the rest followed.
Makes me think of Schwarzenegger's video talking about his dad/their generation and how many older men were empty husks filled with hate, loathing, and violence.
And when that did come up, it was blamed on video games and music (and they skipped the racism/neo Nazism still).
