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I agree that the fears of un-electability are overblown. It's a bit of a tangent, but: Having thought about the "nobody wants to vote for a spineless weasel" angle a bit more over the past couple of days, I'm realizing I feel like the real problem isn't actually the short-term electability...

Nothing says sensible and calculated like stating "in case you haven't been paying attention the Republican speech wizards have been kicking our asses at it for decades" and then concluding that our leaders should keep doing what they've been doing for the past three decades. It's not just...

Got two campaigns to the point where I said "ok, this is a huge setback and I see what I did wrong here". While I do have some core beefs with the game, it's still mesmerizing in scope, features some really exciting transitions in what you're doing from phase to phase, and has been subtly...

Warren never led a single primary vote. Outside of the first one in Iowa, it wasn't even close. She might have led the polling at some point before the voting started, but so did a lot of people whose campaigns completely fizzled, and in terms of "jumping in" their announcements to run were...

I don't think there's any ambiguity as to if his position is "nobody should do this at all" in the article Shavano linked. He never, once, says he wants meaningful cuts to ICE in that article, or the articles it links to, or in the X discussion linked. To the contrary, he says that "of...

What plan do you think Megalodon has? Unlike Ted Cruz, he isn't negotiating legislature, nor is he in any position to. He's criticizing the role of the Democratic party in getting us where we are, and that's a perfectly reasonable thing to do for a very simple reason: The way to make cutting...

I'm going to be boring and just do another Resistance campaign. It's unlikely I'll do more than one more campaign, and they always seemed like kind of the star of the show as the X-Com faction, plus they're the faction doing the thing I want to do anyway. Neat to see they added more...

Darnit. Started watching PerunGaming's run and now I'm reinstalling the game...

They did more than leave it intact, they expanded it- Obama with JSOC, and Biden increased ICE funding as part of the party's last-minute pivot to adopt the GOP positions on immigration. See also the increased police funding and refusal to include any degree of restriction or accountability...

Oh, interesting. I kept reading the patch notes for months after my final campaign, but stopped at some point- guess I'll go catch up. It feels weird that Mars would be better. I wonder if the thought was that Mercury was the furthest from the aliens so from a gameplay perspective it's...

Good advice in this thread! To echo a few key bits and add a few notes of my own: Admin is the bomb because in addition to being points in a somewhat useful stat on its own right, it's buying you support org capacity that'll get you the other stats and at a better ratio than just buying the...

Depends who we're talking about when we say "the left". People to the left of the Democrats generally aren't supportive of the sort of neoliberal trade policies being discussed and were part of protests against them even in the 90s. On the other hand, if we're talking "Democrats and...

This was a theme in an article on that I read recently that surprised even my fairly cynical self with some of the numbers: No need to stop at complaining about just zero-sum investment, though*. There's also just a lot of shenanigans that add negative value. There are stock buybacks...

Secret? Conspiracy? A year ago? Only if you started reading the news a year ago. We had kidnapping and torture camps during the Iraq war, not to mention the exploitation of airports and borders as Constitution-free zones and the establishment of caged-in "free speech zones" to try to...

I find it hard to believe that a secret White House data center gives them any capability they don't already have and couldn't trivially have more of if they wanted it.

Well, then if you understand that this wouldn't be a routine thing states do all the time to be settled with lawsuits, don't compare it to a routine thing states do all the time to be settled by lawsuits. 🤷‍♂️ I think a more honest, less dismissive description of how it would go down is...

Yeah, it's hard to see that particular form of defiance not just immediately triggering the arrival of federal troops. You're messing with taxes, you're messing with control of the border, and it's a direct thumb in the eye of executive power rather than resisting some regulations or...

Same, but without the coming around. :confused: It doesn't even matter if they can agree with and even formulate valid critiques of the GOP. At the end of the day, they'll always fall back on "both sides are terrible" and then look for every excuse to not vote for the Democratic candidate...

I think more to the point: Great. So she on at least one occasion said she wouldn't be a continuation of the Biden administration and that there would definitely be changes, probably directly in response to criticism of that point. So what? That's an insubstantial and unconvincing statement...

Additionally, if it's critical you avoid the strike then giving the workers what they want is the surer way to avoid it. School unions do "illegal" strikes all the time- the one in my city did one a couple of years ago racked up some significant fees for doing so, but they did nonetheless...