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  1. This sounds like something Dr Marvin Monroe would say on The Simpsons
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  3. No pullups, but I’ll do 10k pushups and squats
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  5. Yes, that was super dumb. It’s funny, I run into that a lot with younger millennials. They seem to labor under the impression that there was some golden age in the recent past when things were fair. I have no idea where it comes from.
  6. I think it will bring back some of the ones we want, and also probably help stop the bleeding. I think we are talking about a lot of things here: 1) younger people taking the blame and paying a social/economic price for the actions/inactions of older people, mainly boomers (an immense subject matter) 2) How affluent white progressives have been unaware of, or in some cases actively ignored or even celebrated the negative consequences to a subset of younger people 3) how MAGA enlisted resentment about that and channeled that towards their own ends 4) what it takes for progressives to reestablish or maintain credibility with middle and working class millennials. Paying attention to them and indicating that their struggles are understood isn’t good enough by itself to make a political difference, but I do think it’s required for any sort of policy or plan or candidates to resonate. It’s the whole podcast thing- Kamala Harris should have done Theo Von and flown to Austin to do Rogan and not done anything special other than be herself as honestly as she could and to push back as much as she wanted. The point of doing those venues would have been to signal to their audiences that they matter.
  7. It is counterproductive. Recognizing something and accepting it as real (ie, not an act) is not validation. But you can’t really be credible to another person if you don’t take them in good faith and try to understand where they’re coming from. That’s very different from agreeing with them. It’s not a great analogy but for example, I’ve spent a lot of time with homeless people. Some of them are very angry and blame a lot of people for their problems, including people who are trying to help them. The first step when you try to reach those people is just listen, nod their head, and indicate understanding. But you must not validate because that can enable their worst ideas and actually doesn’t help get to them.
  8. Again, I think you are projecting. I’m blaming progressives for, among other things, failing to help minorities and disadvantaged people, and putting the performance of helping ahead of results in order to protect their own power and status. You can miss me with the rest of all that.
  9. Now I’m confused. Where did I yell at anybody for that?
  10. What? No. One of the weirdest things about this thread is the conflation of empathy, which is merely an effort to understand and accept the reality of another person’s experience and view of the world with some kind of performance, like an admission or apology or explanation or whatever. It’s just super odd.
  11. Exactly
  12. Evidently the counter argument to that position is “quit blaming minorities,” and “bringing back racial covenants.”
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