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  1. softlynow
    I think by definition, when we're dreaming we are not living in the real world. Let the dreamers dream. Hopefully they do not awaken to a nightmare.
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    Have the demographics there changed, or is this just pure hopeium? Enough good news elsewhere that NC might just be padding the win.
  3. softlynow
    Which Dem policy positions are far left?
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    I spent two weeks practically begging a 25 year old college educated white male to vote. He insisted he couldn't choose between the two. Best I could get was him promising to vote down ballot. He's not a Rogan bro from what I can tell, some of the youth are just baffling. Considering how fucked our culture has become, it's not that baffling. Among many other terrible turns we have taken, the normalization of Trumps antics, the tolerance of the emergence of head-shaking groups like incels and the prevalence of "making libs cry" as a theory of governance has to be quite confusing for young people.
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    If the Senate is going to be 51+ Dem on Jan. 6, sure. There won't be a VP if she's POTUS, so a 50/50 split or worse only invites more fuckery.
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    But did folks leave early? People are saying that’s the real sign of a beautiful rally, a really tremendous rally.
  8. softlynow
    "Party registration is modeled by TargetSmart from multiple commercial sources."
  9. softlynow
    Yolanda is going to be in the news a bunch next March, when she's up for parole the first time.
  10. softlynow
    Musk is a moron born with money. Here’s an item you need:
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    If I was the richest person in the world I would never go to a political rally. What’s the point of Scrooge McDuck money if you’re just gonna post on SM all day and go be bored surrounded by insane levels of idiocy and mediocrity? Buy a sports franchise like a normal rich asshole.
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    I think losing Penn Station would cost tax payers a fuck ton and would probably cripple the NY and NJ economies.
  13. softlynow
    Sell them on the structure. You can talk about it with confidence. Keep it simple. Let me walk you through the Donnelly nut spacing and crack system rim-riding rip configuration. Using a field of half-C sprats, and brass-fitted nickel slits, our bracketed caps, and splay-flexed brace columns vent dampers to dampening hatch depths of one half meter from the damper crown to the spurve plinths. How? Well, we bolster twelve husk nuts to each girldle-jerry, while flex tandems press a task apparatus of ten vertically composited patch-hamplers. Then, pin-flam-fastened pan traps at both maiden-apexes of the jim-joist. A little something like that, Lakeman.
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    Just another data point showing how worthless mainstream news media has become. They don’t call the ridiculous, are always surprised by everything and have no clue how to analyze anything other than the smell of their own farts. But I guess they make money, and that’s all that matters now.
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    CSB time: I had neglected my FL requirement and wanted to graduate in the Fall. The Summer Intensive Ancient Greek program is 10 weeks and gets you 3 semesters of credit. IIRC, class started at 8:30, broke for lunch at 11:30, and the afternoon session went from 1:30 to 4:30. The suggested study time after that was 4 hours. I actually did that some of the time. I got a B (I remember basically nothing, though). I sat next to a Colonel in the Army who was headed for a teaching post in the Army War College. A 14 y.o. kid was in the class who had, according to the prof, an impressive knowledge of Eqyptian hieroglyphics. I was surrounded by people who knew what they wanted to accomplish and were dedicated to the things they did. That was a terrible summer, but I graduated on my timeline.
  16. softlynow
    The entire drop D1 to D2 in MoCo was counted mail-in votes. Votes cast in person has risen each day of EV:
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    The mechanics of this is the sticking point. You’re talking about massive amounts of money and manpower spent organizing people to prop up local party apparatuses in hopes of getting 70/30 GOP counties to 60/40. Sure, in that scenario lots of folks would become unsung heroes in a new Dem hegemony, but they’re not doing it absent some personal benefit nor without the kind of central planning that Dems have never been good at.
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    I get that winning is first. So, how, specifically, would you alter Dem campaign strategy? I’ve always thought Dems never effectively countered the hit on them about “tax and spend” and the race-baiting “welfare queen” vein of attacks on mid-century Dem policies. That’s who they still are to those folks you think are gettable. I also think they’re in fear of getting tagged with being Debbie Downers if they speak more openly about the hollowing out of the MC a la the dubbing of Carter’s honest appraisal as the Malaise Speech. I don’t have a prescription for what I see is a fundamental problem of the Reagan Era. Do you think you do? Do you not think the myth of the American dream of fabulous wealth being attainable for all is an immovable object constraining Dem messaging and tax policy?
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    @Bozo_Casanova Just clarifying your arguments: Dem economic policies are too complicit with and/or complementary to failed (for the middle class) GOP economic policies AND they suck at marketing that their shitty policies would be, maybe a tiny bit better for the MC? If so, it seems to me the marketing failure is the far lesser problem, and really highlights that Dem marketing failures are baked in to the policy choices. Pepsi isn’t going to overtake Coke on marketing alone unless Coke pulls a Bud Lite and alienates a large portion of its target consumer. Sure. Dems could be better at all this. No argument there. But, IMO, actually capturing the non-idiot 60% is impossible without a better product. IMO, Dems don’t want to create a better product because that requires risking their careers and the known path to wealth when their time in office is up If I’m missing something in your argument, please correct me.
  20. softlynow
    Pregnant women call them the good ole days.
  21. softlynow
    Why? Because it would be the right thing? The cycle we’ve seen play out for decades will continue until there is a massive shift in power dynamics. Humanitarian considerations are merely a PR problem rather easily dealt with as long as the status quo holds.
  22. softlynow
    Kirby claims he didn’t remember doing it. SEC rules: he can just claim he slipped into a fugue state and we all have to accept it and move on.
  23. softlynow
    I don't know about drug dealers, but people who subject others to God Bless the USA deserve the death penalty.
  24. softlynow
    That's the kind of exchange I expect when President Buttigieg is debating Gov. Gaetz in the lead up to PB's reelection in 2036.
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    More generally, this shows why Dems everywhere struggle despite a clearly superior platform for a majority of voters. People who could even consider voting Dem want something done, their Pub-leaning counterparts just want liberal tears and/or simply fear something non-sensical.

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