KevinC
6547
I did. To be fair, I was bored.
RichVR
6548
Wait. I can get crazy pills with my covid tests? Why has nobody mentioned this before? It beats getting my crazy pills from the crazy dealer in the park.
Houngan
6549
Honestly the last two days of this thread demonstrate quite well the problem of Democrats. They actually have the best interest of the nation and the people at heart, and as such are utterly committed to making everything inside the machine perfect. The GOP just goes out to win, damn the cost or the morality or the logical errors. Fucking Gerrymander something! Speaking from the left-middle-independent area, weāre all just waiting to see if you can punch at the same weight, purity be damned.
Houngan
6551
Bub, Iām not faulting them as human beings, Iām faulting them as politicians.
RichVR
6552
And I was Just Kidding TM.
Iām not at all sure about the second half of that sentence. Every single thing theyāve managed to do has been a compromise, far from anyoneās idea of perfect.
Houngan
6554
You absolutely were but I knew I didnāt have a chance before you replied to Edit in a āRight?!ā Love you boo!
RichVR
6555
Kisses, kisses, kisses. HUG!
Timex
6556
I think some folks here think thisā¦ And itās wrong.
Twitter is in fact the real world. Itās got around 185 million daily active users, with 40 million of them in the US.
Thereās a reason why people like Trump and MTG are freaked out about being banned from Twitter. Itās because shit that takes place on Twitter has tangible effects on the real world. It creates and modifies peopleās perception. And then those people go out and spread those ideas to people who donāt even use the platform.
Twitter is very much a part of the real world, and stuff that gets said there does in fact matter.
Houngan
6558
Thatās a symptom, not a feature.
That is pretty much true. Butā¦
Put another way, Democrats are so busy being right, and proclaiming their amazing rightness, that they think that that means they gotta win. The truth is that āRightā is how you pick a side, itās not a strategy for winning.
And when the other side simply bristles with aggressive strategies to win, this puts us at a major disadvantage. It would be laughable to see a religious crusade so basking in their rightness that they didnāt bother with the nitty gritty of military methodology ā but thatās us.
And let me tell you, this self righteousness does not make us likable.
I donāt honestly know what that means, or I donāt know what you mean by utterly committed to making everything inside the machine perfect. Or perhaps both!
Thrag
6561
Most of twitter and social seems to be a whole bunch of echo chambers that donāt cross over much. Youāre not going to see far left or right twitter much without seeking it out. Iām totally open to examples of far left twitter having influence outside itself but most people donāt see what TotalSocialist420 is posting.
Twitter certainly does matter when itās people with huge audiences who can use it as a powerful soapbox.
Houngan
6562
To be utterly clear, I want Democrats to fight as dirty as the GOP at the legislative level. Iām extremely angry that that party that I think is vastly right about almost anything, that has lost a singular popular vote in over 30 years, and is constantly being outmaneuvered by the lesser party.
In which case, I will subscribe to your newsletter.
Houngan
6564
Iām perfectly comfortable entering into a co-disappointment-dependency relationship. Itās probably my default.
CraigM
6565
A part of, yes, but not the entirety.
@Alstein made the blanket statement that they are the only leftist who approves of Biden, but that is patently untrue. Like I am right here!
It is just that Alstein runs in circles that distort perception, this shows up in other ways too. Just likeā¦ an extremely myopic view of politics by the voices that are loudest within the bubble.
That was all. I know Twitter. has a tail wagging the dog effect, but even with 40 million users in the US that is not even 15% of the population.
Alstein
6566
I love the passive-aggressive here.
I have a myopic view in some things, but not others. Much of that has come from seeing what I predicted about the Republican party back in the mid-2000s come true, to my horror.
I could just as easily say the views of some folks here are in a myopic centrist/establishment bubble based on how things used to be, and an overconfidence in institutions saving us. I understand why, itās hard to get rid of the myth of America, and itās reassuring to believe in order.
I know how radicalized Twitter can be, and I take that into account (itās also why I turn off things like trends in Twitter). Itās sometimes frustrating being in here - I feel like a Cassandra sometimes, but I know it does ground me some in realizing what establishmentās boundaries are. It doesnāt help that most of the people I listen to are small followings, as the biggest celebrity I follow is an independent pro wrestler who followed me over vtuber stuff.
The places that just do hot takes tend to bore me, and grow stagnant quickly. A good thing about here is Iāve seen minds change some on occasion, and folks do discuss things with more nuance (probably because most of you are around my age, whereas most of my fellow travelers are younger.
I know Iām on a bit of an island with Biden, but a lot of the disillusionment Iām seeing from the left is more frustration/not knowing how hard it is to get things done right now. Theyāll vote in 2024.
