Fuck it, we’ll do it live. Fucking thing sucks.

More like everybody was progressive at the time, from Teddy(a progressive conservative) to Wilson to Hoover. In the end it pretty much just meant liberal. I’m comfortable being a socialist and explaining it from there.

I don’t really like progressive because some of the major figures of the progressive era a hundred years ago are people I’d like to keep a large distance from.

We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of options. Let’s move to the right.

It’s because your challenge as to if they’ll call them bad people now that the election over is some seriously painful cognitive dissonance that they can only resolve by anger at a position you don’t hold.

I honestly doubt people who vote for AOC and Trump in her district are in any way representative of the swing state voters that actually decide the election. Engagement is what went wrong, obviously, but how it went wrong in those two places can be very different.

Well their next candidate, Newsom, certainly has done a lot in regards to the visibly homeless. The future looks bleak no matter how you slice it. I hope to God the neolibs can’t make that shithead stick as the anointed candidate.

No, you’re apologizing by drawing a fucking distinction for the Dems that does not exist. It just doesn’t. I’ll refer you to my original point: where is the red line for the Dems on Gaza?

Your continued apologizing for genocide as the lesser of two evils after the election is as morally bankrupt as the Dem leadership that tried to sacrifice gazan lives for the Republican vote. And look at how well that worked out for them.

To the best of his abilities my ass. Reflexively excusing his continued total support for Israel even after the election is delusional. It’s pretty obvious that you had no chance of getting any different result from a Democrat on this issue than a Republican.

And getting mad at me about it is kind of pointless, as I live in Maryland’s sixth and my vote for a Democrat house member is the only national vote that mattered (and in this case it really did matter). Despite that I did end up voting for Harris. Maybe you should get mad at the Dems morally bankrupt leadership instead of me.

He’s been finishing the job just fine under Biden. I’ve gotten to the point where I can’t honestly see what the difference is(in this particular issue). There was a time where wholesale annihilation and annexation was unacceptable but since that’s cool can you point me to where exactly you think the Dems red line exists? Because it certainly seems to be beyond the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

His brain worms plan on ensuring antihelmintic drugs do not get advanced.

Its the trolley problem, but you just walk away from both tracks and the lever, and then claim that you did not consciously act to cause any harm, therefore you are guiltless.

That’s the fucking point of the trolley problem. How can so many people get here and not fucking understand it’s supposed to present the dichotomy between utilitarianism and deontology. If you have a duty to not commit murder, and pulling a lever murders people, you can’t pull the lever. It’s a valid position.

If deontology is wrong, we should immediately round up every depressed person, kill them, and harvest their organs.

largely harmless at the levels in cigarettes and vapes for the primary smoker

The cardiovascular effects of nicotine over the long term are likely not harmless at all. There’s no reason to believe that combustion is the reason PAD, stroke, and other cardiovascular disease is associated with smoking. There is a very good reason to believe that a potent vasoconstrictor is, however.

This isn’t a whole life sentence but 13 years and then parole for the rest of his life.

Obviously I’m not pro Taliban or this, but one thing that has been amusing me has been the US institute for peace decrying the fact that they outlawed poppy production again because it increases poverty. Western media on the subject is a mixture of it’s bad and it won’t work (they’ve actually reduced poppy production by over 90 percent though). Pre war we were justifying sanctions due to heroin production, post war it actually increased under American administration and the fragile kleptocracy we encouraged(which “banned” poppy production), and now it’s bad they’re slashing and burning poppy fields.

https://www.usip.org/publications/2023/06/talibans-successful-opium-ban-bad-afghans-and-world

https://comick.io/comic/reborn-as-a-vending-machine-i-now-wander-the-dungeon

They still are saddled with profit motives for some of their lines and the “if they build it they will come” strategy isn’t working out too great for them. Several lines are in dire staights due to overbuilding and lack of ridership. Better than others of course.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv6RbEOlqRo

John Madden. Football.