Duh. That's why it's so frustrating that the Dems fucked up the campaign so badly and are promising to do the same again.

Yeah keep being obtuse and pedantic, that's the key.

No, they're right-wing policies that Harris embraced in order to appeal to Cheney-type voters. How did that work out?

Are you saying that sending a signal to a campaign that they're losing votes with their policies and/or messaging is useless? Why is that a false premise?

The Texas GOP's Attack on Catholicism Before President Donald Trump was picking fights with the pope, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was accusing Catholic ministries of human trafficking.

A great dispatch from the Texas border, where Texas Republicans, led by AG Ken Paxton, have targeted a key nemesis of the far right and Christian nationalists: Catholic Charities.

Most lethal army, tough on immigration, arm Israel to the teeth, etc. Come on, we're not children.

It's just shorthand for running to the right of the median likely Dem voter. Which is shifting left every year.

OK, but aside from moralizing what good does it do to point that out? The real need is to get the party to meet its market, not scold the consumers for declining to buy what they're selling.

Yes, so how do you propose we pressure the Dems not to fuck it up again by courting Cheney voters if they're sure they'll have our votes either way?

The Dems are so far right of their base already they'd need to swing very hard to lose their right flank. Instead they keep chasing mythical swing voters and alienating half their base.

I guess I'd look at it more like if you have an organized group that is significantly dissatisfied with the candidate, that's probably an indicator that a much larger number of random people are disaffected. And I think the last election was a good example of that.

1. They have to win in order to rule.

2. I don't think it's "blackmail" to say "I don't like what you're selling so I'm not buying it".

3. If campaigns don't pay attention to gettable voters that don't like their candidate then they're not doing their job.

It seems to me that threats not to vote in the general are the only means of pressuring a candidate to shift their positions once they've been nominated. One of the top goals of a campaign is to win votes from people that might not otherwise vote for you, so why isn't this a reasonable tactic?

Thyme Travellers 2 An anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction

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Child sitting in front of razor wire reading a book with IDF soldiers in the background.

Palestinian children in the West Bank were prevented from going to school by Israeli security forces who closed a road in the middle of the night and set up razor wire.

The children tried to cross through the razor wire and were reportedly tear-gassed.

Photo by @the_andrey_x

Very nice. I can never get enough of musicians describing how their songs came together, especially when they're sitting at the mixing board like this walking through the tracks.

The Byrds - Chimes Of Freedom (Audio) YouTube video by TheByrdsVEVO

Tolling for the aching ones whose wounds cannot be nursed
For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones and worse
And for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe
And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing

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“At least two children a day have been killed or injured in the six months since the ceasefire for Gaza was agreed,” said Save the Children International CEO Inger Ashing. This is not peace for children in Gaza. The ceasefire agreement has not translated into meaningful protection for children or created conditions for recovery. Even its humanitarian provisions – the most straightforward to implement – remain obstructed. We are ready to scale up and support the people of Gaza, but we must be allowed to do our jobs.”

“Six months into the ceasefire, Palestinians in Gaza are still facing a daily struggle to survive.  President Trump promised to lead an extraordinary recovery and declared a ‘new day’ for Gaza. Instead, his plan for peace is stalling and his attention has turned away from the crisis,” said Oxfam America President & CEO Abby Maxman. “Six months later, Palestinians are still experiencing more of the same: going to bed hungry in flooded tents, facing long lines for clean water, and succumbing to diseases and injuries without a healthcare system or basic medical supplies. All while the government of Israel drops bombs and cuts off vital, life-saving assistance with U.S. support. We cannot look away – Palestinians in Gaza need our support and pressure on our leaders to deliver on the promise of peace now more than ever.”

“Six months into the so-called ceasefire in Gaza, we are seeing a continuation of the designed deprivation that we saw throughout the hostilities,” said Refugees International president and former senior U.S. humanitarian official Jeremy Konyndyk. “Palestinians are experiencing severe malnutrition and preventable deaths every day because many cannot reliably access basic food or services. Both the terms of the ceasefire deal and the core tenets of international humanitarian law require that humanitarian goods enter Gaza, and that humanitarians can do their jobs to save lives. The deal signed last year rightly committed to this – it is time to deliver on those commitments.”

I wonder if all the people saying "don't give money to individuals in Gaza, give it to Oxfam or Save the Children" will listen to what the leaders of Oxfam and Save the Children have to say about why they aren't able to help the people of Gaza?

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It's wild seeing you accuse others of being deluded when all you're doing is making assumptions based purely on your own biases.

It's become obvious that all this uproar is based only on vibes and prejudice, so thanks I guess for confirming that. It's still sad to see though.

Great to hear!

Proposal to increase EU tariffs on goods from Israeli settlements Divisive debate inside EU about sanctioning Israel for ‘grave’ human rights abuses begins again

Good report by Jack Power on the conflicting currents within the EU member countries over continued support for Israel. Tomorrow is a big day.

The Tech Oligarch's Republic A look at the Palantir manifesto, a logical conclusion of the War on Terror

The Palantir manifesto has the heritage of the War on Terror written throughout it. Which makes an awful lot of sense considering who staked Palantir at the start.

I think the objections are simply against the painting of most or all of the fundraisers as scams, and in favor of people deciding for themselves who they want to help and how.

The Rise of AI Is Making Life Even Harder for Real People in Gaza Gizmodo spoke with desperate Palestinians who were accused of being AI creations.

But that's exactly why people like Molly take the effort to vet accounts and try to establish that they're real people. Or do you think when @paleofuture.bsky.social followed up on previous claims of fraud for Gizmodo he was also deceived or complicit?

It's been going on since October 2023. Have you only been seeing them recently? Maybe that explains your reaction.

All I ask is for evidence that there is widespread fraud going on, and that Molly was involved in it, and all I get back are smug assertions that it's completely obvious and I'm just deluded.

It seems to me the other way around: that you are simply accepting statements that satisfy your priors.

So you're just going on vibes then, got it. You acknowledge that people are educated, cosmopolitan, and have internet access, but somehow lack the ability to reach out for help on social media. You see that Israel is only allowing a trickle of aid into Gaza, but insist that direct aid is foolish.

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If you truly are open-minded you'd educate yourself on the current state of NGO aid delivery in Gaza, and realize that there's a dire need to get help to people beyond the trickle of supplies that Israel is allowing them. And yes, that means on the market - grey, black, or otherwise.

What is obvious is that you are only repeating illogical positions that satisfy your preconceptions. You acknowledge that people in Gaza can publish videos but somehow lack the ability to access fundraisers. You assert that 99% of these are "obviously" fake, apparently based purely on vibes.