I mean, it is bonkers to anyone whose political awareness begins post ~2010 that any Democrat wasn't a pro-choice liberal.

Very "the past is a foreign country."

A lot more social conservatism and regionalism, and overt splits between ADOS and newer immigrants.

Hispanics are a decent template.

Nuyoricans, Miami Cubans, Tejanos, and Californios vote rather differently.

So the thing is that I think the age polarization is starting to kick in.

The saving grace for the racists is brain drain. (Liberals get the heck out of Dodge)

the best argument for feminism is to just let an old woman talk at you about her career experiences

It's interesting to me to see people who became Democrats post ~2000, and those before.

Because holy shit is there a difference between how they see Bill and Hillary.

"I got married to a military man so I could leave town" is one of the most insane lines I've ever heard, and it was dropped mid-convo without any other comment from the other ladies of similar age aside from nodding.

Anytime I hear an old woman open up about what the normal level of sexual harassment was back in the day the stuff they recount makes me livid.

Alright, who gets to be this generation's Jane Fonda?

If not losing, why losing shaped?

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!!

Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on!

I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

That giant lot southwest of 4th and Broadway is my opp.

The Planck Principle kicks in eventually.

There's more argument to be had about the Altmark Incident than here.

We've added Hosam Naoum to our Prayers of the People, but it's remarkably recent.

Aquarium Manager clocking in for duty 🫡

"They betrayed us by not voting"
vs.
"They betrayed *us* by abandoning our principles"

It's gonna take a lot of costly signalling and eating of crow to get past this. And, to be honest, it's likely to be reliant on the Planck Principle.

This is at the core of a lot of "we should just moderate on X issue" discourse.

Also demanding trust isn't how trust works.

Was less about weather than international war/peace boom-bust issues.

And, in fairness, was mostly an avenue for talking about how the Grange and others tried to fix things.

I'm a lot less down on the party than I think many are. Because I think people still do broadly trust the vague idea of it.

They just don't trust the particulars. In part from the failure, yes, but in greater part from a sense of betrayal.

Oh, it was less that they're IQ-stupid so much as that they fairly consistently make terrible financial decisions.

Part of a larger lesson about land, yield/planting to demand, and debt.

This is just a trust thing and scolding people about it doesn't solve shit.

You can hold a grudge until the sun grows cold, or you can actually work to avoid having this shit happen again. Which means building trust on the 90% and either reducing or shutting up about the 10%.

It also means the NRCC is *fucked.*

Donors are gonna prioritize the Senate, and not the House members who are going to get atomized.

As one of my history teachers once put on their whiteboard.

Farmers. Is Dumb.

The decline of mainline Protestant churches relative to reactionary ones in the U.S. is pretty easily explainable if you listen to a couple sermons from each. The former make you feel like you are shirking a duty to go fix a fallen world; the latter just congratulate you on being better than it

Also, there's no defense whatsoever.

No "military necessity" or "bloodthirsty 5 year old with a projectile (barbie doll)."

It's just evil for the sake of evil.

"why is he losing"

the journalists are on the other side

"why would you bring a journalist along with your specops strike force"

inserting the journalist is THE PRIMARY PURPOSE of the specops strike force

One begins to understand John Calvin's Geneva.

Oddly, those are pretty efficient.

They're usually recycled/nonpotable water, and even the largest one uses maybe 20 acre-feet.

Which is about the same as 1 season of growing 7 acres of alfalfa.

Gotta determine when state level pols are being legitimately stupid vs doing state level pol things

Granted, there are some states (AZ) where this venn diagram is close to a circle