I'm not sure how Harris could have thrown Biden under the bus when she was his VP. Many Democratic voters did not want Biden to run again but they actually think that Biden is a good President. Totally throwing Biden under the bus would cause a big fissure in the party. There is no way to communicate we are throwing him on the bus for electoral purposes only to the millions that need to hear this.
Inflation was considered preferable to recessions and depression during the 1950s, 60s, and 70s because everybody wanted to avoid another Great Depression and the radicalization that came from it. You had to go to the extreme right to find pro-mass unemployment politicians who hated Keynesian stimulus. Things started to slowly change during the 1980s. By now, most voters seem to consider recession preferable to inflation.
As mentioned to my brother, maybe not. Liberal-left parties tend to be big tent coalition parties. The problem with big tent coalition parties is that you have lots of different groups that won't vote if their needs aren't being met and many times the needs of groups within the coalition are contradictory and oppositional. This is why the Israel-Hamas War was such a hard needle to thread for the Democratic Party. The most passionate Pro-Israel and Pro-Palestinian voters are within the Democratic Party and the leadership needed to deal with both groups when both groups were feeling extremely angry at each other.
What need to be done is a more universal liberalism but that isn't the style of the time and too many people won't have it.
Again, both you and North are correct at the same time. The big problem of the modern age internationally is that every single group seems incapable of pause and strategic thinking or thinking about opposite perspectives. So you have the people upset about eggs, the NIMBYs, the Intersectional faction, and lots of other people in a constant state of aggravation and few people capable of pause and reflection. So we have this giant's prisoner dilemma in politics and nobody knows the way out.
The problem with Democratic governance in big cities can be summed up in one word, NIMBY. There are a lot of local level people who are severely uninterested in what can be called the physical work of government like maintaining and building the physical infrastructure or want to use the schools to try out interesting theories rather than teach the nuts and bolts.
Both you and Hei Lun Chan are correct. You are correct that Asians along with Latinos should have recognized that Trump and the Republicans are leopards and will indeed eat faces. Hei Lun Chan is correct in that Asian Americans found what they see as their own needs being ignored or even outright rejected by the liberal-left spectrum, especially the activist branch, but receiving an absolute demand for support in exchange for nothing because I guess "Asians don't count" to put it in terms.
I have no idea how to deal with people this detached from reality even though it is my job:
Rosa said she is glad her children voted for Trump. She’s not too worried about deportation, although she asked to be identified solely by her first name to reduce the risk. She believes Trump wants to deport criminals, not people like her who crossed the border undetected in the 1990s but haven’t gotten in trouble with the law. “They know who has been behaving well and who hasn’t been,” she said. . . .
In our reporting on the new effects of immigration, ProPublica interviewed dozens of long-established Latino immigrants and their U.S.-born relatives in cities like Denver and Chicago and in small towns along the Texas border. Over and over, they spoke of feeling resentment as they watched the government ease the transition of large numbers of asylum-seekers into the U.S. by giving them access to work permits and IDs, and in some cities spending millions of dollars to provide them with food and shelter.
Can we build stuff anymore? There is talk of building a subway line around Geary Boulevard, an important east-west thoroughfare in San Francisco. There has been talks and plans of building a subway line down Geary Boulevard since 1949 from what I've read. The current conversation predicts that work on the Geary Subway will START, not be completed, but START in 15 years. Who knows how long after that it will take to finish the project.
Not only do people have to do study upon study but there are always several lawsuits to stop the project because some group wants to save the nesting environments of the sewer rats. I get how the old bulldoze through things paradigm was not great but we swung too far in the opposite direction. People can't wait a generation for a subway line.
A couple of weeks ago, there was a group of point six to seven teens on my BART ride home. They were sharing what can best described as a marijuana cigar and behaving badly. They confronted people who looked annoyed at their antics and pushed one guy off the BART station when he was getting off.
These types of incidents aren't common and this was unusually bad but they are common enough that people are fed up.
Saudi Arabia awarded 2034 World Cup by FIFA. I am generally not as outraged at this as other liberals might be. International cooperation and diplomacy requires dealing with some unsavory countries on the democracy index a lot. Having them participate in the general global economy and society is much better than having a lot of Taliban Afghanistans.
I generally agree with this point. There is a big decorum problem on public transit in the areas where it is used. BART has similar issues if not to the extent of somebody like Jordan Neely. BART has been installing tall fare gates to dissuade fare gate jumping. Since the faregate jumpers tend to be the types that like acting obnoxiously on transit, it has the side benefit of creating a more well behaved ridership.
The facts fit with the general pattern in academia and activism in recent years towards the Jews. Other media might not be covering it because it is not a major story to them and they see it as unimportant. Your attitude that this story can be dismissed because it is only found in enemy media.
The 1990s were an optimistic time despite some geopolitical problems because the Cold War was over, Aparheid ended, and the I/P and Northern Ireland conflicts seemed resolved. North Korea and South Korea were talking to each other and the global economy was booming. Society seemed to be going globally in the proper direction. There were some sore parts like the Yugoslav Wars. Rwanda, and the Talinban ruling over Afghanistan but nothing that seemed unsolvable. The big liberal spectrum won and they won big. Then 9/11 happened and everything seemed to go to hell fast and hard.
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On “Open Mic for the week of 12/16/2024”
Private school diversity conference seems to have devolved into a conference of anti-Semitism. Odd how anti-Semitism keeps propping up at DEI events:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/nyregion/antisemitism-conference-private-schools.html
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Israel and Saudi Arabia have normalization talks break through. Meanwhile, Hamas is finally surrendering.
https://archive.ph/C7QsZ#selection-543.19-547.88
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-gaza-palestine-ceasefire-hostage-negotiations-d599e1d1?mod=russia_trendingnow_article_pos3
On “From Semafor: Kamala Harris’ digital chief on Democrats ‘losing hold of culture’”
I'm not sure how Harris could have thrown Biden under the bus when she was his VP. Many Democratic voters did not want Biden to run again but they actually think that Biden is a good President. Totally throwing Biden under the bus would cause a big fissure in the party. There is no way to communicate we are throwing him on the bus for electoral purposes only to the millions that need to hear this.
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The lost might have been a lot bigger against a conventional Republican and the loss was closer because it was Trump.
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Inflation was considered preferable to recessions and depression during the 1950s, 60s, and 70s because everybody wanted to avoid another Great Depression and the radicalization that came from it. You had to go to the extreme right to find pro-mass unemployment politicians who hated Keynesian stimulus. Things started to slowly change during the 1980s. By now, most voters seem to consider recession preferable to inflation.
On “Open Mic for the week of 12/9/2024”
Chief DEI officer at University of Michigan shocked to learn that anti-Semitism is seen as racism rather than resistance:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/us/university-of-michigan-dei-administrator-antisemitism.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hU4.voeJ.cZqQF94j4VHj&smid=url-share
Also Jewish University of Michigan regent has his home vandalized by anti-Semites, I mean Pro-Palestinian activists:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/103f7dfd6e64ba236194a452ddfaa8314876d38fbb9617b3d04c1f4bd12c97fc.jpg
On “Asian Voters Abandoned Democrats in Droves and Might Not be Coming Back”
As mentioned to my brother, maybe not. Liberal-left parties tend to be big tent coalition parties. The problem with big tent coalition parties is that you have lots of different groups that won't vote if their needs aren't being met and many times the needs of groups within the coalition are contradictory and oppositional. This is why the Israel-Hamas War was such a hard needle to thread for the Democratic Party. The most passionate Pro-Israel and Pro-Palestinian voters are within the Democratic Party and the leadership needed to deal with both groups when both groups were feeling extremely angry at each other.
What need to be done is a more universal liberalism but that isn't the style of the time and too many people won't have it.
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Again, both you and North are correct at the same time. The big problem of the modern age internationally is that every single group seems incapable of pause and strategic thinking or thinking about opposite perspectives. So you have the people upset about eggs, the NIMBYs, the Intersectional faction, and lots of other people in a constant state of aggravation and few people capable of pause and reflection. So we have this giant's prisoner dilemma in politics and nobody knows the way out.
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The problem with Democratic governance in big cities can be summed up in one word, NIMBY. There are a lot of local level people who are severely uninterested in what can be called the physical work of government like maintaining and building the physical infrastructure or want to use the schools to try out interesting theories rather than teach the nuts and bolts.
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This is correct. Activist try to create imaginary communities who happen to magically agree with them but the reality is a lot more complicated.
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Both you and Hei Lun Chan are correct. You are correct that Asians along with Latinos should have recognized that Trump and the Republicans are leopards and will indeed eat faces. Hei Lun Chan is correct in that Asian Americans found what they see as their own needs being ignored or even outright rejected by the liberal-left spectrum, especially the activist branch, but receiving an absolute demand for support in exchange for nothing because I guess "Asians don't count" to put it in terms.
On “Open Mic for the week of 12/9/2024”
Pretend billionaire knows pretend billionaire and wants to lend him a hand.
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I praticed immigration from Bush II. Donald Trump's team does not make idle threats when it comes to immigration or anything else.
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I'm 5'5", so I'm not exactly on the short man hate.
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I have no idea how to deal with people this detached from reality even though it is my job:
Rosa said she is glad her children voted for Trump. She’s not too worried about deportation, although she asked to be identified solely by her first name to reduce the risk. She believes Trump wants to deport criminals, not people like her who crossed the border undetected in the 1990s but haven’t gotten in trouble with the law. “They know who has been behaving well and who hasn’t been,” she said. . . .
In our reporting on the new effects of immigration, ProPublica interviewed dozens of long-established Latino immigrants and their U.S.-born relatives in cities like Denver and Chicago and in small towns along the Texas border. Over and over, they spoke of feeling resentment as they watched the government ease the transition of large numbers of asylum-seekers into the U.S. by giving them access to work permits and IDs, and in some cities spending millions of dollars to provide them with food and shelter.
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-latino-trump-election-resentment-asylum?fbclid=IwY2xjawHHL_BleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHZ0DTrI-RzxHI_x2iAd0ZSPf3-cinuYiDT82djpnl5UFY1q1g1_GZVlM6Q_aem_eBZzNPjIQyREKWfdVvs_Eg
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I dare you to make any less sense.
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Can we build stuff anymore? There is talk of building a subway line around Geary Boulevard, an important east-west thoroughfare in San Francisco. There has been talks and plans of building a subway line down Geary Boulevard since 1949 from what I've read. The current conversation predicts that work on the Geary Subway will START, not be completed, but START in 15 years. Who knows how long after that it will take to finish the project.
Not only do people have to do study upon study but there are always several lawsuits to stop the project because some group wants to save the nesting environments of the sewer rats. I get how the old bulldoze through things paradigm was not great but we swung too far in the opposite direction. People can't wait a generation for a subway line.
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Your point being?
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Of course they did.
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A couple of weeks ago, there was a group of point six to seven teens on my BART ride home. They were sharing what can best described as a marijuana cigar and behaving badly. They confronted people who looked annoyed at their antics and pushed one guy off the BART station when he was getting off.
These types of incidents aren't common and this was unusually bad but they are common enough that people are fed up.
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Saudi Arabia awarded 2034 World Cup by FIFA. I am generally not as outraged at this as other liberals might be. International cooperation and diplomacy requires dealing with some unsavory countries on the democracy index a lot. Having them participate in the general global economy and society is much better than having a lot of Taliban Afghanistans.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/dec/11/saudi-arabia-confirmed-as-2034-world-cup-host-despite-human-rights-concerns
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I generally agree with this point. There is a big decorum problem on public transit in the areas where it is used. BART has similar issues if not to the extent of somebody like Jordan Neely. BART has been installing tall fare gates to dissuade fare gate jumping. Since the faregate jumpers tend to be the types that like acting obnoxiously on transit, it has the side benefit of creating a more well behaved ridership.
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That doesn't mean that Penny didn't use excessive force.
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The facts fit with the general pattern in academia and activism in recent years towards the Jews. Other media might not be covering it because it is not a major story to them and they see it as unimportant. Your attitude that this story can be dismissed because it is only found in enemy media.
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The 1990s were an optimistic time despite some geopolitical problems because the Cold War was over, Aparheid ended, and the I/P and Northern Ireland conflicts seemed resolved. North Korea and South Korea were talking to each other and the global economy was booming. Society seemed to be going globally in the proper direction. There were some sore parts like the Yugoslav Wars. Rwanda, and the Talinban ruling over Afghanistan but nothing that seemed unsolvable. The big liberal spectrum won and they won big. Then 9/11 happened and everything seemed to go to hell fast and hard.
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