There’s a classic greek play, Lysistrata, that tells a tale of women refusing sex to get the men to end a war. It is notably a fictional account.

Essentially the reference resonates most with college educated (white) women.

Ah the first 40 minutes of The Princess Bride countless times through K-12.

But that would be gud politik.

Monopolistic competition makes a lot of wild assumptions that can result in such ideas.

I used to be able to name every nut that there was. And it used to drive my mother crazy, because she used to say, “Harlan Pepper, if you don’t stop naming nuts,” and the joke was that we lived in Pine Nut, and I think that’s what put it in my mind at that point. So she would hear me in the other room, and she’d just start yelling. I’d say, “Peanut. Hazelnut. Cashew nut. Macadamia nut.” That was the one that would send her into going crazy. She’d say, “Would you stop naming nuts!” And Hubert used to be able to make the sound, he couldn’t talk, but he’d go “rrrawr rrawr” and that sounded like Macadamia nut. Pine nut, which is a nut, but it’s also the name of a town. Pistachio nut. Red pistachio nut. Natural, all natural white pistachio nut.

Biden had claimed he would be a transition president, a bridge to the next generation-- an allusion to being a one-term president.

This is from June, just before his debate:

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/4718993-did-biden-break-his-one-term-pledge/

The tone of that article, with the clarity of hindsight, should be obvious to anyone.

I did this as a teen with my learner’s permit and my dad. It was him playing the Eaglea and Bob Dylan while I learned to figure out driving on the highway in NJ through the indiana turnpike until the glorious open road out west where i was stuck behind semis and 1 lane road work across the midwest until montana.

I have remained driving on the west coast only since.

Where are all the passionate leftist politicians.

Systematically removed from office and primaried from power anywhere and everywhere they appear.

Bernie is an Independent and as a senator is mostly the exception to this rule. The remaining progressive House members are isolated and picked off in primaries each cycle.

Well the argument being made here is that the campaign’s strategy actively depressed turnout.

So not doing normalizing the opposition and implementing the policies your voting base tends to oppose.

The Democratic Party repeatedly expressed the need for a strong Republican Party. They sure got it.

I am not sure you remember but the media reaction to Bernie doing well initially was major outlets like CNN reacting with fear, loathing, and uncertainty. And it impacted rhe course of an election. You had anchors yelling about how Sanders will result in public executions in central park during the primary.

Yeah it is definitely a fascist problem.

I mean I would love to believe there are trns of millions of silent far left protest abstentions, but the fact of the matter is seventy million plus motherfuckers actively went for the overt fascists. Tens of millions more didn’t care enough to at least go third party. This was a turnout problem, not a protest vote problem.

No disagreement that the campaign is, in fact, doing the campaigning thing.

A good campaign presents their intended policies consistently and favorably. It sells the electorate on casting their vote.

A poor campaign favorably presents inconsistent policies in a vague manner. It erodes faith in what the electorate is voting for.

Poor thing’s been ripped from its habitat into this cruel low pressure environment .

The campaign has been changing its tone depending on audience. In places like Michigan they’re doing this, but outside seing districts they’ve been banging the war drums for Israel.

So the lack of faith in the messaging isn’t without warrant.

We do get a lot of greentexts. I mean, greentexts, NCD, and this place are the core communities filling my Local feed. Whitepeopletwitter has been pretty frequent but pretty low engagement recently though.

I typically opt for All to read .world and .ml debatelording.

I guess we have reached a social austerity phase of oligarchy.

And here I was of the general impression the user in question was just a bot that reposts the subreddit.

No one is really checking where and how people are operating from for those nuances to come out.

Judging from the points being made here in this thread, clearly there was little reading of the article to begin with.

Even article headline uses ‘Arab-American’ and ‘Pro-palestinian’ interchangeably. The perfect level of wrong that creates a bunch of uncertainty and confusion.