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RIP kbin.social. We hardly knew ye.

    1. Gross.
    2. That'd be pretty electorally disadvantageous. Both names on the ticket from the same already guaranteed to be blue state.

    I don't know who it would be, but Newsome would be pretty far down on my list of options.

  • This back and forth is getting dangerously close to being overwrought. If we disagree by such minimal degrees I don't really care to pursue this further. I think we've both made our point.

    Peace to you. I'll see you around.

  • Cool, so we're adding additional information in order to come to a more nuanced understanding. I like where this is going.

  • So what argument are you making when they are acting with insufficient information and there isn't yet sufficient information to come to any actual conclusion? If it's anything other than "we don't know yet / I don't know, and neither do you" that's not grounded in reality. "I don't know" is a perfectly valid statement, but it happens a lot that people favor something definitive if flawed. That's a problem when "I don't know" is ultimately accurate, not abandoning nuance, and using language that anybody can understand. But that is essentially what the comment you replied to was saying when you said nuance isn't relevant.

    I'm not saying anyone is too stupid to understand. I'm not using willful ignorance to imply an inability to understand, but rather that they simply don't know, and don't care to know.

  • We're talking past each other here. I presume I'm no less invested in keeping fascists out of office than you are. That doesn't provide any excuse not to fully inform myself, or to pretend that something is anything other than what it really is.

    You're talking in context of the upcoming election. I'm talking in context of not abandoning reality. Discarding nuance because other people are irrational doesn't serve you well in the broader scheme. Let them be confidently wrong. They aren't going to care what your argument is regardless of what you say, so serve yourself better by giving things their due consideration.

  • Has nothing to do with being snobby toward other people. It has everything to do with holding yourself to a standard.

    If Adlai Stevenson had a marketing problem that's something else entirely. Learning lessons from his faults itself seems like a pursuit of truth.

  • The pursuit of truth is righteous. Other people being willfully ignorant does nothing to diminish that.

  • They'll be sending in some Secret Service brain worms dressed in tiny black suits and itty bitty sunglasses to protect the OG. Rest assured, it will be safe.

  • He's the guy that challenged Union Rep Sean O'Brien to a fistfight during a senate hearing. Doesn't get much more Markwayne than that.

  • Phone, wallet, keys, pen, lighter, knife.

  • I've seen letter openers that are more threatening than that thing.

  • Hats off to them! Where are the rest?

    The US doesn't do conscription. We have something of an economic draft in this country. There's a whole different conversation to be had about that. I suspect a non-zero change to the frequency and motivations behind our deployments to follow if we make earning privilege compulsory. Our veterans services would likely look a fair bit different as well.

  • I didn't say anything about reverting back to medieval weaponry or battle tactics. More than a couple ways to make their ears ring these days even if they aren't the tip of the spear.

  • Royalty and nobility taking part in actual on-the-ground warfare. I'd be curious if that would have any effect on military operations...

  • I enjoy both. More typically I go for coffee in the morning. Pretty stuck on the same exact coffee, but I try this and that when it comes to tea. I'll always have both stocked in my pantry.

  • Whatever happened to Whiplash? You know, that spider monkey that would dress up as a cowboy and ride around on a border collie at rodeos and in a few Taco John's commercials. Put him in there. The border collie can be his running mate... (get it? get it?)

  • Is anyone who enjoys something that you don't measuring their dick, or does it have something to do with the inherent double entendre related to noodles?

    I mean, when I eat spicy things I'm not even thinking about my genitals; I'm enjoying my food.

  • Eh, the post you're replying to isn't anywhere close to as cynical as it could have been.

    Frankly, the most generous interpretation of why this policy was put forward is an implicit acknowledgement that the way the US healthcare industry currently operates is adversely impacting the personal economies of a huge segment of the population in a way that isn't really justified. With just a slight bit of cynicism, in that they they mention how it could affect mortgage acceptance rates, there's also an acknowledgement of the knock-on effects this is having on other segments of the broader economy, which is probably what they care more about. And with just touch more cynicism we could say this is a move to garner more votes in the upcoming election. Or all of those things can be true simultaneously.

    The state of the US health insurance industry and the relationship private equity has to healthcare in general really needs a complete overhaul. To say that this is a bandaid solution (if even that) isn't the same as saying that it won't do any good, and therefore shouldn't be implemented.