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    What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ?

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  • I wanted to reminisce about the Daily Show when it was at its best. John Stewart and Stephen Colbert were huge for me. Realistically though they aren't the right kind of people for the type of role model your talking about. Part of the left's problem is that the language and style that are used is too intellectual. It contrubitues to the right being able to dismiss progressives as "coastal elites" Part of Bernie's appeal is that he seems very down to earth and straightforward and that's one of the reason that the right has so much trouble going after him. We need a progressive plumber.

  • Got a "Free Tablet" for Health App, but it's managed. Can I root this or is it a lost cause?

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  • How much personal information is going into the intended use of the tablet? If all you need to do is watch some videos can you take it to a public library or a McDonald's? Does your Dr's office have wifi or could you watch it at work?

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  • To your point, I think that there is a fundamental issue with how we talk about success and failure. We effectively target white straight cis men setting them up so that they can never really succeed. As the majority, at least in terms of social and political power, we recognize that they have significant privilege in our culture. We weaponize that privilege such that all successes are external (the system is pushing them up) and all failures are internal (must be something wrong with them if they can fail despite having all of those advantages). Everyone else, to varying degrees depending on how much social and political power we perceive them to have, has the opposite logic applied to them. We say that their success is personal and special because they do it in spite of the system working against them and we blame their failures on the system.

    There is of course legitimacy to that reasoning. There are many roadblocks that, especially visible, minorities face that white straight cis men do not. That doesn't make this mindset not problematic though. The biggest issue with it is that we apply the general to the individual. Does a rural white kid whose parents both work retail have more privilege than Jaden Smith just because of his skin color? That's of course an extreme example but the point is that the totality of a person's circumstances is more than just how their biology is perceived by the culture. Privilege does make success easier as compared to people in otherwise similar circumstances but it certainly doesn't guarantee success or mean that successes don't have to be worked for.

  • A country run by terrorists is paying YouTube to show me propaganda

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  • I like How to Cook That. It's cool when YouTubers are legitimately educated on the subjects they do videos on.

  • Lawsuit Challenging 2024 Election Results Moves Forward After Kamala Harris Received Zero Votes in a New York County

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  • Winning a majority of the electorial votes is what's required to be elected president. There is no federal requirement that the electors of the electorial college vote in accordance with the popular vote of the state they represent. If enough fraud is proven that Harris should have one won it doesn't change the outcome of the electorial vote. According to the laws as they currently are Trump would still be president.

  • No True Star Trek Fan would fail this test

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  • The Federation got him out during the Dominion War and made him a captain according to the games. He's free in canon too. His name was on a list of Starfleet officers being taken into protective custody on an episode of Lower Decks.

  • Kinda fucked up tbh

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  • So basically, the Karman line is the theoretical highest point that an airplane can fly, or at least it was when it was calculated. If it were recalculated today it would be higher because of technological advancement. The definition used by the agencies that define it as the edge of space set an altitude near the originally calculated line. The functional difference between being above the line and below the line is that the keplar force will keep an object above the line from falling to Earth within 24 hours while drag will slow the object below the line enough for it to fall back to Earth within 24 hours. It's fine as a functional definition but I see no reason that it should be universally applied. In the scope of this discussion why should we consider something that will fall back to Earth in 25 hours not be on Earth but something that will fall back to Earth in 23 hours to be on Earth?

  • Kinda fucked up tbh

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  • The ISS was launched from Earth, in pieces but still it's of Earth origin, and will eventually fall back to Earth. It's inside the Earth's atmosphere and experiences drag. It's orbit has to be adjusted and maintained.

  • Kinda fucked up tbh

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  • I like pedantry but want to go the other way. The ISS orbits in the thermosphere, still inside Earth's atmosphere. I say that you haven't really left Earth until you exit the atmosphere.

  • Huge cost of military parade on Trump’s birthday is revealed

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  • I don't know how common this sentiment is but I see a major military parade on US soil as an embarrassment. No uninvited foreign troops have set foot in the contiguous US since the Mexican American War ended in 1848. There hasn't been a military battle in the contiguous US since Wounded Knee in 1890, inasmuch as Wounded Knee was a battle. Part of the privileges that Americans enjoy is that that level of conflict happens elsewhere. Large displays of military power at home deminish us.

  • Researchers Secretly Ran a Massive, Unauthorized AI Persuasion Experiment on Reddit Users

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  • I thought that sounded fishy. It's common knowledge that everyone on the internet except for you is a bot so a contentious discussion on reddit without anyone accusing one of the primary commenters of being a bot seemed questionable without that bit of additional information.

  • If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed?

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  • I guess it's worth a shot but you'd a few hundred years after the Norse abandoned their settlements in North America and about 120 years before Columbus's first voyage.

  • If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed?

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  • I'm in the US and in a place that native Americans didn't have settlements. I'm very familiar with the area and have hunted, hiked, and camped here my entire life. With no preparation or modern equipment I give myself about a week before I get eaten by wolves or a bear, maybe gored by an elk or bitten by a venomous snake. I don't expect that I would see another human during that week. Native hunting parties visited the area so it's not impossible that I would see someone but it's very unlikely.

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  • This is a big part of the Democrats problem, it feels like their stance on every topic is "Trump is worse". Harris supports genocide in Gaza, yeah but Trump is worse. Harris embraces fracking, yeah but Trump is worse. Harris embraces the criminal migrate narrative, yeah but Trump is worse. Running to the right and yelling but that guy's worse has always been a losing strategy for Democrats but they just keep doing it. Why did Bill Clinton and Obama win? They embraced progressive policies and offered a vision of hope. Why did Biden win? He tried to go right but between some early issues like "working with segregationists" and the crime bill along with Bernie's success in the primaries he was dragged back left and there was meaningful policy separation. Why did Hillary Clinton and Harris lose? They ran right and yelled "but the other guy is worse."

  • I just WON'T

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  • Worth restoring this step stool?

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  • I think this is made from an exceptionally hard wood. It looks a lot like walnut or pecan. I would be concerned about cutting across the grain with a powered saw causing chipping and ruining the piece. I think I would repair the current joint and add a center leg or probably a leg on both sides to support that joint.

  • Ramaswamy wants to defund unauthorized government programs - like veteran healthcare

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  • NASA is definitely a target. Musk wants to make SpaceX America's privatized space agency.

  • Who will lead Democrats in 2028? Meet the leaders positioning themselves to make moves.

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  • but the more time she spends chasing Senate seats and climbing the political ladder, the more dulled that "political outsider" edge gets.

    I think it's possible to serve in Congress and still be considered a political outsider. It's not easy, the secret seems to be a strong commitment to principles outside of the mainstream but at least a couple of people have done it.

    Bernie has been in the legislative branch since 91 and was in state government for a decade before that. Being a political outsider is still part of his appeal. On the other end of the spectrum Ron Paul was first elected to the House in 76 and retired from politics in 2013 without ever having become a political insider.

  • US judge tosses Illinois' ban on semiautomatic weapons, governor pledges swift appeal

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  • People don't revere the framers, they treat our founding mythos similarly to religion. They embrace what they like and what reinforces their beliefs while ignoring things that they find inconvenient. Primarily they ignore that very little was universally agreed upon by our framers and that the Constitution is the result of significant compromise. When someone says, "The framers believed..." they are almost always wrong and actually only framing what they believe in a way that they think gives it more credibility.