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neatchee

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  • Arnold Schwarzenegger endorses Kamala Harris: ‘I will always be an American before I am a Republican’

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  • I'm not gonna pretend the clemency was an ethical move - though there is a lot to question about that plea agreement - I will say that if you think this is "as crooked as they come" you are woefully sheltered.

    Cutting the sentence in half of a political-rival-turned-ally's son is messed up but the hyperbole of calling it "the most crooked you can be" is absurd

  • come on be honest

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  • Ichigo asks, Ichigo receives.

  • Donald Trump's iPhone Wallpaper Is Just a Photo of Himself

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  • This is not surprising, but funny because it's so on brand as to make you go "of course that's his wallpaper. Of course."

  • Because I'm still seeing "Both parties are the same!" trolls in the comments

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  • No thanks. I'm done trying to explain it. I'm curious if others are having as much trouble understanding or if you're being intentionally obtuse, but there is no other way to say what I'm trying to say. It's complex and nuanced. There is no simple or concise way to say it. So I'm done here. Have a good one 👋

  • Because I'm still seeing "Both parties are the same!" trolls in the comments

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  • And your ability to be concerned about such things is your privilege

    It is obvious that you are generally comfortable with little risk to your daily life riding on this election

    Talk to me again when you're sacrificing your own immediate safety instead of the immediate safety of others to uphold your high-minded values

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  • Sure.

    The important starting point is:

    Your perspective is not the only perspective. Every other person has a complex life, just as complex as yours with its own perspectives

    And no one perspective is objectively right or wrong. There is only the opinions we bring to the table, what we each choose to do, how that impacts the world, and who we successfully bring to our cause

    And most importantly, the policies I believe are morally and ethically the best path forward are often not widely popular without intense, direct conversation on the nuance of a subject, or until after the policy yields long term success that won't become apparent until after the next one or more rounds of elections

    With that said, acquiring votes often involves identifying what resonates with others and pursuing their support rather than enacting the ideal policies you want to pursue

    Actual governing means negotiating to enforce a collective will, agreed upon through genuine discourse and collaboration motivated by improving society and humanity

    But you can still enact meaningful policy that has nothing to do with those goals and ideals, but rather seeks to generate support through various means.

    Through a history of electioneering, the political machine in the US has produced an environment where administrations have a limited amount of time in which they can feasibly prioritize idealistic goals (if they even want or bother to) while still having enough time and political capital to recover any lost support. And the more disregard your opponent has for selflessness and mutual aid, the more risky it becomes to pursue unpopular positions.

    You and I may know that it's good policy. That doesn't make it popular. And "it'll be popular when it works" is not a viable strategy when the opposition has become so good at obstruction, deconstruction, consolidation of power, and manipulation of public perception

    I hope that clarifies

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  • The fact that you interpret fear of persecution and resistance to authoritarianism as a selfish act tells me everything I need to know about how you view the world. And I choose not to engage in this conversation with you. 👋

  • Ado - RuLe rule

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  • My pleasure :D

  • Because I'm still seeing "Both parties are the same!" trolls in the comments

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  • Are you implying policy only has meaning if it supports your specific goals? Because there has been plenty of meaningful policy that does absolutely nothing to protect or advance the very narrow goals you've defined above in this conversation, or even what one might call moral and ethical. What exactly is "meaningful" when it comes to policy? That is such a vague, garage term in this context

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  • One can enact policy for many reasons, not just legitimate efforts to govern effectively. Enacting policy for the sake of political expediency is still enacting policy, but not what I would consider actual governing

  • Because I'm still seeing "Both parties are the same!" trolls in the comments

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  • You seem to have misconstrued what "actual governing" means in this context

  • Because I'm still seeing "Both parties are the same!" trolls in the comments

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  • When did I say anything about being "so singularly focused [...] that they are unable to enact policy"? They choose not to pursue the policy positions you want largely because it's politically expedient.

    Part of that includes actually doing their jobs

    This right here is where you're not hearing me

    What you define as "doing their jobs" and "doing the thing most effective at getting them re-elected" are not the same thing. That's literally the problem. Humans aren't as ethical, self-aware, intelligent, and future-thinking as you seem to want to believe.

    Humans are, in fact, incredibly easy to manipulate, as it turns out.

    Your idealism is noble but untempered by reality. Solving this particular problem will require something far different from simply abstaining from voting or whatever, and until you and others are ready for that, shitting on Harris and Biden for playing the rhetoric game when the alternative at the moment is a literal extreme fascist is not only a pointless endeavor but actually puts other people in harms way

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  • Tell me you've never worked in US politics without telling me you've never worked in US politics, speedrun edition

    I'll try to remember to explain the details to you when I'm not actively deplaning from a week-long work trip, because I'm not down with the "do your own research" attitude. But for real, if you have the opportunity to talk to someone who has actually dealt with state or federal election campaigning I encourage you to discuss the nuance of this with them.

    In truth, politicians literally never stop campaigning. Every single decision they make until the moment they decide not to run for office again is colored by the need to get elected again. And even then, they are all thinking about how their actions are going to impact their colleagues and successors

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  • Let's be completely clear about one thing that you both seem to be neglecting in this conversation:

    You cannot govern if you lose. And due to how our government is structured and how elections work, an administration gets maybe two years (more like 12-18 months) of actual governing before they have to start focusing on getting (re)elected.

    So it's all well and good to ask for radical change and drastic measures to avert climate disaster. But if the consequence of those actions is that democrats up and down every ticket lose the next election, it's all for naught, because it's FAR easier to dismantle hastily enacted radical changes than it is to cement them long term, especially when the people coming into power after you have no scruples about lying, cheating, and profiteering.

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  • Historical evidence suggests that radical honesty regarding complex issues is not a winning political strategy.

    One of the main reasons democrats lose so much is because they often prefer to take the moral high ground instead of, you know, winning.

    Psychology has been weaponized and your faith in the general public to reward honesty is, sadly, misguided. We know this. It's been proven out over and over again, in many ways..

    So we can stick our heads in the sand, or we can play the game and then govern to the best of our ability after winning.

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  • And that is exactly what the reply means by privilege. It is a luxury to be able to think that far ahead.

    It turns out, when you're at risk of being dead in a week, a month, or a year, you tend not to care about whether humanity will be around in 20 years.

    So having the ability to focus on the long term is a privilege that the vulnerable do not have.

    Of course, these things are not mutually exclusive. But when you have two parties that both suck at climate care, but only one of them is trying to incarcerate or kill LGBTQA+ folks, for example, and your focus is on things like "don't vote for anyone or you're supporting fascism and climate destruction" it reeks of privilege and a disregard for the immediate welfare of your neighbors.

    EDIT: To put it another way - if the cost of humanity's survival is sacrificing our LGBTQA+ neighbors, perhaps humanity is not worth saving.

  • Ado - RuLe rule

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  • Ado has a crazy range of styles in their music too; it's very hit or miss for me. This one needs to have me in the right mood heh.

    Some tracks worth checking out that have a different style:

    And while it's much more similar to the OP track, no Ado song list would be complete without her most famous song and the one that shows off her vocal creativity and flexibility the most:

    The range she has in her voice is truly impressive. Interestingly she has no formal vocal training and learned everything emulating sounds from other musicians and especially vocaloid tracks.

    She also writes almost all her own songs and is heavily involved in the mixing and production process

    Oh, and she's only 22, but has taken Japan by storm

  • Half as Hot

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  • For anyone questioning this logic, try running your "idle" CPU without a heatsink of any kind.

  • Kentucky man declared brain dead wakes up during organ harvesting

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  • Technically, I guess the doctor is being given credit for the biological work of a pilot, not a nurse. And nobody likes the pilot.