Hegar

There was a massive study from princeton over a decade ago showing that since the end of the civil rights era, not a single piece of public policy reflected public opinion.

The conclusion was that there is no evidence that the US is a democracy, and it explicitly said we’ve functionally been an oligarchy since the 70s.

I believe it’s just saying millennial/gen-z aren’t likely to start supporting republicans over dems, not that they’re strong supporters of the dems.

A lot of the article points at ways the dems have failed to engage with issues truly important to their base, so i think in context it’s clearer that it’s not saying dems are beloved.

Eighty-five percent of millennial and Gen Z donors favored Democrats, a trend that appears durable rather than something they’ll age out of. As this cohort entered its prime earning and donating years, Democrats should have been building the broadest grassroots fundraising base in the history of American politics. Instead, the spam model drove millions of these potential donors away. The party didn’t just fail to capitalize on its generational advantage. It actively destroyed it, trading a rising base that would have funded the party for decades for one that is being exhausted for short-term fees. Private equity firms call this “harvesting.” You stop investing in the business and extract everything you can before the foundation gives way. The consultant class has been harvesting the Democratic Party for over a decade.

Just one excellent point from this article. Worth reading to the end.

The depressing thing i fear is that polling on trans rights must be bad enough that some dems feel this is a position that benefits them. Newsom seems to think it benefits him, slimy amoral scumbag that he is.

The dems don’t want to accept any responsiblity for the perception that they’re not meaningfully different from fascists, but they also want to throw trans people to the wolves when they’re already one of the most murdered groups in society.

Yeah, as @Tikiporch@lemmy.world said, the meaning is clear.

It’s such a fun word and i think it’s such a neat concept, but it’s annoying to use in a title cause it’s quite a rare word. But i find that once there’s a name for it, it’s way easier to notice it, so i like to mention it.

Where i live we pronounce couch st and schuyler st as cooch and skyler, and the police dept is the police bureau. Not knowing these things is used as a shibboleth that marks visiters.

Are those dog whistles? I think of dog whistles as conveying a specific message to those in the know.

The examples you gave seem more like shibboleths - something that can be used to identify or rule out being part of an identity group.

Calling taiwan “taiwan” instead of china marks the speaker as not from the PRC, but it doesn’t send a specific message the way that republicans would say “welfare cheats” when they meant “black people”, trusting their base understands.

It’s just rich people lying to themselves to justify doing whatever they wanted to do anyway and pretend it’s somehow in humanity’s long term interests. It’s not, and nothing the rich do ever is.

“Have your cake and eat it too” doesn’t really make sense. Cake is not rare or expensive enough that simply possessing it feels good. If you have cake, all you want is to eat it.

The italian version, “you want a full barrel and drunk wife” illustrates the same situation much more clearly.

When i was in grade 1 we had to write letters to santa, so i raised my hand and said, “I’m jewish so i know santa’s not real, do i still have to do this?” I did, and the teacher assured everyone that santa is real. I was confused and disappointed.

My parents were super against lying to kids. We’d hear parents in front of us at mcdonalds tell their kids they couldn’t have french fries because they were all out and we’d ask “is that true?” And mom and dad would assure us no, it’s not true, those parents are just afraid of telling their kids no.

I remember realizing at like 8 that “don’t swallow gum because it can’t be digested and will just accumulate in your gut” can’t be true.