Eh, I don’t know if that was a nice thing about her. I prefer my fascists out and proud. Posting online about how they’re planning on breaking the law or giving speeches where they say their exact plans. Makes it easier to prosecute them when the time comes. Not that she doesn’t also deserve it, but it’s not quite the same if she’s not publicly lying about being a lawyer or openly admitting to war crimes and the like. We must shine a light on evil and it really helps when they are the ones stepping into the spotlight.

Though I understand the underlying sentiment, and I recognize that politics isn’t a once every two years thing, I disagree that it should somehow be on us on.

I would love an engaged electorate, but realistically people campaigned on a specific platform. We pay them to read the bills and ideally vote in accordance with what they said their values are. It’s completely unrealistic to push that back on the constituents. Often even congresspeople don’t have time to read an entire bill before they vote on it. Do I understand all the intricacies of every omnibus bill? No. I give them my hard earned money so they have the time and staff to. If I have to be on the phone all the time reminding them that they promised no more wars just so they remember to stop Trump from bombing Iran then they have failed to do their job.

Does that mean we shouldn’t call and express our opinions? No, of course not. But the entire point of having representatives in a representative democracy is so that your average person doesn’t have to sit down and understand the ins and outs of every policy. It’s really not their job to, and especially in America it’s unrealistic to act like people will. Party leadership should be the ones capable of looking around, seeing the direction the wind is blowing, and coming up with a unified vision that addresses the issues of the people that voted for the party.

Also, however much I support contacting your congressperson, and have done so often myself, I’ve never once had it have any affect whatsoever. I still do it, but that’s not a reliable way to get policies you want to happen. The only real reliable way is to vote in someone who was going to champion that anyway.

If I remember correctly he had all his kids via IVF and selected for XY only.

If they mess up coming out of this midterm win, I will be astounded if they are able to take the presidency. Dems will never have another chance like this to really demonstrate a new vision. I hope they don’t fumble it.

ICE argued Lizardo should be kept in custody while the green card case was being decided.

Well, at least they wanted to right their wrongs once it was pointed out to them. /s

Those are both such undeniably terrible options. Either way it’s teaching students to offload onto AI immediately.

There are no words for how insidious this is. They’re trying to ruin the minds of an entire generation. Not just knowingly, but forcefully.

What do you mean by “if a school doesn’t ban AI that does not mean they’re forced to use it”? That’s not an argument anyone is making. People are saying the turning off search capabilities just because the school opted out of AI is petty. That’s exactly what they’re doing and here’s a quote from the article saying that:

“Search and A.I. are deeply integrated,” said Chris Phillips, vice president for education at Google. If a school has banned A.I., he added, students “will not have access to search, and they’ll see a message from their school that indicates it’s not available.”

I hope schools keep the AI off and switch to a different search engine.

The title neglects to mention he also sexually assaulted her via penetrating her vaginally while unconscious (which OP was kind enough to include in their excerpt).

Disgusting that he went into public health and wants to be a doctor. I believe in rehabilitation and restorative justice, but he’s faced no justice and seems to have avoided taking accountability, openly lying about his actions.

I have been a huge advocate for Obamacare, and I’ve been off and on it since it’s inception depending on my work offerings. I don’t get any subsidies and don’t mind paying more than other people due to my income. In fact, I’d rather pay even more so older people aren’t charged more just for continuing to exist. What I cannot stand is how the government (Rs generally, but I know plenty of Ds don’t care), is so blasé about making it worse and worse every year. I just want universal healthcare and it really should not be this hard. Everyone should be able to live. I have no idea why that’s such a foreign concept.

I really don’t think it’s a thrown under the bus thing. She maybe flung herself into oncoming traffic, but it’s not like this was done to her. The party was letting her get away with a lot to begin with, and she took it too far. How did she think it would go down endorsing a republican over a Democrat while Trump is in office. She forced their hand.

I’m aware that leftover funds often (not always) get donated to the party, but do you have any source for the mandate for portions of donated funds?

The descriptions are likely AI generated and 4 and 6 are switched.

She was kicked out of the party by the head of the Michigan Dems. Schumer did publicly denounce her.

I’m not generally positively surprised by the party, but they handled this well.

I don’t know that I’ve personally been bellyaching about the top, but as someone who refuses to donate to the Dem party and only donates to candidates directly, this is really great to see. I’ve been disappointed in the past by the party’s behavior, and this is the kind of behavior I need to see in order to be brought back into the fold.

Is she the one that her said her husband is voting republican because of this? Honestly she should be ostracized by anyone on the Dem side. Anyone willingly married to an R voter at this point cannot be trusted. Unbelievable that she ran and can’t seem to convince her husband to vote for her party if he’s not voting for her in the position. Clearly she cannot be trusted to push for her constituents needs if she can’t push her husband to vote blue. Maybe if her constituents were the state of Israel things would be different, but if she’s with someone that won’t vote for the candidate of her own party then clearly she doesn’t actually care what happens to them.

My verbiage may differ slightly from yours, but I believe we agree. “Intention, craft” would indicate something similar to ingenuity to me. Obviously, totally OK for you to disagree, or think I did not explain appropriately, but my point was that we are not just beasts of burden, we can think and analyze and have opinions therefore allowing us to do things with “Intention” and to not just create things but to “craft” them.

I get the reference, but that’s not really related to what I said. I don’t want to just ignore your comment if it’s a serious point, but at no point did I suggest otherwise.

Honestly, probably a non zero amount, but I can assure you that the dem voters would actually care if it came out.

The Weiner scandal was actually a scandal and he served time. I’m not willing to go to bat for dem politicians (though I’d pick a random D over a random R politician any day), but I’ll definitely back dem voters on the whole for actually having some degree of standards or morals, which does generally lead to accountability.

I think that’s the main difference, because even if Rs and I disagreed, if they actually had morals we would not have found ourselves here. A bunch of Rs referred to Trump as a Hitler-like fascist and then bent the knee because the R voters didn’t care. It’s not that our politicians are somehow morally superior, though on the whole they definitely are, it’s that the actual base cares about the things they say they care about.

I think the distinction is what we consider “the work of a man”. I don’t consider man’s work to be just physical labor. A lot of things can do that. I think the true work of humanity is to use our ingenuity and critical thinking to do more. I’m not saying physical labor is not important, but there are several jobs that require physical labor and take thought and troubleshooting. I don’t need a human being to screw in the same screw on an assembly line a hundred times a day, but a human being may be needed to determine why that screw ends up being a failure point in the final product.

There is of course lots to be said about the value of a hard days work and the toil and effort of physical labor, but I think we are all capable of so much more. It need not just be that.

This is one of the more frustrating things. I’m talking to MAGA SA survivors and they act like Trump would never. As though he is not the exact type of person that would, has actively spoken about doing it, and has been convicted of that.

There is a level of delusion that I truly cannot understand. It is legitimately scary that they have been 1/3 of American society this whole time. Maybe not seamlessly blending in, but not these completely brainwashed fools. They weren’t suggesting the moon was made of cheese or anything. They had families, went to work, did their groceries, and they had this in them the whole time. Horrifying. It sounds stupid, but in earnest it’s frightening. Not to sound alarmist but I feel like I’m living in the rise of Nazi Germany part 2 and we’re watching people get loaded on the trains and they’re not even trying to hide it. I’m screaming at these people like “look! Look at the trains! It’s exactly like what’s in this history book that we all read and agreed on who the bad guy was!” And they’re standing there dumbfounded as if I’m the one who’s unwell and imagining things.

Sorry for the rant, but I feel like nothing has quite captured the horror of living amongst these people. It’s horror/psychological thriller movie type stuff. I really hope some media attempts to depict this era some day, because it really feels unbelievable. I feel like had I not personally lived through it I wouldn’t be able to understand it.