If a vote for Harris-Walz was a vote against an alternative that had a more positive plan for the Palestinian proletariat, sure. But let's be real, there is no clearer path to that presented as an option in this election, so securing more power for domestic workers is the most productive path towards bettering the position of both domestic and international workers. Nationalism is the focus on national success at the expense of the international good. It's not at all clear that there is an international opportunity cost here
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Only half serious, but saying "the highest number is best" next to a plot showing North Korea as second highest has to make you ask yourself if either the metric is flawed or your usage of the term best isn't in alignment with common parlance. A high density of medals per gdp per capita could be representative of an overinvestment into national prestige projects vs. other areas that may be more aligned to economic and social development. That probably goes for all three of the top three shown on this graph, to lesser or greater extents
Nvidia does not have a strong history of open sourcing things, to say the least. That last bit sounds like pure hopium
It's definitely not that. They are just pointing out that the right to free speech prevents the government from impeding someone's ability to say something, it doesn't (despite implications made by a lot of people who cry out that their right to free speech is being impeded) force others to listen to or agree with that thing being said. If anything, the people that abuse the name of free speech by implying that it means people need to agree with them, or need to amplify their message, are attacking free speech by mudding the water around what it means and making it harder for good faith entities to invoke that right
And yet the demise of the coal industry accelerated in his administration, with no apparent pause despite Trump rolling back the safety regulations that were protecting the coal miners. He's pro coal baron, not pro coal miner
Vivian was victimized by her father's heartless disregard and rejection of her identity. Elon is now going around stating a narrative that her coming out to him is at least a significant contributing reason he is a fascist ("I lost my son to the woke mind virus"), a narrative that this headline plays directly into. You can take the same sequence of facts and headline it as "Musk is going public with the same bigotry that he wielded against his transgender daughter. A lot of trans people have family members like him" that doesn't make it sound like Elon Musk would have been politely building his rockets and evs in a corner if only his daughter hadn't come out as trans, and doesn't make it sound like Vivian indirectly donated 10s of millions of dollars to Trump's 2024 campaign by coming out as someone that that exact campaign wants to suppress. The headline as written is almost a threat to closeted trans people. "Yeah, your parents may be Schrodinger's bigots right now, but come out and they will go full scorched earth to dehumanize you and you will be responsible for their shift".
I'm pretty sure you are agreeing that that isn't the case, and it wouldn't surprise me if the text of the article is also aligned against that message, but the headline (probably written by an editor hungry for rage clicks) is solidly aligned to it, and should be called out for that
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That just sounds like more talk. Your standard of comparison isn't talk vs action, it's talk vs more blunt talk. Not really saying you're wrong, but wouldn't somebody be able to comment on an article reporting your ideal headline "talk is cheap"?
Mike Johnson moves one heartbeat closer to the Whitehouse in this hypothetical. And the remaining heartbeat would be on tour campaigning, which we've seen can expose someone to high velocity lead poisoning. Plus, Kamala would have to oversee an unplanned administration turnover, taking time and energy away from her campaigning efforts. It's all painfully obvious why they want this and none of it has to do with the good of the country
Am one of those "assholes". Kamala was far from my favorite candidate in 2020, but I just donated a hefty (for me) chunk of change and will be volunteering. I didn't need perfection, just a feasible path to victory in November and now we have it. I'm so pumped right now, project 2025 no longer looks like an inevitability. LFG!
That's generally true for all VPs. Biden was rarely on the news during the Obama years, same with Pence in the Trump years. She's not an ideal candidate, but she does have some freedom of motion that is unprecedented. She gets to own the incumbency as the VP but only partially. Time and messaging will tell if she is able to define her candidacy by the positive things the Biden administration has done and the positive things that she can do moving forward or if Republicans will succeed in tying her down with whatever negative aspects of the Biden administration they can latch onto. It will be hard for them to pitch her as some kind of puppet for Biden or the DNC seeing as they spent some much air trying to convince everyone that she was puppeteering Biden from the start. If she can get a solid VP candidate (and there is a deep bench of Democratic Senators and Governors that she could pull from) and inject some energy into this campaign (suddenly Trump is the old man in the race), I think she's got a really strong shot. There's an outside chance someone will attempt to contest her at the convention, but as much as my personal views may be likely to better align with a more left-leaning candidate, I think the atmosphere of hesitancy from folks calling on Biden to step down or primary ing Biden in the first place suggests that the likelihood of a strong contender appearing and damaging her candidacy is low. I know there were plenty of folks on here who thought getting Biden to step down was some effort by the elite or the Republicans to steal away the incumbency advantage from the Democrats, but I really have a hard time seeing this as anything but a positive step in the campaign to beat Trump in November
How quickly do you think these things happen? Billions of those dollars have gone to projects like CAHSR, Brightline West, and the NEC maintenance backlog, among a host of other projects. The fruits of this spending are something we will really see around 2030 for the most part. Also, worth pointing out that subways are usually funded separately from intercity rail, which was the focus of that announcement. Separately, that same act funded 700 million in new rail car purchases for 7 public transit systems (4 light rail systems, 2 subways, and 1 Commuter rail), 1.7 billion for new lower emissions buses for a number of systems across the US, 13 million for a new transit oriented development pilot program, and a number of other programs. It's not as flashy as the turn of the century subway system build outs in Atlanta, DC, and San Francisco, and there's just so much room for more because the US is absolutely starved for transit, but calling that an empty promise is just an absurd mistruth