I'll show him just as much respect as the right showed the minnesota democrats who were attacked by a right wing nut job (just like Kirk was, I might add)
Yeah, the establishment has their thumb on the scale, and that sucks. It means that it will take more primary voters to overwhelm their influence. Like I said, I'm not optimistic.
But it is still the most viable path to change at this time. Unless you have a better suggestion? (Or do you just want to complain?)
If people start voting in primaries that can change.
Am I optimistic that it will? No. But the problem is that people who want to see change aren't voting in primaries and then they complain that their choices suck.
Time or technical challenge are not the issue. The issue is that the utility of a social network is a function of the number of individuals in that network.
That's why Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Reddit all still have dominant positions in their regimes. If you want to see what your friends are saying you need to be on the same network they are on. And if they are on Twitter, signing up for Bluesky doesn't magically get you their content. I'm off twitter, never really used insta, I have my FB account, but I only log in now when I need to check on specific things (like seeing if people were OK after the wildfires swept through the town I used to live in), and I guiltily admit I still use reddit, largely because a lot of the niche subs I frequent aren't here. I know the solution to that last problem is for someone like me to step up and make them, but... I'm tired boss. I can either be a volunteer firefighter, or I can admin a firefighter com on Lemmy. I can't do both.
I was coming here to say that! It's possibly apocryphal, but the way I heard it was that the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign did this when they did their main quad (I still remember them telling me this when I got a tour before applying there 30 years ago). And they didn't just look for where the plants were dead, but they also looked for broadleaf weeds, which sustain trampling better than grasses (it's a land grant university in the midwest. Of course there's an agriculture angle).
I'm working on it too. I'm part way there. (47 year old telecommuting engineer and off grid homesteader hoping to retire to do farm stuff full time as soon as I can)
It's because he needs to feel powerful and big booms make small men feel strong
It turns out that it takes more than 3 decades to recover from a radical right presidential administration.
It sucks that we're gonna have to do it again now
I'm not sure about where to post it, but I did download it...
Meh...
I was successful in science/engineering for about 25 years before I burned out. I did make it, I'm just tired.
The standard of evidence for calling it a lynching outside of a court of law has been met IMO.
Let's call a spade a spade.
Hey Kirk fans,
I'll show him just as much respect as the right showed the minnesota democrats who were attacked by a right wing nut job (just like Kirk was, I might add)
It was true then, and it's still true now.
Inciting violence is OK if you're a conservative.
At least the people currently voting in primaries suck. The solution is for more people who don't suck to start voting in primaries
Obama was an upset candidate. Hillary was the DNC choice in 08.
Yeah, the establishment has their thumb on the scale, and that sucks. It means that it will take more primary voters to overwhelm their influence. Like I said, I'm not optimistic.
But it is still the most viable path to change at this time. Unless you have a better suggestion? (Or do you just want to complain?)
If you mean that democratic primary voters in subsequent states voted for Biden after Sanders had the early lead, yes.
If people start voting in primaries that can change.
Am I optimistic that it will? No. But the problem is that people who want to see change aren't voting in primaries and then they complain that their choices suck.
Time or technical challenge are not the issue. The issue is that the utility of a social network is a function of the number of individuals in that network.
That's why Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Reddit all still have dominant positions in their regimes. If you want to see what your friends are saying you need to be on the same network they are on. And if they are on Twitter, signing up for Bluesky doesn't magically get you their content. I'm off twitter, never really used insta, I have my FB account, but I only log in now when I need to check on specific things (like seeing if people were OK after the wildfires swept through the town I used to live in), and I guiltily admit I still use reddit, largely because a lot of the niche subs I frequent aren't here. I know the solution to that last problem is for someone like me to step up and make them, but... I'm tired boss. I can either be a volunteer firefighter, or I can admin a firefighter com on Lemmy. I can't do both.
I built one back when I lived in California during fire season, and then again during the pandemic. They do such a nice job making the air less gross.
I think that's about what mine looked like after 3 or 4 weeks too...
*measurable if you have some damn good instruments.
It will put off about as much heat as a single incandescent light bulb
I was coming here to say that! It's possibly apocryphal, but the way I heard it was that the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign did this when they did their main quad (I still remember them telling me this when I got a tour before applying there 30 years ago). And they didn't just look for where the plants were dead, but they also looked for broadleaf weeds, which sustain trampling better than grasses (it's a land grant university in the midwest. Of course there's an agriculture angle).
Tell us you're not paying attention to the rest of the world without telling us you're not paying attention to the rest of the world.
I'm working on it too. I'm part way there. (47 year old telecommuting engineer and off grid homesteader hoping to retire to do farm stuff full time as soon as I can)
All the post said was that she voted for Trump to piss off liberals. She never said she was hardcore maga.
If you weren't talking about the post in question, I think my mistake in assuming that you were was reasonable, given where we are...
Have a good one