Just remember that a minimum wage increase WON in Florida with a higher percentage than Trump, even tho both candidates opposed it. If Democrats don't run to progressive positions, they don't benefit from the public sentiment.
Jonna
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So many of the participants understood it as an attempted coup and said so on video. I think it was comically naive to think that Interrupting a ceremony would lead to a coup. Looking how coups work in other places and times, lining up of support in other institutions, media, armed forces, banks, etc, is necessary if not more important that the rituals of power. But the fact that there is a significant minority that thinks the actions before and on Jan6 were just is concerning for the future.
Abortion and pot legalization both. I'd vote for sex and drugs, so no on this.
This seems like it would make it harder for Ohioans to vote to make abortion and pot legal, against the wishes of the gerrymandered Republican legislature. I would vote no.
"oh yeah? Well, I'm gonna make my own Star Trek, with black jack and hookers. "
- Seth McFarlane
RFK doesn't have a reputation (or at least, not a good one to anyone not a conspiracist nutter) to destroy.
Cornell West, in 2004 criticized Ralph Nader for running but with held praise from Kerry saying, "I disagree with brother Ralph, he is our brother and friend, but vote for Kerry even tho he is the enemy". And now he's doing the same thing. West remembers too well the frustrations of trying to pressure the Obama presidency into a progressive direction.
We do need to escape the lesser evil trap. Every election the Democrats threatened us with Hitler and held us hostage. And every year that moved the Overton window further right until their threats became real.
So I recognize West as an ally even tho I recommend voting for Biden in any state with a contested election.
But simply voting for West won't create an alternative. More must be done, and far more than just more down ballot left candidates. Organizing, strikes, protests, campaigns, alternative institutions, the gamut of a new culture and system.
Both sides broke the Minsk agreements. Neither side was willing to let the people in the Donbas and Crimea actually decide their fate.
I don't disagree but states like Washington that have long mandated de-escalation training still have this same shit happening. The nature of policing in a capitalist state leads police to view the public as the enemy. Their job is to uphold the status quo, which is structural inequality. Individual cops are still individuals, of course. They just have to swim against the tide of how their job and the culture within departments shapes them.
I wasn't watching TV when the X files came out. Is there a list of shows to watch? I found a recommended list of Buffy (at least which shows were important at the beginning) when I finally saw that.
Stock buy backs were illegal until 1982. Capitalism survived without them. https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectualist/news/stock-buybacks-were-once-illegal-why-are-they-legal-now
Given a long enough time on the right hormones, and most (not all) of that advantage disappears. "While absolute lean mass remains higher in trans women, relative percentage lean mass and fat mass (and muscle strength corrected for lean mass), hemoglobin, and VO2 peak corrected for weight was no different to cisgender women. After 2 years of GAHT, no advantage was observed for physical performance measured by running time or in trans women. By 4 years, there was no advantage in sit-ups. While push-up performance declined in trans women, a statistical advantage remained relative to cisgender women."
There's also a large band of ability within people. Michael Phelps has a genetic advantage, but his accomplishments are still celebrated.
https://academic.oup.com/jcem/advance-article/doi/10.1210/clinem/dgad414/7223439?login=false
Y2K, like the ozone hole, is an example of a dire problem that could be solved by united effort with adequate resources and then seen as "no problem" by those ignorant of the effort expended. Otherwise, neat scale.