ah yeah, I had forgot about that. He was dead wrong in 2016 ;) I think he had Clinton at like 80% chance of winning, but I believe whatever errors they made back then were mostly corrected since.
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Public lands are vital for biodiversity as well as for public recreation. You typically very rarely hear a politician talking about them though, at least it's probably 30 down on the list of talking points (for democrats obviously).
Right leaning politicians typically sell off these lands and democrats do the inverse. (1) Why is the public so unaware of such programs that have a large effect on the wellbeing of everyone? (2) I mean I generally have an idea to why, as probably most everyone else does, but what could actually be done to inform people?
also if anyone would like to debate the policy on banning "bad actors", this would also be a good place to discuss. I know typically this is discussed "closed door", but I'm trying something new...
I'm ok with doing it in comments if you'd like, there might be a few exceptions but generally many minds are better at rule making than one or two.
I'll take you up on that. I was trying to keep moderation light/non-existent but it appears that bad actors have already arrived... I was hoping that would have taken a little longer for that to happen. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ . If it continues to be active, it'll definitely be too much for one person. Thanks for offering to help.
I'd like to keep any rules and changes as transparent as possible, and am a big fan of just discussing them in comments/posts so community can have input. I'm going to add one about not "whining about other mods" lol, per a comment on the other post.
seems reasonable, I'll check back tomorrow to see if there is any consensus on what it should be... trying to do some democracy here, lol
I know most people would prefer single payer / medicare for all (as would I honestly), but assuming that democrats don't go down that road in the next 4 years, what would you like healthcare in the US to look like in the short term?
fortunately demographics will eventually shift policy on the issue, but hopefully sooner rather than later. Although the progress in renewables currently I think exceeds what anyone thought was possible 20 years ago... solar is actually the most economical power now, so that'll at least curtail a never ending emissions future, which is what it use to look like.
I had linked the old community by mistake because I was tired, this i the correct name --->
I'd like to try to curtail the personal attacks and bickering with some good rules and guidelines, but I'm not sure it will go anywhere.
Old reddit like <2014 use to be a reasonable place where people all along the political spectrum could discuss policy. That's really no longer an option because most communities/moderators just don't want to deal with that, unfortunately that only makes the problem worse...
thank you... I will consider that if this doesn't go anywhere. Reddit kinda went downhill over the last decade... it use to be a reasonable place for discussion. I would have thought though that most people that migrated here from Reddit would be slightly more mature since they understand the evil of corporate greed but it seems like lately it's 50/50 on comments now whether you're going to get personally insulted for blinking wrong.
It's a difficult line to walk. On the one hand do you allow blatant propaganda for the sake of discussion? Or is it better to remove toxic content before it festers.
The former sounds best in theory, but in practice the later creates a better environment for discussion in my experience. /r/askhistorians was probably the best community on reddit because it was very clearly moderated for a purpose.
I don't think posts or discussions pushing narratives that are critical of the few democracies of the world, and lacking any criticism of actual dictatorships are made in good faith. Maybe the person truly believes the narrative, but there is no doubt that universally, dictatorships are much worse places to live for freedom of expression/speech.