Is this what closure feels like? Is this healing?

That’s some revolutionary war style tactics. Warfare has changed.

Confirmed

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/02/15/inside-the-worst-hit-county-in-the-worst-hit-state-in-the-worst-hit-country

From back before he was mayor: ‘Alderman Tom Ross disagreed. “Obviously, since I’m the only one up on the dais without a face mask, I’m going to speak to the other side,” he said.’

European

As an American, it’s because there’s nothing out there. We have SO much land. A small town means you have to drive everywhere. It means the local grocery is 30 min away. It also means 300 people in the town, one library (maybe), but at least three churches. Very much not my vibe :-)

Not everywhere, obviously, but it’s a thing.

That’s a lot of words to say you don’t understand the mental healthcare crisis in this country.

They’re different words. Grey is more of a dark white, while gray is more of a light black.

But for real, to me grey is a name and a feeling, and gray is a color. And I have no idea why.

There’s no reason to assume it’s a constant rate. 10% during a time of absolute turmoil. That seems low to me. How many times have you changed your political leanings in your life? For me it was two changes in 25 years of voting. But let’s say we can swing that ten percent every two years. We’ll be ready to win something in 2033? We need to be faster.

And your point about tea party funding just means a progressive party would have even less success, wouldn’t it?

I still think getting progressive candidates into low level positions within the Dems is a quickly achievable goal. Next year even. Then we push mid level and up.

But the third party can’t win, that’s my point.

Maybe I don’t understand, but I feel like the tea party wasted years being outside the Republicans. Once they got inside they were able to change things. So why follow in their failures? Why not jump right to their success?

10% is very low, is my point.

I tried flipping my wife’s electors once. She wasn’t a fan. I loved it though.

The math says I can’t fly, so I discount that as an escape route.

I’m serious. 30% of voters self identify as Republicans. 30% more as Democrats. These people aren’t thinking. They vote their party because daddy voted that party. Just look at how few people change their party affiliation. https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2020/08/04/voters-rarely-switch-parties-but-recent-shifts-further-educational-racial-divergence/

So any 3rd party would have to capture literally everyone else to be viable. And that’s from both extreme ends of the spectrum as well as the middle. Those people who actually think about politics and consider who is running and might change.

It’s literally impossible. You’d have more luck doing what the tea party did. Get a chunk of people then invade the Republican party.

Where the fallacy

FPTP ultimately results in a two-party system. That doesn’t mean it’s a two-party system 100% of the time. If a party truly screws up, that party can die and be replaced. You’ll still end up with two parties for the vast majority of the elections.

And that’s exactly what happened. Reality lines up with the math.

Which is why I expect to see unions fighting for prison labor reform.

Sliders suck for accuracy. If you want a specific number, have them type it.

That’s a nice way to put it. I call it more of a Noob Murder Simulator

So then… We don’t need to apply empathy to whoever that guy is.

Buddhism is a religion in the same way that Christianity is a religion. I.e. it’s an abstract concept and not an implementation.

The implementations are invariably the problem. Just look at Myanmar.

Too prudish to use a urinal. Kinky enough to BE a urinal.

No there won’t.

Source: Bush didn’t do this

“Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch! I was there when it was written”