1/ Quick thread to bolster Blue confidence right now.

It's important to remember that the Democrats lost in 2016 by 80K votes spread through 3 states. Yet 2018 was a blue wave 40 seat House pickup, and red states elected blue governors.
2/ 2016, like 2000, had a poor candidate trying to get a 3rd term (always hard). HRC had super high negatives & Gore was just uninteresting. They then chose bland/disliked moderate VPs & that encouraged the liberal wing to either stay home or vote Green in protest.
3/ In contrast 2020 has a good candidate that people actually like, an Obama Democrat as it were, plus a woman of color who's relatively liberal. This is not the same election

And that's not even taking into account how horrifying everything is
4/ Yes, things can still go wrong in 2 weeks especially with the GOP using every fascist tool to suppress and steal the vote. I too fear what can happen before Nov 3, esp. with the RedHat-BrownShirts terrorists

But this isn't 2016. 2018 showed me our effort will be rewarded.
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21 Oct
1/ People are defending Toobin?! Normally I wouldn't comment on something disgusting/NSFW but I've spent the last year immersed in the issue of gender safety & equity, in work-spaces & in communities, and this is a textbook case to unpack

And I'm a cishet man. I must speak up
2/ His behavior was not 'embarrassing,' it was unsafe. It's not normal; people are comparing it to going to the bathroom on zoom - nope. That's involuntary & necessary human behavior (and yet, can be unsafe if ppl expose themselves purposefully)
3/ Nobody unwilling can be forced to watch another person's sexual acts in a work or public space

The only positive spin on his behavior is that he's an addict & needs to enter recovery before he can be considered safe around others.

(NSFW link:
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18 Oct
14.01/ The alacrity & zeal of converting the house/kitchen from Pesadik to Chametzdik is in inverse proportion to the zeal in taking down the sukkah
14.02/ Given how often I need to use it during the #TrumpCrisis, I need to add "incompetent" to my list of words that I will never spell correctly when I first type it out.

14.03/ Last year I answered the Q below w/Ernie, Dr. Teeth, Gonzo, yet realized I should have said Ernie 3 times!

I was told that was allowed & while I followed the rules "as an Ernie, I should have just done it anyway. I'm betraying my Ernian heritage!"
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16 Oct
1/ Earlier this week I had an exchange with a truculent rando that is typical for Twitter but I refuse to let it be.

He didn't agree with what I said, so he tried to hide his distaste as if it was an high-level intellectual matter but only by ignoring most of my words
2/ I know this is typical for online comments but why should that be so? He didn't engage with my words, willfully twisted the meaning, because ultimately he was assuming I did something wrong.

And even if I did... WHO CARES? Who cares if I'm wrong. It's a big world
3/ Bottom line: I'm in my 40s & I interact with people online as if (a) they were random encounters in real life, with names & faces, & as such I must initially treat them with courtesy & respect; (b) & if they are misbehaving, then online life allows me to block 'em & leave
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14 Oct
1/ I sent this last night so I wouldn't forget the point but I should elaborate: the red-brown horseshoe meets at "current society needs to be torn down so our preferred dystopia will magically appear" So both sets of terrorists want "acceleration"

2/ "Acceleration" means "do terrible things to destroy current society so our magical land will arise." I'm a rabbi & sociologist so I'm a committed believer in society as the best means to reach utopia on earth. These red-brownists are my exact opposite. Sedomalekites.
3/ RedRoses hate the Democrats more than their purported right-wing opposites for real reasons; Reds & Browns in actuality hate society while we political-society types love society. It's logical. "Acceleration" is incredibly evil
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12 Oct
1/ Those who blame the "do nothing" Democrats ignore how it took a combination of a major demography shift AND the #TrumpCrisis for a majority of voters to recognize the GOP's fascistic evil. The MSM hasn't caught up, BTW, & contributes to the Leftist nonsense about 'do nothings'
2/ Look at the MSM revival of their Her Emails tactic for Biden and 'CourtPacking' as well as every question for a Dem being 'how will you pay for that'

Democrats haven't been hamstrung by the GOP/MSM double-whammy ever since the Civil Rights Act!
3/ The Leftist critique of the Dems carries the same myopic/#Literalist fallacy of blaming victims for falling prey to structural problems.

Now that Dems have demography on our side, we have a chance to restore the FDR/LBJ America.
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13.01new/ I'm experimenting with a new procedure for my #RandomThoughts thread (linked below), which has gotten enormous and difficult to navigate. Each week I will make a separate thread & embed/link it in the original monster. Let's see if this works

13.02a/ We subscribe to the local NJ paper (Support Local News! Another Slogan!) & they invest heavily in Kings Feature & Creators Syndicate comics. As an amateur comics historian/artist, I have issues with the quality of both groups, but esp. with The Lockhorns & Andy Capp
13.02b/ I collect comic strip books (comics were a road not taken), my kids have a youth filled with some of the best (Calvin & Hobbes, Far Side, Cul de Sac, Citizen Dog, Peanuts) so the two martial strife comics are a jarring contrast.
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