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17 Nov

Yes, Republicans have more message discipline. It's easy to be disciplined when the only outcome that matters is winning elections. This allows them to fit every issue into the same framing. This problem is bad. It's bad because the government is involved. Reduce gov't to fix it.

Health Care is too expensive. That's because the gov't mandates benefits. Reduce regulation and allow insurance compaies to sell across state lines.

Housing is too expensive. That's because the gov't over-regulates construction. Relax zoning laws and let developers build where they will.

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16 Nov

If Kyle Rittenhouse is acquitted, some enterprising person will hire him as a spokesperson for vigilance tours to such cities that trigger fear in the hearts of white supremacists, Detroit, Chicago, DC, Baltimore, and, weirdly, Portland.

"Have you always wanted to shoot a shoplifter or any other scary person? Rittenhouse Vigilance Tours will organize everything for your murder safari to (scary city) including an ALEC stand-your-ground defense & refreshments sponsored by the local police department."

I saw weirdly Portland because we are such a white city to be a big scary monster in GOP eyes

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11 Nov

https://twitter.com/Cajsa/status/1458541573063393287

I really should clarify. The self-proclaimed progressive left does say the words of social and cultural liberalism, but it is conditional and withdrawn when minoritized people do not bend the knee to their anointed ones.

https://twitter.com/Cajsa/status/1458541573063393287

That is why I say they are self-proclaimed because they aren't really progressive liberals, they just say they are and retreat into illiberalism, delegitimizing their opponents, proclaiming their losses as corrupt, rigged, etc. Which is why I call the vanguardists.

Most of them self-identify as Marxists, so they should not complain. Vanguardists are in their own terms more class-conscious than the rest of the polity. They see themselves as keeping the party pure from the uneducated masses while instructing masses what they should think

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10 Nov

I probably don't need to explain how racist stereotypes come into being & how they are used to perpetuate inequity, but this is an interesting example. About 20 years ago there was a report that <1% of Port of Portland's employees were Black.

I happened to be in a book group at the time. All nice, liberal, white women. I am sure they all supported Bernie. One of the women said, "That's not discrimination. Black people don't swim."

My BFF was in that group (not a Bernie supporter) and explained that swimming is not a job requirement at the Port and that there is a historical reason few Black people learned to swim, they were denied access to pools.
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8 Nov

So, when I order something delivered, no matter how often, I always specify the color of my apartment complex to differentiate it from the complex with its entrance just a few feet away. ALWAYS! I have never had my delivery go to the wrong place.

But some people who order food delivered all the time who have the same apt # in the next complex do not do this. A few times every month, I have to stop a delivery person halfway down the stairs to tell them it's not for me. Two weeks ago I was not home when they came.

and yesterday I had the bathroom fan and the kitchen fan going and didn't hear them. So much food. They were long gone. When will they start writing the SECOND driveway or the BLACK apartments?

I didn't see the food until a few hours later. Of course, it was 44 F, so food

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8 Nov

When you hear the name Michael Vick, what do you think of?

When you hear the name Jay Fabian, what do you think of?

So, even someone as indifferent to football as I had heard a lot about Vick's animal cruelty and dogfighting. A lot. I am equally indifferent to Nascar but didn't hear a word about it except a mention with Vick in this painful article.
washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/…

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