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  • OK then, so Mamdani's win was ALSO meaningless, right?

    No.

    It doesn't mean anything about a progressive push in the party?

    Didn’t say that either. It’s not proof that the party is getting more progressive. He didn’t exactly earn their full throated endorsement.

    You see how your arguments works both ways?

    No. My “arguments” was that that one or two examples dont constitute a “proof” about any grander strategy being used.

    . Why are you so upset that Dems won in VA?

    Oh I see we’re just doing full blown straw men now.

    In that case, it’s the same reason you are so upset about some shit that you didn’t say anything about.

    They wouldn't have won there running Mamdani's campaign

    That’s true. Virginians don’t care about free buses in New York. They’d probably have to make the campaign address Virginia.

    because the entirety Virginia is the not the municipality of NYC.

    Hard truths here in this post.

    Fact is, the more progressive candidate won by 15 points. Not sure how this proves anything about what would have happened had an even more progressive candidate run.

  • Hah I love this.

    If I were to tell it as a verbal joke I would say

    You heard the one about the woman with a phobia of ghosts and public speaking?

    She had a heart attack when the crowd BOOed her!

  • They don’t really get into the “how” of it all with the protomolecule, far as I can remember.

    Duarte has them going full out with their experiments on him, and it’s frankly never really clear that it’s mind controlling him at all.

    It “shows him” how great it will be if all of civilization is one big hive mind, during his big “sleep” in Tiamats wrath, and when he wakes up in Leviathan Falls, he’s like “oh yeah, I just wasn’t thinking big enough!”

    Frankly it fits his narcissistic tendencies pretty well, especially since he gets to be the one to make it happen.

  • Moreover, Democrats seem to have done little self-reflection over whether their aggressive push to implement their progressive values alienated more conservative Americans and contributed to their own defeat in 2024.

    Fucking yiiiikes.

  • generally don't chitchat with strangers.

    Except on the internet.

    It doesn't cost anything in that situation not to talk, there's no negative to it.

    There is opportunity cost.

    But just to be clear, your position is “don’t be the first one talking if talking to strangers, unless absolutely necessary, it’s too risky.”?

    If this is not your position, please state it again, because this is how I read the comment I’m replying to.

    In either case, please state what you think “the negative” that you are risking, or risking for a person on their behalf.

  • Your position seems to be that there is no risk so small that it wouldn’t override a potential win.

    I am trying to point out the absurdity of this position.

    If you can’t see the absurdity of this position, even with the silly parameters on it, then I’ll just ask this direct question:

    How do you justify ever talking to a stranger? Surely the risk of a negative outcome is just too great, because there will always be some risk.

    If this is not your position; state your position in similar terms.

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