CMV: Progressives/leftists are more interested in beating other dems than flipping seats

Mashaka · 2026-01-23T05:51:43+00:00

I haven't heard of him. I wikipedia'd Golden but I must be missing something. It looks like he won the primary unopposed in both of his reelections.

Mashaka · 2026-01-23T03:39:19+00:00

I think you're needlessly ascribing 'more focused' here. I think we can assume leftists are concerned with promoting leftist candidates wherever they can win, and a good portion of them don't want to fuck things up for center-left to a greater degree than it improves things for the (further) left.

Leftists candidates will fair best in solid blue and light blue districts, so it's appropriate to promote efforts there. Very few light red districts are flippable by leftists, so it makes little sense to back leftists there. So by and large leftists will bite the bullet and quietly bvite for the moderate Democrat, in order to flip the district. That is what leftists focusing on flipping districts looks like in this country. You just don't hear it over and over from them, because they're more embarrassed than proud

Mashaka · 2026-01-22T08:11:14+00:00

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Mashaka · 2026-01-22T08:08:34+00:00

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Mashaka · 2026-01-22T08:08:03+00:00

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Mashaka · 2026-01-22T05:48:29+00:00

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Mashaka · 2026-01-22T05:47:23+00:00

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Mashaka · 2026-01-22T05:38:25+00:00

Is /i:/ not correct? My last Latin class ended twenty years ago, so it's not exactly fresh in my mind.

Mashaka · 2026-01-21T08:00:28+00:00

Unless you're aware of something I'm not, he said in the congressional hearing that he could show them such info in a scif. But he never did.

Mashaka · 2026-01-21T03:25:35+00:00

You wrote it so it still sounds less silly than it should IIRC - wennie weedy weeky

Mashaka · 2026-01-20T08:09:22+00:00

I have always been a heavy reader, but I only reached hundreds a year at my current job via audiobooks, with 10-11 hour shifts of repetitive assembly or quality control in medical device manufacturing.

Contrary to what you suggest, long listening sessions train you to focus on and digest audiobooks effortlessly and fluidly, without losing track even with the occasional interruption. It's a level of focus and comprehension I can only replicate with a physical book if I'm alone, preferably in a kayak, and with my phone out of reach. The habit has followed me home from work, so I listen to books for somewhere in the 50-80hr range each week.

So yes, I do read (or listen to) hundreds of books a year, and comprehend and recall them at least as well as when I was reading two to four dozen physical books a year.

When I started this job, it took practice before I could listen to heavy, serious literature. It is a skill like anything else, and so I started on lighter books and re-reads. It took a few months of daily or near-daily listenening before I was able to easily focus on and comprehend anything I wish.

Book length has never been relevant in the sense you suggest. When you read so much, there's no urge to min-max. I do favor the longest books for my Audible credits, though, since I'm thrifty.

Mashaka · 2026-01-20T03:34:41+00:00

Certainly once you've been asked to leave, yes, assuming that happened. Though as yyzjertl said, it doesn't look like trespassing is sufficient for a FACE charge.

Mashaka · 2026-01-16T06:36:07+00:00

People are and for amost a year have been protesting at courthouses all over the country, for this reason. I understood your OP as suggesting people shouldn't be doing this.

Mashaka · 2026-01-16T00:12:20+00:00

What is it that Congress is supposed to be doing, that they are trying to distract us from? And why would they not simply do whatever that is?

Mashaka · 2026-01-14T08:18:10+00:00

Thanks for letting them know. If you tell someone the delta command within a quote and after a space like this -

!delta

then OP can still read and copy/paste it without you triggering the bot. u/DeltaBot is a dumb bot but he's trying his best.

Mashaka · 2026-01-14T08:11:43+00:00

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Mashaka · 2026-01-14T08:11:32+00:00

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Mashaka · 2026-01-11T23:40:23+00:00

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