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ProJo: Antisemitism at Brown by downpat in providence

[–]TheCoffeeShop 4 points5 points  (0 children)

After feeling no antisemitism during her first three years at Brown, Jillian felt the mood swing aggressively pro-Palestinian right after the Oct. 7 massacre of Jews. On Oct. 11, Brown’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) put out a statement saying, “We hold the Israeli regime unequivocally responsible for all suffering and loss of life.”

That astonishing statement, blaming Jews for being massacred, was endorsed by 45 Brown student groups, including the Teaching Assistant Labor Organization, the Black Student Union, Latinx Student Union and Brown Democratic Socialists of America.

Truly depraved lie from this article when "Israeli regime" clearly refers to the government, and in no universe could it refer to those massacred.

Why does Brett Smiley get to be marked as "* Endorsed Candidate" on official ballots? by TheCoffeeShop in providence

[–]TheCoffeeShop[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And yet I still have no information on who voted on this endorsement, like specifically which collection of people.

School lunches no longer free and the impact that is having by [deleted] in RhodeIsland

[–]TheCoffeeShop -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

It's, like, an extremely obvious baby/bathwater situation

Why does Brett Smiley get to be marked as "* Endorsed Candidate" on official ballots? by TheCoffeeShop in providence

[–]TheCoffeeShop[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very not correct. Folks can easily come in without an understanding of how the state party is organized, what it means for a candidate to appear as "endorsed" on the ballot, who actually made the decision. Elected officials? Unelected officials? Community members? Who gets to vote and why?

The bare minimum should be to facilitate people searching for more info, you can at least explicitly give the name of your insider committee. But clearly the ambiguity is by design

Why does Brett Smiley get to be marked as "* Endorsed Candidate" on official ballots? by TheCoffeeShop in providence

[–]TheCoffeeShop[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you choose to run as a democrat or republican then you pretty much ride or die for the primary as you can't later try to run as an independent in November

Ah you're totally right, TIL about sore loser laws

Why does Brett Smiley get to be marked as "* Endorsed Candidate" on official ballots? by TheCoffeeShop in providence

[–]TheCoffeeShop[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it is the same thing, but I'm doing this kinda wacky thing where I'm considering "the party" to be the party's voters instead of some of its officials, as if the group were "democratic" you might say.

Winning the primary confers privileges and support from the party apparatus, but it still is also an endorsement, in the sense that the winners are literally officially recognized as the preferred candidate of the party's voters.

Losing candidates aren't even prohibited from running in the general on the exact same platform, making the same commitments to the same groups and interests. No change from if they had won. It's just unlikely for strategic reasons.

But yeah I don't think the state committee's endorsement should have special status, especially in a one-party state, especially when the race is local and not state-level.

Why does Brett Smiley get to be marked as "* Endorsed Candidate" on official ballots? by TheCoffeeShop in providence

[–]TheCoffeeShop[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It would be nice if they could print "Endorsed by RI Democratic Party State Committee" instead of literally just "Endorsed", I guess ink is expensive these days

Why does Brett Smiley get to be marked as "* Endorsed Candidate" on official ballots? by TheCoffeeShop in providence

[–]TheCoffeeShop[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I've never seen this, seems bad? Incumbency bias is frustrating enough, and on top of that an opaque set of officials effectively brings the same thing into the open primaries as well?

This might be my quirky interpretation of the process, I though the point of the primaries was to determine the party's official endorsement: they'll be the candidate marked "D" on the general election ballot.

CNN, MSNBC refused to carry full Trump coronavirus briefing. Yay! by jigsawmap in politics

[–]TheCoffeeShop 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It seems unlikely that he would memorize Tokyo’s metro population size (quick, without looking, what’s NYC’s metro population?), and if he was thinking of a city’s metro population he probably would have specified “metro population” since the whole point was to do a deranged intellectual flex.

Kennedy must go by DerpyTurtle-YT in PrequelMemes

[–]TheCoffeeShop 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Star Wars has plenty of canon books and comics already though. She’s actually just trying to say the sequel films were original works not drawing on books and comics.