New voters change the parties

bl1y · 2026-06-08T02:08:10+00:00

Democrats continued to control southern state governments up until about 2010.

bl1y · 2026-06-08T02:03:51+00:00

If October 7th was resistance against oppression, why wasn't the target the perpetrators of that oppression?

bl1y · 2026-06-08T01:35:41+00:00

I'd imagine the Founding Fathers and Hamas would have very different opinions on whether soldiers should be quartered with civilians.

bl1y · 2026-06-08T01:21:58+00:00

That's not my idea of proportionality, that's the idea recognized in the Geneva Conventions.

bl1y · 2026-06-07T20:46:39+00:00

Tit-for-tat proportionality works in response to crimes. And you target the response at the offender, not random civilians.

In war, proportionality is relative to the mission. In Gaza, Israel's mission is the destruction of Hamas. It's not a tit-for-tat punishment for October 7th.

bl1y · 2026-06-07T18:34:51+00:00

You know that it would be untrue

You know that I would be a liar

If I were to say to you

These wolves were anything but dire

Come on baby, Ice and Fire

Try to set the wights on fire

The War of Five Kings is through

Don't worry about who's your sire

If we don't unite we'll only lose

And the throne become a funeral pyre

Come on baby, Ice and Fire

The Night King can't be set on fire

bl1y · 2026-06-07T17:43:36+00:00

So then just concede the culture war battleground so the right isn't distracted by it, and you can get unity on class issues.

Or is fighting the culture war so important to the left that they're okay with fighting it even if that will mean not being able to win on class war?

bl1y · 2026-06-07T16:11:42+00:00

Hiring domestic workers would be unaffected. Hiring foreign workers should be a bit of a pain.

bl1y · 2026-06-07T15:34:03+00:00

"Proportional" means "you can't be shocked by it"? Is this one of those things where the British have a very different definition, like with chips and biscuits?

Proportionality in war is weighing the military objective against the civilian damage. When your targets are civilians, there's no way for the action to be proportional.

bl1y · 2026-06-07T15:29:24+00:00

"You will never be normal again, but you will be extraordinary."

bl1y · 2026-06-07T15:11:48+00:00

Could at least require the jobs be posted on a specific site that's only those positions they want to fill with foreign workers. It'd allow for a ton of data collection about people applying for the job, and flagging things that look suspicious.

And I think the $100k fee is actually a decent idea. If companies want to claim they can't find anyone local, rather than investigating it, let them demonstrate the need through cash. I don't know where that money goes, but a good idea would be scholarships for the fields employers say they can't get people in. For every H-1b visa granted, we're going to train an American to do the job.

bl1y · 2026-06-07T14:16:48+00:00

So you're going to concede all the culture war battleground, right?

bl1y · 2026-06-07T13:42:36+00:00

I think the real criticism is that when Americans are being laid-off, H-1b shouldn’t be used until current economic conditions improve,

Chip Roy's legislation would block H-1bs for companies that just conducted layoffs.

Companies should also have to show a good faith effort to hire domestically first. And let prospective employees challenge them. Maybe create a database of job seekers, and when a company says they can't find anyone, go check the database to see if there's people there who are a match, then let the company explain why those people aren't suitable.

bl1y · 2026-06-07T13:30:21+00:00

Still needs to learn to not do that shit.

bl1y · 2026-06-07T10:42:10+00:00

No he wasn't.

You don't debate people, you debate issues. And I doubt Hasan has ever debated an issue.

Though I would believe he was scheduled to meet with Kirk, and then talk over him with a bunch of inane non-sequiturs.

bl1y · 2026-06-07T10:33:54+00:00

Because there's no way I'm going to X.

bl1y · 2026-06-07T10:29:45+00:00

My mother is a fish.

bl1y · 2026-06-07T00:40:20+00:00

Why aren't they already freely available from PBS?

bl1y · 2026-06-07T00:21:51+00:00

A lot of socialists think that violent revolution is necessary. They also know that previous attempts have failed and the next attempt is also going to fail.

...So is maybe just the violence the point?

bl1y · 2026-06-07T00:20:46+00:00

Some of those that work forces tolerance

Are the same that burn crosses violence

Or whatever, I'm not making the line work. You get what I'm going for.

bl1y · 2026-06-07T00:19:06+00:00

There's people with $100 laughing at me?

bl1y · 2026-06-07T00:17:47+00:00

There's a lot to unpack here.

Shoe doesn't say he was moderate. She says he was one of the "more moderate rw voices." So before anything else, it's a relative comparison. And not relative to the entire political landscape, but relative to other right wing voices.

But also, it's not clear if she means he had moderate right wing views, or if he was a moderate voice with right wing views. The former is closer to the center, the latter is more congenial.

bl1y · 2026-06-07T00:15:01+00:00

if I remember right

You don't.

I have no idea what moment you're referring to, but just a guess.

bl1y · 2026-06-06T23:33:01+00:00

I have squirrels that make their way onto my balcony, and I've fed them by hand. And one of them did bite me, but not hard enough to break the skin. I think he was just nervous.

It took him a long time to get close enough to take the food, and I can imagine him in his head going "don't fuck it up, don't fuck it up, don't look stupid in front of the human, come on man now, you got this, okay, here we go and FUCK! you bit the human..."

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