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[–] silence7 3 points 2 weeks ago

Private school with an endowment.

[–] silence7 4 points 2 weeks ago

There are probably more, but by the time you're at 40, it's enough to make the point that it's a pretty steady drumbeat.

[–] silence7 7 points 2 weeks ago

I agree that there's very little convincing to do at this stage — right now it's about turnout. Having these in one place like this can emphasize the importance of voting to stop Trump and help make sure people vote.

[–] silence7 3 points 2 weeks ago

He might occasionally have done so without realizing it.

[–] silence7 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

To the contrary, when I've been doing phonebanks calling climate activists asking them to be involved in actions supporting Harris, I'm finding that I actually know people on the list, and they're showing up.

[–] silence7 13 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

They're recognizing that a first-past-the-post system gives us effectively a choice between two candidates, and are choosing to support the one willing to do more. This is what the Biden/Harris administration got us:

Trump wants to roll everything back.

[–] silence7 8 points 2 weeks ago

You could do something like that, and run local and legislative candidates in states like Alaska and Maine which have ranked-choice voting for their general election, or California which uses top-two primaries. Would probably be easier if there was some way to redirect the existing US Green Party towards a path that might actually gain some amount of power, instead of serving as a spoiler.

[–] silence7 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Not the first article in this vein, but it needs to be said a lot right now.

[–] silence7 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I think the mass subscription cancelation by Washington Post subscribers in response to Bezos preventing the publication of an endorsement of Harris changed the tone of the rest of the press more than any threat from Trump

[–] silence7 4 points 3 weeks ago

It usually takes eating an infected animal. They might have shared roadkill, but I don't think that Howard Lutnick ate part of RFK Jr.

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