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  • Gotta go where the people are. If they truely believe there are republicans that will vote for them because he is that alternative to the Trump they are tired of (an admittedly small amount), this is as good of a place to go to speak to them. The country right now is biased enough that the margins of swing are super small and if this can help attract those people it makes sense for a campaign like Biden who has maintained that there’s a subset of republicans that are non-MAGA and just want to get back to “normal”.










  • JaymesRS@midwest.socialtopics@lemmy.worldMonorail [OC]
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    1 year ago

    The Simpsons did an episode where a monorail salesman tries to sell Springfield on installing a monorail, and there’s a song somewhat evoking the 76 Trombones scene from the musical The Music Man by Meredith Wilson. Mine and other comments are lyrics from that song.








  • Upton Sinclair once wrote, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” He was mostly right, this is also true about personal identity.  From spending a bunch of time hanging around in anti-conservative libertarian spaces, I met a bunch of people in the early years of this movement (and in the spirit of full disclosure, I did occasionally use the spirit of communism as a repudiation of thoughtless defenses of capitalism). It’s absolutely about anticapitalism and a reactionary swing 100% in the opposite direction. And when anti-capitalism is the only motivator, you haven’t argued yourself into a position based on reason, and therefore, your chosen position is unassailable by reason.