TheRealKuni

This is the beginning of the turn. All part of Thiel’s plan to get his puppet as president for 10 years. Regardless of who wins the midterms, Trump will either be impeached and removed from office or 25th amendmented after January 20, 2027, so that JD Vance will be eligible to serve 2.5 terms.

He’d make a fine Reverse Clinton.

Many of them have no idea what’s actually happening. They’re firmly in their bubble and refuse to believe anything negative about Trump.

How dare you!

Beetlejuice was a Broadway show, not off-Broadway! Though she did see the tour in Denver, not the actual Broadway cast.

I actually used to make that same argument. “Celsius is better for science, but Fahrenheit is better for weather because 0-100 describe human experience.” But I decided to be scientific about this and test it. And to do that, I would need to learn Celsius intuitively. I’d have to spend some time with it. So I switched all my devices to Celsius, came up with a quick heuristic to do conversions until I got the sense of it, and started my experiment.

That was seven years ago. I’ve not gone back. I much prefer Celsius for weather.

I was already liking how much more meaning a degree has since they’re less granular than Fahrenheit, but then experiencing my first winter in Celsius solidified it for me. Having 0° mean freezing is so much more useful than I ever thought it would be. I was shocked by how much I appreciated 0° as freezing.

23°F doesn’t inherently mean anything to me. I know it’s below freezing. But -5°C means as much more cold than freezing as 5°C is warmer than freezing. I could figure that out for Fahrenheit, obviously, 23°F is as far below freezing as 41°F is above it. But it’s obvious with Celsius.

And once I spent a few months getting a real sense of the numbers I regularly experience in Michigan, I already had a good sense of what other numbers mean. People say, “100°F sounds hot,” and that’s true. But when one of my co-workers over in India told me it was 40°C where he was, I intuitively knew that was fucking hot. That sounded hot. It turns out, once you get to know the scale those senses come along.

101°F is approximately 38°C for the entire rest of the world.

You’re supposed to be the bluest of blue states.

I think that’s actually Minnesota.

Edit: Last time Minnesota voted for a Republican president was 1972, and the only state that didn’t vote for Nixon in that election was Massachusetts. Massachusetts voted for Reagan in 1980 and 1984 (as did California).

Dissapoining that people won’t look past he’s religious.

It’s interesting. Do we think those same people care that Mamdani and el-Sayed are Muslim? Because in those cases it’s obvious that a person being religious doesn’t mean they espouse the most conservative version of their religion. There are progressive Christian churches and even entire denominations, but we seem less willing to offer the benefit of the doubt to a Christian.

I can understand, though. In the US we’re far more familiar with the abuses and failings of the religion more familiar to us. We’re more likely to have entrenched opinions colored by years of exposure to the most regressive parts of the religion.

“Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”

Betteridge’s law of headlines

This is how you make change happen in a first-past-the-post system. Primary elections are so important.

There can’t be that many voters who want to go blue but are hung up needing to bathroom bills too are there?

Probably not, but maybe. People are disenfranchised with the GOP, but brainwashed to the hilt with rage about trans issues. I suspect this guy wants to be palatable to that group of voters.

She does look a little bit like Ivanka.

If she’s going to throw transgender people under the bus, she will also do nothing to protect immigrants, or people of color, or parents, or the elderly, or animals, or the climate, or the environment, etc.

Politics is not two-dimensional. Don’t get me wrong, she’s acting like a piece of utter shit in her treatment of trans people. But to assume all of her other beliefs because of that one is a fallacy. Would I rather the people of Ohio have a viable progressive candidate? 100%. But they don’t, because

The more I think on it, the only move that plays to win is putting in the effort to organize around a grassroots progressive as a write-in.

In a first-past-the-post system, all this move does is guarantee that the more conservative major candidate wins. This is called the spoiler effect. By removing support from the major candidate who is more aligned with your views, you are voting against your own interests, because it effectively improves the position of the major candidate who is less aligned with your views. There is not a vote total a candidate needs to win, they just need more votes than the other candidates.

I absolutely despise our voting system, but despising it doesn’t mean it goes away. Until we move to a ranked choice system or something similar, it is practically always a losing move to abandon the lesser of two evils. In our shitty system, Vote aggressively for progressive candidates in primaries, and then vote defensively for the least regressive major candidate in the general. Until we do that, or until we get rid of our godawful system, the Republicans will keep winning. Because they understand this. You may have heard the phrase, “Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line.”

he lied about being a physician.

Putting the best construction on it, I suspect it wasn’t a lie but rather a misguided attempt to distinguish between his PhD and his medical degree. As in, he is a doctor of medicine and a doctor of epidemiology. One might say “physician and doctor” or something.

But people took umbrage with the use of “physician,” which implies actual practice and licensure, so he stopped using it.

Calling it “lying” adds a level of dishonesty that I’m not sure is warranted. But that’s just me, you do you.

He completed med school, but never did a residency or worked as a physician.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t someone who graduated from medical school a doctor? You just can’t practice without supervision until you go through residency, right? But like, someone on their first day of residency is still a “doctor,” not a “student doctor.”

If rather than becoming licensed to practice medicine unsupervised he continued his schooling to become an epidemiologist, it doesn’t mean he isn’t an MD or DO (whichever he received from medical school), right?

Edit: Ah, the hangup is over the word “physician.” That’s…okay that seems silly to me but I guess I generally do hear that word in the context of “licensed physician.” So I can understand objecting to its use for someone who is not licensed.

It’s still sad. Don’t get me wrong, fuck that guy. But it’s a tragic story that repeats too often. I hope for a day where no one lives it again.