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“People are promoted to the rank of terrorist after their death,” said one intelligence source who accompanied forces on the ground. “If I had listened to the brigade, I would have come to the conclusion that we had killed 200% of Hamas operatives in the area.”

What do you think you are contributing with this comment?

The DNC being shit at elections is exactly why that scenario seems like it would have been the best path and still within the bounds of reasonably possible given the constraints involved. It would have put Kamala in the optimal position and given her a year to pin inflation and everything else unpopular on Biden while also having incumbency, the entire political dynamic of the country would have been changed. She could have had a clean break and gone into the election with a coherent campaign built from the ground up. It's not the best outcome obviously, we still end up with Kamala vs. Trump but the odds would likely be much more against Trump. My only point is that in this counterfactual Trump is at his biggest disadvantage within a realistic scenario. If you think otherwise explain. And if you think any of this is somehow a defense of the DNC, read again more carefully.

Not a Mainer but that line is poking at Collins, who has developed a reputation for expressing concerns about things and then lacking the courage to vote against them.

In a less fucked up world he would have passed the baton 3 years in. I think that was the most likely scenario for things to have worked out in the least shitty way that was reasonably possible, given the context and hindsight.

I used the Play store search for the first time in awhile recently and was shocked how bad it has become. Google is shoving crapware in your face every chance they get. I ended up using Kagi to find the link to the app on the Play store.

I am trying to imagine a scenario where the DNC intervenes to push out Biden before the debate debacle and I really can't. I agree that had Biden left earlier things would have gone differently, maybe worse or maybe better, it's tough to say. I don't agree though that the DNC could have pushed Biden out prior to that point, that is a major move that would play out really badly without the context that Biden's debate performance ultimately provided. I think Biden and his closest family and advisers who were encouraging him to keep going are primarily responsible for it being too late, and that the DNC intervening to push Biden out earlier in the campaign would likely have gone terribly for everyone even if it were successful. Which it probably wouldn't have been, because even after the debate debacle it was still a major challenge to convince Biden and his advisers that dropping out was the correct choice.

They didn't really have much choice besides pushing Kamala due to various complications with campaign finance law and the limited time frame to run a selection process. I don't think the DNC neoliberal types particularly cared who the nominee was as long as it wasn't someone who would stand in their way. They would have been perfectly happy to go with a different candidate. One of the big risks though was that if the party did anything other than have Kamala take over the campaign the new candidate would lose access to all of the money the campaign had raised and would be forced to start over from scratch. With the compressed time frame available for a selection process it also basically guaranteed that selection process would be a shitshow that risked dividing the party further at exactly the worst time in the election cycle. If your choice is between a messy public fight producing a candidate covered in shit with no money or campaign infrastructure, or the VP who is already on the ticket could just take over the existing campaign...

“It has been said that the most surefire way to create an authoritarian regime is to completely dehumanize a significant portion of the population, so that their subsequent enslavement by the state will not face any larger resistance. It was true during slavery, it was true during the Holocaust, and it is true now,” the blog post stated.

Yikes. I think comparing Trumpism favorably to the Holocaust and slavery could be a bridge too far still, this guy might actually get fired.

Maybe. Probably. Ribs can break more easily than you would expect. I think you need medical attention ASAP. If you're not able to get out of bed due to pain after two days that is definitely consult the professionals territory.

Leaving my wet towel somewhere it doesnt belong after a shower. I am a lot better than I used to be but I still forget it regularly.

Its a regional thing, in some parts of the US it is very common.

Yes, I am a feminist because I believe everyone has equal rights under the law regardless of their gender.