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2024 US Presidential Elections Megathread

Started by Syt, May 25, 2023, 02:23:01 AM

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grumbler

#930
May 02, 2024, 03:28:37 PM
Michael Sandel on How to fight populism

I think that he makes a pretty compelling case for what causes populism (a shift to demeaning those without college degrees) and its solution (reinforcing policies and values that recognize the dignity of labor).  He borrows MLK Jr's analogy that garbage collectors prevent more diseases than doctors and should be recognized for their efforts.  Not with money, but with respect and acknowledgement.
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Bayraktar!

Jacob

#931
May 02, 2024, 04:16:02 PM
That sounds like a reasonable hypothesis.

The Brain

#933
May 03, 2024, 12:04:49 PM
Depends, really.
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grumbler

#934
May 03, 2024, 12:46:07 PM
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

Jacob

#935
May 03, 2024, 02:24:35 PM
I wonder if the person on the left considers themselves a "real man". They're wearing diapers after all.

celedhring

#936
May 08, 2024, 03:13:52 PM
Nobody discusses the news that RFK is probably a thrall of Khan Noonien Singh?

Valmy

#937
May 08, 2024, 03:15:54 PM
Quote from: celedhring on May 08, 2024, 03:13:52 PMNobody discusses the news that RFK is probably a thrall of Khan Noonien Singh?

I mean...why not?
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

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Syt

#938
May 08, 2024, 11:19:17 PM
Quote from: celedhring on May 08, 2024, 03:13:52 PMNobody discusses the news that RFK is probably a thrall of Khan Noonien Singh?

I mean, him having had a brain parasite explains so much now. :P
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Jacob

#939
May 09, 2024, 12:37:27 AM
It was a brain-eater and it obviously starved to death.

Syt

#940
May 09, 2024, 12:42:25 PM
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Valmy

#941
May 09, 2024, 02:31:03 PM
What a country I live in. If my ancestors had known this is the way things were going to go they would have gone back to England and ride out the Civil War.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Sheilbh

#942
May 09, 2024, 05:58:08 PM
Oh great, they've come back :(
Let's bomb Russia!

Tamas

#943
May 14, 2024, 04:14:34 AM
Quote from: Syt on May 09, 2024, 12:42:25 PMhttps://twitter.com/robertkennedyjr/status/1788311221776568666



I desperately hope this is the low point of US Presidential elections because we seem to be storming toward an Idiocracy scenario at breakneck speed.

garbon

#944
May 14, 2024, 04:26:41 AM
Quote from: Tamas on May 14, 2024, 04:14:34 AM
Quote from: Syt on May 09, 2024, 12:42:25 PMhttps://twitter.com/robertkennedyjr/status/1788311221776568666



I desperately hope this is the low point of US Presidential elections because we seem to be storming toward an Idiocracy scenario at breakneck speed.

On the other hand, I'm not all that worried about fringe candidates saying strange things.
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