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Cool, so we’re adding additional information in order to come to a more nuanced understanding. I like where this is going.

So what argument are you making when they are acting with insufficient information and there isn’t yet sufficient information to come to any actual conclusion? If it’s anything other than “we don’t know yet / I don’t know, and neither do you” that’s not grounded in reality. “I don’t know” is a perfectly valid statement, but it happens a lot that people favor something definitive if flawed. That’s a problem when “I don’t know” is ultimately accurate, not abandoning nuance, and using language that anybody can understand. But that is essentially what the comment you replied to was saying when you said nuance isn’t relevant.

I’m not saying anyone is too stupid to understand. I’m not using willful ignorance to imply an inability to understand, but rather that they simply don’t know, and don’t care to know.

We’re talking past each other here. I presume I’m no less invested in keeping fascists out of office than you are. That doesn’t provide any excuse not to fully inform myself, or to pretend that something is anything other than what it really is.

You’re talking in context of the upcoming election. I’m talking in context of not abandoning reality. Discarding nuance because other people are irrational doesn’t serve you well in the broader scheme. Let them be confidently wrong. They aren’t going to care what your argument is regardless of what you say, so serve yourself better by giving things their due consideration.

Has nothing to do with being snobby toward other people. It has everything to do with holding yourself to a standard.

If Adlai Stevenson had a marketing problem that’s something else entirely. Learning lessons from his faults itself seems like a pursuit of truth.

The pursuit of truth is righteous. Other people being willfully ignorant does nothing to diminish that.

They’ll be sending in some Secret Service brain worms dressed in tiny black suits and itty bitty sunglasses to protect the OG. Rest assured, it will be safe.

He’s the guy that challenged Union Rep Sean O’Brien to a fistfight during a senate hearing. Doesn’t get much more Markwayne than that.

RFK takes no sides.

The brain worm took both sides. The left and the right hemisphere.

Frankly, yes. But not because we should continue doing what the moneyed class wants, and not that these particular billionaires will continue to have our best interests at heart, but because right now, under this specific circumstance, they are correct. A correct position isn’t negated by any number of other incorrect positions. If my best friend is telling me to lay down on some train tracks and my mortal enemy is saying that I shouldn’t do it…

I hate that this is the mechanism that will probably get it done, but ultimately this is actually a good thing. This helps put us on the road that we need to start heading down. We need to do it quickly.

I’ve seen letter openers that are more threatening than that thing.

Trump’s specific faults are irrelevant to the calculation insofar as they are profound, and they are legion. Anyone who doesn’t understand that he should never hold the reigns of power is damn near irredeemably ignorant/hopelessly deluded. Ideally he would keel over and land in a trash compactor.

The 2 year age gap between the two is hardly the point. If that’s what you think those calling for Biden to step aside are focusing on you’re not understanding what the issue actually is.

I can only speak for myself. The reason I think Biden should drop out is because I. DON’T. THINK. HE. CAN. WIN. If we need to discuss whether Biden’s downfall is fair, unfounded because of x, y, or z, the product of unscrupulous conjecture, etc., etc., ok. Ultimately it hardly matters if in the end the remaining conclusion is still that I. DON’T. THINK. HE. CAN. WIN. Biden is infinitely more desirable than Trump, but if he can’t pull off a victory it’s more important to remedy that than barrel forward into calamity because “I thought it was clear he was going to be the nominee”.

Genuinely, I don’t know that I could take another Trump term, let alone the prospect of this looming fascism taking root. I would rather roll the dice than play a hand that I absolutely believe will lose.

We can disagree on this. This is a complex situation, and the stakes are high. I’m not going to pretend that I can see into the future. Whatever happens I’m hoping for the best.

I was genuinely not expecting this. As little reason as this Supreme Court has given to inspire confidence, I thought this was a bridge too. I feel sick to my stomach.

Pretty ambitious to try and make it through >95% of the bible in a semester.

Is anyone who enjoys something that you don’t measuring their dick, or does it have something to do with the inherent double entendre related to noodles?

I mean, when I eat spicy things I’m not even thinking about my genitals; I’m enjoying my food.

Eh, the post you’re replying to isn’t anywhere close to as cynical as it could have been.

Frankly, the most generous interpretation of why this policy was put forward is an implicit acknowledgement that the way the US healthcare industry currently operates is adversely impacting the personal economies of a huge segment of the population in a way that isn’t really justified. With just a slight bit of cynicism, in that they they mention how it could affect mortgage acceptance rates, there’s also an acknowledgement of the knock-on effects this is having on other segments of the broader economy, which is probably what they care more about. And with just touch more cynicism we could say this is a move to garner more votes in the upcoming election. Or all of those things can be true simultaneously.

The state of the US health insurance industry and the relationship private equity has to healthcare in general really needs a complete overhaul. To say that this is a bandaid solution (if even that) isn’t the same as saying that it won’t do any good, and therefore shouldn’t be implemented.