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It alienated me and others like me that identify as weird.

You can’t win the left while shit talking non-hegemonic personalities and preferences.

No, Clinton-era thinking is trying to fluster the Republicans without being concerned with alienating the voters.

Me.

It alienated me.

Most queer people identify with the label “weird”.

I also saw pro-corporate outlets praising it.

Just because it flustered republicans doesn’t mean it didn’t alienate voters.

I agree with the rest of your message listing progressive policies that the majority of Americans support. That’s the winning strategy.

“Weird” alienated voters. It’s an example of bad messaging that the dems doubled down on that made them lose.

They lacked a platform that promised anything but more of the same that Americans were tired of. They needed to present something new and hopeful, not just lob an insult that much of America identifies with. A suite of policies to help the working class attracts votes to your side. Calling your opponents weird attracts votes to the weird anti-establishment.

Weird plays into the republican’s hands, and it annoys the hell out of me how the dems decided to throw the election to focus on petty insults that come off as compliments to most observers.

A part of the problem is that they didn’t hold back on broken and alienating messaging like “weird”. They should have focused on talking about what they can do for the people.

Fair, I was assuming that their unease was moral not safety.

Ok, but their other options are Boeing and Russian Soyuz.

Changing our space program from that of scientific exploration and understanding our neighbors to one of colonization and conquest.

Science Mission Directorate cut by 50%?

It’s not the people building the rockets getting cut the most.

It’s the people studying the planets and responsible for understanding and protecting their state before human development s’encubre.

I make no claim of long-term planning.

Longtermism is a philosophy that Musk has been writing about for many years.

Elon isn’t one for careful planning.

He is one for careless disregard of short-term consequences while seeking what he has determined to be a long-term good.

I have personally argued for restoring the central valley swamp ecosystem in California. Doing so should be a delicate task, because the valley is no longer hydrologically or morphologically tuned to swampland. The entire overland water transport hydrological system in the valley was redesigned by humans to support farmers in a dry basin decades after the cotton farmers drained it.

Just dumping water into what used to be the lakebed is reckless. It is an action taken with no long-term planning for rebuilding an ecosystem that emerged from the last ice age thanks to careful maintenance, gardening, and stewardship by indigenous peoples; building this ecosystem required human ingenuity and careful planning; so will rebuilding it. It is an action taken without even short-term planning for what happens to the water next as it refills a basin now adapted to dry conditions; it is one of our nation’s agricultural powerhousen.

I believe that he thinks that just putting the water in the right place without anyone helping develop the new swamp ecosystem is enough to restore California’s wetlands. Maybe he’s right, on a long enough timescale. I think we should prefer to be careful and to work with the various relevant communities in that area to ensure that any further changes we make to this ecosystem are done responsibly.

Because the water would go where they want it to go. You just don’t understand where they want it to go or why.

You think they want it to go to where the fires are. That’s wrong.

They want it to go into the central valley to refill the giant lake and swamp ecosystem that used to be there.

They don’t care about the short-term needs of people who need to drink or put out fires or grow crops. They are making decisions entirely from the perspective of longtermism. They see restoring the central valley’s swamp ecosystem as the overwhelming long-term good, regardless of any short-term consequences.

Right idea, reckless implementation. It’s also not clear that just dumping as much water as possible into the central valley is the best way to restore the swamp ecosystem. So much of the valley’s hydrology and ability to retain water have been damaged since the cotton farmers drained the lake after the civil war. This is a restoration that needs to be done slowly and deliberately, both to not kill people who currently rely on that water and to manage the environmental impacts on the basin of suddenly reintroducing water that it’s spent 150 years adapting to live without.

Psychopathy, or psychopathic personality,[1] is a personality construct[2][3] characterized by impaired empathy and remorse, in combination with traits of boldness, disinhibition, and egocentrism. These traits are often masked by superficial charm and immunity to stress,[4] which create an outward appearance of apparent normalcy.[5][6][7][8][9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy

Had to look it up, but apparently yes.

Well, olives can’t grow in Canada, but can in the Gulf States…

If we run the pipes in reverse, we need pumps to go uphill instead of using gravity.

Probably still less carbon impact than keeping the petrol flowing.

Instead can we use it to get canola oil from Canada?

Vermin Supreme shouldn’t fight gravity.

Democrats cannot continue to fall into the trap of discussing toilets and sports as if these are the pivotal issues of our lifetime. We should make it clear that the mistreatment and abuse inflicted on trans people is an attack on us all.

Absolutely. Toilet desegregation campaigns won before in this country. Let’s do it again. All toilets should be for anyone that needs them.

Highschool sports are about having fun. That’s the most important fact to come back to. That’s the target for any discussions.

Individuals staunchly opposed to gender-affirming care for trans youth and active duty trans military personnel should consider what type of life they expect for them to live while they ‘hurry up and wait’ until either age 18 in the case of the youth or retirement in the case of active duty personnel. Instead of engaging in the abstract, the Democrats can humanize trans and gender non-conforming youth by posing these very real questions.

That’s not enough to work. “Individuals staunchly opposed” to trans issues have a different understanding of gender than the queer community does. There is a language barrier that prevents the proposed questions from being adequately posed such that everyone understands them the same way. There is a lot of communication necessary leading up to these emotional appeals being understandable to most of the country.

How we communicate with voters and prospective voters looking ahead is an economic issue, a national security issue, and a social fabric issue, and it is time that we start acting like it. The Democrats’ next step should not be a reverse in the party’s social and civic-minded positions. It should be towards working to repair a loss of trust with voters by hitting restart on how the party communicates, looking further to find capable and moving messengers, and creating a culture – one that Biden himself said he wanted to foster – of proudly and loudly boasting Democratic wins and policy positions that meant something to people.

Great finish.

America’s role in WWII is too “woke” for the current administration.

Standing up to power vs standing up for it.

Yoga and canning beans are both great hobbies. You pick weird things to use as examples of the worst way getting sucked into QAnon could go.