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Stop giving bad advice
  • Not in those words

    I'm voting both pragmatically and with my conscience by voting for Claudia De La Crúz.

    With the goal of

    Removing legitimacy from the system itself, and forcing the DNC to appeal to the left

    Is that not good? Or is it not real?

    Or maybe it won't have that effect? Because that's an idealistic plan, not a pragmatic one

  • Stop giving bad advice
  • Lol, yes. There are metaphorical carrots pulling the DNC to the right, I think we agree there. Now if you want to be "pragmatic" about it will a metaphorical stick from the left move them more left, or more right given the way we can see they calculate?

  • Stop giving bad advice
  • The same DNC that blamed the left for Hillary losing and then credited centrism with Biden winning?

    Those are fine goals, but pragmatism involves addressing reality as it is, not how you would like it to be. I doubt you can achieve both removing legitimacy from the system as you see it and forcing the DNC to speak to the left simultaneously since the DNC is a part of the system that's in place. Unfortunately the DNC appealing to the left needs to be a two way street, make the left more appealing to the DNC than the right. All those Republicans endorsing Harris is the right appealing to the DNC, the left needs to out do that effort to pull the DNC to the left. Rejecting them won't do that, only the opposite.

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  • Nurse sharks are friendly? The things I remember about them from my childhood book on sharks are: they sleep in big piles on the ocean floor, their eggs are like weird sacks, and they latch on after biting and will not let go

  • Debtor Organizing Can Transform Our Individual Financial Struggles Into a Source of Collective Strength
  • The article dances around the idea of a debtors union using a payment strike for leverage without saying it, which is probably why it's so vague. That's an option that the CFPB doesn't have, plus it wouldn't be subject to the same bureaucratic process as a government agency. Imagine if every credit card holder were prepared to stop paying until the unions terms are met. One person trying that isn't getting far, a big enough group would threaten to turn enough valuable debt into junk to force change

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  • The author, Chris Ferrie, has a whole series of science for babies. We have ones about the planets and another just about Pluto that my kid was real into for a while

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