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Thank you for the amazing explanation!

Help out this Yank-adjacent thing: Why was JT so incredibly unpopular?

This is the stupidest culture war, fought with the stupidest people on one side and a marginalized group that really just would like to live a life without fear on the other. Not even “without fear,” because apparently that’s asking too much. Just no state-sanctioned fear.

Absolutely. It’s as if they had declared that life in America was much better in the 50s, and the lesson they learned was that it wasn’t possibly because of the economic policies of the post-war era, but because of the bigotry and racism and xenophobia.

Of course he would. It would be a massive shift of taxation towards the middle class and especially the lower classes, and on top of that, he personally gets to decide who gets to pay and who doesn’t; how much and when, and especially why or why not.

I’d add to that great list also the problem of the steady enshittification of Google products. Just today, I was driving with Google Maps and suddenly it asked if I wanted to stop at a McDonald’s. I haven’t been to McD’s in twelve years, so you know how terribly useful that suggestion was.

“They do not put this same effort behind, say, school shooters or people who shoot up concerts.”

I think the real question here is: how many lives were saved by insurance companies temporarily being scared into not ludicrously rejecting valid claims?

If it’s more than one, then Mangione played the trolley problem in real life and decided an outcome.

I think that’s exactly what David Hogg is doing with his primary challenges to moderate Democrats in safe blue seats. It makes no sense for one party to be moderately left when the other party is hard right, regardless of how toxic the political environment is going to be. If you only really have two parties, they have to both occupy the center (pre-1970) or both be somewhat ideological.