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Cake day: December 28th, 2023

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  • It might seem that way but it’s a fairly arrogant assertion. They’re a sophisticated organisation with a lot of well experienced people guiding them. As an outsider it’s easy to criticise their seemingly endless series of bad decisions, but I’m still confident that internally all of these decisions seemed like a good idea at the time.

    Besides which, this would be a good reason to fork their codebase rather than starting from scratch.













  • I’ve been flip flopping on this over the last 48 hours.

    I can’t dispute that Joe doesn’t seem fit for another presidency.

    That said, it sounds like it’s really up to Biden and the First Lady to decide to withdraw before anything will happen.

    In the mean time, this discussion isn’t helping progressive voters. Trump will preside over an irreversible lurch to the right. Progressives need to unite behind a candidate - anyone the faintest pulse will do.


  • you can either a) reward them for moving left or b) punish them for moving right

    You’re talking about the political will of a nation as you would training a puppy. It’s incredibly reductive and simply not how the overton window works.

    If the republicans win the next several elections the democrats will move further to the right to try to steal votes off them. The republicans will have to move further to the right to differentiate themselves from the democrats.

    Not surprisingly, the more republicans win elections the further right everything moves.

    Your position is exactly where the conservatives would have you. They can’t win your vote so their best outcome is to convince you not to vote.