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Might be a good angle. Ask people what they hate about communism, then point to how our current system is exactly that.

Echo chambers are, if anything, more common on the right. There is research about this, e.g.:

https://connorjerzak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Psychological-Science-2015-Barberá-1531-42.pdf

They are all exactly equally large

Sucks to explain jokes, but this is internet recommended practice to avoid any kind of everyday trouble with Japanese officials etc. Use at your own risk

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And most of Japan/Korea as well. Most people here prefer living in housing blocks

Thanks, as much as I think whatever the US government is doing rn is dumb and self-destructive, it’s important to clarify these two charts don’t contradict each other.

Different base population, different set of candidates, different election. Apples and oranges. In comparison, French elections have a sort of “primary” (the actual election) with a follow-up between the two strongest candidates across parties about who becomes the president. The odds there sometimes look quite different from the first round. I mentioned Sanders here because I remembered something fishy was going on during the primaries in 2016 which took Sanders off the board, despite a decent support. But Wikipedia suggests that might have been a Russian spin against Clinton? Hard to tell.

Anyway, my broader point is that you can’t run triangulation politics against fascists. This doesn’t work and political scientists have been pretty clear about that for a long time. Hence both Clinton and Biden were pretty short-sighted and weak strategic choices. The democratic party didn’t stand for anything in the past decade, apart from “not the orange guy”. There needs to be a visionary, authentic alternative people can identify with. I’m not sure such a thing can meaningfully develop top-down from inside the political establishment. I have no solution.

As an outside observer, I think a certain Mr. Sanders could have provided a decent alternative candidate but the democrats decided against him (in a not very democratic way IIRC). Instead, they opted for the flawed political triangulation tactic and took a right politics drift, to their own peril.

What does lil’ Swasteelon have to do with it, though?

No, I remember the time when people went all “he’s like the next Steve Jobs!” and meant that in a good way

Sort of:

“Her body his choice”, but then interrupted by a “his body her choice”, to restore the sane “her body her choice situation”

Wait, so it became a “his body her choice” situation?