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@pratik I am intrigued by what looks like a 2 headed dog?
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@aurora Yeah I thought of it, but I will end up paying more than I paid for the said items lol. I guess a weekend of building is in order!
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@pratik beauty!
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@stupendousman why did this post repost? This is from 2023!!
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@pratik Nothing stopping liberals from saying the same now. Need to work the same system thats against us.
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@pratik for a moment I thought you meant me lol. Pretty much 95% of posts here including long form won’t make it to my blog. In fact I want my blog not to be part of my micro blog experience. I have thought about moving my blog to micro but without privacy controls on who gets to see my blog posts it’s absolutely not worth it for me. It’s not that my blog isn’t public but even there too I have locked posts. Plus I don’t want to deal with categories and like. @jsonbecker
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@squaremoon same feels. I a bit wary of it right now.
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@pratik Democrat states should propose it very seriously to see how Republican states will shit their pants. I do see American “union” like a European Union emerging - collection of 10-20 state-countries each with its own rules / regulations and way of life but free people movement within the zone. Ultimately that’s what republicans want with “state rights” so might as well create 50 odd countries.
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@pratik to be clear I am not blaming Harris for any of this. If anything I blame Biden. He probably saw through this at midterms and knew that he probably stood a better chance than her. He should have known his health better though but I am positive he saw though it and that’s why insisted on being in race.
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@pratik sometimes when there is just so much information and differing opinions all around I like to put my PM hat on and go back to ask - what is the most simplest explanation that can explain the outcome we are seeing? The answer I keep coming back to is Harris was just not that liked at all. Period. She didn’t connect in 2020, she largely was viewed as a DEI pick (hate the word but there it is!) in favor of other qualified candidates, didn’t do herself any favors in the last 3 years by being out of news, and then was thrust into an impossible situation. That’s just really it - she was never the choice of democrats any time in last 4 years.
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@pratik I think this is a good convo for zoom call haha. But yeah its a tough spot for democrats to be in presently! No easy solutions out unlike the other side.
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@pratik also accept the fact the the issues that are bringing people to Democratic Party are actually “white” issues. Almost every non white group is conservative in their beliefs and the issues that democrats keep pushing like abortion, trans rights etc are not the top of mind issues for non white groups. Heck even non white groups are racist and anti immigrants towards their own kind as this election handily proves. I mentioned this few days ago democrats have an identity problem - who exactly are they fighting for?
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Is the objective only to win, even if it means abandoning the issues that brought people to your party?
Yes for me. You can only govern if you win. And if you win, you can do more good than doing nothing by losing. Smaller incremental wins are way more worth it than trying for a big bang even though we'd all like the latter to be true. Sadly the world is drastically different now than 1972 when a decorum existed in politics and life. Now it doesnt so the same rules just dont apply anymore unfortunately.
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@pratik Yes to that - that part was the people.
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@pratik Party to be specific.
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@fgtech oh 100%. I don’t think people care about justice as much as they care about peace and status quo if it does not directly impact them.
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@pratik democrats need to figure out which issue hurts them the least and will cost them the least votes and drop them. I mean they already did make a calculated decision to drop Palestine issue this election. Regarding DEI it became a fad few years back I don’t think it got the result it intended to and just drove men in particular even more away. I personally think dems should fight for ALL of this but hey I also know now they won’t win elections with that. (Part of me is also convinced that democrats want all things republicans want except they don’t want the tag of being a republican so they are happy to have republicans do all the shit they wanted to but don’t want the guilt of saying they do).
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@pratik and oh, DEI. Great idea and much necessary but all it did in 2021 in big companies likes ours and tech industry is create a class system where mostly whites and Asian “men” were overlooked for promotions in favor of women and black folks. Don’t underestimate the impact of those things on voting bloc.