geekwithsoul @ geekwithsoul @lemm.ee

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That all would have been excellent context to add from the beginning and would have been the argument or call to action that would have made the post make sense no matter when it was originally posted. Without it, as can be seen in all the communities you posted this to, you just generated confusion and animosity.

Then help me understand - how do you feel that sharing this without the correct context was constructive?

But the statement from the BLM was about the Democratic Party, thus making that the point of the discussion. If you don’t care about the Democratic Party, why do you care about their nomination process?

And this is by no means an accusation, but that wall of text was so tangential to the whole thread that it reads like ChatGPT helped you write it. Trust your own words.

On the ballot in like 14 states? Yeah, I would say her chances are…low. Would be far more impressed if instead of running for President with no chance to win, she ran for a state legislature seat, hell even county board. Encourage others to do the same. You don’t build a coalition or party by just running for President with no experience or support. So she’s either grandstanding, a useful idiot, or so hopelessly uninformed that she’s got no idea what she’s doing. We need better third parties and you don’t do that by trying to “raise awareness” every four years, you do that by running and winning smaller races until they can’t ignore you anymore.

Then my only advice would be to try and share in ways that are constructive rather than the opposite.

Agree that there was a failure of timing, but would put the blame on progressive leaders who didn’t step forward a year ago to mount a serious challenge. The problems with how this was handled are beyond counting but my original point was that at this point we need to put a hold on the infighting for all of three months and then we can start applying pressure in constructive ways that ensure this never happens again. If we can’t do that, nothing else is likely to matter for quite some time, and many things more immediately important than inner-party battles hang in the balance.

You could have just admitted it was a mistake without the grandstanding. All Democrats criticize the Democratic Party - it’s like a requirement, and it doesn’t make you special.

Criticism is our strength, though it’s often viewed as a weakness by others. But that criticism needs to be grounded in facts and reality, or else it undercuts the actual germane and real criticisms that need to be discussed and acted on.

If your post was in error, as you said, delete it and post something constructive. Maybe even link to the same thing, note the age of the link, but ask what needs to be done to make sure this doesn’t happen again. That might actually be a useful discussion. Otherwise you’re just throwing metaphorical molotovs and doing unintended damage.

I don’t normally have a problem with this bot (it’s fairly simple to block/ignore), but it really needs to make a difference between opinion pieces- which don’t have to meet the normal journalistic standards- and actual news articles. The NYT has a host of systemic issues in its news coverage, but this is not that. This is a separate issue of them platforming some really horrendous takes on their opinion pages - and the bot shouldn’t mark opinion pieces with the same info it does news articles.

I simply outlined the only two possible motivations for the post that I could think of and gave OP a prompt to explain if it was simply a mistake on their part. Did I miss a motivation that explains the context of the post?

How about the fact that the article is three weeks out of date? Whose fault would that be?

This statement was from 23 July and has been overcome by events. Harris is the nominee. The only reasons to share this 3 weeks after it was published is to either pretend that there is dissent on the left about who should be the nominee, or it was a simple mistake and you didn’t see the date. Which is it?

I was in my early 20s and was visiting a friend’s house. His wife had a friend visiting that I’d never met. We were introduced and the first words she said to me were “Do you know your features are wasted on a guy?” and then went on to provide specific details.

We were married a year later. And that was 30 years ago.

I just assumed they’d ask Al Franken to do it. Seems like a natural fit

I think you’re confusing “politics” and “policy”

The irony of course being JK’s insistence that she’s just trying to “protect women” and yet she’s the one helping to instigate this abuse of a woman.

Funny to think that JK’s self-insert character in HP turned out to be Umbridge.

I doubt he’ll dump Vance - that’s how he’s getting the big bucks from Thiel and other tech bros.

CNN’s Bakari Sellers responded by saying, “I think that J.D. Vance is kind of the Sarah Palin of Dan Quayles.”

Hmm, that’s going to cause someone to need some aloe

It might help with the swing voters - which evidently somehow still exist, but it would make a bunch of the MAGA base stay home on Election Day.

No, he’s teeing it up for Harris to campaign on those accomplishments and helping draw a sharp distinction between her and Commander Cuckoo Bananas. And he didn’t mention her because he at least knows you can’t campaign with a presidential speech.

And this is Star Wars is much closer to fantasy than sci-fi…