silence7 @ silence7 @slrpnk.net

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The biggest problem is that people aren't paying attention to the news at all, and get their "news" via social media. The informed populace went for Harris

Because the US has a history of buying islands form Denmark — that's where the US Virgin Islands come from.

Yeah, you get some silly answers from a small percent of the population, like this one:

Seven percent of all American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows, according to a nationally representative online survey commissioned by the Innovation Center of U.S. Dairy.

That's the version which was published about 30min before the version I posted. I suspect you're getting served an old version from a cache somewhere.

Here's coverage in the New York Times so you can see what is going on

Unless it's changed since I posted, the first sentence is:

A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked a push from President Donald Trump to pause federal funding while his administration conducts an across-the-board ideological review to uproot progressive initiatives.

Yes, if you turn on Javascript you get the whole thing.

Top-level post is a gift link to a news article

Federal taxes are paid by individuals and corporations, not the states, so it would be on individuals and companies to halt payment.

Yeah, that kind of thing is why unionization needs to happen firm-wide and not just in part of it.

The bulk of them do not, so no. You did see some of that in the last few years because the Democrats never had anything more than a very narrow majority in the Senate, so one or two being bought off could prevent a budget from passing.

"Two Santas" is a Republican strategy of cutting taxes when in power, and demanding service cuts when not in power due to the budget deficit caused by their tax cuts. It's not something the Democrats accede to.

If so, it doesn't show up in voting records or rhetoric.

Problem with that view is that minority of the Democrats were bought off, like about 4%. And they had a hard time winning reelection as a result

I generally avoid painting them all with a single brush like that.

Some absolutely are bought off like you describe. But an awful lot are not — the big problem we've had is that the contingent of the bought off Democrats plus the Republicans has been enough to block meaningful action, even when the Democrats have had a nominal majority.

Yeah. Most of the Alaska population is not registered to vote as either a Republican or as a Democrat

It takes more than that — people just resort to conspiracy theories. What the mind-changing process actually looks like:

• distancing from ideological community
• desire to seek out new information
• and solidifying experiences of gradual or epiphanic realization

I see that there are some 76,000 other registered Democrats in the state besides you. Probably worth starting to get active with your local Democratic club or party, and starting the kind of outreach that can start to change things.

It will probably take a bit longer than that. For example, catalytic converters don't suddenly get removed from cars.

The very richest are — but the professional class, which can shell out $3000 every few years, isn't. And the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire is almost exactly a billion dollars. It's still very doable for Democrats to raise the kind of money it takes to be competitive.

My impression is that Krugman has been there since 2015. Did a scan through some of his old columns, like this one:

The point is that we shouldn’t ask whether the G.O.P. will eventually nominate someone in the habit of saying things that are demonstrably untrue, and counting on political loyalists not to notice. The only question is what kind of scam it will be.