Popular vote reflects how people who actually vote think. Candidates aren’t appearing out of thin air, they’re nominated as the result of political campaigns.
You can’t shift the blame for candidates to ambiguous “them” if you didn’t get your ass to try to affect it in any way. The delegates represent pretty nicely the opinion of people who actually vote in Primaries, with almost perfect track record. They don’t represent your opinion because you don’t vote therefore don’t have an opinion. So you don’t get to complain about what party that you’re not in is doing. Want it to change? Use the ways to change it. Those ways aren’t hidden from you, aren’t secret, aren’t gatekeeped by a shadow cabal, you just need to do politics about it. People who get their candidates elected do that.

In the history of Democratic party, there was exactly one time where the candidate that the DNC chose, actually lost a popular vote. Exactly one.
It was in 2008, when a young, generational candidate actually lost the popular vote by 1% to the (kinda boring) establishment choice, but was chosen anyway.
It’s nice to have this simplistic worldview, when “they” control everything anyway so you don’t have to do anything and just complain when “they” don’t do what you want. It’s harder to confront the reality when “they” actually consist of all the people around you, and the only reason you don’t get what you want is because you don’t do shit.

6.5 billion vs 147 million. While both are bad, one is undeniably worse. 44 times worse to be precise. An analogy for the whole last presidential race

For not supporting a war criminal you surprisingly did more than nothing to get the worst of them in power. It’s almost like you care about identity politics more than actual real life outcomes for people you supposedly care about

I don’t even think Reddit has control over what ads they show. They’re not ad agency, they just rent the space to one. You can chose what categories of ads to not show on your website, and then the ad agency just ignores your choice anyway.

Right now they can’t do anything as I see it, and if the country will remain roughly the same and there is no major civil war happen in a year or two, the only thing they can do is make sure they have more power after midterms.

Sanders did a lot in his career. However, we’re talking about what he does now, not decades ago

You can do organising, my mom can speak without hesitation. None of us can do legislative work. Senator can, that’s kind of his only power. He should be doing that.
Unfortunately when he does that, it’s about names of the buildings. Nice that he found a calling in civil architecture though, good for him, nice retirement hobby.

We can. Senators, however, have very limited time and political power, they can’t spend it on frivolous bullshit. Even if you’re right about triggering him, and it looks very possible, it’s not exactly what’s important.
So either they lost their god damn mind over there, or that’s the extent of their power and they know it. Anyway, that’s pathetic.

I work in embedded my whole life so I’m no stranger of fighting over scraps of resources and spending days trying to squeeze in something that doesn’t fit. It made me better at fighting this specific hardware limitations, and now instead of spending 10 times more time on making something that takes no time at all on a capable hardware, I spend only 5 times more.
I don’t know if for creative work it does something, but for programming it’s like chopping wood with one hand behind your back. Sure you can do it, sure you can get better at it, sure it forces you to adjust your ways, but it doesn’t make the wood better chopped, it just makes you slower and more prone to mistakes for no reason

I don’t know if this is the best applicatioon of their genius tbh. If you’re not spending time fighting with tools, you spend it making stuff you want to make.

When your country is corrupt enough so you can just put a fake charge on a person and make it stick, you’re done already, rules don’t matter. This rule only relevant in cases when judiciary system actually works and works independently of current leader.
This rule will help those who follow the rules, and don’t stop those who don’t, so overall it’s a good rule.

We very nicely ask notorious liars not to lie this time. Surely, that will help

Somehow, Snoke is just fine

Somehow, Snoke returned…

“Oh yeah? If you think America will not vote for a young smart left leaning woman with credentials, then why did America elected an old stupid right wing white criminal man twice?”.
Buddy, do you, like, have problems with all this “if a then b” stuff? Logic and all?

The fuck?

She is a representative from one of the NY district. That’s quite a unique situation, most of America isn’t like that. AOC is an amazing, smart, young woman politician, with great ideas. This combained with her nationality, means more than half of the country hates her with passion.

Bernie
Bernie situation is exactly like that. He is too old, and people who would be voting for him if he was younger, wouldn’t. However people who voted for trump would vote for a wet pile of rags if they affirmed their prejudices. That’s a fundamental struggle of the american broadly speaking “left”, you need to be a platonic ideal of a best person ever to even be eligible, and you will still lose to a platonic ideal of evil seven times out of ten.

Thiel was moved out of Germany when he was like 4. Either we admit that nurture is more important than the country of birth, or Hitler doesn’t count as German

They were on track to do so, but then Americans elected Trump and now he got all his shit back

This is part of the papers you want to see released.