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I did actually find several breweries who make hazy IPAs called “Fog of War”: Armor, Artillery, Bad Weather, and Easy Company. Easy Company is in Massachusetts and Artillery is in Pennsylvania, so I wouldn’t be surprised if at least one is available in stores near him.

From my understanding, Spanish translations broadly sane-washed his speeches.

Maybe. Maybe not. You’d be surprised how much inertia the general population has.

Like I don’t deny that there is some shifting of sentiment, but we’ve had sentiment shifts before. I think you may be overestimating the extent of that shift. People are mostly oblivious.

If this is for personal interest, go into it with relatively concrete questions, and then try to answer them.

Mamdani won in quite possibly the most left wing office in the nation. Good for him, good for them, and I hope it spreads.

Maybe it does by 2027ish, that would be really cool. That would be a radically different political landscape and my strategic opinion would change.

But in general I find that it’s usually most accurate to assume things will roughly remain the same. So while I’m optimistic that the landscape might change, I would still prefer to focus my strategy on assuming that it doesn’t.

If the tides start turning with some volume, it’s easy to pivot. But I’d rather be overprepared than naïve.

Uh, basically the entire right and a good chunk of the center

I’m not saying their criticisms are justified, it’s all a bunch of vapid shit and straight up lies. She’s too young, she’s too sassy, she was a bartender, she’s a communist, whatever. None of it matters, even when what they’re saying isn’t just made up. But it’s out there, a lot. I’m actually kind of jealous of you for not being exposed to enough right wing sentiment to have experienced it.

Look, I love the theory kiddies for the scholarship and devotion. But you have to spend at least a little time considering sociology and rhetoric, learning how the average person actually responds to stimuli.

The bourgeoisie owns the media. The majority of the proletariat mostly consume corporate media. If I could make a genie wish that everyone woke up tomorrow with perfect rational faculties, to educate themselves and act in their own best interests, we could have a bloodless revolution by next week.

But I don’t have a magic lamp, and the average voter is going to wake up tomorrow the way they woke up today: highly susceptible to propaganda.

So as baseless as the criticisms are, they are ubiquitous. Search any right wing, or “centrist”, media source for “AOC” and you’ll find hundreds of insults and mischaracterizations. I really would not be surprised at all if she is the most criticized political figure (excepting presidents) of this generation.

That’s why I think a VP position for a relatively bland, but roughly progressive, old white candidate would be a great opportunity to offset all that vitriol.

Last I read I think that provision was struck before the vote since Texas had already moved ahead? I’m not sure though. It would be very funny if due to the timing, California can redistrict anyway.

Yeah, I know. I’m just humorously implying it was the horse because that’s worse.

Obama also hadn’t been nationally mocked, caricaturized, and vilified from the beginning of his political career. I’m far from a political historian, but I can’t think of any domestic political figure who has been so frequently and intensely criticized as AOC.

I could maybe see it with a decisive blue wave in 2026, but then only if it fuels like another one in 2028. That said, a lot of things can happen between now and then, morning is impossible.

That’s what you want. And if Lemmy elected the president, I seriously believe the country would be a better place. But it doesn’t, so what you or I want doesn’t really matter that much. What matters is what the stodgy moderate majority wants, and a large portion of them are subtly guided by subconscious bias.

He did not, it was confirmed!

Now the horse on the other hand…

Right, what I’m saying is where do you draw the line at where “in the sun” ends?

What? You didn’t verify anything, you just said you remember being told once. It’s not an obvious fact because it isn’t true, you made it up. It’s not foolish to believe a word means what it means, you can just look up the definition. Are you high or something?

Whoever told you that was incorrect. Literally means the plain textbook definition of the words written, as opposed to euphemism or metaphor. If I say “I would literally die on this hill”, it means that there is an actual large mound of dirt that I am willing to lose my life on.

Any other interpretation is literally incorrect.

I’m thinking about it, and I think they might be right. Sunbeams are a part of the sun, albeit mingled with atmosphere. If they were in direct line of the sun, i could consider them technically, literally, correct.

It all depends on whether you consider an object bathed in the radiance of something to be “in” that thing, but I’m kinda inclined to consider that.

As long as they stay to the right I don’t care that much

I’m fine with language evolving over time, but I reject “literally” being used to mean “figuratively”. Distinguishing figurative from literal is, literally, the word’s one job. Take that away, and the word literally doesn’t mean anything but a generic intensifier. There literally isn’t another word that fulfills that disambiguating purpose, this semantic drift only decreases clarity.

It sure would be embarrassing if someone was told this was exactly what was going to happen a year ago, and that person went on to relentlessly demonize the one action that would not let it happen, and smear anyone who tried to not let it happen.

That person would be a pretty big hypocrite if they went on to complain about the thing all their hard work helped to happen.

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