I think it hurts AOC more than it hurts Kat, and I can't put my finger on why. Both are attractive and intelligent small women with a "young" look, but I think AOC has to fight a little harder to come off as a "serious adult". Maybe it's ethnicity, but I don't think that quite accounts for it. Might be just me.
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Just an aside, the luddites were right. The benefits of automation have been hoarded by the owner class and used to make workers do even more for less compensation.
Probably a waste of time until you review how the law was written. Odds are it just doesn't apply. It's a job for lawmakers at this point, not a judge.
Now, if it hits a kid before the law gets written, a judge would preside over a civil case. There might even be a civil case against the legislature, depending on how that works in the jurisdiction.
Everyone is just pretending to some extent or another. An absolutely sober truth teller would be entirely unpalatable to most voters. There's always going to be some amount of smoothing over of the facts. It's just a matter of deciding what's acceptable. In this case, I'll take anyone who doesn't pretend that ICE or the CBP can be somehow reformed. There also have to be criminal prosecutions.
Any model year 2024+ Tesla needs to be open game for vandalism. The damn things should be uninsurable.
Who do you think they recruited into ICE?
I love me some DNC establishment bashing, but where is all this free food supposed to come from? As far as I'm aware they still haven't paid off the debts from the Harris campaign.
I hate that there is still this tiny little voice inside me that says I can show this article to a Trump believer and have it make some kind of difference in how they see Trump.
It's not a binary issue. Elections have been getting more and more compromised for decades. 2026 will be even more compromised. They will not be entirely compromised, and we have to keep working from the assumption that they won't be unwinnable, even while preparing for the possibility that we might not win them.
Honestly, I fear that Democrats are more responsible for hurting their chances than Republicans. Even as bad as things have gotten, the Democratic establishment has continued to dig in and refuse to give any ground whatsoever to progressives. It's becoming a real mask-off moment for a lot of rank and file liberals.
To put it differently, if they are the proximate cause of the Trump presidency, then you are the ultimate cause. I throw up my hands at trying to decide which matters more.
That's the part where I'm sympathetic to your argument. I think anyone not voting for Harris made a mistake. I also think the arguments people like you made for people to vote for Harris were really really bad and that you are enabling the Democrats to continue down a terrible path of failure.
Luddites wouldn't disagree. They specifically rebelled against how technology was being used against workers by capital.