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It lets her constituents and supporters know that she understands and shares their position. That’s the whole purpose of having a representative in the first place. They are supposed to say things on your behalf, and not only when it benefits them personally. In fact, I would argue that you can’t be a good representative if you aren’t willing to do that when it doesn’t personally benefit you.

I’m normally against the use of AI to create random slop but I feel like someone should ask it to put Jensen and his lady friends in the Coldplay concert cheaters video. It’s just too perfect not to.

I’m still not going to do it myself though.

That’s not a tightrope. Those are just different ways for her to personally respond to the same problem. She could say Chuck and Hakeem suck publicly and all of those options are still on the table.

Part of this thread was people talking about students using their phones in the back and TAs not caring enough to intervene. It seemed to me that your response was related to that but perhaps it was not.

Are you implying that mobile networks do not function on university campuses?

By what metric are you judging his ability to get votes? Seems to me Democrats have struggled to get any kind of legislation through the Senate for years which I think indicates that he’s not very good at getting votes.

That seems excessive to me but do what you like. I don’t have the patience for that

That’s really interesting. Is there a name for it that you know of?

Can you change the genre by varying the flow rate?

I refuse to believe that anyone brushes their teeth for 5 straight minutes. No way you’re more than doubling the recommendation just for fun

Convince the people, and then the representatives will follow.

Congress doesn’t give a shit what constituents think. Multiple studies show popular opinion has almost zero impact on legislative action.

Do both

You’re the right for the most part. However, you can say what you like on the internet. I say we should kill all billionaires and execute Trump on a regular basis and nothing happens. Don’t make them out to be stronger than they are.

I’ll count it. Dweebs can build some sick guillotines.

I have called for it but fortunately for him I’m not an elected official.

Progressives are winning most of these races. Old guard Democrats are watching from the sidelines.

Republican voters need to seriously and intimately understand the negative consequences of unrestrained conservative policies before any real change is possible. You could argue that we aren’t there yet but it’s certain that a lot more get it now than did before Trump. We wouldn’t have had that to nearly the same degree without two Trump presidencies.

In fact, the scariest part of this whole situation is that the narcissism of Donald Trump is the only thing separating us from living in a permanent fascist hellscape. If someone even a little bit more tactful had been in charge we’d be absolutely fucked. I don’t think Bernie could have prevented that without the support he’s gained from all of Trump’s completely unhinged bullshit.

Seriously, $500 million to a trillionaire is roughly the same as $100 to someone with $100k. This is not doing shit to his hoard of gold. That dragon still needs to be slain.

It’s a shit load of money but the dude was a trillionaire a few weeks ago. $500 million for him is not even equivalent to a night at the bar for an average person. That’s how bad income inequality has gotten.