It’s scary for the Democrats, though, as they don’t have really good role models for what it means to be left wing populist
I mean didn't we? I mean FDR was basically that IMO. In fact I gotta admit he had some of the flaws of left wing populism... hence the internment camps etc... But on the whole his new deal politics drove the country so far, and doing them was so successful they had to invent term limits.
You know what to top it off... we'll build a wall on their citizenship paperwork. and we'll build a fabulous ballroom in their houses!
Sorry my buds and I made a bet to take trumps already terrible ideas, and use them in contexts that don't even give an air of making sense.
Worse, if you are a trump supporter, with a large platform, or a lot of money. Trump sure as hell ain't pulling strings for the people that attend his rallys. Hell didn't biden call the family of the firefighter that took the bullet meant for trump, before trump did, and didn't trump basically spend 10 seconds talking about the guy and made a really tasteless joke during his comment on him.
Right but not relevant here... RBG not stepping down under obama is indeed a miscalculation. Honestly I think she may have been intending to do it right after garland got his hearing... before learning that wasn't on the table.
But anyway, ignoring that... with regards to a senator I don't get the concept. While not perfect I'd still have to call warren in the top 5 senators (yeah I know, stupidly low bar because most the senators suck, but there's a lot more reason to fear her successor being worse than expecting her to be better. and unless the main fear is elections will not happen again, but sitting senators will keep their positions until they die. There's no reason to think there's a difference in her retiring now, or in 10 years from now.
I suppose the question is, did she shed a tear while chopping it up?
lol yeah one of those things that is attempted to be fanfic to make him seem stronger... but in the end it does the exact opposite. If most the people on your side rebel, you either made or recruited very evil people that thought you looked weak. Or you were doing things that they found horendous enough they'd rather make a futile attempt and accept the cost of failure then take part in whatever you are doing.
Except generally speaking... those far right small government types are actually very concerned with increasing the number of people of their own race... hence why abortion, birth control etc... are what they fight against.
They just dont' care about feeding or keeping those people comfortable, they want them toiling away for scraps.
Honestly to me the whole concept of Lucifer as written in the bible to me, makes me question the whole thing.
like 5 year old me was like "OK wait so how is this guy so stupid that he thinks that he went to battle against god, is he really stupid, everyone knows god is 100% perfectly all powerful", then you think further and realize literally lucifer was supposedly like the closest angel to god, if anyone has a solid view on gods power, it's him. Which honestly points to the idea that god... isn't immortal, isn't all powerful etc... he just uses that lie as a crux to prevent people from threatening him.
Honestly the story of the tower of babel cements that even more. Now first of all if you've heard this story from christians... get rid of the pre-conception because usually preachers etc remove a lot of what is actually in the text, and add things that aren't there. The story is not about stupid men trying to build a stairway to heaven.
The story as written, in short, man was amazingly unified, world peace was achieved. They were building the tower as an enormous landmark so basically people could see their city from wherever they were, as well as just a testament to what they could accomplish when they worked together.
God looks down at it and says "wow, look at these humans, when they work together, they can accomplish anything they set their mind to. They keep this up and they would be as powerful as gods. To which, god saw that as a credible threat, and so he smashed the tower, spread them all out, and made them speak different languages. Ensuring that they would be too busy fighting eachother rather then becoming a potential threat to him later.
In short, the old testiment is kind of littered with actions that only make sense, if you conclude god, actually has weaknesses and can be beaten.
That's indeed such a big issue... fact is the trash problems of our cheap wrappers etc... were so huge... what prevented regulation. The endless spree of ads saying "You terrible people, stop throwing your trash on the ground".
Maybe his big brother hiding just behind... Big corporations.
Also former fundie... and yeah there was a popular teenage book series when I was growing up. I think it was called "the forbidden doors". And yeah basically a long series that basically fell into the same pattern over and over, and yeah in short, basically it's "no that house isn't haunted, it's a demon, we need to get right with god and cast it out"... "No that isn't an alien it's a demon, we need to get right with god and cast it out". etc...
Just imagining future ads once data collection gets to more insane points. Just imagining AI scanning your facebook page, then pushing clothing ads with pictures of you in the outfits, or the new TV with pictures of it in your house etc...
Honestly maybe we should get ahead of it... like intentionally make our facebook accounts showing some cave man living in a cave, and in 2 years when the advertisers start going stupid crazy... watch ads show up on it depicting a flat screen TV in a cave.