Maybe not everything, there were a few less-than-greats in his catalogue. It’s been a while, but I can’t imagine The Pebble and the Penguin or A Troll in Central Park being particularly good as an adult.

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Common misconception, the person was named after Nim Chimpsky, the famous chimpanzee from the Columbia a University ASL study.

The majority of US Americans want to stop supporting the Israeli genocide. The vast majority of US Americans want to stop the climate catastrophe.

Those aren’t really progressive positions though. Progressives hold them, but so do many, many other people. You can’t use that as evidence for a broader progressive sentiment.

And my point is that your assessment of the average American is not supported by evidence. I would certainly wish that the average American would be in support of a progressive candidate, but there are no facts to support it. We can’t direct strategy with wishful speculation. We have to suit our strategies to the actual conditions of the environment in which we live.

Yes, he’s a progressive, that’s my point. When the people were presented a neolib and a progressive, the neolib doubled the progressive’s votes. Primaries are decided by voters.

Then why did Biden beat Bernie in the primary?

He still got the most votes of any president ever. He got double the votes of Bernie in the primary.

The people want neolib bullshit. It’s stupid of them to want, but it is what they want. We gotta change their minds on a massive scale before we can expect them to change so drastically.

I think you overestimate the class consciousness of the average American voter. Biden didn’t get “pathetic votes”, he got the most votes of any president ever. Even just proportionately, all the presidents in the last century with a clear majority win have been neolib types.

People don’t want to eat the rich, people wanna eat hamburgers and play video games. You and your little online message board friends (myself included) want to eat the rich, and if you spend all your time here you might fool yourself into thinking the average American has a somewhat elevated class consciousness. They do not.

My work brings me in contact with all sorts of people across all strata of life. The average person just kinda muddles through life, they don’t really spend any particular length of time thinking about anything really, whatever their favorite diversion is perhaps (games, sports, TV, movies, etc.).

I personally talked to a surprising number of people who, after the election, thought Biden was the candidate in 2024. People genuinely just do not care. They have basically no media literacy, no knowledge of current events, no general practice of critical thinking.

We’re not gonna get a progressive president before the general class consciousness shifts significantly. What we can get is an FDR type who will at least talk to the progressives at the table, and then get progressive to the table.

Slow and steady, comrade snail.

That’s pure speculation, you’re just claiming what you wish would happen with zero evidence or justification.

Then why did Biden win?

Slow and steady wins the race

Because fighting back is how you get shot and people generally don’t want to get shot. There’s a not just a mob waiting on standby to retaliate.

Total Wine doesn’t have everything.

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.

Some people are wealthy because they provide a valuable, well-paid skill (neurosurgeons, for example). Some people are in positions of power because they sincerely want to make their communities a better place.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s probably more likely to get there through sociopathic greed. But that doesn’t mean they are all horrible people.

Are you talking about specific wealthy, powerful people?

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

Agreed, but I don’t really think of any power tool when I think of “hand tools”. That’s like hammers and screwdrivers and wrenches and stuff.

Drills, dremels, anything with a motor is a “power tool” to me. I take my ring off whenever I work with a power tool it could possibly get caught on.

Huh, I always take it off when I shower or wash more than a couple dishes. I actually don’t think I’ve been swimming or hand-washed my car since I started wearing it, but I’d probably take it off then too. If my hands are soaking wet, it can work its way off.

No idea why you’d take it off for any of the others. Maybe certain kinds of hand tools? Simple bands are usually fine even in professional kitchens. I’ll admit I got a little worried when I got an induction stove, but my ring has yet to burn me while cooking.

Who takes off a ring to carry groceries or vacuum?

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.