I assume this won’t swing many people’s votes, but it is a nice insight into what’s going on behind the scenes with Vance as he publicly claims to be this big anti-elitist populist

The hope is that he steps down as the nominee for the good of the country and thus improves our chances of beating Trump.

This was just a better article than the CNN one, and there are no direct links to the interviews Campos did with the medical professionals here.

Yeah they’re pretty reliable - it’s the group blog of a bunch of professors. And of course the piece is filled with input from medical experts, and links to a CNN report on the same topic if that’s more your speed.

As in you’re implying Kamala is Hillary’s protege? She is not, what gives you that idea?

You’ve got the wrong site, the “Intelligencer” here is a section of New York Magazine, not the Belleville Intelligencer that you linked to. Not sure how much credence I give to this media bias fact check site, but here is their page for New York Magazine (showing them to be on the left with a high level of factual reporting): https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/new-york-magazine/

Well not always - this story is about how for years and years there was a deadlock between the two parties at the FEC that has now been broken by a Democratic board member shocking everyone and siding with the Republicans.

Trump may try to lie and cheat his way to the presidency in the face of an electoral loss, but he’d have even less luck with that in 2024 as a challenger than he did in 2020 as the incumbent president.

What do you mean the results of the election won’t matter? They’ll determine whether a deranged and vengeance minded Trump becomes president…

The problem is they’ve mostly now been negatively polarized against non-polluting energy.

Yeah it was a pretty dumb business move by Elon to become such a loud right-wing shithead when his core demographic of customers are people who are concerned about climate change.

Funny how this comment agreeing with the thesis of the piece is upvoted while the article itself is downvoted. I guess because this emphasizes the need to vote for Biden part while the article spends more time on his failings?

I obviously disagree with him there, but in a sense that just makes him having the integrity to acknowledge that anti-Zionism does not equal antisemitism more impressive.

Being over-confident in either your pessimism or your optimism is a recipe for inaction or wrong action, what’s important is to try to look at the world realistically.

Eh, I’d say that a problem for someone like Trump or the GOP who spend all their time trying to tear America down is a win for America.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

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I like democracy because it tends to produce more of the results that I like than authoritarianism. A dictatorship that sustainably produces better results than democracy would by definition be better, but from what I can tell that’s not possible.

Your question avoids the biggest issue with that sort of dictatorship - the fact that it replaces peaceful electoral competition for power with force, that can as easily result in chaos and civil war as a stable dictatorship.

With that off the table, the big issue is that kind of benevolent dictatorship has a tendency to start off strong and then decay as the original ruling clique who actually had some ideals die off and are replaced by their subordinates who got into working in an autocratic government for the power. Too bad Bernie is so old, we wouldn’t get that many years of him on top. Not worth it in the long run even if you do get some policy benefits in the short run. Unless you think the odds of Trump becoming a dictator instead are high enough that it’s better to take a chance on a better dictator, which is the kind of calculation that results in the civil wars and such I mentioned above.