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2024 US Presidential Election

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Cutting and pasting a Reddit post which I really liked. Kinda told it to me in a way I knew but hadn't exactly ciphered out precisely.

“Hippies” weren’t really liberal. Closer to, “tune in, turn on, drop out.” Aside from opposition to the war in Viet Nam and the war on drugs, the prevailing ethos wasn’t “fix the system,” it was “ignore the system and render it irrelevant.” We thought that was going to work.

No competitive political party represented anything close to the “hippie” ethos then, and none does now.

I think anyone who has retained that sensibility now is caught between two ugly positions. One is to look at politics as “harm reduction” — neither party is good, but one is clearly more malevolent and poised to hurt more people than the other. The other position is that the faster we burn it down, the sooner we can build something that doesn’t suck. However, I think most of us realize as we get older that “burn it down and build something on the ashes” isn’t a strategy, it’s a fantasy that will just get people killed. There are still folks who like the fantasy better than reality, though."
 
Electrum1 said:
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All the "receipts" are is proof that Harris voted for the American Rescue Plan which the girl is not disputing. They are arguing over whether the American Rescue Plan caused the (worldwide) inflation. The American Rescue Plan was the third round of stimulus checks and infrastructure.

Never ceases to amaze me how the first two rounds of checks, the second of which Trump actually required his signature on, were fine but Biden's caused worldwide inflation. Totally ignoring the supply chain problems we all saw and the labor shortage caused by massive Covid deaths and retirements, and record corporate profits.
 
Electrum1 said:
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So... some people (I've never heard of) from a podcast? (I've never heard of) are arguing about two presidential candidates and their culpability in worldwide economic fluctuations which *may/could* be correlated with inflation?

Are any of them economists?
 
i think "absolutely crushed" is a little hyperbolic. did you watch the debate?

it was a refreshingly civil affair and it's hard for me to say who 'won'. i think jd vance was better prepared. but he also his positions seemed more malleable.

as with most vp debates, i doubt this will make much difference.

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Aaron Rupar will just edit a clip short in a way which reverses context to make Vance look like Hitler or something.
 
Most ladies I know like it when I'm rockin' a beard.

I had Covid a couple months ago and let the facial hair grow. Got it trimmed up and shaped when I got a haircut.
I went in looking like a hillbilly and came out looking like a PBS liberal. Seemed fitting since those are two main aspects of my personality.
I'm going with stubble that I weed whack once a week now. Read a study once which said that's what ladies preferred anyway. I guess it's like how we love the messed up in the morning hair look.
 
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