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I think they’re just toys in God’s creep collection

Why would some people be sent to heaven, though?

In the future, cars will be so big that we will need a second, smaller car to drive us to the driver’s seat.

Different base population, different set of candidates, different election. Apples and oranges. In comparison, French elections have a sort of “primary” (the actual election) with a follow-up between the two strongest candidates across parties about who becomes the president. The odds there sometimes look quite different from the first round. I mentioned Sanders here because I remembered something fishy was going on during the primaries in 2016 which took Sanders off the board, despite a decent support. But Wikipedia suggests that might have been a Russian spin against Clinton? Hard to tell.

Anyway, my broader point is that you can’t run triangulation politics against fascists. This doesn’t work and political scientists have been pretty clear about that for a long time. Hence both Clinton and Biden were pretty short-sighted and weak strategic choices. The democratic party didn’t stand for anything in the past decade, apart from “not the orange guy”. There needs to be a visionary, authentic alternative people can identify with. I’m not sure such a thing can meaningfully develop top-down from inside the political establishment. I have no solution.

As an outside observer, I think a certain Mr. Sanders could have provided a decent alternative candidate but the democrats decided against him (in a not very democratic way IIRC). Instead, they opted for the flawed political triangulation tactic and took a right politics drift, to their own peril.

What does lil’ Swasteelon have to do with it, though?

I suggest a grapefruit

Why is it that whenever I click on a post to comment something someone else already had the same thought and posted it and got 5 likes for it?

No, I remember the time when people went all “he’s like the next Steve Jobs!” and meant that in a good way

2nd place, bonus points because dad probably used to play those when he still had time for such things.

Winner here

tbf though, which other Microsoft project could he have said that would not have gotten himself kicked out?