The Switch 2 pricing was identical before and after the tariffs for the US market? The only thing that changed was the accessory pricing, which you could've get if you weren't willing to buy the system in the first place.
Sorry to be a buzzkill.
I'm also not really surprised that someone with quite fuzzy realist-ish foreign policy views that are far more vibes based than he admits and succeeds only in pressuring on others' contradictions would struggle against someone resolutely confident and dedicated in a moral worldview.
The excuse almost reads as if the writer remembered the disclaimer at the beginning of Klein's last show about having all his show slots taken up by the chaos of January and not being able to do a "Gathering episode" til now and just figured the same would apply to Douthat without checking
As Harp said, the proof is in the pudding! Just look at the last 4 episodes of Interesting Times. (You have to go back to Jan 17th, just two days after the Harp recording, for a topical ICE-Palantir video.) None of it is about time relevant stuff. They just blatantly lied.
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I think it is actually much more important to document and lend limited public attention the atrocities of ICE than "activist resilience."
I guess if you can wrap together all of the Nixon admin's Vietnam/Cambodia policy and sending Kissinger to kill the 1968 negotiations, that would actually be #3.
I'm too much of a bean counter, so I'd still roughly rank the top 3 as:
1) Cutting USAID
2) Reagan's AIDS response
3) Militarily aiding Pakistan during the Bangladesh Genocide
Uzbekistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Belarus
That's a win rate of 45%?
I admire your optimism in the belief that the Democratic Party is incapable of making even worse decisions than it already does.
Have fun with that, but then Jay Jones isn't really your guy, is he? He's very much of the latter variety.
If you're advocating actual violent resistance, that's one thing.
But I suspect that you're advocating violent rhetoric without follow through, which is a 1-way ticket to the camps against the organized paramilitary thugs who actually have lots and lots of guns and are using them to kill us.
Which numbers? The 2024 Pres election in VA, or The 2025 Gubernatorial election? Why do you seem deliberately unwilling to make any comparison to the latter?
This is an obvious strawman considering what I explicitly said about progressive candidates earlier, but again, I will gladly back AOC or whatever Dems run to the left in the 2028 primaries. I just don't want them sending texts about murdering cartoon authors and children of Republican families.
Mostly because she ran in the shadow of an unpopular Democratic incumbent. But generally, there were far too many confounding variables to conclude that Jones' texts helped/didn't hurt him off that comparison.
You seem to be deliberately misinterpreting what I'm saying.
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If I have to lay it out explicitly: There are dozens of variables that differ between Harris and Jones' election. The far better control results come from the candidates running on the same day and appealing to the same electorate as Jones attempted to.
I'm not trying to say Dems shouldn't be progressive or vocL, but don't engage in vulgarly edgyness either. You know that Jay Jones was saved by national anti-Trump tailwinds and put Republicans as close as they could be to taking the AG seat in a blue wave year.
How did Jay Jones perform compared to every other Democrat on the same ballot statewide?
It's so fucked that the US doesn't have a Dutch electoral system. I would commit so much voter fraud for the Will Stancil party.
Most DSA caucuses are non-tankie? SMC especially is doing quite well.
Are you at the point where you'd support an outright Democratic constitutional coup for parliamentarianism? (Make DC into 200 states to easily pass a full overhaul)
The most direct translation of what IRV-RCV would look like in an American context is Australia, so I'd start by looking there.
Americans are simply not intelligent enough for presidentialism (and it's state/local level equivalents)
Ideal Setup: unicameral Parliament 999 seats, 111 seats are elected on closed PR lists to 3-year terms every 4 months
We need staggered districts for all legislative elections. Elect a small fraction on a recurring cycle every few months. Drive turnout below 30%.
"this is not who we are" is 90% of the time a normative statement of aspiration, it's not an empirical claim of "these events have never taken place in this country before". one of the most obnoxious genres of "actually..." is reacting like it's the latter when it's clearly the former.
ok wait no we definitely don't want a military strongman to come in and coup the government a decade after this in order to keep the American occupation of Venezuela going
