Zen’s fascists will control you

One hundred percent natural

You will jog for the master race

And always wear the happy face

Close your eyes, can’t happen here

Big bro on white horse is near

The hippies won’t come back, you say

Mellow out or you will pay

Mellow out or you will pay

For one thing, the Netherlands has nearly the lowest wealth inequality in the world, yet it is a democracy.

He ran as someone who would bring together Blue America and Red America in the spirit of bipartisanship.

From the beginning, he intentionally reached out to Republicans.

We worship an awesome God in the blue states, and we don’t like federal agents poking around in our libraries in the red states. We coach Little League in the blue states and, yes, we’ve got some gay friends in the red states.

His 2008 acceptance speech at the DNC mentions “Republicans” five times, and never in a disparaging manner. It does not mention labor unions even once.

Tonight, I say to the American people, to Democrats and Republicans and independents across this great land — enough! This moment — this election — is our chance to keep, in the 21st century, the American promise alive.

The Bush-McCain foreign policy has squandered the legacy that generations of Americans — Democrats and Republicans — have built, and we are here to restore that legacy.

I love this country, and so do you, and so does John McCain. The men and women who serve in our battlefields may be Democrats and Republicans and independents, but they have fought together and bled together and some died together under the same proud flag. They have not served a red America or a blue America – they have served the United States of America.

The challenges we face require tough choices, and Democrats as well as Republicans will need to cast off the worn-out ideas and politics of the past.

And I’ve seen it in this campaign. In the young people who voted for the first time, and in those who got involved again after a very long time. In the Republicans who never thought they’d pick up a Democratic ballot, but did.

Clinton and Obama are still alive today, they are still centrist, and they are still extremely popular.

If Trump got his way and was allowed to run for a third term in 2028, is there any doubt that Obama could defeat him?

There is no duality in which savvy, intelligent political players arrive at “Centrism wins,”

Obama and Clinton were centrists. They won.

they’ll vote Republican again.

That’s not how midterms usually work. More people will vote for Democrats in 2026 than 2024. The key is maximize just how many more.

I read it. A list of failures.

Even Bears fans are more resilient than leftists. But that’s fine, you can just pack it in and show yourselves out. I don’t think anyone will notice.

Pundits are losing their minds, but I don’t think the Democratic party leaders are giving up.

My hunch is that they are playing the long game. They are counting on three things. First, Trump’s plans will crash the economy. Second, the Trump White House always turns on its own. Third, with a GOP trifecta there isn’t much Democrats can do to stop Trump - for now.

So any demands they make now will be ignored, and even used in the future to blame Democrats as obstructionist. I think they are lying low and giving the GOP what they need to hang themselves. When the public is furious about the economy, it will be time to start making demands.

Basically, it’s the political equivalent of the Willy Wonka gif

Finally, a Jacobin article I agree with.

Then we agree it’s not multiple decades.

And 10 years is nothing. The anti-abortion movement set Dobbs into motion in the 1990s, when they put Thomas on the SCOTUS. Their work only paid off 30 years later. Your “movement” doesn’t have the kind of patience necessary for success.

It really was mostly performance. If you ask someone today, “What did OWS want?” they will likely be unable to tell you.

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A movement that calls it quits after losing an election is not a serious movement. It’s more like a performance.

Maybe that’s why nobody was listening to you.

A few observations:

• This won’t be the first time those media outlets have been sued for libel. It’s a common enough occurrence that they keep lawyers around ready to litigate. So this isn’t as chilling as Trump might hope.
• Litigation means discovery. If Trump wants to win, he’ll have to turn over his private records to NYT lawyers. If he refuses then his case will be thrown out.
• Once Trump takes office, it will be harder to pull this kind of crap. Only private individuals can sue for defamation, the government cannot.

And how did you determine what the purpose of fruit is? It certainly can’t communicate its preferences or desires.

All you can observe is that the species as a whole thrives when fruit is consumed. But the same is true of farm animals. You are simply projecting the motivations you want to see, like self-sacrifice, onto one but not the other. After all, many fruits are poisonous. That suggests that fruits don’t want to be eaten, but animals evolved mechanisms to safely eat some fruit.

Finally, factory farms certainly cause animals to suffer but from an evolutionary perspective thriving is not about avoiding suffering. It’s about producing offspring, and in that sense farm animals thrive. And given that the OP is about the potential suffering of plants, I don’t see why fruit farms are any less horrific than animal farms.

Yes, it’s possible but undesirable for both pigs and fruits to survive without assistance from humans. In both cases, that assistance is offered because humans eat the creatures they assist.

You still haven’t explained why this relationship is good for fruits but bad for pigs.

Simmons argued that this move would keep Harris from having to oversee “her own defeat” when the presidential election is certified in the Senate

If Gore can do it, so can Harris

By that reasoning, fruit is not in a biologically obligatory symbiosis with the animals that eat it. There are many cases of fruit falling to the ground uneaten and forming a new plant near its parent. Those plants eke out an existence just as feral pigs do.

Why does the length of time matter? Domesticated varieties of cows and pigs would go extinct if humans stopped raising them for meat. The only niche where they can survive is a farm. They are in symbiosis now even if they weren’t 10,000 years ago.

So cows and pigs - like many fruiting plants - co-evolved with the creatures that fed on them. In both cases, those creatures became necessary for their long-term survival.