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Cake day: December 28th, 2023

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  • I’ve been flip flopping on this over the last 48 hours.

    I can’t dispute that Joe doesn’t seem fit for another presidency.

    That said, it sounds like it’s really up to Biden and the First Lady to decide to withdraw before anything will happen.

    In the mean time, this discussion isn’t helping progressive voters. Trump will preside over an irreversible lurch to the right. Progressives need to unite behind a candidate - anyone the faintest pulse will do.


  • you can either a) reward them for moving left or b) punish them for moving right

    You’re talking about the political will of a nation as you would training a puppy. It’s incredibly reductive and simply not how the overton window works.

    If the republicans win the next several elections the democrats will move further to the right to try to steal votes off them. The republicans will have to move further to the right to differentiate themselves from the democrats.

    Not surprisingly, the more republicans win elections the further right everything moves.

    Your position is exactly where the conservatives would have you. They can’t win your vote so their best outcome is to convince you not to vote.






  • Great points.

    I think the option of nuclear needs to be on the table, and in some (or many) circumstances it might be the best fit.

    Presently in Australia one of our two major parties is campaigning on a “pivot to nuclear” platform, but we’re kind the polar opposite to the netherlands (both figuratively and literally?). The vast majority of Australia is sunny desert, girt by sea, with a tiny population in on the coast. My state is something like 2,000km by 1,250km, with about 2 million people. Nuclear just doesn’t seem like a good fit right now.

    My concern is that with this pivot to nuclear we basically just keep burning coal for the next 20 years while we’re building nuclear plants.

    It might be a great idea to build several reactors, while we furiously build out wind and solar.

    There are some gargantuan solar hydrogen cracking projects not far from here in the planning phase which just sound amazing to me.