You can't tell me what to do. You're not my mom.
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Don't discount the impact of reactionary anti-incumbent sentiment these days
There is absolutely an appetite for a third way/labor/social democrat party if we had a parliamentary system. I actually bet we'd see the entire country shift "left" under those conditions a lot more than people realize, as giving lefties and neolibs room to operate independently would properly marginalize a lot of Republican politics.
Good, but you should pretend like it's the greatest thing since sliced bread around any conservative associates.
Make sure you lie to all of your Republican friends about how excited you are for a real party where real Americans can meet in the middle!
These are people who are compulsively attached to their cars like a comfort blanket because they've literally spent decades never going anywhere which doesn't involve being near their car. Like, they will drive to the airport, get on an airplane, and then rent a surrogate car the moment they land.
Hear me out - what if we made like big cars that could fit dozens of people and had the government buy a bunch of them and use them to ...shuttle... people between urban infrastructure and the beach. We could call it a "scooty rooty transportation station"
Seeking stakeholder involvement is the product of publicity and outreach, not just technically something being in public. I do a lot of community organizing and local government stuff and "the meeting was public" doesn't cut it if you don't advertise it. In fact, people will rightfully get pissed off if you say that.
I'm not going to spend a bunch of time worrying about this either way, but a bunch of devs and admins talking about it on matrix isn't exactly community outreach. Rimu puts universal messages for other things, so it seems like that could have drawn some more widespread input.
And again I know this isn't the place to debate this, but a lot of users in that thread seem to want to preserve private voting. It's mostly admins and devs punting on the issue.
Seems like maybe that was premature considering a lot of people are still surprised by this. I'm on here pretty much daily and hadn't heard of it. Also it's incredibly shitty to stovepipe that conversation on matrix. It's the same shit reddit mods do with discord.
Wait for real? Damn that sucks that was by far the best killer feature.
Does Trump actually think that Vietnam pays the tariffs?
Right, Beauty, and the author's thinly veiled fetish.