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indri🐉🐝🍷🚲 @indri4biking.bsky.social · 13m

Aside from leading to one-fits-all policies that might harm more people than necessary I'd say it's also a rather condescending and paternalistic to claim to know what people need and want based on how some politician or academic has sorted them into boxes.

indri🐉🐝🍷🚲 @indri4biking.bsky.social · 14m

You can target specific policies at groups of people with similar needs on issue A without sorting them into large categories where some of them might be on opposite sides of issues B, C and D.

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indri🐉🐝🍷🚲 @indri4biking.bsky.social · 14m

Is it really, in a society that's so complex?
In order to have a limited amount of "classes" you have to argue that most/all issues people face are directly connected and that all the differences aren't as relevant.

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indri🐉🐝🍷🚲 @indri4biking.bsky.social · 39m

It would be worse than doing nothing. How are you going to enforce a ban on corporate donations if nobody cares about laws and the Constitution anymore?
Anyone, including big corporations and foreign nations, are just going to spend whatever they want. Just like Trump getting bribed openly.

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indri🐉🐝🍷🚲 @indri4biking.bsky.social · 7h

For me it looks like a desperate attempt to keep alive concepts and language from a different era that are outdated by at least 50 years instead of finding ways to better describe society in the 21st century.

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indri🐉🐝🍷🚲 @indri4biking.bsky.social · 7h

I'm still not understanding how that concept of "class" makes much sense when people move from one "class" to an other all the time. You don't fight a "class war" against you parents b/c the built some wealth while you struggle to find a job. Or b/c you prefer working as plumber instead of lawyer.

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indri🐉🐝🍷🚲 @indri4biking.bsky.social · 8h

Has anyone ever presented a coherent definition of what "class" means in the 21st century?
In the 19th/early 20th you were born into a class and died in that class that didn't just define your financial situation and the work you could do but even more education, language and culture.

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indri🐉🐝🍷🚲 @indri4biking.bsky.social · 12h

No? I'm sure this will be easy to explain to the 20%+ former Trump voters you'd need to have the power to do even a small part of this.

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indri🐉🐝🍷🚲 @indri4biking.bsky.social · 12h

Great. How?
50% of voters chose Trump. Do you think running on retroactive criminalizing being MAGA is a way for Democrats to win the super-majority they'd need to do what you describe?

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indri🐉🐝🍷🚲 @indri4biking.bsky.social · 15h

Didn't you want to say "Elders of Zion". How about not making everything about your obsession with Jews?

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indri🐉🐝🍷🚲 @indri4biking.bsky.social · 16h

open.spotify.com/episode/1tVE...

America’s Next Story: Pete Buttigieg

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Just Say Jan! @justsayjan.bsky.social · 17h

“Sooner or later, one day Donald Trump will not be active in American politics. And the sooner we spend our energy thinking about what to do next, I actually think the sooner that day will come."

Opinion | Pete Buttigieg on Rebuilding America After Trump

www.nytimes.com

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indri🐉🐝🍷🚲 @indri4biking.bsky.social · 1d

Is there any evidence that voters care about whether candidates check the correct boxes based on some abstract theory about their preferences?
Vs vibes, personality, communication skills and charisma?

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indri🐉🐝🍷🚲 @indri4biking.bsky.social · 2d

The time to take a firm stand and convince people of it is *after* you did everything possible to design a policy in a way to get the most benefit with the least harm.
This usually won't please everyone and it will always be some compromise. Because reality is complex.

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indri🐉🐝🍷🚲 @indri4biking.bsky.social · 2d

And if you aren't right b/c with your limited experience you did overlook some important facts?
I didn't say that leaders should adjust their policies to pander to as many voters as possible. But just declaring you know best and ignoring negative aspects and unintended side effects isn't the way.

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indri🐉🐝🍷🚲 @indri4biking.bsky.social · 2d

"Hedging" how? In order to have any chance to make systemic changes you have to build a broad coalition and find common ground on fundamental values and at least parts of your agenda with well over 50% of the population.
You can't do that by focusing on niche issues.

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indri🐉🐝🍷🚲 @indri4biking.bsky.social · 2d

Not under normal circumstances. But if one candidate is eager to piss them off deliberately that might change the calculation.

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indri🐉🐝🍷🚲 @indri4biking.bsky.social · 2d

Did you actually watch the clip?

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indri🐉🐝🍷🚲 @indri4biking.bsky.social · 2d

You'd need more than 80% of the Democrats if all the Republican vote for the other candidate. Highly unlikely that so many change their minds.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4d

"We have to engage in this moment with the ruthless survival skills of an LGBTQ kid in Florida or in North Dakota who does not have the luxury of prioritizing purity and perfection over goodwill and good intentions."

@mcbride.house.gov joins @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social:

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indri🐉🐝🍷🚲 @indri4biking.bsky.social · 3d

Sure. But in order to decide whether the definition is met you need independent investigations, all the evidence, and some form of trial or conclusion. Impossible to do as private citizen with the amount of misinformation swirling around and the obvious and explicit bias of most sources.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 3d

If you look closely, you can see signs of GOP lawmakers fearing the long-term political consequences of paying more attention to Trump's demands than to the voices of their own constituents - or consciences.

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indri🐉🐝🍷🚲 @indri4biking.bsky.social · 4d

The amount of work that went into researching the identity, bio, and affiliations of individuals on his donor list must have been staggering.

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indri🐉🐝🍷🚲 @indri4biking.bsky.social · 4d

Yep. Real story.
Also doxxing a man in Nigeria who dared to support Pete in Social Media. From one of the most anti-gay countries.

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indri🐉🐝🍷🚲 @indri4biking.bsky.social · 4d

I think it was elementary school.

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