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On Youtube, I get served videos with intellectual arguments of how Putin is ultimately doomed in his war against Ukraine. The video makes good points, but gives a really unbalanced PoV.

Frustratingly, people don't actually plan for the downsides, and get surprised when bad things happen.

Just as we are blind to our confirmation bias. So are well-meaning content creators blind to their audience capture.

Charlottesville should have a small high wealth income tax as well

Yes the endless planning, meetings, and trying to get everyone's input... but not actually accomplishing anything is very frustrating

What if the brand of the party isn't about a left-right axis, but about affordability + economic populism? Then Spanberger vs Mamdami are on the same "side"

(This is different from Trump 1 where the party was positioning itself more on left-leaning identity politics in contrast to Trump's racism)

Biden had no cult of personality, so its not really an apple-to-apple comparison.

Plenty of Biden supporters can say they disapprove, but would still vote for him

The story isn't a normal "both sides" shutdown its "Trump pays for East Wing instead of SNAP benefits"

(Repeat for every optional, crazy thing does over weeks of shutdown)

Well to his credit, Chuck didn't vote to reopen the gov't.