2024 Election POST MORTEM

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I want some people to read them and think, “Fuck this, I don’t agree.”

Fuck this, I don’t agree.

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Opps sorry I meant #6. #8 is about teacher and COVID, hard to see how it’s relevant outside of that though

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Soon!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/11/12/trump-close-education-department-proposal-explained/

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Could not disagree with this take more. If democracy falls and whatever other distasterous shit happens, the blame falls directly on this man’s shoulders. Entire history books should be dedicated to how this meek and cowardly man caused it all

He never needed a special prosecutor! Trump tried to steal an election and commited numerous felonious crimes in broad fucking daylight dude

I think Covid is a big example, but Iggy would also probably argue that teachers unions have created systems that value seniority over performance and limit ability to discipline bad teachers and pay more to really good ones. Maybe also throw some stuff in about the licensing/training process for people who have domain expertise but not teaching experience and possibly some charter school stuff as well.

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These are garbage mostly.

Nine principles for political irrelevance

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Everything on the Yglesias list seems obviously sensible to me? It’s wild how extreme people have gotten that they’re vociferously arguing with him about it.

I just think it totally misses the point on what’s needed for a democratic comeback.

And I think there’s pretty clearly lots of anti-leftist coded language in there.

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Let’s be real, Trump is president and what the Democrats really want if for you to donate $5. They have been raking it in donations since Jan 6th and DGAF.

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This is the most cringe shit I have ever read by Andrea Tate

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democrats barely lose (margin smaller than biden’s win four years ago) (if casey didn’t bill nelson it the senate would’ve been exactly what people thought it would’ve been anyway), democrats need to do a lot of self reflection

trump loses four years ago with message of I WILL EAT YOU to the sheep, reflects on this by scribbling in I WILL EAT ALL OF YOU wins

kamala should’ve done insert thing trump didn’t do to win the election

Reagan also ran on this but gave up when congress wouldn’t do it, yes I know that things like “but only congress can eliminate that” probably won’t matter now but trump also at times does give up on things like this and everyone forgets it ever happened cause we’re all gnats.

like what if he just fired everybody in it, it’s the same thing and nobody is going to do anything so

If you have a “biological” definition of sex that fits neatly into an exact binary, please post it and school a shitload of scientists, including me.

Cmon man, is Yglesias arguing for an exact binary? He said it’s not a social construct.

The sex binary is most definitely a social construct. Biologically, sex is not.

Definitely killing this argument that sex is an exact binary that nobody is making.

If you think that Yggy’s point there is that trans, intersex, and nonbinary people are so because of innate and immutable biological factors and thus should be respected for who they are as such, well, OK, but that would seem to be considerably more extreme than the generic Dem position on the subject. I read him as wanting the generic Dem position to be more conformist to the binary so as to win elections, not less so.

When in doubt trans people get to play in the harder sports league. Problem solved.