Blech. As someone who understands depression innately I find ChrisV’s post troubling and not worthy of a Best Of shout out. Don’t have time to respond fully atm, but implying that depression is futile rubs me the wrong way.
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her brain?
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I’ve been laying off telling people to “vote blue no matter who” lately, as well. When I was in NV canvassing, and back home here in CA, too, I discovered a rather depressing side effect of it. While I appreciate the sentiment, in reality it is causing people to just flat out not vote in the primaries/caucuses. Not because they are uninformed or apathetic, but because having this drilled into their heads has caused them to not care who wins.
They told me, I don’t care, I don’t have time to do research on them, I will vote for whoever it is against Trump. So rather than spend time out of their day in March, they just hunker down until November.
Hopefully actual turnout numbers belie this anecdotal evidence.
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Matt Christman of Chapo Trap House last episode said that if it’s Bloomberg v Trump, not only is he not voting Bloomberg, he’s going to vote Trump. Reasoning was that a) if Bloomberg succeeds in buying the Presidency, that’s the end of democracy, it’ll just be plutocrats from there on out and b) he’s just a more effective authoritarian Republican. I don’t know if I buy that - it might be underestimating the potential damage of a second Trump term - but I’ll tell you this: I’m not thrilled about the idea of finding out what a Bloomberg foreign policy looks like. Though he’d have probably left the Iran deal intact, I guess.
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With Bloomberg’s connections to the republican party and his prior associations with Rudy, what are the chances he too is compromised by Russia and is their way to hedge their bets and meddle in the Dem primary?
0%. I really wish people would stop seeing Russia everywhere. If Bloomberg won the primary there is a very real chance he’d do a deal with Putin to stay out of the election for something after he got elected though.
Bloomberg is there representing himself and his classes desire to not see Bernie get the nomination. I’m sure he’s also very unhappy with Trumps incompetence.
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I made a similar post about voting for trump over Bloomberg and got called an edge lord
I made this exact post on fb yesterday to a guy that says “I love MB”
For the points you laid out, MB buying the presidency ends the game
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I really wish people would stop giving credence to the narrative that Russian interference is a conspiracy.
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Voting for Trump though? Just find someone else on the ballot.
He didn’t say that.
Bloomberg sells information about legislation and where it is in committees and whether it looks like it’s going to pass. Being President should add a lot of value there.
Matt Christ Man’s position is probably the correct one. I couldn’t do it though. I do hope people are coming around to the idea that a Bloomberg nom would be the effective end of democracy.
It’s not a conspiracy. It’s also not the explanation for every bad thing happening in this country. They are about to go all in on helping Donald Trump… that much is very obvious.
Information related to Congress from the ODNI included Russia would be meddling in the Dem primaries.
Bloomberg’s association with Giuliani, and tRUmp for that matter, go back decades.
Democrats are done if Bloomberg is able to generate enough support to force a brokered convention, no political party has ever won the presidency after a split of the caucuses going back 75 years.
That is the whole purpose of it. Like, it is a clear strategy of the establishment wing of the party to blur differences between candidates and act like they all want the same thing. Look at the culinary union flier - every issue for every candidate was basically identical except for the Sanders healthcare box. Look at every WaPo op-Ed that says like “for a bunch of people who all want basically the same things, attacking each other like this can only help one person: DONALD TRUMP”.
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I agree. The way you worded the post jumped out at me, but I was wrong in my interpretation.
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In April 2014, FBI Assistant Special Agent Lucia Ziobro wrote a warning the Boston Business Journal published which revealed her and another agent’s suspicions that Skolkovo, through its U.S. offices and Kremlin funding, was a way for the Russian government to access sensitive or classified research.
Just last month on October 22, 2019, Bloomberg hosted a global technology conference(https://openinnovations.ru/en/) at the Skolkovo Innovation Center in Moscow to its Open Innovations Forum. One of Bloomberg News’ role in the conference was to moderate a discussion about “smart cities” using Russian-created facial recognition technology to fight crime and pay bills.
The police state under Bloomberg will just keep expanding
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I’m not sure what you mean to be the bad one here. I feel a lot more despair than depression over the state of the world, in that despair means an absence of hope and I feel like there’s an absence of serious hope that a number of things in the world are going to improve in the forseeable future, for example climate change.
Depression famously doesn’t have a lot to do with actual circumstances - that is, you can be depressed even if outwardly everything appears to be going swimmingly - but the corollary, i.e. that things sucking does not mandate that one must be depressed, is not taken seriously by many people with depressive tendencies. (I’m not speaking abstractly here, by the way, I’ve experienced bad depression on only a handful of occasions, but I’m no stranger to bad anxiety).