Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ Sep 7 2022 08:39pm)

We also imported Chinese to build railroads and irish to do lots of jobs in the east and literally took over a whole bunch of Mexico.

We also forcefully bred millions of slaves to sell within the United States.

So yeah... lol

Quote (Goomshill @ Sep 8 2022 03:51am)

and just to be clear in case you missed it
he posed wearing a BDSM leather pentagram on his chest for his photoshoot, but he also has a pentagram tattooed on his chest permanently underneath it
just a casual gay satanist who poses for pozzed magazine, in charge of the monkeypox response

That sends a lot of messages, but I'm pretty sure none of them are constructive towards addressing a pandemic

Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ Sep 7 2022 11:06pm)

He votes both federally and locally, often for programs that implicitly benefit those who were underserved previously and allows that to propagate to today. Maybe he works at a bank and still participates in pseudo-redlining, making it harder for certain zip codes to get home loans. Maybe he's an appraiser and appraises black people's homes lower than white people's. Maybe he votes based on NIMBY ideals and keeps felons in prison and keeps low income housing away from his area. This creates a system where one group has, on average, an easier to navigating the system. The examples I gave actually happen and ripple out from everywhere. As if financial systems in New York don't ripple out to the banking system nation-wide.

Here's where you go "ha ha but they're so far away" as if that matters and this isn't a system-wide issue. Which is just going to show your own unwillingness to understand the issue because we've been over this many times before and I know you are ideologically opposed to ever acknowledging structural issues related to race if it isn't part of a Republican talking point.

Quote (bogie160 @ Sep 7 2022 11:00pm)

As a case study, take a poor white in rural Alabama, and a rich white who grew up in the North-East and works in IT or finance. To what extent do you think the IT or financial professional leverages their individual power to the benefit of the rural Alabaman?

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Quote (bogie160 @ Sep 8 2022 07:30am)

I asked a pretty simple question.

Quote (Goomshill @ Sep 8 2022 10:47am)

https://i.imgur.com/lYMcRhu.png

Whatever signs we have for the midterms, whatever normal precedents bode poorly for the incumbent's party, its numbers like these that should really worry strategists.
Basically, if independents and republicans have the same priorities and are opposed to democrats, the only strategy left for democrats is to go as far left as possible and try to rally their base and get a bigger turnout
which, of course, is something democrats are abysmal at doing in midterms when so many liberals can't be arsed to vote but flocks of old people turn out in droves

Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ Sep 8 2022 08:54am)

Democrats maintaining status quo is still a victory.

Quote (Kuggergug @ Sep 8 2022 11:14am)

the purpose of winning elections is to enact your agenda. the status quo on abortion has already been lost. if you keep congress but lose the status quo on abortion, thats a loss.