To clarify: the world is stupid.

Rockets HAD TO WORK back then to compete with the USSR. Rockets HAVE TO FAIL now to keep the gravy train of working class money flowing to the wealthy private-public partnership an endless pursuit

They are stupid

Yes… it does say the actual proportion of voters? That’s literally the first thing it said. Proportion of voters falling into (X) categories who voted Biden in 2020 who did not vote for Harris in 2024. It then talks about votes that flipped from Biden to Trump across swing states

The “makes no difference” is just a part of the sample size that isn’t relevant on those discussions. Clearly the important data takeaway is that 3x more people who didn’t vote Harris would have been more likely to vote for her than turned less likely to vote for her if she promised to stop sending weapons to Israel.

Honestly, it sounds like you just didn’t read the data

Not a photograph, but this really has to be up there

It is so powerful that it even has an equal and opposite reaction

Not an option for everybody, but I had to make a very difficult decision (at the time) to leave the only place and people I ever knew to go live somewhere with opportunity and generally political beliefs that wouldn’t kill me/see me as subhuman.

It was the best thing I ever did for myself even though I had to restart my “career” if you could call it that at that point. I still miss the place I’m from very deeply. It’s like I live in a completely different world now, which I love in its own way, but every time I go back to visit I think about how I could just not leave this time. I love it. But there’s nothing and nobody for me there.

I was in a similar situation to you. No friends with tolerable politics, feeling isolated. Now I don’t have a single friend who would hear the words “I am a socialist” and think anything poorly about it. It’s been life changing. I know that really there are shitty people everywhere, but in areas with a lot of people you’re far more likely to find some who aren’t.

Next weeks headline is going to be him in a hospital bed recovering from bird flu that somehow required him getting another surgery on his gut