TheresNodiee

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[–] TheresNodiee@lemm.ee 26 points 3 days ago (11 children)

I'm reading his "safe" comment in a bit of a different light. The Harris campaign was playing "safe" politics by ooh rah-ing about the military, guns, and the border. By throwing their full support behind Israel and shouting down and cutting out concerned for the Palestinian people. By running around with Liz Cheney.

Their campaign started off strong. Kamala was brat, Walz was calling Trump and his allies weird and joking about Vance fucking his couch. There was energy but they dropped the ball by switching to the "safe" Democrat campaign book. They didn't go out to speak to the people where they were at town halls like Walz said in the article, they didn't have firebrand Walz shining a flashlight on how bizarre Trump's people are, they didn't have a message that would excite the people and really shake up a statue quo that was slowly and inexorably draining Americans of their economic prospects. They just played the safe Democrat game of incrementalism and subservience to wealth and power rather than the people.

Obviously Walz didn't say all this, but I think the "safety" he refers to absolutely refers to Kamala's campaign adhering too closely to a traditional campaign style that was not going to win them much enthusiastic support.

[–] TheresNodiee@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

Just the usual conservative tactic of underfunding public healthcare to push brake healthcare practitioners and patients into privatised healthcare services, which leaves public healthcare services understaffed and just further snowballs into worse staffing issues at public healthcare services and leaves the state of access to healthcare in the province in an abysmal state.

[–] TheresNodiee@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Ironically, while Ford might be doing a pretty good job staying tough against Trump, he's doing his level best to try to drive Ontario right to the back of that healthcare line as well. So save us a spot?

[–] TheresNodiee@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

"Democrats have taken genocide off the agenda" how's the weather in that fantasy land that you're living in?

[–] TheresNodiee@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Of course it was only in the story because the plot needed it! Most things are only in a story because the plot needs it! And there was plenty of setup for it beforehand--an entire book's worth in fact.

The fact that it was introduced and then never used again even though it is obviously unbelievably useful and apparently available enough that a 13 year old was lent one to attend extra classes definitely deserves some criticism but at some point you kinda just have to make peace with the fact that it's a kid's book and it's really not that big of a deal.

You're really doing nothing to dispel (no pun intended) my suspicions that Sanderson readers can't understand anything that isn't explicitly explained to them.

[–] TheresNodiee@lemm.ee -2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It's their job to prove to the voters that they're party is worth voting for. Their actions should be based on the support they want not the support they have.

[–] TheresNodiee@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Yeah. I don't think you understand what a deus ex machina is.

[–] TheresNodiee@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago (5 children)

She hints at it throughout the whole book/movie by showing that Hermione had a chronologically impossible course load and having her suddenly show up in places that she didn't seem to be mere seconds previous.

[–] TheresNodiee@lemm.ee 8 points 6 days ago

I think this is just a case of NYT WANTING a Palestinian genocide so they're more than willing to sanitize the message and promote pro-genocide propaganda.

[–] TheresNodiee@lemm.ee 8 points 6 days ago

Musk demands that Trump send him an email at the end of every week listing 5 fascisms he did that week or Trump loses his job.

[–] TheresNodiee@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago

Ok the ghosts coming out of the wands thing kinda came out of nowhere, but all they did was tell Harry to run away. It's not like they had a massive impact on the fight.

[–] TheresNodiee@lemm.ee 5 points 6 days ago

They set it up at the beginning of the movie? How is that a deus ex machina?

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