We organise.
Ummm, brigading people on your team who point out how what you're doing isn't working is really the most pathetic example of political "organizing" I've ever seen.
But do keep going. I'm sure it feels great to you.
Thank you for proving my point so well.
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It's sad you don't.
I thought the liberal belief in research and tested science was more universal.
Eh, it's a lot like reddit.
Two thirds of the rabid ones here are keyboard socialists. They type a good game, know all the stock phrases, but when it comes to actually doing shit, well, touching grass is scary.
They stay inside and rant and rave about how things SHOULD be while we are out there actually making the incremental changes to try to bring it about.
Then they post and pat themselves on the back for saying we're not doing enough.
It's very clear that this is every bit the senseless, thoughtless, reactionary, pathetic echo chamber that t_d was, just with red flags instead of red hats.
Thank you all for helping me to realize that so quickly.
Medicaid expansion. The R-controlled states shit on that pretty quickly.
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Some of us sometimes do things just because they are right/kind/helpful.
That wasn't you.
You were not out there passing out water.
So stop the self-aggrandizement and bullshit virtue signalling.
The ACA was always meant to be step one.
It was never the fix. It was the groundwork to start getting to the fix.
Politics is the art of the possible, and there's no fucking way this country votes to go single-payer government run in one step.
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Maybe you don't know, but there are people who do exactly this sort of research all the time. Go hire one of them to make your fake internet point.
...and the county recorder and the secretary of state has ALL of that information in searchable databases. But thanks for the entertaining straw man attempt.
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I wonder every single day if it makes sense to leave the platforms in protest, or stay in the belly of the beast and raise awareness from within.
Staying there is called "engagement" and it's exactly what the platforms want. They thrive on your attention, report that as engagement metrics, and turn that into money. "Raising awareness" feeds the beast.
Nobody is surprised when shitty people running companies do shitty things. They stay until it meets a certain threshold of shitty, or they go to a competitor.
Drive engagement at the competitor instead of railing against the toxic site from within. People will move toward something better more readily than they'll move away from something bad but comfortable.
"You have been infected with Calvinism. Cures range from education to lobotomy."
Any two monotonically increasing or decreasing trends can be charted on two different axes to look like a near-perfect correlation.
This graph is a great example of how to present data in the most dishonest ways possible.
That game and $20 spent at Taco Bell made for many very good weekend nights.