How much have scholars considered the possibility that there were cities before Uruk and Eridu that are now beneath the Gulf? Would we know by now if there were?
*time that they give you
This is why theory matters. This is why policy details matter. This is why reason matters. Emotion gets you these kinds of voters once, twice, maybe three times max. In the time that they tie you, you need to make them into a different kind of voter, or make new voters that outnumber them.
A stable, dignified life in New York City or anywhere else across the country shouldn't require homeownership.
I'm running to give tenants a voice in Congress.
The guy is “central casting get me a pedophile” too
I have made this point many times and the response is always “why are you centering the feelings of Nazis”
Bluesky Derangement Syndrome: Obama won a historic landslide by pissing off posters on a niche website that would not exist during his two terms in office bsky.app/profile/mike...
Generally no. They tend to measure name recognition. At this point in 2016 it was gonna be Jeb, in 2008 it was Clinton vs Giuliani. I don’t think there was ever a clear leader in 2004. McCain vs Bush in 2000 was close. It’s blackpilling to see Newsom out front so early, but not predictive.
Enlightened centrists are SMC/Groundwork swing voters
The future, Mr. Gittes.
Even when this works, which is never as often as consultants and candidates think it will, it undermines the party as a whole. It should be a situational tactic, not a default.
Democrats are like if Coca-Cola was still trying to sell the Gen X youths on New Coke after four decades of failure
This insistence of conceding to Republicans on issues where voters will always prefer Republicans regardless of the substance being proposed is just suicidal. Either lean into the contrast to get a militant minority on your side or don’t bring it up at all unless asked.
Coca-Cola doesn’t pretend to be a sweet as Pepsi. Costco doesn’t pretend to be as fancy as Whole Foods. Lexus doesn’t pretend to be cheaper than Kia. Democrats: you have a brand, whether you like it or not. Stop undermining it by trying to trick people into thinking you’re something you are not.
Lean into it. Say you’ll tax the rich. Say you’ll help people who follow the rules come to our country. Say you’re going to let people live the lives they want to live. Nobody is fooled by Republican Lite. It pisses off the base and it reads as false to the low info swing voters.
I'm gonna get didactic about this.
They're so ass ignorant about our history they don't realize 1776 was a disastrous year for the rebels.
Lost NYC, and most of New Jersey. The Continental Army got absolutely housed. Washington almost had to give up the ghost.
The Battle of Trenton was a last ditch effort to stay in the game by giving the demoralized Continental Army a win so easy even they couldn’t fuck it up: kill some drunks in their sleep
Enlightened centrist*
*Marxists
But Ambrosius looks suspiciously like what we would expect a historical basis for Arthur to look like: a Roman general in the migration period who stays behind as the empire retreats, and who defeats the Saxons in battle but is ultimately defeated, to the ruin of Britan.
Can we do King Arthur? The consensus seems to be that he’s essentially mythological and we can’t know anything about who if anyone he’s loosely based on. However, his uncle Ambrosius Aurelanius was real; the transfer to myth happens when Geoffrey of Monmouth makes him brother to the mythical Uther.
That counts as D
That counts as British
That counts as English
Why doesn’t Bluesky have polls
The mythical King Arthur was a:
A) British king
B) English king
C) Welsh king
D) What’s the difference
Sea lion not viable
it was a minor scandal on our block that one of the kids in high school was wearing a backwards baseball cap for a yearbook photo
Surely someone has coined “information pollution” by now
