Victoria Antoinette

it’s a clear-eyed understanding of what to do about party consolidation under fptp.

first past the post isn’t responsible for that. it’s a tactic called “strategic voting” and it results in the consolidation of parties under fptp. the solution is not to vote for people you don’t want to win.

until he’s gone, every other name is moot.

You counted that as an act of right wing violence.

i didn’t count it at all.

edit: aw fuck. you got me.

there are wikipedia articles about both of these topics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_terrorism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_terrorism

and, of course,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_violence

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this is only one metric, but i think it’s notable that there are about 80 references on the left wing page and approximately 3.5 times that many on the right wing page.

fuck threads

the difference is that CNN gets paid.

wait…

they may have been referring to the Senate intelligence committee investigation

so do it

there is no way you tested a bubblegum and lollipops economy with an infinite lollipop machine, and if you did, the results are not applicable to the economies of Venezuela or Zimbabwe

this is storytelling, it is not evidence of a testable causal relationship

this is posturing and rhetoric. it is not evidence of a natural phenomenon called “inflation”

that’s story-telling. it’s a myth. everyone could have chosen not to accept higher prices, or levy them. then what? did “inflation” still happen?

oh, ok.

“He’s done more for our members than any president in my lifetime.”

that’s not “ever”, and it’s not quantified anyway.

your second quote has no meaningful metric at all about biden, only juxtaposing him against harris

the third says he’s been trying to make good on his campaign promise, but it does not actually show the bar for how to become the most pro-union president, nor how biden has approached (or passed) that measure.

the fourth is some platitudes.

if a claim is to be made, it should be able to be evidenced. otherwise, it’s just rhetoric.

i don’t give any credence to any argument that involves inflation. i don’t believe anyone makes any decision that causally increases or decreases the buying power of a dollar, except perhaps the buyer and seller in any transaction, but only within the confines of that transaction, anyway. i do care about people being able to overthrow the capitalist system and the president stepping in and saying “no” is fucking infuriating.

this is handwaving.

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this user has, to their credit, probably given me every relevant search result they could scrounge up to try to support their position, but have not actually provided the metric by which we could evaluate whether biden has been the most pro-union president ever. i suspect it is because no such metric exists, and, as such, can never be used to measure the actions of any president. instead of acknowledging that they are simply spreading rhetoric-as-fact, they have chosen to take a sarcastic, patronizing tone. feel free to think what you want about unions, presidential candidates, and whatnot, but please recognize that this claim in particular is purely rhetorical and not one that can be substatiated by any evidence.

and then once no one was paying attention anymore, his administration kept working the issue and got the workers the sick days they were striking for in the first place.

some of the workers got some of their demands. if they’d been able to bring the rail to a halt, they might have gotten it all.

by what metric was he “most” pro-union?

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