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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Pretty sure nobody who saw the Abu Ghraib photos was in favor of that.

    Fair, yeah, sorry, that was a more harsh comment than you deserved, states punishing people just makes me all no fun at parties mode, and that particular episode got seared into my brain pretty deeply so it’s like a reflexive go to.

    To put the point I was trying to make less confrontationally - people who do cruel things always think they’re justified and there’s a natural urge to want to see bad people get punished that can lead to some really awful things, so we really need to keep a critical eye on it imo. That all said, yeah, giving people the option to do a carwash in decent weather is definitely not cruel punishment.

    Failing to charge the Bush administration with war crimes was a huge lapse on the part of Nancy Pelosi at the time, and Obama after the fact. Their dereliction led directly to Trump.

    Can’t agree strongly enough, so much of the money and people behind both of those political machines are the same and the threat to the country their “shock and awe disfavored outgroup at taxpayer expense and make our friends rich while doing so” posed to us should have been obvious long before we got to this point.




  • That is also true and a real problem, but it would be more accurate to say that more of that 18-29 demographic who turned out to vote voted for Trump than before

    We estimate that 42% of young voters (+/- 1%), ages 18-29, cast ballots in the 2024 presidential election, a lower youth turnout than in 2020—when our early estimate put youth turnout above 50%—and approximately on par with the 2016 presidential election.

    We also estimate that youth voter turnout in battleground states may have been much higher: 50% on aggregate in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

    Young voters cast 14% of all ballots in the 2024 election, according to the National Election Pool exit poll conducted by Edison Research. While this number may be adjusted in the coming days, and other data sources may show different numbers, this 2024 youth share of the vote was also lower than in 2020 (17%) and 2016 (19%) based on the same data source.

    https://circle.tufts.edu/2024-election#overall-youth-turnout-down-from-2020-but-strong-in-battleground-states

    I would be interested to see how that 50% number for those battleground states compares to the percentage of 18-29 voters who turned out in those same states in 2020 and 2016, but I think the general story here isn’t that zoomers are actually getting more conservative but that the Democratic party did a terrible job getting their young voters to turn out







  • I swear, some version of this news article has come out once every winter for the past ten years when reporters ignore the impact of cold weather on people’s ability to travel on foot to jerk off some authoritarian bullshit

    Also,

    But most of those sites were closed last year, Garcia said, as the number of migrant arrivals began to dwindle under the Biden administration. This was partly due to the Mexican government’s efforts to crack down on immigration but also former President Joe Biden’s executive order last summer that did not allow people to apply for asylum if they entered the country between ports of entry.












  • Either way, Republicans being in control of education policy is nonsense. It’s not going to matter what reading system they use if they’re trying to teach a trans student whose who’s being harassed by their state’s laws, or a student who is distracted by reasonable fears of being shot, or by hunger because they don’t have any food at home. This person could be the most skilled and impassioned champion of education ever but she’s never going to be able to help kids Republicans decide are unworthy working for this administration.

    e; autocorrect being unhelpdul