…when was the last time the democratic party ran a legitimately progressive platform?..i’m not talking about vacuous platitudes, i’m talking about articulated commitment backed up by tangible, substantive, follow-through changing the nature of established paradigm?..
…the electorate can vote or not vote for whomever the f*ck they see fit: that’s the fundamental point of democracy…
…the most-effective way to win those votes is to earn them, not to berate the electorate with a presumption of entitlement…
…the funny counterpart is that when liberals run a full-throated embrace of populism, their greatest threat isn’t the surge of new progressive supporters, but establishment democrats desperately afraid of losing conservatives who’d never support them anyway…
…was there one before?..
…you don’t win over conservatives by offering light-conservatism, but the democratic party have run the same playbook since 1992…
…i’m not sure that’s how one builds a coalition…
…i should clarify: upgrades from windows 7/8 were free…
…windows 10 was free to a lot of people; it’s a pretty solid OS and i’d be happy to pay a fair price for ongoing support…
…that’s the POWER model: the unit posted above is the consumer version with the SX chip, no math coprocessor and fewer function keys…
…every once in awhile i listen to top fourty countdowns from the mid-eighties, not necessarily because i enjoy the music, but because i’m mesmerised by the time-warp effect of revisiting period radio programs…
…i disliked a lot of the music then but i enjoyed the shared cultural experience of legitimately popular broadcast media, and retrospectively it’s a window into a world which no longer exists…
…IGN goes from 6.5 to 9.5…
…i mean, people pay restaurant money for ramen these days, too: every peasant food gets its day in due time…
…it definitely changes when used to top meatloaf…
…delicious staple, love it with spinach leaves and coarse-chopped roma tomatoes on top…
…i can only eat firm roma tomatoes: gooshy tomatoes wig me out, always have…
…“baby steps” they called that corporate handout, fomented by a groundswell of apologists that patience would be rewarded in due course…
sixteen.
f*cking.
years.