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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I think democrats would, for the most part. Perhaps less enthusiastically, but since they hate Trump, I think it would not be a major issue.

    The question is, how would low-information unaffiliated voters respond to having a socialist in the ballot? This is a difficult question to answer. Traditionally socialism is a bad word in US politics, albeit less so with younger voters.

    Personally I don’t really buy the “Bernie would have won” stuff but there’s really only one way to find out.


  • Since no one seems to be taking OP’s question seriously, I’ll take a stab at this. There are a variety of reasons.

    Some people feel that voting is offering material support to a specific candidate or system, and they simply cannot bring themselves to do so given the horrors that that person or system is either supporting or failing to condemn.

    Others may feel that strategically withholding their vote as a punishment may motivate democrats to take these types of issues more seriously in the future.

    Or they may feel that their vote is more impactful in magnifying the voice and power of third parties who offer more meaningful solutions to end the killing, even if they won’t win.

    Others still may believe that Trump’s incompetence will accelerate the end of America imperialism and lead to a better global political situation sometime in the future.

    Finally, some people feel that voting won’t matter at all and is a distraction from efforts to directly slow or stop the war machine.

    I don’t personally endorse any of these viewpoints, but some are relatively serious positions and others are not, in my opinion.





  • I think it’s a bit different. Female at least refers to a real biological trait (or at least collection of traits). As a scientist I use the word female in my work all of the time, and frankly I’m not sure what alternatives to it even exist.

    Bloodline is like… weird racist antiquated European ideas about ancestry that are more or less completely unscientific and wrong. I don’t think I’ve ever once heard it used in a scientific context.

    Maybe it’s used in animal breeding but that’s because animal breeding has uncomfortable connections with outdated race “science”. It doesn’t come from the real scientific community.