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[here2view]

The election of Trump has caused most of the red avatars' debating skills to lapse.

Yeah because he makes a lot of our arguments easier to debate.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

The election of Trump has caused most of the red avatars' debating skills to lapse.

The attrition of left-wing posters like King, bedstuy, etc. to AAD also likely played a role here.

Why would they go there? AAD is way worse than regular Atlas. Hell, a few months ago people were messaging me on Facebook begging me to join because AAD was dying.

I say, let ‘em crash!

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

AAD is on the upswing now, probably due to the midterms.

[Devout Centrist]

The election of Trump has caused most of the red avatars' debating skills to lapse.

The attrition of left-wing posters like King, bedstuy, etc. to AAD also likely played a role here.

Why would they go there? AAD is way worse than regular Atlas. Hell, a few months ago people were messaging me on Facebook begging me to join because AAD was dying.

please don't

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

The election of Trump has caused most of the red avatars' debating skills to lapse.

The attrition of left-wing posters like King, bedstuy, etc. to AAD also likely played a role here.

Why would they go there? AAD is way worse than regular Atlas. Hell, a few months ago people were messaging me on Facebook begging me to join because AAD was dying.

please don't

Why would I want to go to Atlas’s dumping ground and deal with you even more?

[Devout Centrist]

The election of Trump has caused most of the red avatars' debating skills to lapse.

The attrition of left-wing posters like King, bedstuy, etc. to AAD also likely played a role here.

Why would they go there? AAD is way worse than regular Atlas. Hell, a few months ago people were messaging me on Facebook begging me to join because AAD was dying.

please don't

Why would I want to go to Atlas’s dumping ground and deal with you even more?

Thanks

[DC Al Fine]

The election of Trump has caused most of the red avatars' debating skills to lapse.

Yeah because he makes a lot of our arguments easier to debate.

lol

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

The election of Trump has caused most of the red avatars' debating skills to lapse.

The attrition of left-wing posters like King, bedstuy, etc. to AAD also likely played a role here.

The latter is also gone from AAD nowadays: Twitter is his preferred mouthpiece (he's a vaguely popular #resistance member).

[Slow Learner]

Alex Jones shouldn't have been banned from YouTube. He's too... entertaining. Somehow psychopath Logan Paul gets to stay, but Alex Jones (who can actually be funny with his craziness) somehow gets banned. Smh

Logan Paul has never been responsible for the parents of school shooting victims being unable to visit their child's grave.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

The election of Trump has caused most of the red avatars' debating skills to lapse.

The attrition of left-wing posters like King, bedstuy, etc. to AAD also likely played a role here.

The latter is also gone from AAD nowadays: Twitter is his preferred mouthpiece (he's a vaguely popular #resistance member).

There’s a joke here, but it’s inappropriate.

[Vespucci]

I'm a social progressive, and I don't think "cultural appropriation" is a problem.

[Orwell]

Im Pro Union and I think Janus v. the AFSCME wasn't the worst thing ever

[SingingAnalyst]

Speed kills.

Or, to expand just a bit, high speeds are a major factor, I believe, in the frequency and especially the severity of accidents.

Certainly slow drivers (under 60 MPH) on freeways are a danger, but even here one has a better chance of avoiding a crash with such a driver if one is doing 65, rather than 75.

As I am fond of telling my Calculus students, the marginal time benefit from increasing your speed by 1 MPH obeys an inverse-square law: for example, increasing your speed from 70 to 71 MPH saves only one-quarter as much time as increasing one's speed from 35 to 36 MPH.

More to the point, even with today's car designs (and especially for pedestrians and cyclists), accidents are more severe at higher speeds. I feel our tendency to drive fast-- perhaps driven in part by our busy schedules, as well as suburban sprawl, is the main thing working against the great improvements we have seen in the auto accident fatality rate over the last 20 years.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Fleetwood Mac is really overrated.

[DC Al Fine]

The GOP's demographic situation will be fixed in a generation.  US election results aren't going to look like post-apartheid South Africa in fifty years.

[Virginiá]

The GOP's demographic situation will be fixed in a generation.  US election results aren't going to look like post-apartheid South Africa in fifty years.

Most of the people who have actually thought out the idea of a demographic realignment don't usually suggest America will have a permanent Democratic supermajority or something like that. A lot of it is based on generational cycles between the parties, and those tend to last 35 - 45 years, with distinct rising and falling periods. For instance Republicans began rising in the 60s, peaked nationally in the 80s, with the downfall beginning in the 90s. Although even as they lost a national advantage, they gained a reliable one downballot that continues to this day - for now, anyway.

Myself and others don't think America will be SA 2.0. We just think Republicans aren't going to magically rebound with zero effort on their part. Any rebound is likely to take place over multiple generations, and with changes in both their coalition and policy agenda.

So one generation is not enough, imo, especially depending on what you believe a generation to be. I've seen people say it's ~15 years or between 15 - 25 years.

[Torie]

Parties tack when they finally realize that if they don't, they will be consigned to getting the short end of the stick in almost all elections. So if the current Pub profile proves to be a loser due to demographic changes, the profile will change. Politicians are in the business of winning. Not much else matters.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Parties tack when they finally realize that if they don't, they will be consigned to getting the short end of the stick in almost all elections. So if the current Pub profile proves to be a loser due to demographic changes, the profile will change. Politicians are in the business of winning. Not much else matters.

In the long run maybe, but parties can spend an awful long time in the wilderness.

The Democrats had only two Presidents and four terms between the Civil War and Great Depression. All of those elections were close except for 1912 which had a split Republican vote. Had it not have bern for that Grover Cleveland would've likely been the only Democratic President of the era.

[DINGO Joe]

Fleetwood Mac is really overrated.

Which Fleetwood Mac?

[136or142]

Sophia Loren was a nasty person.

[Lechasseur]

Fleetwood Mac is really overrated.

Fleetwood Mac is great, one of the best bands ever

[DC Al Fine]

"Illegal war in Iraq" is a silly line parroted by people who have never heard that Stalin quip about the League of Nations.

[136or142]

Opposing abortion does not make a person 'pro life.'

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

Opposing abortion does not make a person 'pro life.'

This and Supporting abortion does not necessarily make a person pro choice.

[RINO Tom]

Opposing abortion does not make a person 'pro life.'

Yes, and being for higher taxes on the wealthy isn't "liberal" in the European sense.  People use the label you give them.