It’s a play on the classic riddle:
You’re walking on the beach with your good friend Jesus, huffing paint and dissociating. At one point you forget what you were doing and look over at Jesus, then back behind you at the sand. Behind you there’s only one set of footprints. You ask Jesus why he left you and he looks directly at the you who is reading this, not the you who is in the story, and asks “Why do you think there’s only one set of footprints?”

Is this gain?

If NORAD can keep us safe from Santa they can keep us safe from anything

Oilrig

Tex-a-me
Tex-a-you

This is why I like to gather passive scores at the start of a session. Then regularly glance meaningfully at them and then at the player with the lowest score

Not in those words

I’m voting both pragmatically and with my conscience by voting for Claudia De La Crúz.

With the goal of

Removing legitimacy from the system itself, and forcing the DNC to appeal to the left

Is that not good? Or is it not real?

Or maybe it won’t have that effect? Because that’s an idealistic plan, not a pragmatic one

Says the guy advocating poorly applied electoralism

Lol, yes. There are metaphorical carrots pulling the DNC to the right, I think we agree there. Now if you want to be “pragmatic” about it will a metaphorical stick from the left move them more left, or more right given the way we can see they calculate?

The same DNC that blamed the left for Hillary losing and then credited centrism with Biden winning?

Those are fine goals, but pragmatism involves addressing reality as it is, not how you would like it to be. I doubt you can achieve both removing legitimacy from the system as you see it and forcing the DNC to speak to the left simultaneously since the DNC is a part of the system that’s in place. Unfortunately the DNC appealing to the left needs to be a two way street, make the left more appealing to the DNC than the right. All those Republicans endorsing Harris is the right appealing to the DNC, the left needs to out do that effort to pull the DNC to the left. Rejecting them won’t do that, only the opposite.

It’s important to keep your goblin friend happy. If they find something gross and no one else wants to look at it, then go take a look, marvel at how gross it is.

What’s pragmatic about voting for a long shot candidate in a system that so heavily favors the two major parties?

Millimeters?

Nurse sharks are friendly? The things I remember about them from my childhood book on sharks are: they sleep in big piles on the ocean floor, their eggs are like weird sacks, and they latch on after biting and will not let go

But how do you make the eggs reassemble themselves?

Right, but keep in mind how low the bar is for politicians. They have people for this.

Are we sure this isn’t the first presidential election where a candidate even knows what a pdf is?

The article dances around the idea of a debtors union using a payment strike for leverage without saying it, which is probably why it’s so vague. That’s an option that the CFPB doesn’t have, plus it wouldn’t be subject to the same bureaucratic process as a government agency. Imagine if every credit card holder were prepared to stop paying until the unions terms are met. One person trying that isn’t getting far, a big enough group would threaten to turn enough valuable debt into junk to force change

Immigrant status is just the start. They don’t care about what laws mean at all, and the crowd cheers for it.

The author, Chris Ferrie, has a whole series of science for babies. We have ones about the planets and another just about Pluto that my kid was real into for a while

Our favorite restaurant* growing up had a little corner with like 3 tables as the non smoking section. We’d go there because my kindergarten teacher and her husband owned it.

*Bar that served food