I typed my comment above on my mobile keyboard. I'm just using the standard Google keyboard on my Pixel, nothing fancy. Em and en dash are available by holding on the hyphen, and the ellipsis is available by holding on the period (annoyingly, only when on the numbers/symbols page).
Hold on — why can't you do proper ellipses and dashes on your phone? I don't understand…
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This would be great if my busy times were actually respected when scheduling meetings. They are not.
Good for you, but still wrong. The party fucked up. It's their job to win elections, and they had loads of opportunities over the last 10 years to act differently and chose not to every time.
It's not the voters' fault that a heavily corporate-friendly party doesn't represent them well enough to reliably get votes. That's some victim blaming thinking right there.
Uh, you missed a few steps. Like the people voicing concerns over Biden's mental health and being told to shove it while the party hid him from public view as much as possible. And then when they couldn't hide it anymore they still tried to gaslight us that we didn't see what we just saw.
And then finally they succumbed to that public pressure when it was far too late to have an actual primary and rally as a party, instead being told to vote for someone who was candidate-by-default.
The Dems constantly try to pander to the right which only fuels their real enemy in elections: voter apathy. If they actually governed and gave more than lip service, they'd never lose another election.
That's why I snatched up a Bolt before Chevy (temporarily, they say) discontinued the line. I even did upgrade it a little to get heated/cooling front seats and a heated steering wheel plus the extra safety features. $32.5k with a $7.5k rebate from the federal Clean Vehicle Credit. So $25k for a car with a 175-280 mile range. (175ish in winter when the battery is less efficient, 280 in summer).
Of course the IRS fucked up the point of sale rebate when I was purchasing, but it's finally incoming with my taxes this year.
I think Jerboa was being pitched as the best RiF alternative super early on in the exodus. I also found myself on it but it never clicked for me.
I was on Connect for a while but there were some things that were a bit harder than they needed to be with different account/instance/filter management. Moved to Voyager and I'm quite happy with it, very smooth experience.
I have pretty heavy judgement for people who have made it well into adulthood without bothering to engage with the reality of what they support.
However, always leave room for people who were raised in this crap. It takes serious time to deprogram and some people will do it at 16 and others might take until 26. I'm 31 and still deconstructing some of the repressive religious bullshit from my childhood even though I swing hard left politically (well past the Democratic Party) at 18. The brain doesn't stop developing until 25, so at least give them some leeway until then to figure out what they really believe.
Allow me to ask again: who did you vote for in the last 3 presidential primaries?
Who did you vote for in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 primaries?
If Ukraine wants a breather they can agree to it knowing they need to stay alert for the Russians to break it.
If Ukraine doesn't want to play that game, they can just say "we'll agree to a ceasefire when you leave Ukraine permanently" and carry on.