I don’t think they will this time. Republican representatives have already had to stop holding town halls because their districts are so pissed off at Musk and DOGE.

She was deeply unpopular with Republicans

Deeply unpopular with MAGA Republicans. In the wake of the insurrection there was a real chance to pull the Republican party out of MAGA voters’ hands and they blew it.

So what did bringing her, and the other Republicans that the campaign chose to platform, into the tent; what did the campaign get for it?

I think they wanted to show that it was ok for Republican-leaning voters to abandon Trump and that they (the Harris campaign) welcomed Republicans shifting left (serving on the select committee and supporting Trump’s impeachment was certainly a shift left for an otherwise pro-MAGA politician). They clearly didn’t get anything for it.

You think platforming her says this thing over here.

No the Harris/Walz campaign thought that.

If you can just break down further why you think the Cheney example doesn’t support, I’m interested.

I don’t disagree with your overall point about platforming Cheney or the Harris campaign shifting right. I just think Cheney lost her primary because she was perceived by the MAGA voters to have shifted left on policy.

Liz Cheney, an incumbent who lost her primary with 27% of the vote.

Just to put that in context, she lost her primary because she dared to side with both the public and the Democratic party in opposition to the insurrection. She lost her primary because MAGA hates her. I’m not defending the choice to bring her up on stage on the campaign trail, but I don’t think this particular fact really helps your argument.

Voters rejected Biden during a primary so hard he dropped out

No they didn’t. The primaries were over and he won them. He dropped out like 6 weeks after the primaries were over, and he won them (second place was Uncommitted with 4.25% of the votes). Credible candidates just generally don’t contest an incumbent president, and contested conventions generally don’t produce a winning nominee.

I think if all the non-voters put this much fervor and conviction into voting in primaries (all primaries, I’m not just assuming all non-voters would show up to vote left) we’d be much better off as a nation.

I guess the show isn’t popular enough in the community for the reference to be recognized.

Inequality is the point. Education only for the wealthy and approved. Techno-feudalism.

I’ll let you know when we finally have it.

That ruling did say the courts decide what is an official duty, at least.

You have three tools in your instance settings at https://lemmy.world/settings: the Show/Blur NSFW Content options in , and blocking users/communities/instances, setting your feed to only view Subscribed communities and just don’t subscribe to any NSFW ones. The first is dependent on posters ticking the box to mark their post as NSFW. If you see a NSFW post that is not marked as such, report it. Admins on their instance should address the matter. The second option isn’t NSFW-focused in any way but you’re in control of it. You could block instances that are primarily intended for NSFW content, such as lemmynsfw.com, and then block any individual communities on other instances, and lastly if there are specific users who just seem to refuse to stop posting unmarked NSFW content and their instance admins won’t do anything about them you block those users.

You probably can’t expect to fully pre-emptively block all NSFW content, because someone might post something without marking it correctly. Could be by accident, could be they just don’t care. But reporting them gives a chance to fix it rather than blocking an otherwise safe community or user.

No harder cutting news than when Kennedy felated her microphone just out of Giuliani’s peripheral vision that one fateful NYE.

The downfall of society started when Apple pushed U2’s album onto all iPhones.

I just wish Proton Mail had a “send as” feature for mailboxes where you don’t own the domain.

I put some extra fiber and collagen protein in my tea, so I put that in first, pour in the heated water, stir, and then the tea bag. If I’m away and don’t have those available, the tea bag first all the way.

How did the sponsors even think this would work? Just like “hey please can you just put out a memo that you changed your mind?” Are they asking the court to re-adhudicate the same case? Do they have new evidence? Is the resolution compelling the state Senate to be the plaintiff in a new law suit that they want the court to allow to skip all the lower courts? Like what the fuck even is this?

Changing from first past the post to ranked choice voting would do a lot to break the duopoly.

💯 But I don’t see that as something we can get pushed through without first taking over through the primaries. Of course, I keep forgetting that unlike Texas, other states have direct ballot initiatives that voters can do without their legislature. So if your state has that option then absolutely go that route!

Because it’s just not feasible without election reform. Over 99% of legislative offices (both state and federal) are held by either a Republican or a Democratic nominee. We’re on presidential election away from it being 60 years since a 3rd party presidential candidate received a single electoral vote. And Perot won just shy of 19% of the national popular vote in 1992. We need a progressive groups funding progressive primary challengers, and progressive voters turning up for them.

No idea. Some of my wife’s cousins who are deal dual citizens were Trump voters in 2016, so I imagine they remained so this time around.

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It’s because of the Citizens United ruling.

They could have had an actual election at the convention instead of just anointing someone who wasn’t even running in the primary.

I’m assuming you mean having all the primary voters vote again. Sure that would have been great but I think the logistics of it make it a non-starter. There was only a month between Biden dropping out and the convention. Are you going to limit it to just the voters who voted in the first primary (which is actually the law in my state)? I would expect law suits of this happened, and probably law suits of it didn’t, too. There were only about 30 days between Biden dropping out and the start of the convention. How are you going to organize and execute that in 30 days?

And the electors are basically low tier nerds who did the bidding of the head nerds and didn’t have an actual vote, or give it to the second place finisher.

The delegates were pledged to the candidate who won the primary in their state. Second place was Uncommitted. Third (Phillips) and fourth (Palmer) place dropped out (which against goes back to the logistics of having a second primary). The convention was open to new candidates to declare, and they did, and Kamala won the vote at the convention.

They just assumed that everyone would be okay with it because the DNC is a private organization that can do whatever they want. They don’t have to care what voters think.

This was an unprecedented situation where you essentially had no primary candidates left in the race after the primary. There was no possible outcome where everyone would be happy.