I swear by cold showers. I really really hate getting colds (especially as a father of a two year old, given how many more I now get) and I will use anything and everything in my power to fight them. Cold showers are by far the best thing I've done to make my colds mostly mild inconveniences instead of debilitating like they used to be. I don't even really need to call out of work anymore when I get a cold.
why is it so hard to talk about politics in the politics thread without someone insulting you or calling your opinions conspiracy theories?
No one said you couldn't discuss politics. Talk about how Warren's a hypocrite or how it's crazy that they're spending all of this money before we know who the donors are, but the fact that they're spending money in states where she's most likely to win is literally what all candidates do. And suggesting that it's to kneecap Bernie is a conspiracy lmao.
nah, don't justify toxic replies because i posted a political opinion. i believe warren and her superpac are working to support biden. that's a political opinion. not an offensive opinion. to insinuate my opinion justifies people being toxic is absurd and insulting.
how is that a conspiracy theory? it's an absolute fact that candidates throughout history shift their campaigns in their later hours to target other candidates they don't want to win the nomination in favor of candidates they do. bloomberg fucking announced this before he started his campaign. so why's it only the possibility that warren might be doing it too that's making so many people go full tilt?
Just have to be consistent with them. It's fine if you miss a day every once in a while, but you have to make an effort to do them every day.
That's a conspiracy theory that defies everything we know about the relationship between Warren and Sanders vs Warren and Biden. (spoiler: she and Bernie are on good terms. she loathes Biden for the Bankruptcy bill in '05.)
edit: LOL I'm an idiot and missed the first part of the quoted post.
i think a lot of it is just party politics. i don't think warren feels any sort of obligation to sanders or his ideas for restructuring the party. rather, while i think she's honest about her policies, i think that she'd rather see them built up to through the current party dynamics -- which she is deeply ingrained in -- than trust in sanders' independent efforts. i also don't think sanders has much to offer her for her support, whereas a biden and the democratic party as it stands has myriad ways to support her regardless of the conclusion of the primary and election.
how is it any more or less substantiated than the assumed belief that warren will support sanders?
Because the dude has a horrible track record on race? I don't like Pete because "I don't like Pete", there was a lot of racism within his police department and he sided with the racists. Not to mention his role in the post office downsizing.
The black precincts of NV that voted more for Uncommitted than him.
She was toast when she pretended to be Native American her entire life.
Like, I'm probably voting for Warren because I don't think there's a chance of anyone stopping Bernie, honestly. But I'll evaluate after Super Tuesday. If my vote could actually prevent us from nominating him, I'd gladly vote for Biden or Pete. (Obviously Pete wouldn't stop anything). If it's a forgone conclusion, then I'll vote my heart and vote for Warren. (I may do that anyway.) My mom's going back and forth on voting for Warren or Biden for similar reasons.
Like, those are totally fair critiques. I'm not going to defend his record on race anymore than I'm going to defend Bernie on guns, Warren on the DNA debacle, Bloomberg for...existing or Biden for Anita Hill. Where I get...frustrated, I guess, is this idea because you or I don't particularly like "X" NO ONE likes "X." Like, I don't get why people like Bernie. I never have. I never will. It literally escapes me. But I wouldn't actually go "Ya, well, no one wants him...." when there is evidence to the contrary. Pete is actually decently popular within the party! It's not like he's a Bloomberg or whatever who everyone hates.
The guy is projected to get 70 delegates on super Tuesday, nobody wants him, especially not minority voters who see him siding with racists within his police department, and there is no evidence to the contrary.
Bernie leads with LGBTQ primary voters and has 3x the support of Pete.
It was the same with Kamala. A lot of black folks didn't buy the historic nature of her candidacy her campaign was trying to sell. It's unfortunate, but you have to earn these things.
Kamala really needed more space to define herself. Beto, too.
I feel like...both things can happen simultaneously, though? You can acknowledge that Pete being who he is, running for what he's running for, and doing as well as he has is historic and momentous...even while acknowledging he's highly flawed. Like, god forbid, Palin had become the first female vice president, that would have been historic and momentous even if she's a massive pile of shit.
That's nice.
And? That doesn't mean no gay people support Pete.
