Comments by "yessum15" (@yessum15) on "Leeja Miller" channel.

I cannot support her for 2 reasons: 1) Principle: It's all about strategy except when we're talking gen. Then it is a matter of principle. You do gen, you lose. Full stop. There must be a limit. 2) Strategy: If I show them that as long as the alternative is Super Voldemort, I will always vote Voldemort, every cycle will include a Super Voldemort.
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@lisarussell2496 1) Access to covered healthcare in accordance with the expert consensus in the relevant field. 2) Protection from targeting for their identity. 3) Protection from discrimination in housing, employment, etc. 4) The right to learn about their identity in school. And so on..
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Leeja doesn't understand how things work. A move to ranked choice would make no significant change. A look at the bevy of states currently supporting the gen demonstrates a wide variety of systems, all of which are susceptible to influence. The only thing that really affects leadership's decisions is drawing a line in the sand. The establishment of fixed principles. Mitch understood this when he said "Pol operates downstream of". And the UN understood it when they wrote the Gen Convention.
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@Billy_t_10_4 You're asking people to choose between the guy who says he'll do a gen and the woman who actually did it.
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@Billy_t_10_4 Consider Germany during the bad regime. Historically we do not distinguish between the people who supported the bad regime because they liked it, and those who only did so strategically.
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Are you going to explain why he wears ladies makeup?
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@wenyiguo4212 I'm not convinced they would be significantly different from one another on this particular issue. Harris is promising nothing & Orange is promising everything. But both are answerable to the same people and are mostly comfortable deferring to them.
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@gsp4prez To be clear, orange & blue are answerable to the same bosses, and both are approximately as disinterested as each other on the issue.
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Yup. Initial exit polls indicate 80% of people voting against her made their decision before she even started campaigning. Wonder why?
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@wynngwynn Initial exit polls indicate that 80% of those who went against blue made their decision before she even started campaigning. So it seems pretty obvious your was about her hue & anatomy.
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A vote for Jill is a vote for Mr. Orange. But a vote for Harris is also a vote for Mr. Orange. Because it lets them know that so long as one side continues to run absolute maniacs, we will tolerate anything from the other side. Now we're in a position where we are being asked to support genocide. How much lower are we willing to be ratcheted downwards?
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Woman accosted in a deep red district town hall. Not a single one of these "old school masculinity" "trad values" "good guy with a firearm" patriarchs lifts a finger.
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Remember: Everyone they tell you is brave, is the most yellow bellied. And chances are, the toughest people in the room are the women, the alphabets, the impaired, and everyone else society isn't constantly complimenting and carrying weight for.
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Going 3rd party this time. If there's ever a Nuremburg trial about what we're doing right now, I want to be able to day I didn't support it
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@wenyiguo4212 If Orange wins it is unclear what would happen. Because he is extremely unpredictable and lacking in ability. His bark also tends to be worse than his bite on international policy. However, it does not matter. The point of a principle is that it applies in all circumstances. I will not support a gen on purely strategic grounds. In the same way I would not have supported Germany during the bad time out of concern for Russian encroachment. You do know what they named Germans who supported the bad regime purely on strategic grounds, right? The same thing they called the ones who believed in it.
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@wenyiguo4212 If Orange wins it is unclear what would happen. Because he is extremely unpredictable and lacking in ability. His bark also tends to be worse than his bite on international policy. Both he and Harris answer to the same people and would have somewhat similar approaches.
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@gsp4prez There is no amount of pressure that Ms. Blue will listen to. Her decision is as obvious as it is inevitable. She'll reestablish the status quo by insisting on a cessation. She will convince Iz by agreeing to turn a blind eye to their moving into and inhabiting parts of GZ. No mysteries here.
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@gsp4prez Orange & Blue will end up doing basically the same thing. Stopping the immediate crisis in exchange for land concessions. They'll just frame it differently.
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@gsp4prez No administration in the entire history of the US has had a different position on the matter than the others. These 2 are not going to deviate from that.
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@aorihanazari524 Not Voldemort: Romney. Voldemort: Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Bush Jr. & Cheney, VP Pailin, Trump three times. The pattern is pretty clear. As a side note, Trump probably did less damage than either Bush Jr. or Reagan.
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@aorihanazari524 Irrelevant. The point is that the inching rightwards has persisted primarily through a strategy of Voldemorts pushing the envelope, which has been enabled by the other side moving rightwards to accommodate. At a certain point we get so close to the brink that the Voldemorts have become cartoonishly inhuman. Yet despite this, the same strategy is advocated: move further towards their position to accommodate them. Now we're at a stage where the lesser evil is to literally do a gen. And we're being told to continue moving rightwards. At a certain point it becomes necessary to draw a line in the sand and say that we will not be pushed further towards the brink by the persistent threat that the alternative is to be pushed off of it immediately. Refusing to reward gen is a good place to stop.
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In the long run, voting for the lesser evil always produces a race to the bottom. Private interests count on this. They understand this tendency and finance both parties. Be it Microsoft, Facebook, Tesla, or Exxon, their lobbying dollars go to both parties. One party's job is to play a cartoonish over the top evil. The other is to be the reasonable alternative - portraying a run of the mill day to day bad. In this way, public goods are gradually whittled away and the Overton window is shifted gradually to the right. Now we've got to the point where the the lesser evil is actively engaged in "gen" and the greater is promising to disassemble the country. Do we still follow the strategy that brought us here? I say no. We have to draw the line somewhere, and "gen" is where I draw it. A country that actively engages in "gen" probably doesn't deserve to continue forward in the same way. Perhaps we should've taken the opportunity to stop the train at Nader. Or Sanders. It would have been easier. But it has to stop now. I will be voting this cycle. But not for Joe. "Gen" is the end of the track.
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I filed an empty ballot. I will not vote for someone who should be in custody for doing gen. I strongly recommend that anyone in a solidly blue state do the same. I understand why people want her to win, but we shouldn't be enthusiastic about it.
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