The worst is when a language formally has a disambiguating word but then speakers all just decide to not use it.

When talking about a group but only one individual of the group is present you can still use y’all.

My feed is currently like 2 people, plus a bunch of dead accounts from people who dipped their toe in but didn’t stay.

For me a lot of those toe dippers were subsequently found to have settled on BlueSky.

Thank you! I’ve been asking that question for years and you’re the first to provide an example. Point conceded.

Why not just tell me those things instead of making it a hypothetical?

I think those are all valid points to raise and consider. I voted for Bernie in my primary and Hillary in the general.

Like how the superdelegates were all pledging their votes to Hillary way ahead of the first primaries.

Was there a single state, where the popular vote was for Bernie but the super delegates swept in and gave it Hillary instead?

Or how the DNC pushed Hillary over Bernie

This is not me shrugging it off as a totally cool and reasonable thing, but is that any different than any other election year, from either party, where the established power structure of the party has a preferred candidate? What I’m saying is I don’t think this is anything specifically anti-Bernie as much as a very well established pattern of nepotism that goes back centuries.

as was clear in the Debbie W.S. leaked DNC emails.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but did not the DNC emails show that proposed rat-fuckery was ultimately rejected?

Also, the widespread pressure from party darlings on Bernie to drop out.

Just par for the course, and not special opposition because Bernie is Bernie.

Messaging from the media was to blame as well

I agree with you that the media wasn’t fair in their coverage. Maybe just have been my own echo chamber but I do recall seeing polling data showing Bernie did better against Trump being brought up all over the place.

However, I’m only pursuing discussion of the claims/sentiment that the DNC denied Bernie the nomination. I see that sentiment popping up a lot, and it always completely ignores the fact that Hillary won the popular vote in the primary. Just like Trump just won the popular vote in the general. The only way the parties will change is by enough people showing up in their primaries to nominate better candidates. They aren’t going to change because we’re mad about the results of the election. They don’t care what non-voters think because non-voters don’t win elections, voters do.

Not asshole.

There is no such subtype.

😂

Why are you expanding the age range beyond what you quoted? Seems like a bad faith tactic. Try harder next time.

At an incidence of 2 for every 100,000 getting surgery, I have to assume that between the individual, their parents, and the doctors involved there was some concerning factor that pushed the surgical intervention into something more than simply treating the emotional/mental body dysmorphia. And I’m not so pompous as to try and inject myself into that process on their behalf.

a bunch of people didn’t show up and fucking vote … and Bernie lost

It’s obnoxious how often that’s why the conservatives win.

The other candidates gradually stepped aside to allow Hillary to run. The big one being Joe Biden not running as it was her “turn”, allegedly after the deal between the Clintons and the Obamas.

Apologies, but I can’t tell if you’re trying to supplement my point or pose an answer to my question.

Which state’s primary votes did the DNC alter or override to give Hillary the nomination by popular vote instead for Bernie?

Society ain’t happy with plastic surgeries performed on children

Which statistically isn’t a thing that’s happening and I’ve never heard anyone argue in favor of.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/gender-affirming-surgeries-rarely-performed-on-transgender-youth/

The study found no gender-affirming surgeries performed on TGD youth ages 12 and younger in 2019. This was expected, the researchers said, as current international guidelines do not suggest any medical or surgical intervention for TGD individuals prior to puberty. For teens ages 15 to 17 and adults ages 18 and older, the rate of undergoing gender-affirming surgery with a TGD-related diagnosis was 2.1 per 100,000 and 5.3 per 100,000, respectively. A majority of these surgeries were chest surgeries.

In my lifetime, it’s been a 50/50 split, with 6 presidential terms to each party. I’m not sure how you can assert that either party is any more or less viable than the other.

👆

I assume holding the vote early is so incoming MAGA senators don’t get a say.

Is to dumb to have made it to a polling station

I agree with you, but can’t pass up calling out the irony here.

Just pay your taxes jackass.

Howdy Arabia

Suck it Paxton! Can’t wait to vote against you again in '26.

Signs like a real ball of confusion.