Hah. DMs are always open.

Except for the whole, “you killed my fiancé with Tylenol” part.

Not anyone with a stats background.

In fact it was his election to lose.

I’m gotta get downvoted and cause a stir with this. Here goes anyway for the all of 5 people it might reach.

I would love. FUCKING LOVE for a candidate like AOC to get elected president of the United States. Love it.

HOWEVER.

Until there is enough power transferred in the senate and the house to candidates that would remove the current structure of how we elect the executive office; they are not electable.

See, you read that sentence thinking what I said was an opinion and pessimism. It was not. It was based in the statistics of how Americans vote and how strong the votes in various states are in a first past the post electoral system that uses an electoral college.

As it stands, and Nate Silver backs this math as well, the electoral college requires a moderate democratic candidate to overcome a 3.7 point disadvantage. That might sound small. It isn't small. It’s the margin of victory in many races so, you effectively need to more than double the current margin of victory for a candidate, and so it when further left candidates have a harder time than that.

Jeff Jackson could make a run for office in 2028-2032 and be a candidate that historically could get elected. Statistically.

AOC is just not electable in the current structure of the electoral college and state first past the post voting that still persists in most states.

You run the virtue candidate and lose the election.

The same was true of Harris in 2024. Not because we don’t deserve a black woman president or that she couldn’t do the job.

She wasn’t fucking electable in this racist, sexiest voting base.

I get we want better candidates, but you can go too far and effectively give the election to the fascist asshole, and frankly the country can’t have that happen again post Trump. It will be the end of democracy as we know it if It does.

I know that isn’t what folks want to hear but the math is the math.

Actions that is described in his forum would result in bans and evidence given to the state.

Productivity here is not just speed. It’s cost to get the speed.

If a manufacturer can spend a trillion dollars and get 100000% faster throughout, their consumption model may not fit that need.

Just because marketing can go 1000% faster doesn’t mean the business is 1000% more profitable given the costs

Cars will never not exist. They should exist less and not interfere with other human friendly modes of transportation. That is a reasonable goal.

That goal requires specific places cars go, and for other people’s safety, people on foot do not.

A highway where (in my state) it is illegal to be walking, is not where the people go.

Thats a bad decision on the person walking and a bad decision by the driver, but fundamentally if you assign cars go quickly from point A to B on highways designed for cars… don’t walk there.

There is no legal mechanism to rescind a pardon.

So… yes…

BUT

The only people training at USPSA, 3-Gun, NRL, PRS, and ELR matches I go to are conservatives.

So maybe he left should actually take interest in the skills needed to defend their way of life. Until then, owning the gun is as useful as owning a plant.

This is a solution looking for a problem.

Lol.

Yes, we love it as it is, and they release lots of new content often.

I can’t speak for all, but I have a safe that is bolted to the floor. If they get in there, they did more work than robbing the gun store.