John Yonchuk
Ken WhiteRegarding Efforts By You, An Inferior Person, To Cancel Me, A Genius
And of course it's not working.
Tobias Klausmann@Popehat An elaborate inversion of Schrödinger's Asshole.
Love it.
Tim Ellis 🦝@Popehat Perfect. True genius.
Joshua Sharp@Popehat I would like to email you a high-five.
Viss@Popehat this whole thing:
@Popehat this is like the three-michellin-star, tweezered-everything, chefs table special version of the infosec hot take defense mechanism
John Minnihan@Popehat please tell me there are parts 4 - 19
Gary E. Walker@Popehat I cannot say how pleasing this was.
ekvinI'm afraid you'll be able to constantly repost that much in the same way TheOnion reposts ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens.
Gojira1000@Popehat That's a 2-fer - good biting satire and additional proof as to why to avoid using Post
Kar Pouzisporo
ProIsh@Popehat *occasional soft noises of affirmation*
Menno@Popehat
Words I live by, daily.
Words I live by, daily.
naught101@Popehat the last sentence is very good. Especially because I got aggravated and skipped through the second half.
toxtethogrady@Popehat That had everything in it. With the possible exception of lacking a reference to "playing Fifth-Dimensional Chess while everyone else was playing checkers"...
Ed B@Popehat ... by guest writer, Elon Musk
jack the nonabrasive@Popehat “when I initiate foreplay by explaining how women are over represented in engineering.” 🤌😂
Nicole ParsonsChauvinists seem genuinely puzzled, then infuriated, by the look of disgust and side eye from women when they are told such.
Chauvinists expect deference & adulation, yet can't figure out that they can't form stable relationships with people they hold in contempt & end up playing video games alone in their mother's basement.
Republicans have nothing for women voters yet can't admit why women vote Democrat.
47% of white women voted for TFG IN 2016, a plurality
48% of white women voted Republican in 2018, vs 50% Dem
53% of white women voted for TFG in 2020.
That is not a downward trend. If it weren’t for non-white women and men, we’d be in a worse place. 🤷🏻♂️
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/06/30/behind-bidens-2020-victory/
Behind Biden’s 2020 Victory
A new analysis of 2020 validated voters examines change and continuity in the electorate, both of which contributed to Joe Biden’s victory. It looks at how new voters and voters who turned out in either 2016, 2018 or both voted in the 2020 presidential election, and offers a detailed portrait of the demographic composition of the 2020 electorate.
@karabaic @Npars01 the definition of “white” changes, though, it may be that fewer people are identifying that way, esp. young people and those who vote Democratic. A large portion of Latinos may consider themselves white, or may not, depending how they choose to identify. Lots of people are bi- or multi-racial now. In the old days being white was considered desirable, now it is less so—maybe that’s progress?
@shofstader @Npars01 I think the surveys are pretty good at defining it. They use the same framework as employment. (I lived in the swing county in Ohio for 25 years and had a landline. I got surveyed a lot.)
And this was over 4 years. Was there that much change in the definition of white between 2016-2020, other than the resurgence of overt expressions of white supremacy?
@karabaic @Npars01 On the US Census, everyone gets to self-identify. I believe surveys do it that way, also. There was a time when the government classified people, but now it’s all a matter of self-identification. Some young people may not have been present in surveys four years ago previously. Also, I’m pretty sure surveys aren’t done on landlines (not primarily) any more, most people don’t have them these days.
@shofstader @Npars01 Self-identification does not mean freeform. The self-identification process for a survey matches the one used by employers, which is part of the EEO legal framework. It is very specific in ferreting out non-Hispanic white folks.
Good point about landlines. I was mentioning it to point out that have a lot of experience with surveys as a subject.
White women enjoy white privileges including the privilege to vote against their own self-interest.
They're coming to realize it's not a partisan game of fake grievances anymore, the GOP is a rising anti-democracy movement.
The overturn of Roe vs Wade and attacks on contraception may have broken that Republican support in 2022.
Young people did *not* vote Republican in 2022.
The ones that voted for TFG are voting for their own loss of autonomy and agency.
@Npars01 For just the age cohort, I agree with you. But that single cohort can hide the pattern, as the Pew survey showed. I wish that Pew survey had cohorted by age, gender, & race, together. I can’t find one that does.
It could be that white genZ still went R. I hope not, but I can’t tell.
@Npars01 There’s the money chart for 2022! Thank you!
Would love to see this same analysis for 2016-202.
@Npars01 I agree with your sentiments and the weird problem with folks voting against their interests. Remember, I lived in Ohio.
Look, I'm white, because my immigrant parents and grandparents chose that path.
I don't like this data. But it's real. I can't wish it away. I'm heartened by the trend among the young
White folks elected TFG. We tried to keep the Congress Republican in 2018. We tried to reelect TFG in 2020.
White folks who want different outcomes have got to work to change this.
Unprecedented 2023
hammerYou'd be surprised how small a percentage can be & yet trigger catastrophic change.
Yes, MAGA comprise only 20% to 30% of eligible voters.
But...
There's the 30% of disengaged yet eligible citizens who don't vote at all.
There's the poor, old, disabled, women, immigrants, & PoC who are required to navigate a daunting array of voter suppression tactics to vote.
There's the richest 1% who will elect anyone, even a con like Trump, to get tax evasion & tax cuts.
@qualityhammer @Npars01 looking forward to your plan for increasing turnout among those voters.
1. Make Puerto Rico & Washington, DC into states.
2. Free national voter ID & automatic voter registration. (Pre-empts GOP voter suppression)
3. Impartial redistricting commissions
4. Public service announcements to vote
5. Universal mail in voting
6. Election day as a national holiday
7. Modernize election security & infrastructure
8. Pass Sen. Whitehouse's DISCLOSE Act
9. Campaign finance reform & overturn Citizens United
10. Offer incentives for everyone to vote
Matt@MattFerrel @Npars01 You would not believe the kinds of things I heard from women who actively believed in their own inferiority when I canvassed in Ohio. It boggled me. I just thanked them & moved on.
Lizard@Popehat Be interesting to see if people here are as sarcasm-proof as those on birdsite.
PS I had to look up "spavined". I am impressed.
MKSinSA
Mike Sliczniak@Popehat I particularly enjoyed, "… you are missing how I am illustrating the unknowability of context. When you say I am contradicting myself, you fail to recognize I am in a Platonic dialogue with myself, and both sides of myself are winning."
DrGecko@Popehat Honestly, "That's what freedom of speech means" is pretty much what Calvin said about free will. (John Calvin, not Calvin and Hobbes, although maybe him, too).
Keith Ivey@Popehat This seems related to your rule of goats.
Jake@Popehat I hope you find some benefit in spending the time crafting this!
~stern 
@Popehat Ok, that’s just masterful.
Sean MacGillivray@Popehat argumentum ad Petersonum
Parkscope Joe :RCID:@Popehat of course
bunnyAdvocate@Popehat Only geniuses can view it, the rest of us see a "page not found" error.
Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫@Popehat Can't cancel you if you cancel your own posts.
Cromley@Popehat now it's working. And it's really good
Third spruce tree on the left@Popehat ya it works. for me.
adrift@Popehat is this a reprint or a longer version of a previous thing? the title and intro are ringing some serious bells.
BruceWorked for me, tho the logic didn't. I'm too dumb to figure out what point your massive intellect was trying to make. :)
@Popehat I’d say “too soon” but fuck that guy. 🤣
Larry Garfield@Popehat Link br0ken?
Walken
El Fotografo@Popehat your words, though I cannot understand them, infuriate me, they make me feel small, as if I am being made fun of; they make me want jump and throw things at you, possibly, but not limited to, my own feces.
Cameo Wood
Neo-Athenian Empire@Popehat Linky No Worky :(