The differences between these systems isnāt any more an āopinionā than the differences between a kiwi fruit and a small rabid hedgehog are. They may seem similar if youāre not really paying attention, but when you bring them to your mouth one gives a fuzzy sensation, then a tangy burst of flavor, and the other gives a fuzzy sensation, then intense pain as a crazed animal bites through your lip.
I think I might use that the next time Iām met with some whataboutism conflating two different things
But do hedgehogs really feel fuzzy though? Iāve never held one but I thought they were a bit prickly.
the both sides tone of this article ( heard it on air ) really got to me. itās talking about how red zip codes are becoming redder, blue bluer.
the reporter profiles two families, one right leaning, one left, and a social scientist who says:
āThey are still sorting themselves in ways that end up that places are increasingly Republican or increasingly Democratic,ā he says. āThen you can see that playing out in Congress. There are fewer people in the middle. And so politics becomes less about solving our problems anymore. Itās about cheering for our side. And so weāre stuck.ā
Yet while social scientists and journalists may fret over this political segregation, for the people changing ZIP codes to be with their own tribe, itās a kind of deliverance
but what they completely miss is that the left leaning family moved from an area ( greenfield, indiana ) thatās 97% white to one ( austin ) thatās 68% white. and austin has a significant number of out lgbtq folks too
equating white flight with people who would like even a tad less white heteronormativity supremacy in their day to day lives just doesnāt seem right. picking diversity is the opposite of ātribalismā
Good point. Iāll add my own example, whereby family circumstance made me have to move to a particularly red district in Indiana, but Iāve found a compromise in an equally-red district about 30 miles away that seems to be more open to diversity and more aware of a civic responsibility to keep oneās personal beliefs private. So I will feel safer living there, even though itās actually a higher percentage of white population than where Iām moving from.
Citation needed - agreed that this is a conclusion drawn without presenting much evidence. Iāve read multiple articles on this site about how red zip codes are losing people due to age, lack of jobs/opportunity, and now COVID. Who is moving into those areas? Left-leaning people, immigrants, and more variations of what they consider to be āothers.ā Naturally, conflict ensues. 
My preferred construction is the exhonerative case. It makes the intent clear, makes a little joke about the accusative case, and doesnāt trample existing terms.
I didnāt get to hear this on the radio, but the promos for it came off like it was going to be like thatā¦
Iāll also point out that people who are being targeted (such as families with trans kids) are looking for safer environments for their kids, not to be shielded from people with differing views.
good point. it seems to have been drawn from this analysis ( and some real estate companies like red fin are mentioned too )
i donāt really follow it all. theyāre maybe looking at votes as a percentage of population per county, and seeing more counties over time which swing strongly in one direction or the other?
i only scanned it but they do seem to mention some of the racial dynamics which got lost in nprās story
Compared to Trumpās strength in rural white America, Bidenās small array of super landslide counties in 2020 was rather eclectic. There were small, heavily Black counties in the Deep South, such as Macon County, Alabama (Tuskegee); predominantly Native American counties in the Upper Midwest; and academic-oriented communities such as Charlottesville, Virginia.
yeah. 
they did mention that family that moved to austin felt threatened but glossed over those considerations in favor of the āmy teamā idea
All the news thatās fit to print, plus a bunch of whatever this shit is.
Getting harder to separate the satire these days.
From the morning briefing:
National heroes sometimes have humble political origins.
Abraham Lincoln was arguably the countryās least-qualified president ā a former one-term member of Congress ā at the time that he took office.
I get that they wanted to pick someone who went on to become a hero of sorts, but at this point is there really any question about the countryās least-qualified presidentā¦?
Assuming qualified means āqualified to fulfill the role according to the nationās laws and constitution.ā
Oh, on second reading I guess they mean āat that time.ā
But still, fucking NY Times.
id say george washington was by far the least qualified. during the debates, he couldnāt even name one president he liked! not one
Nowadays he wouldnāt even be eligible, since he wasnāt born in the United States.
