They can shift around a little bit, but they don’t really walk as a means of travel.

Yes. Conservative groups are buying out whole theatres that then show the movie to empty seats.

Dragonflies.

Their nymph phase is aquatic and in their adult phase they only fly. Their legs are only for grasping.

It would go out of business if it made as many widgets as it could as fast as it could. Instead make a limited amount a year, keeping demand high. Just have to be willing to accept regular returns on investment instead of chasing perpetual growth.

I can’t wait for the Supreme Court to reverse this in a shadow docket decision.

Obi-Wan Kenobi saying “Hello there”.

We are talking about beating Republicans and that doesn’t stop at the polls.

Look, Bernie was the only political race ever where I donated money, so when I say this know where I am coming from. We have no idea if Bernie would have been any more effective than Biden if elected. Maybe the right would have reacted so hard that he would have been obstructed every step of the way, accomplished nothing, and we would have gotten Trump anyway. Maybe they would have just killed him in the first year and we would have ended up in the Civil War 2.

Zohran Mamdani is a great example. He beat the Dems on their own grounds. I have faith he can be a leader against the Republican administration precisely because he proved he has a plan and the ability to execute it in spite of resistance.

We need to get rid of “first past the post” election systems. That will allow candidates like Mamdani to be competitive in a larger variety. The way I see it, this will NEVER happen through Republicans and as the system exists now there are only two viable choices. I’m not saying it won’t be an uphill battle, but at least there has been some progress in making elections more representative of a variety of political views under Democrats.

You don’t think being able to win against an entrenched power structure in spite of legislative obstruction is at all relevant to defeating Republicans?

Big cotton and big pharma have a lot to do with it. Originally in the US though it was pretty much pure racism.

And you don’t think the Republicans put their thumb on the scale every chance they get? The fight is not going to be fair. You have to be able to win in spite of that.

In short, racism.

Marijuana was largely banned because it was associated with Mexican immigrants and African Americans. It was claimed the drug led to violence, insanity, and race mixing.

Even today, black people are about four times as likely as white people to be arrested on marijuana-related charges even though they use the drug at similar rates to white people.

How so?

Nobody is going to “give” you a shot. The left has to take it. If they can’t figure out how to do that, they don’t have what it takes to lead the country.

If the left can’t beat Democrats, how the hell do you think they will beat Republicans?

Here is one of my bits of Chicago trivia. Ridge road is one of the oldest roads in Chicago. If you drive down it, you will notice there are a lot of cemeteries along the road. That is because the ridge it is named after is the beach dune from the old shoreline when the lake stretched further inland during the last glacial period. The cemeteries build along this road because it’s easier digging graves in sand.

The reason is irrelevant to the point that current Democrats are the same as 1980s Republicans. That is just false.

Gonna need proof of that one.

https://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2021-01-29/biden-spends-first-week-issuing-orders-reversing-trumps-orders