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Cake day: June 1st, 2023

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  • It’s part of it, of course. He’s more “electable” (cough hhhwhite).

    But there’s a lot to dislike about Jasmine Crockett for this particular race without even getting into policy - just campaign strategy.

    Her strategy is to energize dem voters in Texas at the expense of angering conservatives and “moderates”. She’s good at that, and has been vocally slapping down Republican politicians on the hill for a while now. That will all be used against her by the Republican opposition in this race. They will use her viral clips in smear campaigns to energize Republican voters to save their state from the woke angry black lady - that is a message that will land great with their base and even with many “moderates/undecideds”. There’s a reason the republican party has backed her campaign, and it isn’t because they think she can win. It’s about race and gender, but also messaging.

    Talarico is much more mild mannered and has a strategy of winning over Republican voters. That is not usually a winning strategy. But in Texas when many people want an alternative to Trump & cronies that shares their christian values? It’s got a real shot. People are fucking stupid and care more about messaging than actual politics. He’s got the messaging that will appeal to them. He’s a seminarian. He looks like a choir boy. He is fucking great at rhetoric. He is electable for more reasons than just race.



  • Even beyond like actual facts and evidence proving this wrong, I have one fundamental question for all these nutcases making wild claims about diet: why the fuck would X diet do Y thing?

    Like what about eating more meat and fat & being in ketosis could possibly have any effect on schizophrenia, of all things.

    It doesn’t even make sense on any basic level. Could there theoretically be some counterintuitive thing that would cause an effect? Maybe, sure. But come on - these wacky claims don’t even pass the sniff test.