Roger Strassburg
@roger-strassburg.bsky.social
American citizen living in Germany.
Are you drunk?
Anyway, I fail to see how preventing Trump from winning would have supported killing the largest number of innocent people.
Anyway, I fail to see how preventing Trump from winning would have supported killing the largest number of innocent people.
December 8, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Are you drunk?
Anyway, I fail to see how preventing Trump from winning would have supported killing the largest number of innocent people.
Anyway, I fail to see how preventing Trump from winning would have supported killing the largest number of innocent people.
I don’t understand your first sentence. You exercise your right to vote by voting. You affect the outcome by how you vote, but also by not voting at all.
The OP is right: by not voting for Harris, you helped Trump. If that’s what you wanted, fine. If not, that’s still what you accomplished.
The OP is right: by not voting for Harris, you helped Trump. If that’s what you wanted, fine. If not, that’s still what you accomplished.
December 8, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I don’t understand your first sentence. You exercise your right to vote by voting. You affect the outcome by how you vote, but also by not voting at all.
The OP is right: by not voting for Harris, you helped Trump. If that’s what you wanted, fine. If not, that’s still what you accomplished.
The OP is right: by not voting for Harris, you helped Trump. If that’s what you wanted, fine. If not, that’s still what you accomplished.
Not rooting for a hockey team won’t change the results of the game. Being a player and not showing up will, just like having the right to vote and not exercising it changes the results of elections.
December 7, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Not rooting for a hockey team won’t change the results of the game. Being a player and not showing up will, just like having the right to vote and not exercising it changes the results of elections.
It would be perfect karma for Republicans to lose those districts because they thinned the Republican lead out enough for Dems to flip them.
December 5, 2025 at 3:17 AM
It would be perfect karma for Republicans to lose those districts because they thinned the Republican lead out enough for Dems to flip them.
I think it’s appalling that partisan advantage is a justification for gerrymandering, especially when it’s done mid-decade and explicitly for that purpose. And even if racial discrimination wasn’t the primary motivating factor, it’s often a secondary effect of discriminating against Democrats.
December 5, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I think it’s appalling that partisan advantage is a justification for gerrymandering, especially when it’s done mid-decade and explicitly for that purpose. And even if racial discrimination wasn’t the primary motivating factor, it’s often a secondary effect of discriminating against Democrats.
Glad I already have a lifetime pass.
November 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Glad I already have a lifetime pass.
It was much less than 30 seconds.
November 28, 2025 at 1:16 AM
It was much less than 30 seconds.
She kinda almost was…
November 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM
She kinda almost was…
But the job of journalists is to tell people what’s actually going on, not to validate incorrect but popular perceptions. You can’t tell people that their situation isn’t what they’re experiencing, but you can and should tell them when a popular narrative is false.
November 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
But the job of journalists is to tell people what’s actually going on, not to validate incorrect but popular perceptions. You can’t tell people that their situation isn’t what they’re experiencing, but you can and should tell them when a popular narrative is false.
Yes, I’m somewhat familiar with Will Stancil, and often read his posts. It certainly doesn’t go over very well to tell people the economy is better than what they’re experiencing, especially when it comes from politicians defending the economy under their watch.
November 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Yes, I’m somewhat familiar with Will Stancil, and often read his posts. It certainly doesn’t go over very well to tell people the economy is better than what they’re experiencing, especially when it comes from politicians defending the economy under their watch.
Sure, but you have to bring the plutonium. Or invent the Mr. Fusion.
November 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Sure, but you have to bring the plutonium. Or invent the Mr. Fusion.
It’s late, so enough for now.
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
It’s late, so enough for now.
I’m not really sure what to say here, because discussion of the distinctions between inflation and price level, and core inflation and consumer price increases, as well as the undesirability of deflation, doesn’t really get to the issue people care about: can I still afford what I need or want.
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I’m not really sure what to say here, because discussion of the distinctions between inflation and price level, and core inflation and consumer price increases, as well as the undesirability of deflation, doesn’t really get to the issue people care about: can I still afford what I need or want.
As to inflation, I get the impression that a lot of people confuse the inflation rate with the price level. RW media kept telling people the inflation rate was high long after it had fallen to normal levels, stating that “prices haven’t gone down.”
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
As to inflation, I get the impression that a lot of people confuse the inflation rate with the price level. RW media kept telling people the inflation rate was high long after it had fallen to normal levels, stating that “prices haven’t gone down.”
If someone is unemployed, they’re not going to be convinced that things are good because unemployment is down. But by the same token, it would seem to me to be the job of the MSM to tell people who are employed whether or not the high unemployment rate they are being told to fear actually exists.
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
If someone is unemployed, they’re not going to be convinced that things are good because unemployment is down. But by the same token, it would seem to me to be the job of the MSM to tell people who are employed whether or not the high unemployment rate they are being told to fear actually exists.
What I think was missing here was actual analysis of whether people’s perception of the economy was based on their actual experience of it, or on the narrative that it was bad.
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
What I think was missing here was actual analysis of whether people’s perception of the economy was based on their actual experience of it, or on the narrative that it was bad.
By that I don’t mean telling people their own experiences weren’t real, which is kind of how Democrats’ came off when trying to set the record straight on inflation and jobs numbers.
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
By that I don’t mean telling people their own experiences weren’t real, which is kind of how Democrats’ came off when trying to set the record straight on inflation and jobs numbers.
I would postulate that this discrepancy has to do with the narrative from the right about “the disastrous Biden economy” becoming the public’s perception of the economy in general, and MSM reporting on people’s economic concerns without digging deeper into what was perception and what was real.
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I would postulate that this discrepancy has to do with the narrative from the right about “the disastrous Biden economy” becoming the public’s perception of the economy in general, and MSM reporting on people’s economic concerns without digging deeper into what was perception and what was real.
I remember reporters asking voters who they voted for and why, and quite a few younger Trump voters said they voted for him because of inflation, jobs, economy in general. We’ve also seen polls where people rate their own economic situation better than they view the economy as a whole.
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I remember reporters asking voters who they voted for and why, and quite a few younger Trump voters said they voted for him because of inflation, jobs, economy in general. We’ve also seen polls where people rate their own economic situation better than they view the economy as a whole.
I thought a lot about how to answer this with more than just handwaving and assertions, or rambling on and on. I’m not so sure I’ve succeeded, but here are some of my thoughts.
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I thought a lot about how to answer this with more than just handwaving and assertions, or rambling on and on. I’m not so sure I’ve succeeded, but here are some of my thoughts.
That’s true. I also don’t know how it would be possible to get it in 2 on skill alone.
I had bad luck last week that killed my streak, though that was because I wasn’t testing hard enough to think up alternative words so that I could make guesses to weed them out.
I had bad luck last week that killed my streak, though that was because I wasn’t testing hard enough to think up alternative words so that I could make guesses to weed them out.
November 25, 2025 at 11:56 PM
That’s true. I also don’t know how it would be possible to get it in 2 on skill alone.
I had bad luck last week that killed my streak, though that was because I wasn’t testing hard enough to think up alternative words so that I could make guesses to weed them out.
I had bad luck last week that killed my streak, though that was because I wasn’t testing hard enough to think up alternative words so that I could make guesses to weed them out.
Btw, your link sends me to random places, including a German news article, a warning that continuing would take me to nude photos, and “this website is for sale.”
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Btw, your link sends me to random places, including a German news article, a warning that continuing would take me to nude photos, and “this website is for sale.”
I agree with respect to the anti-Kamala leftists, and also other leftists who would apparently rather punish Democrats than prevent Republicans from burning the whole place down.
November 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I agree with respect to the anti-Kamala leftists, and also other leftists who would apparently rather punish Democrats than prevent Republicans from burning the whole place down.