2024 ELECTION THREAD

by Dynasty k

Open borders are something progressives have advocated for but not necessarily Democrats. Ruy Teixeira wrote about this in something I read today.

https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/the-progressive-moment-is-over

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The Progressive Moment Is Over

by Ruy Teixeira

Summary:
1. Loosening restrictions on illegal immigration was a terrible idea and voters hate it.
2. Promoting lax law enforcement and tolerance of social disorder was a terrible idea and voters hate it.
3. Insisting that everyone should look at all issues through the lens of identity politics was a terrible i

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talking more about biological men being allowed to play in sports against women than about maternity leave was wrong

well man use Italy instead of Europe then, I have been living here my entire life.

that you give up on small coins at times can happen yes (when paying cash), but is a 60 cent tip for a 39.40 bill what we are talking about?

The practical consequences of open borders were far different in an era (i) the U.S. was much less affluent on a relative basis; and (ii) most people in the world had no practical way to get to the United States border, no matter how easy it was to cross.

I acknowledge that the first point may make the moral case for open borders stronger than it was in 1830.

I don't care one bit. I support the "immigration crisis" as people love to call it. Send more. Send them all

So when you said supporting open borders meant it was easy to defend Dems on the border you weren't saying anything about Dems? Ok.

BUT THEY'RE EATING THE DOGS

If you and people who agree with you are willing to insure the rest of the population for damages caused by those people, and no welfare nor citizenship will ever be given to them, why not?

ok but what Im saying is that that is not the Dems position.

I’m gonna have to start maintaining a running list of my favorites bc you just became one lmao

Forget Sklansky IQ, it’s time for Crossnerd’s power rankings

I mean, you can't be in your own rankings, so you're disqualified Also, very convenient how nobody was around when you were 2nd or 3rd or 15th or whatever Sklansky made you.

I mean, I was 20th, so I don't care about getting scammed out of my true intelligence points that would make yo all look like amateurs and sklansky knew this so he scammed us all just to keep me out of the top , with backing from the fbi doj, ps. ftp. wpn. gg... anyway, I fear I have said too much.

I think I was 4th but I also knew the entire time the rankings weren’t real. Sklansky would never rate a lady brain that highly :p

Power rankings sound fun. In all seriousness, I would be curious to know how posters evaluate their own intellectual strengths and weaknesses.

My power rankings would be extremely arbitrary and capricious, I assure you

I could riff off the people I think are smarter than I am who have posted here.

Well named
Tame deuces
Rococo
Mathematical dick
Ecriture
MAybe checkraisedraw, jury is out on him
Dvaut1

Struggling for more. Maybe some obvious ones I've missed, dunno.

Of course. AllinMcLovin assigns TZ points for good posts in Sporting Events based solely on what personally amuses him. It's a good system.

I should note that I think there are plenty of others with whom I've interacted mostly at UP, that is a specifically a list from here. If we're including UP, I'd include ChrisV specifically.

There was a poster in this forum named Mathematical dick? How did I miss that? Or is that your pet name for chez?

What are TZ points?

Pretty sure he means DS

I can't remember what the TZ refers to. It probably refers to some poster of yore. In practice, they are bonus points that amount to nothing.

He posted probably fewer than half a dozen times. I'm sure you know how to use the search feature.

Lol ah ok that’s amazing

That makes him smarter than all of us.