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Cake day: August 21st, 2023

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  • The DNC fucked over Bernie.

    The primary voters voted for Hillary over Bernie, even before the superdelegates became relevant at the convention.

    Both can be true.

    Regardless of all the shenanigans with the superdelegates, I highly doubt that the DNC would have nominated Hillary if Bernie had actually won the primaries.

    Voters could have seen through the DNC shenanigans and chose Bernie, but they didn’t.

    It’s the same with all the dark money corporate contributions… Does it influence the result? The data surely shows that it does, but voters still have the choice to NOT let that dark money spending influence their decision.



  • It’s an interesting issue, since it isn’t really a freedom of speech issue since the government is not censoring this person.

    Republicans cried foul in cases like these (which are not censorship) and then put in an administration that DOES do censorship.

    Generally speaking, Republicans don’t agree with regulations that would prevent employers from hiring or firing however they want.

    Then they started stripping funding from institutions that supposedly were “DEI hiring”.

    So at this point they’re clear that “cancel culture is only bad when Trump supporters are fired”.

    I have a more nuanced view, which is that if you accept a job where you are very publicly associated with the company, the employer should be able to have a clause where they specify you can be terminated for your public social media activity. Anything that isn’t fully public doesn’t count.

    It would have to be clear that it is a condition of employment that you not get political on social media as you’re accepting a C level position, etc.

    If you post anonymously somewhere and that account isn’t actually associated with you or your company, then that should be like a workaround for the above.

    Otherwise, as long as you aren’t associating your public posts WITH your company, and aren’t harassing your coworkers, etc, they shouldn’t be able to fire you for them.