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Quote from: Frumple on February 11, 2020, 08:03:09 pm

... wasn't that rules change like supported by sanders and warren and so on? Iirc the most progressive folks involved were plenty cheerful to have a giant racist billionaire target sitting on stage with them.

I thought I'd seen Warren and Sanders both criticize it heavily.

I'unno, I could be thinking something else. Pretty sure there was some kind of rules change benefiting bloomshit they were on board with, tho'. Hell if I got the energy to look it back up right now.

Any case, Biden's getting stepped on, so yay. Increasingly likely for there to be one less racist old man in the race

Has bloomshit even gotten any endorsements or anything from the DNC side things? Last I paid attention he was entirely self-funding and basically fucking anyone can call themselves democrat and run as one.

Though apparently he also is the one currently doing best in head to head polling vs trump, because reality hates all of us or something I guess.

Doc, I wasn't sure why it was prescribed in the first place, and I'm still not sure why now, but we're taking my grandfather off the stool softener.

Came home to an odd smell to the house. Asked what it was. He said it cleaned it up. Went to check. Shit on the toilet. Shit on the floor. Shit on the door. Shit on the wall behind the toilet. Just. Shit. It was not cleaned. It apparently projectile excreted.

This is not the sort of thing you want to come home to

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I wonder how many other fictions have a character rename, on top of my head I can only remember gandalf grey > white

I mean, it's fairly common with reincarnation stories, just usually pretty early on? Whoever gets reincarnated or whatever changes to a native name (or starts with a native one and switches to past-life later).

Stuff that changes names part way through is more rare, especially if it's not just taking on another identity to hide from something or whatever. Still, I've had it come up before. Want to say the next most common is with settings where some culture or another changes names at some traditional point, generally adulthood/rite of passage stuff... or marriage, I guess, which would just be straight up regularly appearing in fiction, actually. After that... maybe amnesia related shenanigans, I'unno.

Basically it happens, but yeah, it's not even remotely common, outside of marriage related stuff. Generally writers don't want to make characters harder to recognize, heh.

E: Or in other words, like, the romance/domestic fiction genres have the market largely cornered on name changing. Which... it's a thing, ha.

And pete wildly overperformed, unfortunately. Bernie winning is a lot less impressive when it's alongside nearly tying or losing to the blighter. Hopefully the next few primary things go better for sanders (or warren, who only came third, but still beat biden, and didn't have pete's shady looking shit or bernie's contributions to making the caucus such a shitshow by pushing for rules changes), or a least continue going poorly for biden and not continue this instance of mayor "faked black endorsements" performing well.

Though so far as the SDEs go, the emphasis there mostly just seems like consistency. They've usually been the focus of reporting, iirc, and are of similar importance as the shitty electoral college. It's less some kind of deliberate consent manufacturing or whatever ("nearly matched sanders in popular vote out of nowhere" would have done that just fine) and more just laziness or habit.

I've heard the head of the DNC is calling for recount, but was refused or something. Still not clear on that part.

The DNC seems determined to not just shoot themselves in the foot, but blow their legs clean off.

One thing to remember about the iowa mess is that the DNC doesn't actually have much control over it. 90+% of the failures causing this shitstorm has been the fault of the state IDP, of which the DNC has little to no meaningful control over, especially when it comes to the actual implementation of the caucus. They can make suggestions and whatnot, and theoretically refuse delegates or whatev', but most of the primary running stuff is more or less entirely devolved/state run. The national party just doesn't have genuine control.

As much as folks seem to want to blame them, the DNC itself is just pretty blameless for this debacle. Fault here is on Iowa's population, the local IDP, and their collective insistence on running fuckstupid caucus horseshit.

Man, look out the window to see if I wanted to bother the kittens, big ol' possum sitting there eating the cat food, pretty as you please. Chased it off with a broom handle, probably going to see if we still got a critter trap stashed away somewhere or another. Friggin' tree rat, go away =_=

I'm still not entirely clear if Pete's folks actually funded the app, or just did business with the company that dev'd it, honestly. The latter actually wouldn't be much of an issue, since from what I understand not terribly many people are particularly interested in sticking their dick in the overclocked cheese grinder that is software development for election infrastructure, i.e. it's easy-ish to have done business with them just due to limited options. The former might even not be anything but a bad look -- other campaigns, including bernie's, largely seems to be suggesting the official numbers starting to ooze out are in line with what folks were seeing on the ground, i.e. whatever problems the app had was just plain ol' rush job development crap. Pete just performing well in an area he hyper focused on, in a way to produce specific results, is a non-story that doesn't require any shadowy (heh) shenanigans (a non-story we'll no doubt see blown up into mounds of conspiratorial media buzz, of course).

Beyond Iowa, policy wise Pete's, like... actually fine? His platform and rhetoric are largely left-wing (shit, in some places more aggressively than sanders, iirc) and whatnot. Miles better than trump, probably even as good or better than biden. When it comes to other stuff, though... oof. That falsifying black endorsements thing is basically a case in point. His record as a mayor has some nasty shit in it, too. Folks that dislike pete for non-bigot reasons definitely have grounds to do so.

In any case, there's apparently numbers coming out for Iowa? Latest I saw before the site I was checking 502'd was sanders winning the vote count... and pete the delegate, because of-fucking-course the caucus is going to give us some 2016 horseshit to kick off the 2020 primaries

E: though bright side either way, biden basically got shat on from both directions, so...