One time the switch happened because the popular candidate was assassinated.

One time it was partially because of, and partially the cause of the Civil War. (Contest only resolved after Southern delegates walked out)

One time it was because neither candidate could get the support of the KKK. No that’s not a joke.

And another time it was because of the civil rights act. The guy who ended up causing the contest really, really hated it.

In every single case, the party that had a contested convention lost the election. Generally by a pretty wide margin.

Don’t feed the trolls man

How dare you rack Dr Cherry Blossom so low. SHE STRIPPED HER WAY THROUGH MED SCHOOL

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You’ve never seen what dementia can do to a person. Or, just the general confusion that comes with age. I’m happy for you, honestly it sucks to watch. Someone who used to know everything suddenly gets confused on the way to a restaurant they’ve been to a thousand times. Forgets why they called, or even that they called you in the first place. And, importantly, have their opinions flip on a dime with no warning whatsoever.

This isn’t necessarily dementia, it can be caused by any number of things, ailments that younger people would brush off without a thought.

Talib, AOC? Cori Bush?

5 percent is awfully generous. Maybe it’s that high for people that try to run, but the vast majority of people that win are sucking someone’s teet.

My god can we get a younger social Democrat please? Fuckin A I’m tired of people born before WW2 ended making all the policy decisions. I was going to say before the moon landing but they were all adults when that happened. They’re not even Boomers. They’re fucking older than boomers.

If it were actually AI I might have some faith.

This isn’t a neural net processor, not a learning computer. It’s a fucking mechanical Turk. A bad one.

What he’s talking about isn’t capable of deriving new ideas. It’s just going to spit out shit it’s seen already.

The library of Babel is just as likely to give us the answers he’s talking about. More likely maybe because it’s at least already written down.

Bacon and ice cream go great together and I refuse to pretend they don’t.

I still miss midnight snack ice cream. Potato chips covered in chocolate. Delicious

As a man who eats peanuts by the pound, I feel every part of this in my soul.

Here’s a fun fact that I think of every time I read about light delay.

We assume the speed of light is the same in all directions but there’s no way to prove that it is.

It could be light speed is instantaneous in one direction, and half the speed we think it is in the reverse. Any test we could devise depends on information traveling in two directions, nullifying any discrepancies in light speed.

He also doesn’t want books that have gay characters in public or school libraries. Or kids to know sex exists.

Ok for them to be married. But not to have the vocabulary to identify when they’re being abused.

I very frequently find that very few people here grasp the concept of humor in any measurable way.