Month Thirteen: Oil Barons | Dad, How Did You Meet Mom? | Barack Hussein Obama

[Salodin]

This is one of those issues where I feel like I stand from a place of privilege so enormously far removed from being qualified to comment on it that I'm not going to.

Same, but then I read opinions from people who aren't intellectually mature enough to make the same decision

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[Tyche]

If you're a therapist, advertising professional services, and billing health insurance companies and CMS, you're providing medical care.

If you're saying your practice provides only talk therapy and should be protected by free speech, you aren't providing medical care and should not be able to advertise as such nor be able to bill for any health services.

You can't have it both ways.

[Qalbert]

basically the "fox isn't actually news" legal defense

[archibaldcrane]

https://x.com/AamonHawk/status/2039372142538633377

[Mertron]

reminds me of a good kash patel joke i saw a while ago on reddit (i think)

kash patel has mortgage eyes: one is fixed and one is variable

[kuronosan]

If you're a therapist, advertising professional services, and billing health insurance companies and CMS, you're providing medical care.

If you're saying your practice provides only talk therapy and should be protected by free speech, you aren't providing medical care and should not be able to advertise as such nor be able to bill for any health services.

You can't have it both ways.

This

Your job as a therapist is not to give your personal opinion and talk your patients out of their personal choices, it's to help them understand their thoughts and feelings and give them the space to figure it out.

You're a bad therapist if you even interject your own personal shit. It would be like me fingering a patient and then claiming it's not a huge boundary violation "it was a pelvic exam and the patient happened to enjoy it therefore it's freedom of expression" .

No no no no no. Any time you're in a position of authority and expertise there's a responsibility to use your speech and expertise wisely.

Therapists can have opinions. "Don't be gay be straight" is not consistent with medical literature and is malpractice.

[archibaldcrane]

https://x.com/i/status/2039365253809520748

Trump underwater with non-college whites, -80 with 18-34 year olds lol

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[Guitarman]

Fears of being drafted changes your opinion a bit. Who knew.

[Roranora]

Dems, 2-98. who are these 2%

[Gredival]

Dems, 2-98. who are these 2%

Fetterman and accelerationists

[Byrthnoth]

Dems, 2-98. who are these 2%

Such a classic response, lol.

36% of the country approves. Well, I guess nothing can be done...

2% of the 40% that is my in-group approves. GIVE ME THEIR ADDRESSES!

[Tyrath]

Tbf Trump's floor is around 33% and pretty much nothing can be done about his cult

[Roranora]

Such a classic response, lol.

36% of the country approves. Well, I guess nothing can be done...

2% of the 40% that is my in-group approves. GIVE ME THEIR ADDRESSES!

it's more legit curiosity, a curiosity that isn't there for his unshakable floor of support. we've seen and heard lots from them over the last decade

i also think there's a segment of voters who might say disapprove but would still vote for him

[Mertron]

Tbf Trump's floor is around 33% and pretty much nothing can be done about his cult

correct, a lot of those people who disapprove of the trumps handling of the economy, inflation, the war, etc are still voting republican anyway

[Tymon]

i also think there's a segment of voters who might say disapprove but would still vote for him

A much bigger one than many people are willing to believe. Happens every polling cycle.

They loathe him and complain at every avenue but then vote for him because they have 2 generations and decades of propaganda telling them they'll literally explode on the spot and the country will immediately end if they vote for a Democrat even once in their life.

[Tymon]

[Tymon]

It's actually pretty funny how obvious it is when Cheung is posting vs. Trump himself

This one was obviously Cheung, Trump isn't capable of even the extremely limited sentence structure in this post anymore. He did try his best to emulate the random capitalized words though.

[Tyche]

On the topic of the argument of "always-trumpers", the special elections have shown significant evidence of registered Republicans voting Democrat. For example, in the Mar-A-Lago district election held recently, GOP voters would have had to vote for the Democrat candidate, unless you assume Dems went 100% for their candidate and unaffiliated voters went 84-16. If unaffiliated voters broke evenly, about 13% of registered Republicans would have voted for the Democrat.

I doubt unaffiliateds broke evenly, but even if 5% of Republicans broke ranks instead of 13%, it's a huge number.

I don't think you should build a platform around this strategy in the least, but I also believe it's disingenuous to suggest that all registered Republicans are absolutely locked in. It doesn't have to be a big number to throw a pink state like Ohio.

[Tyche]

I honestly think people underestimate how many people are politically disconnected and vote based on current sentiment.

I think you should likely expect a non-zero number of non-white Hispanics switching votes. I doubt the youth vote looks as good either, and that's a demographic with a lot of registered independents.

[Mertron]

seeing chatter pam bondi is getting fired