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> It would be very uncharitable to extrapolate that to "the people joking about eggs don't care about working-class people". I put it to you that the conservat

> It would be very uncharitable to extrapolate that to "the people joking about eggs don't care about working-class people". I put it to you that the conservative opposition and bigots are very uncharitable at the outset, in interpretation of messaging from the other side. In this case they didn't have to do any work, it was literally said for them. Don't forget that working people and moderates are the ones you need to convince. If people didn't change their votes, election outcomes would always be the same. Educated people tend to be more committed to a worldview (and overconfident), whether left or right. They are listening when you mock egg prices.

llamaimperative 2y ago
Who is mocking egg prices? I see people mocking the administration's total lack of effectiveness or even giving-a-fuckness about egg prices. Which is exactly what should be amplified over and over and over, because you're right, this stuff does actually hurt people.
- slothtrop 2y ago
  I mean if the avalanche of responses to me doesn't tell you that this was "a thing", there's nothing to say.
  - llamaimperative 2y ago
    the avalanche of responses are mostly people saying you're misunderstanding what people are making fun of.
dragonwriter 2y ago
> If people didn't change their votes, election outcomes would always be the same. This is only true if the composition of the electorate never changes, which of course it does: people become, and stop being, eligible voters all timhe time, and those that remain eligible change constituencies. Even if each individual’s voting behavior was constant, election results would change all the time.
- slothtrop 2y ago
  Of course it changes. Just not that quickly. We went from Biden to Trump: do you want to explain that with electoral composition?
  - dragonwriter 2y ago
    > Of course it changes. That's literally the opposite of your original claim. > We went from Biden to Trump: do you want to explain that with electoral composition? If I wanted to do that, I probably would have actually claimed that particular change could be explained that way.

llamaimperative 2y ago

Who is mocking egg prices? I see people mocking the administration's total lack of effectiveness or even giving-a-fuckness about egg prices. Which is exactly what should be amplified over and over and over, because you're right, this stuff does actually hurt people.

slothtrop 2y ago
I mean if the avalanche of responses to me doesn't tell you that this was "a thing", there's nothing to say.
- llamaimperative 2y ago
  the avalanche of responses are mostly people saying you're misunderstanding what people are making fun of.

dragonwriter 2y ago

> If people didn't change their votes, election outcomes would always be the same. This is only true if the composition of the electorate never changes, which of course it does: people become, and stop being, eligible voters all timhe time, and those that remain eligible change constituencies. Even if each individual’s voting behavior was constant, election results would change all the time.

slothtrop 2y ago
Of course it changes. Just not that quickly. We went from Biden to Trump: do you want to explain that with electoral composition?
- dragonwriter 2y ago
  > Of course it changes. That's literally the opposite of your original claim. > We went from Biden to Trump: do you want to explain that with electoral composition? If I wanted to do that, I probably would have actually claimed that particular change could be explained that way.