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  • Biden was the most progressive president since at least 1981.

    Many people felt he wasn’t progressive enough. The current primary elections are swinging far more progressive than their equivalents in 2018. It should be expected that the next democratically elected president will be more progressive than Biden. Whether they will be progressive enough and effective enough to create long lasting power like when FDRs New Deal dominated politics from 1933-1969. If you do enough damage to the economy, a generation will learn.

    Similarly, it took two world wars to learn how to prevent a 3rd, in the relative short term anyways.

    Memories remember differences. Trumps second presidency is much worse than his first. It will be more memorable. People are becoming more engaged.

    Its entirely possible this is the end of the US as we know it, but its also entirely possible that this era will usher in a New Deal-esque progressivism that a generation remembers for life.


  • If the US survives Trump, I believe the country will be changing for the better longer term.

    Lack of voter engagement makes progressive populism policy hard to pass. If there’s a sense of “we’re the most free country in the world, things may not be perfect, but things are better than they would be elsewhere” then the engagement required for change won’t happen.

    If things are worse than a year ago, then people might start realizing the government isn’t working and be forced to be more engaged which allows more populism progressive policy to rise to the top.

    Climate change is similar, it’s been talked about for so long that until it gets to be nearly unhabitable many people won’t get on board with its existence. But when they do they’ll be fully on board.

    Whether the rubber band will bounce back before its too late, idk, could snap. But if we survive.the worst change, the good change will come.







  • I mean, sure, I could have had a more specific search. I just assumed that DDG was privacy focused and more or less gave the same search results to everyone.

    My states midterms happened months ago, and weren’t particularly newsworthy then. Let alone now.

    Given the newsworthiness of Michigan, especially, and 4 other states last night, I would have expected to see results skew towards the trending news story as opposed to old, largely irrelevant, results that skew towards knowing who is performing the search.

    It’s backwards of my expectations with the product. And based on my understanding of how search engines operate, youvare more likely to catch search engine bias with broad sweeping searches, than you would with hyper specific searches. As an example, this search was able to identify that DDG biases location over relevance/newsworthiness. Which is why I asked about it in the community I did.

    I wasn’t complaining about the effectiveness of the search, rather the privacy concerns.