Some key points: There's also some analysis of the possibility of Harris using abortion to attack Trump's campaign. We've seen this be successful in the past few elections, though it feels like...
Some key points:
“We have to be a nation that trusts women,” Harris said.
Harris "visiting a Minnesota abortion clinic in March—a historic first"
There's also some analysis of the possibility of Harris using abortion to attack Trump's campaign. We've seen this be successful in the past few elections, though it feels like "old news", I'm hoping that it provides some silver lining to this situation if Harris ends up being the candidate.
Fwiw, I don't feel like Dobbs is old news. I think women and particularly women in states with these restrictions are not "done" with the topic. I don't want it to happen but when inevitably...
Fwiw, I don't feel like Dobbs is old news. I think women and particularly women in states with these restrictions are not "done" with the topic. I don't want it to happen but when inevitably another pregnant person dies due to not being able to get an abortion, they'll be a symbol of how fresh the topic is, and how angry we can be about it.
I'm glad people are still paying attention to it. To be clear about my position, I don't want it to be "old news", just that I fear it is. I hope Harris (or whoever) drives hard with it to make it...
I'm glad people are still paying attention to it.
To be clear about my position, I don't want it to be "old news", just that I fear it is. I hope Harris (or whoever) drives hard with it to make it a (the?) central issue of the election.
I don't know if this could happen, but it would be amazing if they pushed a federal bill (maybe it needs to be an amendment?) legalizing abortion out and forced the republicans to take it on right before the election.
Yeah, that’s fair. I personally haven’t looked into how to properly filter based on tags here. (I really should!) My main feeling is that if the megathread exists, I think it should be used. I get...
Yeah, that’s fair.
I personally haven’t looked into how to properly filter based on tags here. (I really should!)
My main feeling is that if the megathread exists, I think it should be used. I get that it’s a weird mix of rule systems, though.
I think it's particularly difficult from Sunday to Monday when the thread is going to change anyway. But I also think this is large enough news that it makes sense that we're seeing a spate of...
I think it's particularly difficult from Sunday to Monday when the thread is going to change anyway. But I also think this is large enough news that it makes sense that we're seeing a spate of political posts.
FWIW, I had forgotten there was a megathread. I normally browse by activity with "last 24 hours", but with that setting, it doesn't show up for me, even though the last comment on it was 8 hours...
FWIW, I had forgotten there was a megathread. I normally browse by activity with "last 24 hours", but with that setting, it doesn't show up for me, even though the last comment on it was 8 hours ago. I do see the new one that was posted today. Maybe that is a bug, or maybe I my understanding of the settings is wrong. I think this is the default or almost the default setting, so if it's similar for many people, that might account for the behavior.
I personally don't find the megathreads that useful, though I'm not refusing to use it if that's policy (see above). I'd rather see things posted as topics and use the tag or category groupings for people that want to browse them all at once (I don't, I just browse the feed). It would be much easier to filter by other tags (for example, if you want to see things about politics but not abortion) this way than if everything is a post in a single topic. Maybe this argues for a ~politics, but when people ask about it, I think the usual answer is, "use the tags, that's what they are there for".
I'm going on a bit of a sidetrack, but still: I did not know this until just now, but the time-based filter is based only on when topics were posted, not on the activity in them. This is stated in...
I'm going on a bit of a sidetrack, but still:
FWIW, I had forgotten there was a megathread. I normally browse by activity with "last 24 hours", but with that setting, it doesn't show up for me, even though the last comment on it was 8 hours ago.
In that discussion, I think cfabbro (as so often) brings up some good points as to why it works as it does, but it's definitely not the behaviour I assumed based only on the "from <time-period>" filter.
Some key points:
There's also some analysis of the possibility of Harris using abortion to attack Trump's campaign. We've seen this be successful in the past few elections, though it feels like "old news", I'm hoping that it provides some silver lining to this situation if Harris ends up being the candidate.
Fwiw, I don't feel like Dobbs is old news. I think women and particularly women in states with these restrictions are not "done" with the topic. I don't want it to happen but when inevitably another pregnant person dies due to not being able to get an abortion, they'll be a symbol of how fresh the topic is, and how angry we can be about it.
I'm glad people are still paying attention to it.
To be clear about my position, I don't want it to be "old news", just that I fear it is. I hope Harris (or whoever) drives hard with it to make it a (the?) central issue of the election.
I don't know if this could happen, but it would be amazing if they pushed a federal bill (maybe it needs to be an amendment?) legalizing abortion out and forced the republicans to take it on right before the election.
Should this also go in the US Politics weekly thread?
I'm seeing this a lot, and I get there's a lot of political news, but if it's tagged correctly, I'm not sure it's incorrect for it not to be there?
Yeah, that’s fair.
I personally haven’t looked into how to properly filter based on tags here. (I really should!)
My main feeling is that if the megathread exists, I think it should be used. I get that it’s a weird mix of rule systems, though.
I think it's particularly difficult from Sunday to Monday when the thread is going to change anyway. But I also think this is large enough news that it makes sense that we're seeing a spate of political posts.
FWIW, I had forgotten there was a megathread. I normally browse by activity with "last 24 hours", but with that setting, it doesn't show up for me, even though the last comment on it was 8 hours ago. I do see the new one that was posted today. Maybe that is a bug, or maybe I my understanding of the settings is wrong. I think this is the default or almost the default setting, so if it's similar for many people, that might account for the behavior.
I personally don't find the megathreads that useful, though I'm not refusing to use it if that's policy (see above). I'd rather see things posted as topics and use the tag or category groupings for people that want to browse them all at once (I don't, I just browse the feed). It would be much easier to filter by other tags (for example, if you want to see things about politics but not abortion) this way than if everything is a post in a single topic. Maybe this argues for a ~politics, but when people ask about it, I think the usual answer is, "use the tags, that's what they are there for".
I'm going on a bit of a sidetrack, but still:
I did not know this until just now, but the time-based filter is based only on when topics were posted, not on the activity in them. This is stated in the Tildes docs on sorting topics and there's some discussion in an issue in the Tildes issue tracker on gitlab from about four years ago.
In that discussion, I think cfabbro (as so often) brings up some good points as to why it works as it does, but it's definitely not the behaviour I assumed based only on the "from <time-period>" filter.