knightly

You're probably more correct than me, lol~

Yep

I did mention "smugglers", right?

They don't need the White House to achieve their agenda, they got Obama to sign Romney's healthcare plan without even holding majorities in both houses of congress.

The fact that Democrats are willing to bend over backwards to accommodate their friends across the aisle is sufficient to prove that we can't rely on them to consistently advocate for the best interests of their constituents.

I'm not giving up in the slightest. My opinion is that we should put our effort where it can be most effective, and given the mass media environment, peaceful protest can be rendered inert by simply not covering the story.

The first 50501 protest drew a purported 72,000 people at 67 events across the country, but hardly anybody seems to know that even occurred.

Provocateurs injected into BLM burned down a police station to discredit it as a peaceful movement and streisanded it so hard that people still think that police departments in California actually got defunded over it.

When peaceful protest have been criminalized, activists have nothing to gain by keeping their protests peaceful.

I'm not insulted or offended in any way, this is me trying to gently correct your misconception about how common relationships like mine are.

There's no need to get emotionally charged about it, some people are serial monogamists and some aren't and that's OK. Some highschool relationships last and some don't and that's OK too.

Again, WHAT ARE YOU ACTUALLY ARGUING HERE? Seems like you're arguing for the sake of arguing. What even is your point?

I very explicitly stated my point in the previous comment. There's no need to get emotionally charged about a quibble over statistics

Rare is rare. You're just splitting hairs here between what's exceptionally rare and what is more common but still rare

Exceptional events are those that are extraordinary. A blue lobster is exceptional at one in two million, but the odds that any random person is in or has been in a polyamorous relationship are estimated at one in nine and a highschool relationship ends in marriage for one in fifty cases. Combining both gives a rate of one in 450, meaning that we can statistically estimate the number of poly households in the USA that started in highschool at around 286,000, or slightly more than one Alaska. Something so common is hardly exceptional.

There are more folks with poly experience than military experience, so if you want to say that my relationship is exceptional then I question your sense of proportion.

I don't know what you think "status quo" means, but the Democrats have been capitulating to intransigent Republicans for longer than I've been alive.

You accuse me of hating them when I'm merely disappointed. You accuse me of partisanship when I merely express a justifiable lack of confidence in their leadership. That's all fine, but what could possibly have posessed you to call me clueless when you imagine that flouridated drinking water is the hill Democrats would choose to die on?

My point is that it really isn't rare enough for an example to be exceptional.

The lottery's odds might be hundreds of thousands or even millions to one, but someone is still going to win it. What would be exceptional would be a year where nobody wins the lottery.

1-2% odds are a lot higher than lottery odds. If someone offered me anything close to 50-1 on that bet then I'd absolutely take it.

It's really not much of one, Colorado isn't a big state. All this really means is more profit for the return trips of smugglers running weed to the adjacent red states.

There is no argument here if you can't accept and agree on the basic facts of the situation.

The "basic facts of the situation" are that the Democrats would never have been willing to risk political capital over niche red state issues and would rather give up than spend the effort needed to protect our teeth.

As someone who has lived through more than a few presidential administrations myself, I can tell you for a fact that this is the how the status quo would have been preserved.

Politics should never be boring, because politics are always a matter of life and death. These issues are important and the fact that Democrats care more about working with Republicans than getting into fistfights with them on the congressional floor is dangerously boring.

Precisely. She'd immediately wash her hands of the issue and give red states carte blanche to fuck themselves up however they wanted. A carefully triangulated middle ground where she gives up the pretense of even addressing a particular public health issue in exchange for gaining exactly nothing.