IQ only measures how good you are at taking IQ tests. They recalibrate score every year to maintain the same distribution of scores within a year. (they change what each question is worth so every year 50% of tests get above 100, 40% of tests are between 85 and 100, 40% of tests are between 100 and 115, etc.)

The impact is that they have to make the tests harder every year. If you applied modern standards to 1920, the average score would be ~70.

What makes more sense to you, that 8/10 people today would be considered near-geniuses 100 years ago, or we got much better at taking IQ tests?

Where do you see frequent trash cans and people regularly throwing trash out in the street?

Typically trash in the street means you don’t have enough trash cans, or a bunch of youth or homeless people whom society is failing.

Lotta scratched liberals around these days.

No not at all, hence why I’m not antidemocratic. Democracy didn’t give us Trump, the dictatorship of capital did.

Apparently it’s too subtle for anyone who didn’t interpret it as antidemocratic.

The joke is how unfortunately prophetic it is.

Do you think the US is meaningfully democratic? When’s the last time any leader did something that favored the people over capital?

It implies that the people are too dumb to govern themselves; that as they get get closer to a perfect democracy, the choose dumber leaders.

It states that in a perfect democracy, the masses would elect morons because they themselves are morons.

What kind of antidemocratic horseshit is this?

And I used some of my magic powers to look at who’s been voting for this comment with all these universal upvotes…

And lo, I was enlightened.

If you’re aware of someone botting votes, I’m certain the admins of all instances would like to know, why don’t you post the data?

Reforming the democrat party isn’t easy.

The DSA managed to win control of the Nevada branch. Before the handover of power, the outgoing dems spent the entire treasury and ran up a debt with their consultant buddies, and essentially burned any infrastructure could on the way out.

Yup. The nice thing about policy that helps everyone is that it’s incredibly unpopular to kill. Biden could have burned student debt in the most visible way possible, and then dared the SCOTUS to create new debt. If they took the bait, you’d have 46.2 million people ready to vote for anyone who promises to expand the SCOTUS.

immediately alienating everyone who may like him

People who like Trump vote Trump, and are going to vote republican anyway.

There are enough Republicans to win elections

So adopting republican policies didn’t get them the wins, are you suggesting the democrats would have won if they adopted republican policy AND pretended to respect Trump?

He’s a political pundit who used to work for TYT and now streams on twitch. He generally has pretty good analysis, particularly with regard to the middle east.

trump is obviously very popular

He is very popular among republicans, nationally he never broke 45% favorability, and is usually <40%.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/favorability/donald-trump/

It’s dumb because it’s trying to win a popularity contest instead of running on how you’ll immediately improve people’s conditions.

OK, but the people who are that racist and sexist are voting republican anyway. Of the dems many mistakes, running a black woman wasn’t one of them.

It would have to go through congress, which wouldn’t approve it, so it would be a lie.

The US president is probably the single most powerful position in the world between explicit powers and people who serve at his pleasure and can be replaced at will, and undefined powers that that extend as far as anyone is able to stop them, as we saw under Trump. If they just flagrantly broke the law and kept doing it until the SCOTUS and others actually stopped them, the dems would be far more popular than just throwing their hands up and saying "better things aren’t possible.

There’s a lot of indirect ways they can get what they want done, whether it means appointing an AG and other department heads who will punish people who don’t go along or using the military’s vast legal protections and resources.

They told people “I won’t do mass deportations

1. That’s not saying how you’ll improve people’s immediate conditions, just that trump will make them worse

2. You can’t credibly say that when Biden deported more people than Trump.

With a casual blaming attitude

What should my attitude be after decades of saying “triangulation doesn’t work, going to the right to chase ‘moderate republicans’ just depresses turnout.” and watching the dems do this over and over and over while getting accused of being a secret republican because I point this out?

Swinging left wouldn’t have worked either.

It absolutely would have. Progressive policy is insanely popular and easy to campaign on by virtue of being designed to help everyone. Do you think Bernie had such high favorably ratings because they have a thing for 80 year old white dudes?

Tell people “healthcare will be free” or “We will cap rent and build housing that won’t cost more than 3x local median income” and then people can’t afford not to vote for you.

Biden could have cut off arms to Israel, and hundreds of thousands of students so politically activated they’re willing to risk their degrees to protest would be doing everything in their power to keep Trump out.

Instead they sent the police to kick the shit out of those kids, at great expense to the colleges, and called them antisemitic.

What’s the alternative? Democrats do not fail, they can only be failed?

They’re joking, except in 2004, the republicans have lost every popular vote since 1988, so typically when the republicans win it’s a clear failure of democracy. This time the candidate with more votes actually did win.

It just speaks to how dogshit the Dem strategy of chasing the <10% of republicans who claimed they didn’t like Trump was.