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QuestionWashing embroidered clothes tips
Some time ago I bought an embroidery kit to practice different types of stiches (I had very little experience prior to that). Turned out embroidery is not that hard and now I want to start embroidering my clothes - to mend tiny holes with daisies or to simply decorate sleeves of my shirts. Since I haven't got much experience with embroidery I do not know how embroidered clothes behave during laundry. Our laundry routine is so far simple - put dirty clothes straight into the washing machine and when it's full - wash all the clothes. We don't separate clothes into separate piles. The only clothes we wash seperately is sports gear as it requires a lower temperature. So question: if I embroider, say, a pocket of my trousers, should I keep putting my trousers in the everything-mix or should I chose a more delicate mode, like for sports gear? Will hot water affect the colours? Will a longer cycle damage stitches?
If Dems want to understand why they lost, they might have to actually listen to people who decided not to vote for them. For many, the idea of doing that is practically heresy. Which is a significant part of why they lost.
Can you post a copy/paste? I can't get past the pay wall
But just going by the headline.....LOL get fucked! Obnoxious progressives absolutely deserve a big chunk of the blame for Harris' loss. By suppressing and forcing out anyone who didn't swallow 100% of their dogma, they pushed many otherwise liberal people into the arms of the GOP.
They refused to listen to the working class, refused to take immigration seriously, ignored the concerns of Jews dealing with rampant antisemitism after October 7th, ignored and mocked the concerns of women who had concerns about genderwoo, they had Harris dance with Beyonce while average Americans were struggling to pay for rent and food, etc, etc. They disregarded all the groups I just mentioned as racists and transphobes. And then they were SHOCKED when a silent majority gave Trump a historic landslide victory
Once again, they can go fuck themselves. If the Centrist Democrats don't kick these assholes out of the upper echelons of the DNC, we'll be swearing in President Vance in 4 years
I can't get past the pay wall
You can check for these Yourself btw. Just copy the URL/address of the original article (stripping off any "?" and everything that follows it), go to archive.ph, scroll down to the BLUE box about halfway down, paste the link in the box and hit go to see whether anybody has already archived the article in question.
I've never encountered a U.S. Pravda (Washington Post) article that wasn't alrdy archived when I went to check, so, either they have a script that crawls all the new articles on there, or else somebody (or several somebodys) is/are just SUPER quick on the draw.
The red box at the top of the page is to archive a page that hasn't been archived yet, or to re-archive one that's been updated or edited (in which case, the previous archives will still be available alongside the new one).
You'd think that's where we'd find the blue box—since obviously the blue box should be checked first—but, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ it's not like the bad UX design is costing anybody any revenue, so, it stays that way.
Thanks for the instructions on the archive links. I will "save" this for the future.
What do you mean by "take immigration seriously"?
I mean listening to the people saying that the border is a problem. Acknowledging that American citizens have a right to be angry when illegal immigrants get free hotels and food while citizens are struggling. Doing something when South American gangs colonize apartment complexes in the USA.
Illegal immigrants are getting free hotels and food?
NYC is paying the Government of Freaking Pakistan to rent their hotel for $220 million to house migrants. Pakistan's minister himself confirmed this
There were also protests in Chicago because of housing and other benefits that were provided to illegal immigrants.
I'm not sure why you're getting down voted for asking questions, but yes. Use duck duck go and search "new York city immigrants" and you'll start getting articles
Stop endorsing and encouraging human trafficking, including sex-trafficking of minors, just because it's opposite of what orange man said.
It is an excellent grift though isn’t it?
‘No no we right wingers who get lobbyist kickbacks and run businesses ourselves really hate having a squadron of disposable people who will take pennies and have no workers rights within easy commuting distance to our cities and businesses. We really hate using government money to staff the fast food industry and we never get a dime from them. Please no lefties. You want us to let them get Capitalist dream of working yourself to death before being replaced immediately and that’s so noble and more progressive of you than evil us.
Harris endorsed and encouraged human trafficking? That's horrible! Can I see where she said that?
I read the archived page but I'm curious if there are any good comments on the live page?
I did indeed withhold my vote for Kamala (wrote in JKR) because of the gender stuff. A lot of people are saying we did and this guys response is "nuh uh!"!?
I'm also not upset she lost, as he claims we are. I'm not particularly jazzed about a Trump presidency, but I think I'm less fearful of that prospect than a "progressive" regime. Look what our liberal justices are doing!
You criticize Bill Clinton's marginalizing of the far left, yet you seem to have forgotten why he did that. Our pandering to the left gave the Republicans 12 years in the White House, including one election where they won 49 out of 50 states. Clinton won by putting the far left in its place. We need to do that too if we want to win in 2028.
If anything, the problem is the conflation of "progressives" with "annoying, self-defeating idiots". Annoying , self-defeating idiots who actively undermine centrist campaigns have enormous power when margins are as fine as they are. I agree the finger-pointing at "progressives" is counter-productive, but your nothing-to-see-here defense of annoying, self-defeating idiots is a complete miss
This is the top comment :
You are insufferable much of the time Perry including this piece. Harris and the Democrats were crushed on immigration as almost no one likes seeing people wade across the Rio Grand. And they were also crushed by those transgender sex change ads. They just were. There is no denying it. Even though social justice warriors and activists have little power in the Democratic Party, every nutty idea they come up with tars and feathers the entire party including Defund the Police. A lot of things went into Trump beating Harris but illegal immigration, the transgender sex change ads and other progressive wish list things, that don’t actually the majority of Democratic Party certainly party of it
This is the comment I found on reddit on this article :
They Democrats publicly rallied AGAINST the only candidate they had that was both truly anti-establishment and projected to beat Trump in the 2016 election and they threw him and his supporters under the bus.
Do you know how insulting it was to be told as a woman the only reason I support Bernie Sanders is because I want the cool guys at my college to sleep with me? And I'm betraying women for not supporting Hillary?
I was basically being told I was a dumb bimbo by the party that's supposed to represent women.
The Democratic Party has their head so far up their own ass they think their farts smell like Chanel and act shocked when everyone else tells them they stink.
Most people are fine with immigrants and giving a pathway for legal status to illegals who contribute to society. The problem is that they are currently coming over the Mexican border in HUGE numbers that we simply cannot handle. And its not just Mexicans and South Americans crossing that border. Its people from all over the world coming to Mexico to hop over that border. Which is super suspicious
The fact that they're getting free hotels and food is just the cherry on the shit sundae for American citizens who are already struggling to get by
This article is one big illogical whinefest.
Center-left and establishment Democrats are trying to marginalize the party’s left wing in the wake of Vice President Kamala Harris’s loss last month, in some ways mirroring what moderates — including Bill Clinton — did in the late ’80s and early ’90s.
So in decrying the marginalization of the far left, you’re going to try your hand at marginalizing centrist Dems? Ok, let’s see how that works for you.
The bashing of progressives started almost immediately after the election — and hasn’t stopped since. Commentator James Carville said Harris could “never wash off the stench” of left-wing rhetoric such as “defund the police.” Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Massachusetts) said: “Here we are calling Republicans weird, and we’re the party that makes people put pronouns in their email signature.” Quentin Fulks, who was Harris’s deputy campaign manager, said party activists too often force Democratic candidates to apologize, particularly hurting them with male voters, because, according to him, “men don’t like people who apologize.”
I hope this effort is unsuccessful. It’s based on a false premise. Democrats’ biggest electoral problem isn’t its less-powerful progressive wing but rather a centrist establishment that clings to power while constantly losing elections and major policy fights. And, as happened in the 1990s, a rightward move by Democrats on policy could hurt some of the most vulnerable people and groups in American society.
So let’s get this straight. The so-called progressive wing is less powerful than the power-holding centrist establishment “while constantly losing elections”? So how are the centrists clinging to power then?
And is this guy talking about centrist Dem politicians or centrist voters? I assume he is addressing this piece to center-left voters, which in that case means he’s talking to people who didn’t rally around Harris and therefore they damn sure know what motivated them to do that. But maybe he’s talking to centrist Dem leaders, which in that case, why does he think he can scold them into doing with the far-left wants?
As election analysis, these takes aren’t particularly strong. Whether to put he/she pronouns in emails wasn’t a factor in Harris’s race against Donald Trump. The “defund the police” slogan was most prominent in 2020 — a year Democrats won the House, Senate and the presidency. Harris didn’t issue a big apology during her campaign. (Election results aside, politicians and anyone else in America who does something that they regret should apologize. I am disappointed I have to use space in a published article in 2024 to note that it’s plenty manly to say, “I’m sorry.”)
The sentence in bold…is he being serious right now? Is he really creating such a blatant strawman and daring us not to say anything?
No one is claiming pronouns alone put Trump in office. I’m thinking the erosion of women’s sports, the invasion of women’s spaces by sex pests, and the scourge of gender affirming care were much bigger factors.
So, if these supposed faults of progressives aren’t really why Harris lost, why are center-left Democrats so fixated on them? For three reasons. The first one (and what I suspect is really driving most of the left-bashing) is that the center-left Democratic establishment wants to shift blame for a painful election defeat that by most objective measures is almost entirely the establishment’s fault.
He really thinks he has proven his case.
He really missed the point of that Trump commercial. It wasn’t ABOUT USING PREFERRED PRONOUNS IN EMAILS. It was preferred pronouns symbolizing all the trans ideology that Harris stood for.
Love dumb takes and the author thinking they’re so smart.
I think he knows that but he’s trying to speak to the denialists in the party who still argue “but Harris didn’t even mention trans rights once in her campaign!” as if the Dems are being unfairly associated with trans activism and anyone who thinks otherwise has been brainwashed by Fox &Friends.
So, if these supposed faults of progressives aren’t really why Harris lost, why are center-left Democrats so fixated on them?
Because a lot of center-left Democrats have had to put up with being called Nazis or being driven out of the party entirely (hello Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr) if they didn't march in lockstep with every bit of trendy, far leftist dogma. You don't see Republicans eating their own over petty bullshit the way the Democrats/Leftists currently doing
I think it is really, REALLY interesting, how the republicans seem to have become the party of democratic rejects.
But look, when you kick people out of a facebook group or out of a political party, they didn't die, and they didn't actually vanish. They're just no longer part of your group. Maybe they might go be part of some other group instead.
I just think the phenomenon is really interesting, how it is playing out.
I think it is really, REALLY interesting, how the republicans seem to have become the party of democratic rejects.
This has been the case in conservative circles for a while. Contrary to how the media covered it, the Tea Party movement (and most other subsequent conservative activist groups) were full of disaffected liberals/democrats who were driven out of left wing activism by this same tribal bullshit. I was driven out of left wing non-profit work because I got tired of being interrogated over Palestine and of coworkers crying when I told them that I didn't think Al Gore was the second coming of Christ
I could be wrong about this, but I'm sure its much rarer to find disaffected Republicans in leftist groups. Because those groups aren't big on forgiveness (and will cancel you if you told spicy jokes on Twitter ten years ago)
'No one is claiming pronouns alone put Trump in office. I’m thinking the erosion of women’s sports, the invasion of women’s spaces by sex pests, and the scourge of gender affirming care were much bigger factors.'
These are all important, but from what I've heard what eclipses all of these is parents worried and rightly furious about what their children are being taught/exposed to in school (whether the children decide to 'trans' or not).
paywall-free: https://archive.ph/PneTW
But anws. Shit take of the season right here—although I suppose We shouldn't be surprised that these people are delusional about their collective delusions.
The reality goes in the opposite direction.
Because of ☭-esque measures ranging from blanket censorship of the administration's and TQ+'s worst injustices in the mainstream press, to siccing intelligence-agency spooks on parents who spoke out at school board meetings, to law enforcement standing aside while the TQ+ mob engaged in Maoist Red Guard-style domestic terrorism on the daily... the simple fact is, the American electorate went to the polls this time woefully UNDERinformed about the horrifying scope and excesses of the "progressive" left, which has become an illiberal, authoritarian, antisocial, anti-reality, pro-tyranny, band of cheaply bought foot soldiers for a bunch of scheming billionaires.
If people even knew the half of what was rlly going on under the aegis of the party that not-all-too-long-ago stood for basic civil liberties and First Amendment freedoms, this election result would have been MUCH more lopsided than it was.
What I find ironic is that the so-called 'progressive left wing' is only focused on a sort of Maoist social ideology while completely ignoring what used to be considered left-wing: labor issues and economic class analysis.
I think Cenk Uygar -- who is wrong about a lot of things including trans -- is correct when he says there's a new political divide forming that isn't so much left and right but populist and corporate/elitist. Because both parties are in the hands of Big Brother corporations.
Yup, basically the idea behind what I was trying to point a finger at in the linked post ("Billionaires bought the left").
The spread of DEI/ESG is definitely hammering a wedge between the GOP and big business, but, the prevalence of gigantic corporate political donors in general makes it seem pie-in-the-sky to hope for an actual schism there.
Americans flip their lid when they find out that UK political parties charge monthly dues to every member, but... maybe the Brits are on to something there, in that the dues help keep huge corporations at bay and unable to "buy" the helm of any major party.
The Brits also have about a two month election season instead of our year and a half plus.....wouldn't that be nice!
And their newly elected officials TAKE OFFICE within less than 24 hours after the polls close, which I just find stupefying.
...and to think that our 2.5-month lame duck period is actually a vast improvement!
Before the 20th Amendment of 1933, newly elected Presidents weren't sworn in for 4 months (first week of March)—and newly elected Congresses weren't sworn in for over a year (not until the FOLLOWING December! Imagine being a President trying to work with a Congress of the other party's majority, who've alrdy been voted out, but who still park their butts in the Capitol for almost a whole year of your presidential term.)
I usually don't like Uygar. But he is 100% correct about how the new political paradigm is elites vs normal people (and how it has royally fucked the Democrat party)
But I don't think Trump is really a populist. He's an autocrat who knows how to put in a show.
No we are getting a government with Musk and other billionaires and sexual predators.
Yeah, I was so irritated when I heard his whole 'I'm totally for protecting trans people from being denied their Constitutional rights!" as if anyone has ever denied them Constitutional anything! But I've been learning the hard way that even people who annoy me can be worth listening to on certain subjects. And I'm very interested to watch how these new alliances seem to be forming on the populist side (and appalled that so many Democrats -- with their history of supporting Labor -- now see 'populist' as something bad).
Ana Kasparian went on a huge rant with Jillian Michaels about how she is through with progressives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5FFner3pgo
Not too surprising given the dogpiles she's gotten in the last year, including petitions to get her fired for saying she wanted to be called a woman, not some alternative. At least she's been willing to admit she was wrong about some of her former handmaid rants/opinions.
there's a new political divide forming that isn't so much left and right but populist and corporate/elitist.
But what we have is Trump setting up a government by and for an oligarchy.
The government is already set up for oligarchy and has been for a long time. Trump will likely continue that, though many of us are pleasantly stunned that he picked a pro-labor Secretary of Labor.
a new political divide forming that isn't so much left and right but populist and corporate
You mean labor vs capital? New? Seriously?
I don't mean that it is new in the context of the world, I mean that it is new in terms of the last 40 years of US political history, since Reagan and Clinton gutted the labor movement and the political divide in the country turned social/cultural between two capital/corporatist parties.
From the outside, the fact that she was biracial, and, particularly, a WOMAN, had a lot to do with it. The only way the Democratic Party could have made it more certain she would lose is if she was also a lesbian. But, no need. There is so much hatred for women, that was probably enough. Men hate women and most women seem to, too.
These takes are so silly and really shows why we need to find a way to make journalism a more accessible career for working class people. These people sit in their bubbles and refuse to talk to anyone who doesn't have a degree from an Ivy League but talk about middle class people like we're a problem to be solved.
No, the middle class doesn't want policies that go further left. They are firmly rejecting them. If you want progressive policies to become popular, they have to be presented in a way that people can understand. Not this "Listen little dumb poor person while I, Jonathan Raymond Clark III, whose dad is a billionaire, explain my very distorted understanding of communism to you and the rest of the plebs. I will use big words and talk for a long time just so you can see how smart I am."
Judith Butler ideology right here. It's not that we're all just too stupid to see it your way. It's that you're not as smart as you think you are, esteemed Washington Post leftist and your many colleagues who are all pretty much the same.
I would suggest that the working class/middle class absolutely do want more left policy. For example;
Universal Healthcare
Free higher education
End gerrymandering
Political corruption to be criminalised and punished with jail time
More social housing
Limits on/an end to residential landlords
Workers to get a share of profits from the business they work for
Being confused about sex is NOT the left. Policing political speech is NOT the left. Its a decoy designed by the wealthy to divert attention from the genuine left.
Absolutely. Genuine 'leftist' policies are extremely popular (and would be even more popular if Americans were aware they were even possible).
For real. We're all sick of champagne socialists lecturing us about communism and eating the rich from their gated mansions
“Why can’t you see the compassion of us letting drug addicts and the mentally ill live like hobos on the streets?!? You just aren’t as compassionate as us, up here on the hill, surrounded by gates with police who respond to our issues.”
The issue seems to be that some liberals don’t or can’t seem to acknowledge real concerns. You bring up the concern above and you’re a right wing bigot who just wants to arrest people. I don’t, but there’s a lot of middle ground between “throw them all in jail” (and in jail they’d be clean from drugs and cared for and warm and get meals) and “let people live in filth without doing anything to legitimately care for them”.
This isn’t a working class person issue not having access to journalism, plenty of Ivy League/ elite university people on the right who’ve been writing about this issue. This train of thought is why some of them are saying that they need to educate the working class about trans issues. This is an issue about progressive democrats ignoring the forest for the trees, and I have to say, a refusal of some people on the left refusing to hold Kamala accountable about the topic during her run because they were afraid it would cause Donald’s win.