Unrelated to this article, but I wanted to let you know that Nate Silver did not coin the term "hopium" and your recent article on CNN should be corrected.
"Hopium" is a term deriving from "copium" which has the root "cope" meaning, in this particular context, some thing or argument that is only used or done in order to feel better about one's inadequacies. This term "cope" is a nouned form of the verb, as in "to cope." More briefly, "a cope" is something that makes one feel better.
I'll illustrate by example. One person might say "Taylor Swift isn't that attractive." A second person might say "That's an obvious cope. That tells me you're obsessed with her. You'll never be her boyfriend, get over it."
Then the first person might say, "No, I really don't find her attractive. She's built like a square and has eyes like a shark." Then the second person might respond, "Keep huffing that copium."
In such a situation, the statement is asserted to be "cope" or "a cope" because the first person is saying something objectively untrue,
The relationship of "hopium" to "copium" is not that of a synonym or antonym. "Hopium" is a sort of knowing & acknowledged copium - someone might say, "I've always been certain I'd be someone someday. Maybe it's just hopium, but I really think I will be." Alternatively, someone might say, "I'm feeling really down right now, and it feels impossible to achieve my goals. Can anyone give me some hopium?" - it has a similar meaning to "motivation" or "inspiration" in this context.
These terms have existed for nearly a decade in parts of the internet that grown-ups don't know about.
Nate Silver isn't using "hopium" right, either. He should be saying "copium" in this particular usage. The proper use of "hopium" in this context would be, as before, "I'm feeling really depressed about the polling for Democrats. Can anyone give me some hopium?" - meaning reasons to disregard the polls or to think things will change. As a skeptic with respect to such arguments, Nate Silver should be calling them "copium."
Yes, they endorse Democrats in safe blue seats or invest resources to fight other Democrats. They haven't flipped a single seat (and doesn't appear that they've tried to)
Don't know for sure what effect Sunrise had specifically here in Portland, but DO know Progressives primaried out a moderate Democrat with 10 yrs seniority in exchange for a Progressive candidate and ended up losing that House seat to the Republicans
> "Why would anyone advocating for action on climate change bother flipping seats to the Democratic party"
> "One would have to fashion the Democratic party into a body that would take action when it has power."
These two statements don't go well together. If you don't do crap for the ACTUAL bottleneck to gaining power, flipping seats red to blue, why the hell should anyone listen to you? You're a political parasite
Principles without reality is just religious fervor without another name. The fact that you think red to blue seat flipping is unimportant yet also want to "prepare the party for power" is all I need to know that people like you are thoroughly unserious. And so long as you maintain this delusion, you will remain irrelevant and rightfully so
Unrelated to this article, but I wanted to let you know that Nate Silver did not coin the term "hopium" and your recent article on CNN should be corrected.
"Hopium" is a term deriving from "copium" which has the root "cope" meaning, in this particular context, some thing or argument that is only used or done in order to feel better about one's inadequacies. This term "cope" is a nouned form of the verb, as in "to cope." More briefly, "a cope" is something that makes one feel better.
I'll illustrate by example. One person might say "Taylor Swift isn't that attractive." A second person might say "That's an obvious cope. That tells me you're obsessed with her. You'll never be her boyfriend, get over it."
Then the first person might say, "No, I really don't find her attractive. She's built like a square and has eyes like a shark." Then the second person might respond, "Keep huffing that copium."
In such a situation, the statement is asserted to be "cope" or "a cope" because the first person is saying something objectively untrue,
The relationship of "hopium" to "copium" is not that of a synonym or antonym. "Hopium" is a sort of knowing & acknowledged copium - someone might say, "I've always been certain I'd be someone someday. Maybe it's just hopium, but I really think I will be." Alternatively, someone might say, "I'm feeling really down right now, and it feels impossible to achieve my goals. Can anyone give me some hopium?" - it has a similar meaning to "motivation" or "inspiration" in this context.
These terms have existed for nearly a decade in parts of the internet that grown-ups don't know about.
Nate Silver isn't using "hopium" right, either. He should be saying "copium" in this particular usage. The proper use of "hopium" in this context would be, as before, "I'm feeling really depressed about the polling for Democrats. Can anyone give me some hopium?" - meaning reasons to disregard the polls or to think things will change. As a skeptic with respect to such arguments, Nate Silver should be calling them "copium."
https://www.sunrisemovement.org/campaign/endorsements/
they literally endorse all of squad and more, learn to read
Yes, they endorse Democrats in safe blue seats or invest resources to fight other Democrats. They haven't flipped a single seat (and doesn't appear that they've tried to)
Don't know for sure what effect Sunrise had specifically here in Portland, but DO know Progressives primaried out a moderate Democrat with 10 yrs seniority in exchange for a Progressive candidate and ended up losing that House seat to the Republicans
oh yeah good catch, Sunrise did endorse in that race: https://twitter.com/SunrisePDX/status/1505681208105078785
> "Why would anyone advocating for action on climate change bother flipping seats to the Democratic party"
> "One would have to fashion the Democratic party into a body that would take action when it has power."
These two statements don't go well together. If you don't do crap for the ACTUAL bottleneck to gaining power, flipping seats red to blue, why the hell should anyone listen to you? You're a political parasite
Principles without reality is just religious fervor without another name. The fact that you think red to blue seat flipping is unimportant yet also want to "prepare the party for power" is all I need to know that people like you are thoroughly unserious. And so long as you maintain this delusion, you will remain irrelevant and rightfully so