NYT op-ed: To close the deal - Kamala needs to add housing affordability & healthcare to her joy layer cake, keep using influencers & entertainers as joy proxies, & let the folks get to know her more. (hexbear.net)

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Opinion | ‘Joy’ Is Working for Harris, but Can It Close the Deal? - The New York Times

By Charles M. Blow

It must be awesome to be a NYT columnist. You brain shart out any old shitpost every couple weeks to build your brand, go on MSNBC to build your brand, appear in other media (podcasts?) to build your brand, write a book to capitalize on your brand. Repeat.

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[-] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh weird, I assumed Kamala's unwillingness to discuss anything related to material well-being and only focusing on "joy" was supposed to be a Buddhism sort of thing. Like, Kamala's brand of 4 Noble Truths:

Existence is short and painful (trying to extend it with things like "healthcare" or "basic public-health policies" is cheating)
Suffering is caused by attachment and desire for material things
Only by abandoning desire for material things, such as food and housing, can one find Joy
Voting Blue is the only path to completely abandoning your attachment to material well-being