Kamala Harris has told allies that he she has chosen Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz

oakey66@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world – 346 points –
washingtonpost.com
56

Seems like a good dude.

So there’s been a lot of progressive changes (weed, abortion, LGBTQ,) and he’s been working that here.

He genuinely cares about people and absolutely will be a great VP.

Edit: and you know the whole “Trump is weird” thing? He started that. (Well as a campaign thing.)

How did it start? I'm not American so I only get to see the reactions to newspieces commenting that Republicans are hating the weird thing, but have no idea how it's being used.

He was giving an interview with some tv thing and commented that trump is weird and people started running with it

Not actually a lot there. Mostly because that’s just Walz… being honest.

here he is explaining it

As a Minnesotan I'm a little sad that he's going to be VP. But I understand. He's been a great governor. Any person that the conservatives give a shitty nickname, you know is doing a great job. Who knew checks notes making sure school children are being fed is such a controversial issue.

Kinda sad we don't get an astronaut vp but that's alright

Walz is more progressive than Kelly.

You win some you loose some 🤷

Agreed, but...

LOSE

Man the english language makes no sense.

the sound in lose is the same sound as we are taught “oo” makes.

Couldn’t a more straightforward language be chosen as the global one ffs

My father (who had a PhD in English) used to tell me that "ghoti" was pronounced "fish"

GH as in rouGH
O as in wOmen
TI as in raTIon

How do you pronounce women? When I put those sounds together it makes more of a fush or fosh than fish .

Or do you say fish different than me?

"Wih-men." I think you're thinking of woman, the singular version of the word.

That isn't really consistent with English orthography.

But you can write "pfysche", and that would be consistent with English.

Looks like we can thank the Dutch language for that one

Looks like loose is from Germanic/Old Norse, "laus"

And lose is from Old English, "los"

Also looks like I can't stand to look at either of these words for a few day now.

From my tiny amount of research eventually it passed through the Dutch layer and ended up as "loose" from those origin points before being adopted into english

doesn’t matter what the root is. Just conform the spelling to fit your language’s rules

Loose could really be tightened up if it could just lose one of those Os

There's also loose and they sound the same but mean different things.

Loose is when your pants is too wide.

Lose is when the pants were so wide that you lost them.

Lucy's loose legwear lost latitude, leisurely lowering, leaving Lucy's legs largely liberated. Lamentably, Lucy's lost leggings landed listlessly, loitering lifelessly.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Man looking a thesaurus is fun Lol

They don't sound the same at all though.

Lose - looze

Loose - luice

Interesting, I didn't know that. FYI, there's the phonetic transcription that saves us from using other words to describe a pronunciation.

luːz - lose

luːs - loose

I think they sound different, loose ends with a curt "s" sound, while lose ends with a longer "z" sound.

Here's a poem you might enjoy: https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html

Silly poem showing its age,

Made has not the sound of bade,

Made totally sounds like bade

Ooh, also its accent, this is not a thing couplet for me

Discount, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward,

Nor it's immediate predecessor,

Banquet is not nearly parquet,
Which exactly rhymes with khaki.

Parquet isn't in my vocabulary, but doesn't seem to rhyme with khaki in any common dialect either way.

When I was a kid, Scholastic did a "kids pick the president" poll. It was 1984 and John Glenn was running. I voted for him because he was an astronaut and The Right Stuff had come out a year before so I also thought he was basically Ed Harris. (I was 7.)

Jesse Jackson won. I was disappointed at the time. I'm not a fan of Jackson's, but I'd still have taken him over 4 more years of Reagan.

Yeah, but maybe one day President Kelly? He seems like a interesting person, though I don’t know all of his policy stances

Told yah all. I'm gonna go kick her another $30

my house just put in $50. would likely not have scraped the barrel for that and done just the usual local/state donations.

see, dems... this is how you juice up your base and get the grass roots hands/feet/wallet support flowing.

now fucking win and fucking deliver. our children are out of time.

Walz 60

He doesn't look a day over 75.

Reading the article though he sounds like a good pick

Minnesotan here, been very pleased with the direction of policy and commitment to constituents he's had. Bummed he won't be the gov when he's VP but that's just me being a little selfish.

That's great to hear. I'm not American, but you can't sleep next to an elephant, and not feel when it moves. What happens south of our border definitely influences Canadians, and even their politics. I earnestly hope Harris takes it. She's got a lot of buzz around her: way more than Biden ever did. She's a legitimately solid candidate - something we would kill for up here.