Leaving bad enough alone would have been way better than putting out suspicious photos and scheduling a press conference and proceeding to significantly delay it
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Leaving bad enough alone would have been way better than putting out suspicious photos and scheduling a press conference and proceeding to significantly delay it
* beyond "no water you don't have a word for," I guess
Jewish, not Muslim (and I don't keep kosher), but my hypothesis is that people with no religious dietary taboos* look at ours and think we think it's magic
In what way are they opponents?
seems fine
This isn’t just clothing. It’s purses, totes, cosplay, and toys and it’s happening *right* when the tariffs are cutting off overseas supplies and when usable, tested patterns are being replaced with AI- generated bullshit.
Happy Labor Day 🙂
Adding artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative
Which is weird, because "simp" to me suggests pressing a *hopeless* suit, and I've actually already won over my wife
I'm all talc, but no action
I support an institutional Jewish presence in the region between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, and I'm kinda pudgy, does that make me a soft Zionist?
I feel like there may be some alternative to that other than genocide
"Is this Benadryl or Adderall? Eh, probably doesn't matter"
You couldn't make Life of Brian today because George Harrison is dead. They barely managed to make it in 1979
It's a fear of regulatory capture (or at least something along those lines) that results in overcorrecting
Just realized "Proto-Indo-European" is trocheic tetrameter. I can't find a good logo generator to illustrate this, though
He can't possibly fail to realize that if someone does happen, he will be blamed. Presumably he's banking on people not seeing it as bad
I'm not sure there's a path to him being around in body but not in office on the morning of January 20, 2029. To be clear, the only takeaway from that is that it's necessary to actually push back rather than just survive long enough for nature to take its course; that isn't me dooming
A month, both for early voting and to minimize "nihil nisi bonum" preventing effective campaigning
I suspect it was truer a generation or two ago, when hippies settled down and had kids and voted for Reagan, and a lot of people never re-examined it
Yeah, people think it's true in part because they think conservatives are tough on crime and big on protecting kids and families
I too am familiar with the Sacred Texts (Discworld)
This explains a lot, actually
Also I wonder which group had the most "don't knows" or whatever
Without seeing the actual wording (unless that's the entirety of it), I suspect across the political spectrum "yess" responses tend to come from people who see themselves as the cutter-off (or have done it) and "no" responses from those who fear being/were on the receiving end
"He's welcome back whenever he decides to stop choosing that deviant lifestyle over his own family."
RFKJr seems to be using a lot of medical(-sounding) terms in ways unrelated to what those terms mean. E.g., inflammation doesn't cause lack of social connection, that doesn't even make sense
I don't disagree in the abstract but unilateral disarmament is going to make things worse, and I don't see that argument applying to funding hospitals
This. If our pitch is, to *any* degree, "we're not them," we have to actually not be them
I think a lot of people (not excluding me) underestimate how much of an impact the Federal government has on things like that. But it's at enough of a remove that seeing it in action might not help
Is that why people voted for Trump, do you think?
Everything he says and does shows how childlike he is
What do you think he should have said that's different from both what he did say and what Schumer said?
They want to put the unlicensed therapist that tells your kids not to trust you and it’s ok if they die into all your kids’ rooms.
So you acknowledge that the statement you think should have been made was in fact made
A plucked chicken?
Sure do want to see the explanations of how it’s good, actually, that Must Age-Gate Entire Internet Lest Teenager See Boob has cut off adult victims of alcoholism from their support structures.
That math won't dissuade me because I don't understand numbers
There's no guarantee that hospitals that have chickened out will resume care once a Dem enters office. The threat of a future GOP administration will always hang over them. That's why the next Democratic admin needs to also find a way to punish the cowards. Or at least reward those who held strong.
Gee, I wonder what she finds "spiritually Israeli" about Ticketmaster
What %age of the men who have decided to helpfully tell her about the history and meaning of "mansplaining" do you think knew *specifically* who she is?
I think one of the things that has been driving conservative policy preferences for a while is they think it's unfair that racists are more afraid of everything than normal people
Yeah, I *think* JSX is suggesting using the threat as leverage rather than actually doing it, but the power of that lies in a willingness to actually do it
My first thought was "and at least the Australian decree is nominally in English"
That cannot possibly be why were saying it in September and October of '24
Yeah, like, this is how our elections work. I think the window is closing, if it hasn't already closed,for someone other than the D or R nominee to win in '28, but I am open to suggestions, *if they make sense*. And "just don't vote for either of them" doesn't
Amazing how peak masculinity for a Republican is swearing that you’re too afraid to go outside
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No one is gerrymandering > both sides are gerrymandering > only the other guys are gerrymandering
Less facetiously, this suggests the Adams people are making the nigh-ubiquitous mistake of assuming everyone is as corrupt as they are
The thing about bribing reporters is that for reasons one would think are obvious, there is a 100% chance the press will find out about it
Without going into too much detail, if anyone doing the job I do at the place I do it gets a message on LinkedIn offering marketing solutions and pays any attention to it whatever, I'm not sure there's any helping them
Ransomware would be a huge problem here. The ransomware module is based on some wildly off-base assumptions about what my employer does and my job in particular (and how much personal email I get at my work account)
We had online cybersecurity training at work (access to which requires clicking a link in an external email purporting to cone from a company with a weird name, but I digress)
I think it might have been but then he should have said "B Cellini" and whoever the other one is
(DJ Kool Herc, Sylvia Robinson, and Afrika Bambaataa, if you were wondering)
No benefits? Where else can I ask bizarre nonsense questions like "who is the Robert Albplanalp of hip-hop" and get a simulation of a sincere attempt to answer ratther than the abject confusion the question deserves?
It's not different from what he's been saying since at least 2018, also
* At least by giving us something to point to; that's not an assumption that bad people accept the law per se
I think on some level this is how a lot of Americans think: the statutory and Constitutional restrictions on executive power are there to rein in people who want bad things*, and can and should be ignored by people who want good things
Eight letters, twice?
Yes. Only Rs doing voter suppression < both sides doing voter suppression < no one doing voter suppression. Unfortunately the choice now is between 1 and 2
Explain the mechanism here
This guy does seem to realize it, he just thinks it's "privilege"
As tragic as this is, and as bad as chatbots are, I feel like the chatbot's involvement here was sufficient but not necessary
Who controls the past controls the present
The success of interventions against real problems seems disproportionately to lead people to believe the problem wasn’t a problem in the first place. Vaccines, Y2K, the voting rights act, many such examples.
This is true of crime and immigration, of trans HS athletes, of the economy, of CRT(-derived curricula) in elementary schools, and everything else
I think there's a conflation of two meanings of "take seriously." You can recognize that people believe in Glonzo and all flatly denying that Glonzo exists will only make people think you don't know what you're talking about without actually having to believe in Glonzo yourself, or act like you do
By "ambient social disorder" Vermeule means there are black people around.
I see what you did there
It's a vicious cycle: people who are afraid of Crime retreat into their surveillance-riddled houses and interact through Nextdoor, so more and more of their experience of the so-called community is The Crime
I don't know the numbers, but I can believe "Jews in NYC lean more Republican than Jews as a whole," particularly if you're *also* normalizing for NYC voters. But that still leaves room for a substantial majority being Dems, even in W'burg and Boro Park
Leftists for some reason seem to forget that the dupes exist a lot of the time, and it's not always easy to tell the difference (there are good reasons to default to assuming people are dupes initially, but marginis non caperet)
I feel like a lot of the condemnation is rooted in an assumption that he's talking about the bigots, but it looks to me like he's talking about the dupes.
an instance of a familiar pitfall: we solved problem X with Y so people think we can ditch Y without getting X again
Im with the priest this time. I will never get the whole "I hate my wife" jokes. Don't marry someone you don't like then
The main mechanism I've seen of this is taking a quote from MLK about how you shouldn't let fear of alienating people stand in the way of doing the right thing, and somehow interpreted it as saying alienating people is part of doing the right thing.
The two things you have to say CONSTANTLY in every political discourse, and also the two things people never want to hear, are 1) Different things are different. 2) It's a little more complicated than that. They're always true! Always annoy people.
If you're trying to address the problem it means you're all right with the problem existing in the first place. /s
We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.
Can I just add? And not to knock on Sky here at all, who is absolutely right, but—it is not even a question of ‘can’, but ‘must’. There is no world in which we rebuild /anything/ without holding these crackpots, murderers, thieves, and rapists to account. Every last one.
We need to enact the consequences of sacrificing essential liberty for temporary safety
Then he'll go into country music
I think it's a euphemism for sex workers
Omnicausism. There is neither Republican nor Democrat, neither Nazi nor normal person, all are one in pro-Palestine activism
Tolerance is the compromise. It really is, though; the apparent paradox only happens if you think we *support* tolerance, rather than recognizing it's the best we can hope for from people who refuse to embrace pluralism
To be clear, I'm being completely serious and I don't actually know whether or not I'm being metaphorical
What in the Sir Humphrey‽ (Though Sir Humphrey developed that style over a long career of intentionally not communicating, I don't know what TCW's excuse is)
Trump believes there are gnomes living in the White House who used their gnome powers to make Obama (and Biden, and Clinton) look capable, and he's mad that he can't see them. The whole renovation thing is a cover for looking for them inside the walls
(On the other hand, "sports should be fair" is so obvious and uncontroversial that it's understandable that if someone bothers to say it, that gives rise to suspicion that they mean something else)
Part of the problem is that this is true, but simultaneously and at the same time, fairness (as distinct from "fairness") is a priori a legitimate concern. That's why it works as a Trojan horse in the first place
I'm old enough to remember when claiming this sort of thing was happening was an antisemitic trope Thing is, it still is, but it's also actually happening, because making antisemites look like they're right is a feature not a bug for Trump
In kosher restaurants it can be an issue (and I assume many/most/any other restaurant with some type of certification they need to meet qualifications for)
Did they explain how lowering required labor hours is exploitative?
Not only not true, this feels kind of stolen valor-y from the people that this is much more true for
Right, what it comes down to is the people with concerns don't think they're bigots (and at least some of them are sincere but misled), and they vote (so we can't just dismiss them or cast them out of society). We don't have to take their concerns seriously, but we have to take them seriously
seems pretty transparent that the anti-Mamdani funders are trying to make hay out of the shooting and the papers are for some reason buying that frame
Beyond the misogyny and homophobia, that first clause pretty much nails it
Ignorance you can't differentiate from malice