even if Mamdani had only gotten like 30% of the primary votes instead of the blowout he did, this is the kind of shit that’d let you know he has it in the bag anyway
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even if Mamdani had only gotten like 30% of the primary votes instead of the blowout he did, this is the kind of shit that’d let you know he has it in the bag anyway
Yes but the theory is that nothing happened!
I don’t get why this is so confusing to you: the barn door is already wide open, the horses are gone. China is selling my data to the open market? Ok. Big Balls or some other loser already sold my data to the open market. My data is compromised. It can’t get any more compromised than it already is.
Well no thats actually an argument for the opposite: how do you ‘leak’ the absence of an event? What is there to leak? Any individual combat air crew could say “we didn’t get that order/didn’t see that boat” but there are other crews assigned to other ships under different commands that MIGHT have.
If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me
Grape Nuts are good and I will never play defense about that. You've all been lied to: they're good.
Snake: the lunch special pricing will end at 1300, that’s less than an hour from now. While this is not your primary objective, if you can extract the target before then you’ll receive many useful resources for use at Mother Base.
Yes thank you. I’m aware of the irony of the statement, I wouldn’t have said it if I wasn’t.
"bluesky is dying" that's cool man. i go on here to make funny posts with my friends
public indecency, obviously
Please explain the difference between work release and slavery. I do not accept "It was better than rotting in prison" as a morally acceptable answer.
60s through 90s (hell, I might even extend that into the aughts) were pretty much an extended long-term musical peak crossing different genres and generations. So both boomers AND millennials are correct that music peaked in their day and it's undeniable that it's been downhill since.
well… foresight would have been coming to this realization 10 years ago, but at this point even showing hindsight puts him ahead of most his peers
it should be at least 400 times harder to get a driver's license
god Id love some big starchy curry fries
That’s L1 classes, by L3 they’re just saying “look we lied to you, its all made up and you just need to learn how get your ball in the endzone by any means necessary.”
This is the kind of VCR they used at the Pentagon, definitely nit meant for domestic recreational use
ding ding ding!
Yeah, we wouldn't be where we are today without a lot of really, bad imperialist politics on the part of NATO and the US but also independent of any of that, Russia should still not be violently annexing any part of any other sovereign state!
they clearly ran out of big pickles and think they're slick
I get how that's their only path but absolute lol at thinking the next MN elections are going to be low progressive turnout. It's going to be a metaphorical bloodbath.
"Just be cordially complicit in my bald-faced lie" "Uh... no."
first off, as a white descendent of europeans, i'd like to apologize for the crimes of european colonialism, slavery, and all the rest. second, as a descendant of the indigenous peoples of the americas, i'd like to accept my apology,
When I’m looking for anything other than an HDMI cable I’ve got way too many of those pieces of shit, but when I actually need an HDMI well… that’s when the games begin
taking in this sign as a whole I’m pretty sure its ‘white people who REALLY want to do the overtly sexual dancehall grinding stuff’
lmao this one is cooking
the only “demos” he’s even perceiving are ‘Mark Cuban glazers’ and ‘rude little insignificant plebs’
What a dumbass thing to say, maybe you should stick to talking about sports or some other hobby.
lol at the typo but I mean for real can't wait for the inevitable Cuba ep
well-hydrated
so much legalese is pretty much just "it's actually YOUR fault if we fuck up"
well did she have any good news to share
thats what the mosquito said when it got you in its sights
The ol' Sean McElwee special
oh they REALLY lean into that stuff around Roswell, I remember thinking "don't the locals ever get tired of this alien shit?"
I haven't played Magic in almost 15 years but even still: Jesus Christ
I served in the military and I would have deserted and done the resulting prison time before I ever would have participated in an operation like this.
What data are they using to identify undisclosed pets? Or is it just a paper tiger meant to intimidate tenants into self-reporting? (the latter seems more likely to me)
It's the latter. When I see these people I'm torn between whether they're bad faith actors or if they're genuinely anti-capitalist but haven't thought that all way the through It's easy to say "capitalism sucks" but a lot harder to break out of a century's worth of rarely challenged propaganda
kid with a potato gun rechambered for rounds in the apple caliber
Sure. Are you also fighting against and primarying Democratic politicians that contribute to these problems or do you think, like the OP, that just voting D is good enough and you don't have to dig any deeper than that? Did you care that the wealthy and business-connected captured D leadership?
I genuinely see the takeover of what was supposed to be the "left" party by politicians who are wealthy and business-connected as the first step to where we are today and we won't be able to walk it back until we start there.
Aggressive primaries for D pols who don't hold the line for justice and human rights or who don't act in the interests of non-wealthy citizens. Re-establish boundaries within the party to bring its goals back to what they were in the New Deal and Civil Rights era. We had political dominance then.
I think this mentality is what led us to where we are now and I can’t wait until we get rid of it and actually fight for good things instead of constantly compromising our values. Have a nice day.
However hard you may have worked to keep above water you do understand that it is completely impossible now? A full-time delivery driver has no way to pay for college outside of a scholarship, gift from someone wealthier, or taking a loan that will depress their earnings for the rest of their life.
Again, irrelevant. Doesn’t absolve you of anything unless you did more than that (apologies if you did): bsky.app/profile/chil...
We would be in an entirely different world if the Democratic project since the 80s was focused on undo-ing Reaganism. Clinton’s welfare reform plan should have seen him disgrace, same for Obama bailing out the banks in 2008 without creating any new safeguards or punishing any bad actors. Shameful.
See this here is part of the problem, because for the last 40 years Democrats have also been pushing for this reduction of the social safety net and reallocation of finance to only benefit those who already have money. But boomers didn’t pay attention or didn’t care and didn’t discipline Democrats
More importantly to me it will make the dangerous places more dangerous because it's a complete misunderstanding about why and how they're dangerous.
Hey, don't (correctly) chastise someone for condescending to a stranger and then do the same thing yourself fuckface.
I didn't drive in my community, only for work. I'll concede that I don't know your experience but living in Baltimore is what solidified my hatred for crime hysteria because I saw how off the mark it was.
When?
Drug and gang conflict spike crime rates and violence against civilians outside of that DOES happen, don't get me wrong, but not at the rate you think it does. I knew good and well that getting in my car and commuting down 295 was statistically a bigger risk than walking home from the bar at night.
That is conservative bullshit fear-mongering and you need to understand that it's bullshit. Stop. Believing. That. Crap.
Hey. I lived in Baltimore for 6 years, not in the suburbs, not in a comfortable white enclave, close to downtown, definitely adjacent to but not fully in a "bad neighborhood". It's not great, the decay and disfunction is in your face but saying that "nobody leaves the house after dark" is nonsense.
Hey go ahead and make it 21+ moron.
Hell, these days I might just want to fuck the burger myself. It's getting bad out here, folks!
That's absurd when you look at the alarming sweeping changes in funding and missions of public services, education, social welfare, etc. We transformed America into an amoral hostile country for the sake of marketization and enriching capital. You think that's unrelated to the rise of the far right?
Norman Rodulus and Norman Reedus
I agree with the part of your argument pointed at TCW but I do quibble with your assertion that Trump himself is the moral emergency. Trump is the symptom, the moral emergency is the 40yr long complete capture of public institutions by capital and their subsequent capitulation to racist demagoguery
No, Pritzker is the richest guy in office by far outside of maybe Trump. His family owns Hyatt hotels - agree with you about letting that slide as long as he keeps hitting the right notes like he has been
Go to hell. Fuck you.
Better not be Newsom then or I'm staying home. I don't care how you feel about that. Goodbye now!
Except the right didn't have any part in Newsom's implosion. He's wedging us against ourselves all on his own and the strategic move is to throw him in the trash.
Agree to disagree. You have to have firm lines that differentiate your beliefs from your enemy's. I understand different people have different lines but I have absolutely no respect for being asked to compromise on that line. Newsom has crossed it for me and for countless others. End of discussion.
If the candidate is this divisive then your energy would be better placed pressuring the party to put up better candidates than arguing against an 'opt-out' structure that you and the party have no control over.
Look, I 100% AM the 'eat the rich crowd' but that's where I'll compromise in order to win so long as the candidate demonstrates a moral backbone and willingness to defend human rights. Remember FDR was also the silver-spoon rich candidate of his time.
I think if centrists would rather not vote or vote for Trump than vote for a leftist candidate then they aren't actually in the center at all and are actually right wing. You can't trust those people and you can't cater to them.
Pritzker. There's one, you good now?
don't waste your energy, it's an AI profile pic so clearly no capacity for thought
I won't hide the ball: I am NOT on here to be chill. I'm chill in real life. But Online is where I go to get out all my pissy toddler energy so that I'm able to be chill in person
What are you on about? Candidate: "Make sure to come out this election and vote for better politicians!" You: "Stop whining and start voting!" Like... that's literally what we're talking about here. What are YOU whining about?
having worked as a barista for 5+ years, my retort to these people is that "real" coffee culture understands that the barista is your chef and you are paying for their signature interpretation. If you don't like it then go find a different one.
is it a trade secret or can you spill?
wasting your energy on an AI avatar user, absolutely no capacity for thought there
It's fascinating to me whenever people use the "it was the popular opinion" excuse in defense of having the objectively wrong opinion. Like ok, not only are you stupid but you're also a lemming?
Incidentally I can't watch the fleets streams anymore because I can't keep my cool watching that stuff. It was the freaking bearded veteran dipshit or whatever he calls himself that finally broke me
Yeah, not on his game show stream where he actually watches good old stuff but maybe a fleets one (or maybe it was Tom or someone else who watches bad stuff every now and then)
I'm almost certain Howell's stream is where I saw this show lol
I've seen that and it's literally how you keep babies occupied, it's basically jingling keys in front of the audience, never felt as "we're so cooked" as when I saw that
Like you’re trying to make messaging and PR arguments to communities whose daily experience is that police are a violent gang who are above the law, answer to no one, and receive an obscenely disproportionate amount of our tax dollars. You think you’re the good guys for telling them to shut up?
In that case then, you should know good and well that when organic activist movements claim that we are living in a police state and our budgetary decisions starkly reflect that is not a position that you can talk people out of or scold them into abandoning.
Don’t get why this is hard for people to grasp, good comedy but naive politics is pretty standard: Broad City, Daily Show/Colbert in their prime, etc. Hell I’ll even shout out a good comedian, BAD politics: Michael Ian Black. ‘Stella’ whipped (mostly bc David Wain but hell MIB was funny in it too)
They did so immediately and very forcefully and Republicans did their victory lap because the ground was conceded to their incorrect and dangerous framing of the issue. Congratulations.
This is interesting because its the root of the problem: liberals tend to think that everyone left of the Republican party is on the same mission as them and should fall into line with THEIR goals and strategies. Wrong. Was never true.
Except almost no Democrats actually ran with “defund the police” messaging. That was actual real live people who aren’t representative or any party and shouldn’t be beholden to messaging concerns.
Meant it in nongendered way, but regardless the “guy” is the pro-police lib, you’re the leftist disavower which I did not mistakenly gender
That just seems like any other day to me but maybe you disconnected a little better than I ever did (sincere congratulations for that, I’m jealous) My disclaimer tho is that I do NOT think the parties are the same: one is the villain and the other is the enabler/appeaser. Both bad but not the same
What do you mean by this? Seems like we are “still there”. Illiterate tech dunces still think the parrot software has learned to think and everyone with any sense still mocks and ridicules them even though they have all the wealth and power and we’re living in their world. What’s changed?
I’m a little confused by your angle here. Yes, I’m an unironic leftist, I agree with your assessment of the other guy, no opinion on the person who appears sympathetic to the leftist argument but disavows the label. Did you think all these people don’t exist anymore? Here? On the bluesky app?
If we had politicians worth a shit they’d have been showing the pie charts with police budgets hoovering up 80% of nearly every city’s municipal budget and hammering home the point that police are stealing your money. But instead morons like you want to accept the Republican framing of the argument
Imagine looking at the news today and coming to the conclusion that people were wrong to say that we needed to defund the police
trying to guess whether they’re mad at you for not wanting to learn AI or for not wanting to learn linux and realizing that its obviously linux bc if it had been AI then the idea of learning how to do something new would have never even crossed their mind
It’s a problem of ideology. The party is attempting to triangulate between base voters, breakaway R voters (complete pipe dream), and donors - which is a race to the bottom. Proven strategy for a generation of D dominance was New Deal and Civil Rights era. Class war and social justice.
I am 40 years old. I voted in all of those primaries. Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden were terrible candidates, wildly out of touch with their base.
I’m saying that your approach to politics is what led us to Trump. When we fail to hold Democrats to any standard other than “better than their Republican opponent” then we end up with candidates who will never be able to win against said Republican.
Oh yeah? How’s that been working out for us?
bot operations are usually standalone contractors that keep accounts active for years with just banal current event nothingness and the occasional paid push campaign. They're boosting Gavin this month, a year ago they might have been pushing pro-Israel talking points, next year a new customer
yeah, my takeaway from this is that it's a new modelling technique rather than a new way to burn processing power. Possibly MORE energy efficient but I don't know enough to say
