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Yes, but this is also the sort of shit we should be encouraging. Tax breaks for building a weird mystery house or some sort of misbegotten monument to your own glory. Way better for society for them to be doing this and employing tradesmen and artisans than to be fucking around with government.
Nah, King is done. His only somewhat less repugnant replacement is reportedly angling for the seat, though.
Nah, big ag will have her covered.
The Iowa GOP is not exactly a hotbed of clever, intelligent, or enterprising people. Our governor is pretty corrupt but she is also not really smart enough to have gotten that rich off of it. Ernst is very much of a piece.
Tom Waits in Mystery Men is so good.
This is the shit rich people should be doing with their time and money instead fucking up the government and losing their minds posting.
The point is that we've been playing the "the walls are closing in/Trump is on death's door" game for almost a decade. Speculation is fun, but that's all it is. Nobody who knows is talking, and nobody who is talking knows.
To them I say:
Juci Fruit
Unfortunately, Hogan already died. Is Arpaio still alive? Might be fun to have Alex Jones' heart or brain explode.
Loran, you don't know the half of it.
Real talk Trump creating inroads for democrats in rural areas by tanking the economies is political suicide at a level that I don't think you can replicate. Again: it doesn't take much. A little depressed turnout, maybe 5-8% uniform swing, and suddenly you're losing Iowa and Ohio.
No, he's just an ingratiating idiot with conservative politics who thinks being something of a libertine makes him a liberal.
Having a very Netflix Documentary sort of Sunday
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
Some people choose parties or positions because they believe it’s the best avenue for their particular career rather than any principle or belief and those are probably the most dangerous people around right now.
"soporific"
Of a piece with my usual question: "what do you gain from your fellow citizens and humans en masse having to live on the street that outweighs the relatively paltry amount you'd have to contribute to that not being the case?"
Brown nosing plagiarism technology all the rage with class of notorious brown nosers and plagiarists
This is why Trump wants to make it illegal to generate energy by doing anything but burning something pumped out dug out of the ground
Dang, that's the sort of behavior that would be totally disqualifying if he were a black woman.
The more I think about this the more inevitable it seems that the slop ecosystem is going to organically produce a post-mortem Occluded Mahdi version of Trump that speaks through screenshots of accepted Truth Social and X accounts posted to Facebook
sex is so stupid dude. your letting your better nature be controlled by your animal instincts when you could be pursuing a higher calling such as becoming really good at video games
Because establishment Dems have been more than willing to welcome them in than their own long-standing supporters?
“caviar topped chicken nugget” - I cannot think of a better objective-correlative for the American ruling class
Saw an Edsel today. What a silly/incredible car.
Got proof of that? Follow up stories about how great the displaced people are doing in the shelters and facilities you're so sure they're going to? Or are we just supposed to take Gavin at his word?
Well shy of the tens of millions they've promised the base.
His utter and complete lack of taste has always been kind of a tell about what a dunce he is.
It was rough, but I was lucky enough to be there at the end for both of them, which I am grateful for.
Yeah. My grandpa lived his last six or seven years with his doctors saying his heart, kidneys, liver, etc. were all on the verge of failure. He just kept truckin' until he didn't, but still made it to 94.
This is on balance probably right, but not ironclad. My worst experience as a renter was with a college town property management company, my best has been my current landlords who are a local mom and pop with just the one property. My experience with big corporate landlords has been mixed.
Yep I lost both my dad and grandpa separately last year and they were both dead less than a week after going into hospice. They'd had health issues before that, sure, but had still been functioning. Then they hit a terminal point and it was over fast.
We talk a lot about narcissism among our elite, but not enough about solipsism. I think one of the things that sets the powerful idiots of our era aside from those of previous ones is the sheer number of them who on a very meaningful level believe they are the only person who actually exists.
*10 years
No, but it does make you a whiny baby. Hate it that much? Organize some people to clean it up or petition your government to raise taxes to pay someone else to do so (or to just house people). Lots of adult options beyond whining and crying for Mommy and Daddy to make the smelly people go away.
Well, if you aren't actually going to help them, yes. Leave them alone.
Nah, he believed that shit himself already. Didn't need much help
Ah, a Building Lives Matter guy. Haven't seen one of you in a while
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
Demobilizing and demotivating the conspiracy fringe and woo woo tycoons should have been a priority after 2016, but alas.
I knew him as the News Radio himbo. People forget that he's been famous for nearly four decades
It's not important to them that the various parts of the conspiracy theory cohere and make sense, it's important to them that it contradicts the mainstream narrative.
The party is pushing her out is what is happening
He stops functioning because he no longer knows intuitively who he's supposed to be sucking up to at any given moment and can't make any decisions anymore.
Great news about the Constitution: it was designed to be amended!
Gaming was just early to the party.
Robert's point is that those countries have different laws and legal structures around guns than the US. You can't just import their laws and policies here. America has unique challenges that will have to be grappled with. It won't ever be as easy as "we'll just so what the Swiss do."
Look, if you let the judge sentence me to rehab it's going to make me look really bad to all those people I got naked and shit on the sidewalk in front of right before I got arrested during my last bender.
It isn't wholly unique at all. It is arguably one of the biggest problems across all of society that we allow the unhinged and aggressive to harass and abuse people using the Internet with impunity.
This technology is way less flexible and teachable than even the lowest skilled worker you could throw ten bucks an hour at and these companies will only realize that after wasting millions and millions of dollars on their technological slave owning fantasies.
The thing these companies that want to replace all their workers with AI and robots never things about is that when a single employee fucks, it's relatively simple and fast to fire and replace them. Way harder and takes much, much longer to replace the single vendor AI or robot that fucks up.
Eh, I've read history. Those people were really stupid too.
Hinson, Whitaker, the race is on to find another Iowa Republican as odious and unlikeable as Joni. Can't wait to see what they turn up.
He did nothing wrong but reveal the racial anxieties of a bunch of extremely wealthy boomers.
You just put the, uh, Consciousness Transferrer, up to your temple and pull the trig... uh, I mean, Upload Switch.
Grandiosity is a symptom of many mental disorders
Are droids actually intelligent or just chat bots? No one knows or has eveb really wondered about it for hundreds and thousands of years. Droids are just one of the things that are out there, like magical warrior monks, death rays, and space squids.
One of the things I like about Star Wars is that it imagines a extremely hightech world that is and has been scientifically stagnant for millennia. No one really knows how any of this shit does what it does on a deep level and extremely few people are interested in thinking about it.
As it's still valid, presumably if I don't keep following it, I am also breaking the law and subject to arrest. The law of the land simultaneously requires me to be both a man and a woman and if I do either then I am breaking the law and subject to arrest. (11/13)
I didn't claim either of those things, but I will take note of your extreme defensiveness.
Interestingly diverse week. Gearing up to finally do a watch through of the Shōwa era Godzilla criterion collection I bought like four years ago.
He has the greatest qualification capital could want: an instinctive drive to brown nose and suck up to the richest guy in the room.
Why is the answer never to respect that voters are adults who make choices? The loud, repeated message is “close hospitals and nursing homes in my community, taking money from cities to pay for them makes me feel left behind.” You don’t have to agree, but have the respect to listen.
They won't even wait until they've expunged trans people. They're already cranking up the homophobia machine.
"Hitler will be satisfied with Czechoslovakia"
Ugh, we've locked the plebs out of all the other avenues to class mobility and now they're trying to marry into it? Repulsive!
We're working, Andy. Rent is due.
You could just not repost pointless crap.
It really is you as an employee being tasked with doing product development for the AI companies on top of actually doing your job. The tech will yield some good tools, but it shouldn't be on me to develop them when I have other work to do.
I've rented most of my adult life and have had good and bad of both. Currently renting a house from a local couple and they are by far the best landlords I've ever had for precisely the reasons you cite.
I expect they turn their baleful eye towards disfavored blue cities in red states. Atlanta, Austin, St. Louis, Nola
Aren't the stats that those in long term marriages skew more liberal and middle class?
Death Fearer
You aren't trying to defend me. You're trying to defend a rural Democrat you made up in your mind. I actually know and come from those people and we don't want coastal Dems scolding each other about who they can and can't be mean to, we want help crushing the party that is making life worse for us!
The Feeling Lucky and Google Doodle Google is long dead, unfortunately.
Yeah, that one looks to be leaning heavily into the AvP lore, which could be good, I just worry it will result in something generic that doesn't play to either franchise's actual strengths.
This is always how I've preferred to imagine it: they're that species' equivalent of the finance bro or wealthy fail son who pays huge money to go hunt lions with high powered rifles from a helicopter.
You're about twenty months too late on this one, Jakey.
But then realizes at the end of the ep that it's stupid and toxic
And they're wise to do it. America and Europe are in the throes of fascist backlash in part because we remain dependent on the fossil fuel industry and the tyrannical regimes that control much of the global supply. If we were smart, we would have broken that dependence after the '70s oil shock.
Matty Yglesias personifies the trolling, soulless fail-upward engagement hounding pseudo-intellectual brunchlord bullshit that has devoured modern American media
To them it will always be better to be king of the junkyard than just another schmo in an affluent suburb.
It can be hard to believe unless you've actually been able to spend time in these milieus, but the thing about the media elite, meaning the top top levels, is that they are rich successful people who hate themselves and everyone around them and are breathtakingly un-self-aware
*casting around the Abrahamic religions for one where migration and migrants aren't central and lauded figures of the religion and getting increasingly frustrated*
Republicans say it constantly!
A reminder that the thing driving the 2A crowd is not some deep principle of self defense or belief in the Constitution, but fundamentally the same urge that leads other people to fill their homes with Funko Pops.
I'm not really anticipating any of them, but am curious to see One Battle, Long Walk, and HIM.
Yeah, no one is coming because of what our GOP neighbors voted for. Get mad at them!
Yeah and we hate the fuckers who voted for it and are sick of pulling their hands off the stove. They voted to destroy their way of life, well, so be it. I'll pick up the pieces when I can with whichever of them finally manage to come around. Until then they can go hang.
Reagan Democrat Brain
I mean, that's true of some of them. But the base are just miserable hateful bastards.
I always love it when it's coastal lefties lecturing red state liberals about how it is so bad to be wishing ill on red state GOP voters. Buddy, you aren't the one that has to live with and be governed by them!
Hold on, am in getting this right: record companies are in the music business TO MAKE MONEY?
It's the opposite of a discourse. It's relentless scolding.
It's an extremely old phenomenon; take a look at any moment of major upheaval in history and you'll find established elites absolutely scandalized that the proper rights and rituals aren't being performed just so, while largely being indifferent to the chaos and bloodshed.
Buddy, I'm a blue voter in a red state. I've had to watch these ghouls dismantle the health and educational infrastructure that supports their rural base's bucolic fantasy lifestyles as they subsidize the poisoning of my drinking water for over a decade and I'm done caring. Fuck them.
We have a problem of generalizing the faults and failings of the very narrow leadership class of this country to everyone else.
That incident and watching the reporting around Benghazi was actually the beginning of the end of my faith in the mainstream media, NPR and the Times in particular.
Buddy, the Republicans these people voted for are the ones withholding the funds!