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This is the guy Nate Silver predicted would be the future of the Democratic Party when he won the NYC Mayoral race in 2021.
it's not even morally wrong, they've joined the culture war and turned coat so it's a pretty restrained response, not even proportional. when you glimpse the white hood through their window you run them out of town regardless of if they decide to keep it, simple as.
name brand Rods From God
like sure they can act smart but no one there cares. they could create journalism outlets but like, no one cares. maybe they could get on some dem aligned news shows until the intelligence graphs come out and it's too politically cringe to keep airing right wing brain geniuses
So you know how in pvp Tetris you can send garbage to clutter the other side? yeah the faster you can get these Most Insufferable Guys to go right wing by making fun of them at a brisk pace, it helps keep grifters from pulling people to an imagined center, and they can't gain traction w/ the rw
wouldn't be surprised if they've been given a deal by musk at this point since it's the same thing every time
wagner mercenaries might be good at their jobs but they dont have the logistical might of the US military. if there was a coup, .mil could take out every important person in the regime by dropping field-deployable Burger-KingÂŽ franchises out the back of C-5 Galaxies and still have 14,373 in reserve
what a neat way to like, tamper proof it, make it easy to scuttle, and have it also wipe if it's caught in an explosion
oh cool, that actually makes a lot of sense
looks like it's coming back as a read only channel and fitness and games got rolled into the hobbies section
I don't have links but as a clarifying question: opinion, journalism or both?
this wouldn't be a good outcome but it would make for the funniest possible history textbook chapter
honestly the national guard should just coup him for the bag he'd trade all of fort knox just to live those 3 extra months before he is stricken down by pretty much every single divine.
huh, me neither
Commander in Cheap
the War Thunder mods can't find you here, friend
a zenophobe is someone who is worried about half-measures
@mbta.com go ahead, make a post, we believe in you
Pure distillation of Trump's view that positive-sum trade is literally impossibleâbuying = losing & selling = winning, automatically But also a good view into the inconsistencies of his trade "demands". He's mad at India for its tariffs, but even zeroing them wouldn't be enough?
At Loweâs, for instance, every one of their 273,000 employees couldâve gotten an annual $28,456 bonus over the past six years with the money the retailer blew on stock buybacks. Loweâs median worker pay was just $30,606 last year. #LaborDay #EconomicJustice #ClassWar
trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa
picturing all the characters in fraiser saying "non-binary" as i pour the black ink from the printer of every office closed on labor drain down the sink
I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
You know what, I do remember that ad. I also remember Democratâs complete and utter silence regarding that ad. Nothing from the Dem presidential nominee saying something like âYou know what, I do support trans people. They are American citizens, soldiers, doctors, etc So why do you hate Americans?â
Hey you know when I pointed out that there are a lot of toxic online spaces where vulnerable people mix with evil people and some of those vulnerable people are largely being groomed and exploited by the evil people, but everyone outside those online spaces assumes they're the same group?
through this lens, one of the big issues with this entire generation of dem leadership is the degree to which they've internalized the humiliations of both the post-9/11 foreign policy failures and the last decade of reactionary rage
a pretty good summary of the 21st century is that the humiliation of america's defeats in the middle east post-9/11 curdled into a reactionary politics that seeks affirmation in the humiliation of anyone who is an other: liberals, minorities, the global south, china, europe, whoever.
I get that social reproduction means things that happened before we were born still shape how we interact with the present, and that much of our political and business elites are very old, but it's worth noting that roughly 2/3rds of all americans were born after the vietnam war ended
Something that bugs me a lot is that schools don't hesitate to ban smartphones in a hot second but are anxiously and aggressively pushing students to rely on error-prone automated bullshit engines
he's dead you aren't gonna get paid for this
a zenophobe is someone who is worried about half-measures
type O necromancer who's corpse explosion spell only works on the same blood type slowly learns they can get consistent results on enemies who their blood splattered onto, multi-classes berserker instead of learning the secret
"magic system that works on the basis of" lemme just stop you right there. did you know the most important parts of the steam engine & heat exchanger as technologies were invented by people whose internal concept of thermodynamics was literally backwards to ours
we get two, might as well make em count yeah
Rabies in this case is less of a concern than Baylisascaris procyonis, the aptly named raccoon roundworm, that in paratenic human hosts is aggressively neuroinvasive (the US military once tried to weaponize it), and seems to love blinding children. Who acquire it by putting shit in their mouths.
Meanwhile, did you see? A federal judge on Friday allowed the Trump admin and the Oklahoma AG to use his court to subvert democracy through a sham lawsuit manufactured to get rid of a pro-immigrant state law they donât like without needing to go through the trouble of actually repealing the law.
Dear Democratic Leaders, If you wonât stand up for trans people and their rights, youâre tellling me you wonât stand up for *anyone* or *any rights* the second they come under attack. Youâre telling me you donât stand for anything at all. Also, theyâre *people*. Grow a spine or get out the way.
And I love finding VHS tapes that would have otherwise been lost to time archive.org/details/copi...
Starting a new thread here. LAPD has arrived on Hollywood and Bronson. Threatening to tow vehicles that are here for what was a fairly rowdy low rider meet up. A man is freestyling in front of the liquor store. Gigantic line at Tommyâs hamburgers. âBe a shame if it got towed,â said via loudspeaker.
as if these guys leave a tip
carnations are just barely in season still at dc florists, i checked
When the US began to strip trans people of rights, revert documentation, move trans women to men's prisons, censor research, and move towards healthcare bans, most cis people posted things like "the government can't tell you who you are!" They think our biggest issue is validation, not actual harm.
oh yeah rice paper would be particularly useful huh
this is why I think an education in the classics is actually a key piece of perpetuating fascism
they also look towards surviving works of Roman wealthy opinion columnists complaining about what was ruining the Roman Republic and thinking they have to prevent it from ruining the US Republic, without ever reflecting on what documents survive
the judge is now basically checking every couple of hours to make sure her directions are being followed to the letter because she is dealing with lying liars who lie astounding how much credibility the government has burned with the courts
we can't let what is obviously the omelas child die or NYC will wither
yeah, it's a lot more thorough these days now that its possible to dive to the ocean floor
Poseidon take the helm
Commander in Cheap
morale is a terrain of struggle
This is honestly the best fucking news I've heard in months. Even when he's trying to force the jackboots to roll over the entire nation, he's stiffing them like a contractor at one of his dingy hotels. This is fucking great. This is actual fucking hope.
at least the body double is well read
This is worth a read, although Iâd argue that in the case of many AV laws passed in the US, the consequences are very much expected. Once they drive most of the traffic to noncompliant porn sites that have zero content moderation, the GOP will use that to argue that all porn should be illegal.
yeah I'm reminded of the lead jacketed code books in ww2 too
unless you're a norden bombsight and then the extra weight is worth it as a marketing expense to keep people from realizing it sucks
what kind of person puts makeup on before picking a fight
i think calling networking firewalls "firewalls" is the worst possible name people could have chosen even if the metaphor fits in terms of effect
The government doesn't want to leave the ECHR, yet they decide to allow a Supreme Court ruling that blatantly violates human rights. If the ruling gets struck down in Strasbourg, the far-right will now have something to point at and say "A foreign court is telling us what to do" Absolute genius.
it's unlikely but I'm going to put a ziz pin in this because "wild thing happens to public figure near Vermont" and I want to find it again
tfw the only thing you know how to write as head of security is a "we fucked up but like ignore that part" After Action Report and everyone else in the Line of Succession already bailed.
the fact that news is so scattered now means that it's nearly impossible to catch a retraction/major correction of articles you've already read, unless some other outlet is excoriating them about it
yeah, I wouldn't put it past them to spend the fuel to fly an empty plane just to get planespotters to inflict fear
Anna has had excellent coverage of this developing case in which the Trump administration tried to use the holiday weekend to secretly and illegally deport children.
It's not just the Pulse memorial, DeSantis is ensuring any and all murals across the state that go against his bigotry must be painted over and ripped out. www.axios.com/local/tampa-...
It is pretty clear that dooming about authoritarianism drives more clicks than just about anything else right now and it's really driving some unfortunate behavior and sloppy thinking.
"if you're explaining, you're losing the fight" writ large I suppose
the first time i didn't even realize that it was signed by security and not a lawyer or whatever
I have so many questions and that one is actually the lowest on the triage
a sobering reminder to live your life in such a way that your emergency contact isn't a business partner
Was rummaging through old articles and found this one of Demetre Daskalakis. Apparently, back in 2013, he went to New York City's gay sex clubs and bathhouses and administered meningitis vaccines and helped beat an outbreak.
Imagine decades of neurotypicals hearing people excitedly try to express themselves, and thinking they are hearing a dyspraxia or something
Think about it, it's a whole *manner of verbal communication* that has been medicalized as a disorder, and abnormality. Despite all the people going "hey, I can understand this just fine, what the fuck's the matter with you?"
horses aren't real, on that we're in agreement.
good point
I bet there's only 127 numbers in the opposite direction
yeah, and part of the reason it worked was that the xz-utils main maintainer was also particularly vulnerable to being pushed to the handover, and I wonder how much that search space could have been automated these days
also suddenly realizing the broader implication there.
this too is Politics
wonder what made the xz-utils backdoor payload author pick xz-utils as the trojan horse in the first place, since by 2023 LLMs were probably mature enough that a state actor could probably use them to query for basically the people with the best overlap of psychosocial leverage and install-base
(because what role you are is a rotation based on time since sleep and time since previous watch)
every marine A rifleman every sailor EVERY fireman
every day i see hundreds of comments of people spinning elaborate scenarios to explain how trump can control everything and all opposition is futile. a) i think a lot of you need to log off and stop following professional doomsayers. b) i think a lot of you are cowards
thinking about how if everyone in an area throws a stone in the same parts of a river every day you can cross it much sooner than you expect (outside of ones that are particularly well-dredged or in canyons)
but also it brings to mind "every crew in our submarine needs to be trained to fix the two most common critical fatal failures, fire and water"
tangentially the screenshot of the star trek damage control console of the USS Geronimo makes me realize that ops, incident response, and observability maybe need to be thought of as more connected as they usually are
we need proof of life, they should get Noem to cut off his ear and mail it to the Washington Post or something
they blocked me, but the comment (not from OP) was that they didn't like someone's article because they didn't capitalize the start of their sentences
and they won't do it, they can't do it. they absolutely refuse to meaningfully fund the infrastructure and groups who would handle the nitty gritty boring fundamental stuff of winning elections and keeping people engaged with the party. they want it for free, and they want it with no policy demands.
hell, it was worse than that, it was also repaying all that work with 'oh by the way we fucking love Cop City and we'll arrest your ass if you're against it'. they expect unpaid volunteers to do everything for them, with no investment, no infrastructure, no anything, and even arrest them sometimes.
"every minority will agree to not just vote for us but continue to give us unpaid volunteer labor to help us win even as we treat them like shit to win over a fraction of the leftover squishy republicans we haven't already gotten in the 30+ years we've run this strategy" is not a pragmatic strategy!
just incredibly bad fucking electoral math. the actual people that would vote on 'i'd vote dem if they just got a liiiiiiittle bit more transphobic' are not great in number and they are also not generally in states dems need to worry about losing in the first place.
a thing that gets me a lot is that it's just plain a bad strategy to get votes and generate the necessary enthusiasm for a candidate. it's trying to win with an inside straight, where everyone, for no reason, in trade for nothing, just agrees to get treated like shit and fakes enthusiasm for it
back in the day a car-charger was what you used to keep your cellphone alive and just 15 years later you can charge your electric car with one. what hubris.
Not sure whose fault it is primarily that most people don't seem to know that the president is basically a manager whose job is to carry out the will of Congress, and not The Country's Boss
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