I guess in case of Mamdani, it's left's way of processing not losing, which is tantamount to a loss (as it interferes with whining).
I guess in case of Mamdani, it's left's way of processing not losing, which is tantamount to a loss (as it interferes with whining).
So what? All politicians in America are entrepreneurs, who have to build their own support base. The endorsement whining is just left's way of processing loss.
Sold
I will go outside and play celebratory music and honk my car horn
So just for educational purposes, what is the much cooler guy way to wishcast?
We need Republicans to do a Great Depression and then white southerners to get over racism and we can get FDR majorities back. Easy peasy.
Can you elaborate regarding your belief tbh at Trump would shut down any part of the government he cares about, or would adhere to a strict interpretation of the anti-deficiency act as per norms Do you believe that Trump adheres to norms, and if so, what is the source of that belief
You know what, fair.
Okay but that's pretty low information and raises questions about your ability to make observations about politics, why people dislike moderates, what a moderate is, etc.
That's not really a response to the fact that you can't imagine an alternative
When are you going to stop using slurs?
If Trump dies I'm marking future blood moons by slaughtering a sheep
He should (possibly) die more often.
waiting for the Trump deathwatch to throw that one out, eh
Look, I expressed a little bit of hope last November and it doomed the world. never expressing optimism again.
trumpwatch is the bluesky version of buying a powerball ticket. It's not about the odds, it's about the dream
Honor guard to hell 🫡
Then why have I done this at least twice
If we post hard enough we can get them to drag him out to prove he’s alive. I believe in us.
They don't appreciate you had somewhere to be
Why would you need to harden the White House? Harden the city for spontaneous block parties.
The only question is whether Costco can take the hit from people living off the $1.50 hotdog
I suggest you review your - let's call them contributions - to this discussion, and assess how substantive they are. Personally, I'm done with you.
I'm not a young person. Why on earth do you think I am a "young person"?
You think lax voter oversight is a "young people" thing? Hah! You gotta update your model of reality dude, you've built insane things into it.
Okay, now you've asked that of hundred of thousands of voters and they're not better informed than before. Problem - actually not solved.
No, an older person who has reached a certain age. No need for case-by-case decision making, just boot them out. Hell, if voters want to elect a 95 year old in the first instance, that's fine if they can win that election. Age limits need only apply to retention elections.
Yes, exactly. It's important work that takes a lot of mental energy, but ability to do it is not as trivially assessed.
No, why should they be?
Someone who has already been hired to be a Congress person has the qualifications and work history, whatever voters decided those are. Feinstein's "work history" only grew longer and "more experienced" as she decayed into nothing in office.
It's not a question of hiring, it's a question of firing. In the private sector, age limits are very very common for senior officials (where legal).
The voters aren't really choosing, though, are they. Ballots don't list ages or scores on cognitive tests.
I'm a relatively high info voter, but I don't participate in local politics outside of occasional volunteering. My rep is a Dem backbencher and I've never heard anyone complain about her. I have no idea what quality of her representation is.
I think we should be realistic about how good voters are at supervising their representatives' competence (not very) You can see votes; you can't see hours on the job, contributions in committee, etc. It's not 1950; most reps don't have hometown newspapers that cover them closely.
In some ways, yes. In preserving the Russian empire, no.
Owning a firearm is opting in to increased suicide risk, though
And because those crimes are pretty much memetic - vicious losers get the idea to do them from media coverage - I think access to long guns that look cool and precious spree killers have used *is* important to incident rate.
If you look at a relatively small percentage of firearm homicides - spree killers shooting up schools, places of worship, etc. - long guns become much more prominent.
There are different kinds of gun crime, though, with different risk modalities. For example, a large percentage of handgun homicides are suicides, which are opt-in.
"A wordy flow chart that is mean to philosophers, but especially mean to philosophers that wish they were good at math"
The ever subtle Loomer making the subtext the text. A reminder that reasserting racial hierarchy (at the expense of the rule of law) is very much part of the administration's agenda.
Oh it must be a bot ⬆️
Mindless factionalism is not an idea, kiddo.
Financial Times is a good paper, a much better one than NYT. I suppose there's a reason they tossed her out, then
If you don't know anything about Chapo House, why are you lashing out vociferously in their defense Does that strike you as a well-considered
Let me guess. You're not a real journalist, you came up through the Daily Wire or something.
Out: Socrates was murdered for being a free thinker In: Socrates had it coming and they got him on tax evasion
I think there's a different dynamic here - Nazis and Communists had to pull from same personnel pool of violent people with antisocial tendencies when staffing their regimes and occupation regimes
There are only so many antisocial assholes in a population, they'd run into issues staffing their secret police if they had repudiated them
Our sensitivity hasn't been deformed by massive wealth, though. We know we're randos. The delta between their daily life experience of people kissing their ass, versus more variable digital experience, probably compounds sensitivity
I would probably live on a tropical island, and snorkel several times a week, and still read Bluesky
Yup
Maybe someone will sink a ship and a grand jury will refuse to indict, in accordance with the ancient traditions of our people
the real milestone is when a messy robot woman gets a feature about how she ruined her life in The Cut
Works in what sense? How much granular knowledge do you have of Parliament and the contributions of each member.
How so? Insurance companies have lost billions and billions mispricing fire risk. There's no profit to distribute.
NYT columnist: it is worse, actually,
Why did you do this, I had at least a six month streak going, maybe even a year
It means that we should relentlessly criticize the GOP
The funny thing is, the Third Amendment addresses a paranoid fear of something British didn't actually do. In that respect, it is the most right-wing amendment.
Left right and center there is a lot of magical thinking around the insurance industry. It honestly freaks me out how there basically aren’t any adults in the room anywhere as far as I can tell.
As an erstwhile bureaucrat, I consider YES, MINISTER and THE THICK OF IT to be masterpieces.
Knowing what a perenium is, is extremely incel-coded
It is strange hat no one has ever done the "bare minimum opposition party stuff" before. Anyway, I'm sad to learn that Schumer found the wrong rock again.
Whereas on law it makes me go "ack"
I watched one episode of the Good Wife and never again, because writers presented it as a genius idea to sue under the second of two paired torts when first didn't quite work Boilerplate legal practice
(I think music video / social context implies football guy, but I don't think lyrics say)
Drew Pavlou's personal backstory is basically obstinacy as a rando protester versus extreme Chinese government pressure, which selects for a particular personality type. He's not well-known for his scholarship or anything
Not quite, it's a song about longing for the guy who is dating a cheerleader
Reform with 34% of the seats is a very different problem from Reform with 70% of the seats
Getting rid of FPTP seems like a must, just on principle. No way that 34% of the vote should lead to that kind of a majority.
The best time was before over a decade of Tory misrule, second best time is today
Negativity bias rules all, which is why it's fruitful to focus on the ten thousand and one ways Republicans are monsters.
(I don't really hear lyrics either, so I'm not even blamey here. But as far as political propaganda goes, podcasters >>> musicians.)
I think you can infer musicians' political influence with their fans from the fact that people are continually surprised that "Born in the USA" is not a pro-America song
Not many people have a mpther, but for those who do, it's very relatable
Well, yes. People don't like being extorted. "We should be paid more than similarly skilled people because we can and will hurt people to get it" is unpopular when it's all spelled out.
I didn't know New Yorkers said pecan weird
Schumer found the wrong rock again 😔
My most recent kitten didn't give my adult cat a choice, just rubbed firmly against him while adult cat was frozen. Very much like when an anime villain is adopted by a five year old with sunny disposition
This is very cute when the baby elephant is 250 pounds, but what habits are you teaching to the future 10,000 adult elephant?
But there's no one who would excel more at breaking ties in the Senate
Right, he should be a fixer. Someone who can blackmail a demon, not box it and win
Away from other Biden administration officials, Sullivan deradicalized
Conservatives are hurting the physics professors because they want to and because they can, no amount of disavowing self-supporting scholars would change that
Also, the plain fact of the matter is a humanities professor in the field of Fuck Conservatism Studies pays for him or herself via tuition dollars, and is not dependent on the federal government in the way a physics professor is
when you are too online , you are never the most online person you know
Feel like the regime is deeply frustrated about sandwich guy being the best example they could go with of someone violently attacking their goons
Here's another one: www.generalbundesanwalt.de/SharedDocs/P...
Anyway, you should take another look, unless you think random synagogues and schools are "specific individuals" who are enemies (because Jewish?)
Why don't you tell me? I don't really know or care about the Australian attacks, I struck by absolute absurdity of claiming that it's suspicious for Australia to claim IRGC to be doing IRGC things
www.thenationalnews.com/news/europe/... www.jta.org/2022/12/06/g... www.reuters.com/article/worl...
I guess it's possible that Germany, France, Sweden, and Australia all got together and concocted criminal cases across a period of many years, but that strikes me as a pretty bizarre and unlikely conspiracy theory.
I just urge you to put your thinking cap on, do some pattern recognition, and ask yourself "if it walks like exactly what the IRGC did in Germany, quacks like exactly what the IRGC did in France, and hops up and down exactly like the IRGC did in Sweden, maybe the IRGC is also a duck in Australia."
I would accept that, Israel is generally not credible and can't be trusted to tell the truth.
(3) No offense, but you're not an individual Iran is trying to impress.
(1) Iran also carries out these kind of attacks in France and Germany (in fact, I'm not aware of similar activity in the US) (2) No one Iran is trying to impress believes the denials. Iran also denied trying to bomb a rally in France, for which its former diplomat is now serving 20 years
A question you should ask yourself is "why is it so unlikely that Iran would do in Australia what Iran routinely has done in Germany and France"
(1) Why not? (2) Demonstrates Iran's ability to strike against Jews worldwide (3) It would indeed be a distraction from Iran's extremely feeble response to Israeli attacks
Uhhhh, do your pattern recondition skills extend to Iran's patterns of behavior?