i subscribed to the red zone channel in order to hear the latest about draftkings, but i'd conservatively estimate that 75% of the broadcast has nothing to do with draftkings. they keep trying to shoehorn in all these football games. i don't like football. i don't watch football. what is this shit
The irony is that new IRS agents were hired specifically to audit high income earners - NOT like "YOU," but like ELON. He uses regular people as a shield to protect himself and his pals from clawing back what we lose to tax cheats. Elon's fans are useful idiots as he consolidates wealth for himself.
Voters in general don't have a problem with their candidate being black, (and I'd argue it's an electoral benefit) but combining that with Harris being a woman was not palatable to those in the center who care more about optics/perception than anything of substance about the candidates
Harris definitely did better than Biden would have, but there are definitely voters out there that had perceived Harris as some sort of left-wing radical because of her ethnicity and gender. I subscribe to the idea that we need to try running a black male candidate presidentially
You don't understand, the NSDAP won because the SPD didn't find enough common ground with them
Using divisive social issues is a staple of Republican politics, whether it be Abortion, race, sexual orientation, or any other social issue in the last 100 years. They did it with race in the 80's and 2020 and they did it with gay rights in 2004 and trans rights last year and this administration
They definitely believe in what they're pushing, but this is like any other issue for Republicans. They fail to do anything meaningful for their voters with their power, and their way of keeping the base in line is by focusing on social issues. Anti-trans policy is the latest in a long line
It's a loser if you run on nothing but anti-trans hate, but we literally just watched Trump and Republicans win across the board while being crazy transphobic, it's clear what the average voter cares about isn't trans issues
This is especially because if you're a Democrat it should be clear we lost 2024 almost entirely because our unpopular guy took too long to get out of the way and our candidate wouldn't distance herself from him
I'm not really sure how opponents of Trump could possibly take away "WE should have a cult of personality" from watching what he's done since 2015
Like if you support democratic principles you should be inherently opposed to building a cult of personality that ignores reason/objectivity
I use distract in a way to mean that they know the only thing most voters care about is the economy so they have to sew chaos elsewhere to distract from their economic policy. Of course what this administration has done/planned to do with LGBTQ+ rights is horrifc
I'm pretty sure she just means they attack the trans community because they know it's a way to polarize people against each other and distract swing voters from his destructive economic policies. They did the same thing with race/policing policy during 2020 and to a lesser extent last year
I don't know if I can do another 4 years of SNL Trump and resist lib t shirt slogans but it definitely seems like that's what we're in for
I can't count how often I've seen people on TikTok having arguments where they're both completely incorrect about what they're talking about.
Along the lines of:
"The electoral college is good because we're a republic not a democracy"
"No the electoral college is bad because of gerrymandering"
Trump is exhausting enough but just like last time the exhaustion is being further compounded by the usually grossly misinformed online left. I hate the modern phenomenon of everybody thinking they're an expert on politics since Trump took office
The total destruction and personal ruin of Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg should be an important liberal goal
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one major improvement i've seen in the world over the course of my lifetime is the emergence of lightly-salted sweets. i just swung by a bakery to pick up a chocolate chip cookie and it had the slightest flaking of kosher salt on it. that shit went crazy. i think we're doing great in that department
When Face ID doesn’t recognize you so you gotta lock in
they'll never air the episode of shark tank i was on. i think i'm still the only person to locate the suitcase of money and run off without making a business pitch (it was behind daymond's chair near the flower pot). the key is, since they're sitting and you're standing, you have a major head start
Finish the job Luigi
Destroy gender roles
"Why is there a mental health crisis amongst young men?"
brand new diner serves coke the normal way
The higher turnout gets, the less informed the electorate gets. This is a pretty straight line if you were to graph it. In low turnout elections it's the people who care the most turning out and the people who care the most tend to be the most informed
It goes against the conventional wisdom of how democracy is supposed to work, but it seems clear to me that electoral politics would be functioning a lot better if we had much lower turnout like pre-2018
It is clear to me after just a few days of usage that Bluesky will never be as big as Twitter once was because we'll never convince conservatives to be on the same app as us. The same does also go for X however
