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CNN Breaking News: US Rep. David Scott dies at 80. The longtime Georgia Democrat was running for reelection to a 13th term.

What can you even say at this point

The headlines before the Dow opening 300 points up

God I hate this stupid fucking country

No honestly that part checks out entirely

It’s all the other stuff about this conspiracy theory that’s so unbelievable

Trump hides his medical records as a matter of course. If he didn’t get hit, he’d be hiding his medical records. If he did get hit, he’d be hiding his medical records. If nothing happened that day at all, he’d still be hiding his medical records.

Pro-Israel dems feel absolutely zero obligation to understand anything they’re talking about

All that’s required is to sneer at silly activists for not understanding the practical realities of the situation

You don’t need to actually understand things yourself
The sneering is the important part

the thing is that sometimes there are cases when the fans are actually right

and it’s still not a good idea to listen to them because then you start listening to them when they aren’t, which is most of the time

i dislike lying not just because it makes others not trust "your side", but because it destroys "your own side's" understanding and ability to analyze a situation. it makes people who you're "on the same side with" look like idiots who drunk the kool aid, and they're less able to defend themselves.

The postmortem does not say what that user’s saying it does

The outage easily could have been caused by AI code, but they are saying the postmortem says something that it just objectively does not

Do you have a link to where they said that?

He fully believes the genocide is happening, he’s just being a pedantic shit about what to call it.

That’s different from what you’re trying to portray this as, which is him thinking Israel is not actually doing the bad things we all see them doing, out of some ideological or financial interest

A miserable tray of miserable food, featuring chopped up carrots and two pieces of unintelligible meat in unappetizing colors

The navy has more than enough money to have logistics that actually work.

This is not a resource shortage, it is a choice being made, and if we increased the navy budget, they’d probably STILL be making that choice.

Gentrification can mean (1) displacement (2) the commercial infrastructure in an area turning into generic yuppieslop (3) new people moving in at all (4) any improvement to the neighborhood's infrastructure at all.

1 is very bad, 2 is bad but less bad, 3 is neutral, 4 is obviously good

This would be a great argument if Stancil’s hobby horse was “Why does Rob Chappell think the biden economy was bad?”

But it isn’t, it’s “Why does the general population think the biden economy was bad?”

You are not America, you are one person

Is it disrespectful to mugging victims to point out that the crime rate is down?

I was looking for jobs during that era. Despite good economic fundamentals, it was still an exercise in misery. LinkedIn (and sites like it) has pretty much destroyed the job search, everyone is submitting hundreds of applications with zero response, even rejections. It makes you feel invisible

Well the question is why five years specifically?

Two years ago people were saying it was lagged three year inflation!

That was Biden’s theory and he carried it out. How well did it work for him?

If they made Star Trek today Kirk wouldn’t be captaining the ship he’d be like, attending the starfleet academy or something

*puts finger to earpiece*
huh? they what?

Covid caused social media use to skyrocket and in-person socialization to crash, and for many people, those metrics have not substantially recovered since then.

I think if the vibecession was because people became more politically conscious we would have seen that change impact other things, for example, the general population’s willingness to elect fascists. Trump was MORE popular in 2024 than he was in 2016. He won the popular vote!

I think he’s said a lot of stupid and bad things and it’s entirely possible he’s been antisemitic, but it’s very obvious that the uproar about him is fabricated nonsense

Hillary winning 2016 would have almost certainly resulted in a Republican winning 2020, but it wouldn’t have been Trump. In 2016 the GOP was really internally unstable, huge factions thought Trump was a reckless gamble. A big loss from the populist side would give the neocons more leverage

55 cents in 1978 was equivalent to 2.87 today, which is about identical to where gas prices were near me before Trump closed the strait of Hormuz.

In contrast, real median wages are up substantially.

(As is MPG, a gallon gets you further)

You’re either illiterate or trolling and either way it’s not worth trying to reach you. Fuck off

How is this “denying” your “lived experience”?

If you weren’t doing well in 2019, that’s fair. Many people weren’t. But MOST people thought it was amazing. And we’re talking about what MOST PEOPLE believe, because MOST PEOPLE changed their opinion.

You’re not reading what I’m saying. You saw “nobody wants to work anymore” in scare quotes and instead of realizing I’m making fun of that talking point you ignored all context and declared I secretly believe it.

If you’re not going to read what I actually say, then go complain at someone else.

I never once said your lived experience is wrong. I said that you are not representative of *the population of the United States,* which is something that can ONLY be determined with data and numbers about EVERYONE ELSE. Not just you.

I’m not telling you about your lived experience. I’m telling you what the GENERAL POPULATION believes, AS MEASURED IN SURVEYS AND POLLS.

You are one individual.

What the actual fuck are you talking about? I’m saying progressive policy worked and materially improved people’s well-being. Are you illiterate?