Tuco
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Senate 2026
Using FDR as a data point is good from an economic standpoint. I'm not sure that holds up for other policies. He did deport thousands of American citizens of Mexican descent, continue the segregated military, etc.. For anyone looking for role models from the past, I'll quote Blake: "Drive your plow over the bones of the dead." (In order to grow something new, you need avoid the reverence of the past.) FDR was better than most, but most really sucked.
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RFK Jr. off the chain and off his rocker
Yep. The bigger pool of viruses reproducing inevitably leads to greater genetic diversity in the pool. Sooner or later, there will be genetic variations which my body hasn't trained on.
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Things Not Going Well in Venezuela, 2.0
I was thinking the same thing. But I wasn't appreciating that the only they would risk is American tax dollars. (NBCNews)
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Things Not Going Well in Venezuela, 2.0
He does think about himself a lot, and that certainly counts.
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ICE activity/raids
Assuming this true, and not some viral bullshit that the Department of Homeland Security couldn't figure out.. Hiltons are mostly franchised, so I assume it's a franchise owner, not the Hilton corporation making that call. Or maybe some lower level employee making a stand. I would expect Hilton corporate to weigh in and threaten the franchise. No way are they going to risk their government business over this.
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Things Not Going Well in Venezuela, 2.0
Mine too. But the algorithm really hit a home run when it recommended "Team America: World Police" after watching a news clip on Venezuela.
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I for one welcome our new AI overlords
One of the big questions for AI is what effect it will have on humans. How you treat AI will train you. On one hand, I can see that keeping some level of detachment is good, to avoid confusing an AI as a real person. But if say 70% of the interactions during the day are with an AI, and I act like a dick, I think that would inevitably have some carry over with real people. If I drop "thank you" and "please" when interacting with an AI, will that carry over to how I deal with my family? Also, in pretty much every scifi movie where the robots take over, it's always the abusive asshole human who gets got in a particularly gruesome way.
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Trump’s America
She has decades of grift available for her. A tell-all about shit everyone already assumes isn't going to pad her wallet like hawking cheap jewelry will.
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Trump’s America
But he does demonstrate the anti-woke mindset, with the basic dogma of "Any societal changes after high school is suspect." We have this weird, natural inclination to believe we grew up "right." I first realized this when I spent my first Christmas with my ex and this weird belief we both had that our vision of Christmas was the version we should follow. Being "woke" means you challenge what you assumed previously. There are a lot of people who struggle with that.
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TIL there’s something called fraud tourism. Congrats, Minnesota.
Can you point to the part of the article that matches up to "an insular, clannish set of first and second generation immigrants from a notoriously corrupt and crime-ridden locale, who are virtually all dependent on state welfare.." Where is the author implying that Somalians brought this corruption to America? You seem to think this about the mafia; it's not. This is about poor people, loose money during a crisis, and the opportunities for grift that inevitably follow.
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Trump’s America
For me, "woke" is a fairly non-specific realization that you were wrong about what you formerly believed, or at least assumed. "Waking up to the fact that..." That might be at different times for different subjects. For my GenX self, examples might include: Homosexuality is normal, and, as such, there is really nothing to ridicule. Fag jokes are usually just nervous energy channeled into giggles. Not only were black people telling the truth about racism in society, they were likely understating the case due to politeness and fatigue. This is particularly true about their interactions with the police. Body cams made a huge difference in waking up, but the Rodney King case and Mark Fuhrman laid the ground work. My perception of many ethnicities was heavily influenced by movies and TV, the writers of which knew no more than I did. They were just regurgitating the same tropes.
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TIL there’s something called fraud tourism. Congrats, Minnesota.
Seriously man, just fuck off. You keep using this story as cudgel against the Somalian as a whole, as if they imported welfare fraud from Somalia. It's exactly why the Trump administration is pushing it and you are just lapping it up. White people, including Aimee Bock, commit plenty of fraud, but your main take-away is that we must do something about those unethical African immigrants.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
I am curious what this Supreme Court Justice thinks the legal distinction is between "brief investigative stops" and the inevitable reality his cover provided ICE.
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Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Body in Congress? Oh you mean Marjorie!
I am guessing during her Senate exploration, she hired a strategist and they are working on her image. With her current negatives, her options were limited to Rep from a very red district or being a commentator on FoxNews. She wants a promotion. Although honestly, with the sheer volume of stupid shit she's said, I have a hard time imagine her winning a statewide election in purplish Georgian. She should just move to Oklahoma. I delight in the irony that some of her angst may be because neither she, nor any of her 32 Republican female colleague members, were awarded Committee Chair positions. Let's face it: if a woman is not qualified to be President then why would one be qualified to run a Congressional Committee.
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2026 Midterms ...
I assume you mean 2024, since that is the data for the map, and most areas didn't have federal elections in 2025. For 2026, I'd expect turnout to be lower across the board, because that is what always happens with non-Presidential years. I'd expect it to dip less in states with Senate and/over governor elections. Theoretically, I'd like to see lower turnout in rural counties and higher turnout in urban counties. But, if there is a "wave" type election in 26, I would guess it's more about changes in percentages in the urban/suburban areas rather than rural America staying home. This map is great in demonstrating how the electoral college (and gerrymandering) reduces participation in states that are dominated by one side.
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Trump’s America
Maybe Miller actually hates Sinatra, since he was the child of Italian immigrants. I bet we could even find racist Anti-Italian and specifically anti-Sicilian cartoons and editorials from when they immigrated here.
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Jeffrey Epstein needs his own thread
I mean, I'm glad people have stopped defending Roman Polanski. Jerry Seinfeld is still a weirdo.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Some people are "new money" rich. He's "new credit card" rich.
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The Lost Generation essay
FWIW, the wage gender gap for ages 20-24 is 9.1%. The wage gap for ages 55-64 is 23.4%. So, in total, men still make more than women, for every generation. (US Department of Labor) Black men between 25 and 55 earn an average of $1098 per week. When men in that same age group earn $1426 per week. Hispanics - $1031. Asian men - $1906. (US Bureau of Labor Statistics) I'm afraid I don't have it broken down in smaller segments. Statistically, men still make more money than women in the United States. Statistically white people make more money than black or hispanic people. I'm not saying everything is fair in all situations. It's not. It never was. But it's a massive exaggeration to say Gen whatever white males are the "lost generation" when they still make more money, on average, than their female and black counterparts. Lets say the average hiring process is slanted against white males. To get to that same end result - that they make more money - it means that there are other non-hiring process factors which more than balances out the hiring basis. Part of that may be personal decisions, like which career men or women decide to follow, or who stays home with the kids. (Although those decisions are heavily influenced by the culture at those jobs and which parent makes more money - so, a feedback loop.) Most of it is probably generational issues, which we need to decide if we want to disrupt. (By generational issues, I mean whether their families were wealthy, professional, etc.)
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Trump’s America
My Grandpa, who treating lying like a sport, used to read newspaper headlines to an idiot he worked with, making up half of them just to rile him up. He would have made so much money in today's media.
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Trump’s America
My vote is for the John Milius special - a massive stroke that prevents him from talking or writing, but he can still hear and understand. He just has to sit there and listen while his legacy is debated. I believe that would be his customized hell and we could watch.
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Trump’s America
When Iraq had it's first vote and had something like 98% participation rate, so many people compared it to America's dismal participation rate. But, in Iraq, whether your side won affected whether your people got jobs or were persecuted by police. Iraqi elections could literally be life or death for your clan. That wasn't the case in the US. So much of how the government operated was apolitical. You didn't have Presidents denying FEMA or SNAP based on whether 55% of a state voted a certain way. You didn't have the government directing or canceling criminal investigations based on your clan. Politics was more academic or philosophical or at least big-picture, slow burn shit. The low participation rate reflected stability. That has changed. Don't get me wrong. I've been political all my life and have always found it important. The philosophy and slow burn shit is important. But I've knocked on enough doors to recognize it's not always easy to explain the importance when there aren't immediate, tangible consequences.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
If he is currently DACA, he couldn’t vote. I don’t understand this story. Edit: article says they are Trump supporters, not Trump voters.
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Trump’s America
I’ll always take a raise over a bonus because raises compound. I’m curious if this changes the calculation in Congress’s eyes.