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Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://mobile.twitter.com/jbendery/status/1404539655865917451

the bears thank you madame secretary

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Asproigerosis
Mar 13, 2013

insufferable

Proudly raising the pride flag as we rubber stamp legislation to overturn roe v wade and make being transgender a felony in the name of bipartisanship.

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://mobile.twitter.com/freedlander/status/1404569352167374850

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://mobile.twitter.com/tribelaw/status/1404864030276263942

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
lol if the retired cop is going to beat Yang Gang and the AOC+Warren endorsed liberal

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

lol liberals are bloodthirsty ghouls

Asproigerosis
Mar 13, 2013

insufferable
Tbf the cop is more progressive than those two.

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

but he lives in jersey the greatest possible crime to a new yorker even worse than unironically liking times square

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

lmao did he have his own flag like he’s a British admiral in the Napoleonic wars? that rules I’m gonna get my own flag made

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:
frankly I'm glad politicians are ignoring their personal beliefs and instead refusing to change anything ever

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

Asproigerosis posted:

Tbf the cop is more progressive than those two.

nah

https://twitter.com/RossBarkan/status/1389351820171087873

quote:

If Adams is victorious, he will be the second consecutive Democrat to have a close working relationship with organized labor, particularly the municipal unions, the building workers, and the hotel workers. Unlike Bill de Blasio, who branded himself as a progressive and made several ham-handed attempts to flip the State Senate to the Democrats, Adams has no allegiance to left movement politics in New York City. He has no reason to care about the reform clubs, made up of younger members who recoil from his many polarizing statements, or the democratic socialists trying to upend politics in his backyard. He hates the anti-IDC activists, certainly. He has every incentive to use the power of his office, in tandem with the more moderate labor unions, to try to crush the left.

quote:

Far more organized than Yang and much more deeply woven into the political institutions that make up this city, Adams will not be easily moved. Rallies will not intimidate a man who once boasted about his willingness to carry his own gun in City Hall. He will freely endorse candidates and find ways to cut off those who stand against him. De Blasio, who had his own issues with soft corruption, was too feckless to build any political machine of his own. Adams is incendiary, but he’s far from incompetent—critics forget he graduated with the highest grades in his class at the police academy. He’s been thinking, for decades now, about what he’d do as mayor of New York City. Organizations and movements that agitate for change under a Mayor Adams can only get so far against someone who understands, intimately, how to wield power and punish enemies.

Adams, like other Democrats who have been losing to progressives in Brooklyn and Queens, can weaponize his identity against the left. Unlike these more awkward attempts on the local level—Jesse Hamilton referred to a Black opponent as an “all lives matter” candidate—Adams can more deftly cut off debate. If you have a problem with his close relationship with the real estate industry and propensity for setting up curious nonprofits that create too many opportunities for de facto bribery, he won’t accept the criticism. Adams has already employed a version of this, defending the abuse of parking placards by his Borough Hall staff. “We won’t have an Eric Adams rule. I fought my entire life to make sure men that look like me don’t have different rules than everyone else,” Adams said in 2019. “It’s one rule in this city. It’s not going to be a rule just for Eric Adams — the first African-American borough president.” There’s a cynical brilliance to the argument—if white politicians like Marty Markowitz get to be corrupt, why can’t I?—and it’s one that all leftists and good government reformers should be prepared to face if he wins in June. Opposing his housing policies, questioning his endorsements, or scrutinizing his nonprofits will come with an easy enough rejoinder. If Bill de Blasio got favors done for his wealthiest donors, why can’t the first Black mayor in almost 30 years do the same?

PoontifexMacksimus
Feb 14, 2012


When are they getting to the traitors of 1/6?

Bootleg Trunks
Jun 12, 2020


Adams is the cop, right?

Edit: yep. Lol what a dogshit party

galenanorth
May 19, 2016


Prosecutors very clearly have an option not to enforce the law, just like they do for banks, through prosecutorial discretion, and the administration of George W. Bush was more progressive on this issue than Biden is now

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


I'm pretty confident that the primary electorate for the Dems is more conservative than the nation on average.

Also "I'm very against THING but THING is legal so it would be wrong for people in power to ignore it" is both the laziest and most cowardly take, especially when elected leaders ignore poo poo all the time.

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

taking a moment to appreciate that the nyt mayors race is dominated by dumb culture wars bullshit despite there not being a republican in sight why its almost as if both parties benefit from the discourse being divorced from actual policy discussion

Terminal autist
May 17, 2018

by vyelkin
Remember when deblasio thanked the NYPD for doxxing his daughter during the height of the protests, lmao

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

Eggplant Squire posted:

I'm pretty confident that the primary electorate for the Dems is more conservative than the nation on average.

Also "I'm very against THING but THING is legal so it would be wrong for people in power to ignore it" is both the laziest and most cowardly take, especially when elected leaders ignore poo poo all the time.

The actual electorate who votes and participates is probably more conservative since a lot of them are older or wealthier than average, right?

PoontifexMacksimus
Feb 14, 2012

Excelzior posted:

they did their best to unfuck D&D after 4th ed, but it still feels off

3.5 supremacy

Worst unsourced quote yet, sickening

PoontifexMacksimus has issued a correction as of 03:12 on Jun 16, 2021

PoontifexMacksimus
Feb 14, 2012

Excelzior posted:

Pamela Springstein posted:

people who write Games OPs are sick

this

who the fucks sees some dipshit writing 12 paragraphs about the lore of some lovely anime waifu collection soulslike and decides "hmmm yes this is what we need to model our serious discussion on"

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

galenanorth posted:

Prosecutors very clearly have an option not to enforce the law, just like they do for banks, through prosecutorial discretion, and the administration of George W. Bush was more progressive on this issue than Biden is now

actually i think youll find that the law is inherently apolitical because trump acted like it was political and so the opposite must be true

Shipon
Nov 7, 2005

is pepsi ok posted:

you don't need to break up the tech giants, you need to nationalize them. there's no advantage having multiple googles, twitters, youtubes, etc., you want those things to be single entities. plus if you did break them up it would take a couple years at most for them to T-1000 back together.

calling to "break up monopolies" implies you believe the capitalist ideal of competition being "good capitalism" and that we only need to reform not replace.

absolutely nationalize them all, bigger is better

Mirthless
Mar 27, 2011

by the sex ghost

is pepsi ok posted:

you don't need to break up the tech giants, you need to nationalize them. there's no advantage having multiple googles, twitters, youtubes, etc., you want those things to be single entities. plus if you did break them up it would take a couple years at most for them to T-1000 back together.

I started writing an enthusiastic reply to this but the more I thought about it, the more I thought about how massively huge a project this would be and it just made me feel fuckin upset

Google could do so much good for society if it was turned into a nonprofit and suddenly poo poo like The Algorithm was made opaque and you had actual data privacy rights

But we'd have to have a government that does things for that to work :(

PoontifexMacksimus
Feb 14, 2012

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

pelosi saying the trump justice department was worse than nixon's.......... goldfish brain country run by goldfish morons

Covid's killed more people than Vietnam, so obviously Trump is worse than Nixon

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://mobile.twitter.com/jbendery/status/1404882837162053634

cant wait for the monkeys paw on this to curl and breyer to be replaced by a garlandesque figure who opposes all of these movements lol

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


Mirthless posted:

...and suddenly poo poo like The Algorithm was made opaque ....

Do you mean transparent?

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://mobile.twitter.com/toddgillman/status/1404855088854835200

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Some Guy TT posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/jbendery/status/1404882837162053634

cant wait for the monkeys paw on this to curl and breyer to be replaced by a garlandesque figure who opposes all of these movements lol

Remember when people ranted for entire years, including posthumously, when this was suggested to be done to RBG

Excelzior
Jun 24, 2013

Chris James 2 posted:

Remember when people ranted for entire years, including posthumously, when this was suggested to be done to RBG

I mostly remember the scandalized replies of "you wouldn't ask a MAN to retire!"

Mirthless
Mar 27, 2011

by the sex ghost

SKULL.GIF posted:

Do you mean transparent?

yes sorry i have a bunch of birds flying around my head right now and they're all being terrible, it's hard to focus

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

i still think rbgs reasoning was defendable given the information she had access to at the time

like she was still a trashy cult figure but given how democrats were so smug about winning 2016 they didnt even bother to lobby for an open seat that fell right into their lap it was really more of a none of you is without dumbassery moment than anything specific to her

Mirthless
Mar 27, 2011

by the sex ghost

Some Guy TT posted:

i still think rbgs reasoning was defendable given the information she had access to at the time

like she was still a trashy cult figure but given how democrats were so smug about winning 2016 they didnt even bother to lobby for an open seat that fell right into their lap it was really more of a none of you is without dumbassery moment than anything specific to her

yeah i don't blame rgb for not stepping down personally

i 1000% blame her for officiating a wedding during a covid outbreak in winter

i don't know what the gently caress she was thinking and why she did it but i wish she hadn't and in a universe where karmic cycles of rebirth are real she deserves to be reborn as a cockroach or a worm and start the whole cycle over because that moment of self-serving indulgence cost us all pretty dearly

Mirthless has issued a correction as of 03:38 on Jun 16, 2021

KirbyKhan
Mar 20, 2009



Soiled Meat

Mirthless posted:

yeah i don't blame rgb for not stepping down personally

i 1000% blame her for officiating a wedding during a covid outbreak in winter

Fuckin lmao, I forgot she the bride took down that photo after RGB got got.

Tabletops
Jan 27, 2014

anime

Mirthless posted:

yeah i don't blame rgb for not stepping down personally

i 1000% blame her for officiating a wedding during a covid outbreak in winter

i don't know what the gently caress she was thinking and why she did it but i wish she hadn't and in a universe where karmic cycles of rebirth are real she deserves to be reborn as a cockroach or a worm and start the whole cycle over because that moment of self-serving indulgence cost us all pretty dearly

what she died of cancer not COVID

Bideo James
Oct 21, 2020

you'll have to ask someone else about the size of her cans

KirbyKhan posted:

Fuckin lmao, I forgot she the bride took down that photo after RGB got got.

she died like a week after the no mask wedding lmao

Excelzior
Jun 24, 2013

KirbyKhan posted:

Fuckin lmao, I forgot she the bride took down that photo after RGB got got.

did she unlock her twitter yet

Mirthless
Mar 27, 2011

by the sex ghost

Tabletops posted:

what she died of cancer not COVID

I don't want to have to dig through the reporting after she got infected (it was in fall, I was wrong on that detail) but she was hospitalized shortly after the wedding with respiratory issues and was hospitalized for quite a bit before she died, consistent with most other covid deaths for people in extremely high risk categories, which she was, given that she was undergoing treatment for cancer.

It was very obvious in the context of the moment that she was a covid death and the estate refusing to own it was clearly meant to save her friends from being crucified by the justifiably outraged public

Pobrecito
Jun 16, 2020

hasta que la muerte nos separe
Exactly, Iraq wants these companies to come in and drill because they don't have capital or technical knowledge that's possessed by many majors. This isn't stealing. It's paying for goods bought

Tabletops
Jan 27, 2014

anime

Mirthless posted:

I don't want to have to dig through the reporting after she got infected (it was in fall, I was wrong on that detail) but she was hospitalized shortly after the wedding with respiratory issues and was hospitalized for quite a bit before she died, consistent with most other covid deaths for people in extremely high risk categories, which she was, given that she was undergoing treatment for cancer.

It was very obvious in the context of the moment that she was a covid death and the estate refusing to own it was clearly meant to save her friends from being crucified by the justifiably outraged public

this is the dumbest poo poo. old people especially ones with immune conditions or undergoing chemo are exceptionally vulnerable to viral and bacterial pneumonia. in fact it’s probably much more likely than Covid. cause it just loving happens.

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gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
People were asking Ginsburg to retire in 2013. The whole "Notorious RBG" meme was invented in response to that.

Granted, if the Republicans wouldn't allow Obama to replace Scalia then it was a sure bet that they wouldn't allow Obama to replace her either, but there's still a good two-three years between the initial calls for her to retire and his dying (and the Congressional stonewalling that followed)

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