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Are we allowed to discuss local politics here? My city elected a couple stop the steal cranks to city council and "anti-crt" people won big in school board elections in outlying suburbs. Seems like a bad news bellwether.
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metachronos posted:Are we allowed to discuss local politics here? My city elected a couple stop the steal cranks to city council and "anti-crt" people won big in school board elections in outlying suburbs. Seems like a bad news bellwether. Plenty of folks will fight them earnestly, your job is to keep heightening the contradiction. And what I mean is to get them fighting over which village in Kenya Obama was born in and attempt to get them to put this into the curriculum, alongside a picture of Castro for some reason.
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Freakazoid_ posted:
The policy move for gas prices was opening the strategic reserve. There are also the international overtures to Venezuela and Iran, which are clearly calculated to improve the situation in the mid- to long-term. We will also get the cyclical lower prices for summer gas (idr the specifics, something about the blend?), so it is possible that prices will nudge downwards in the next couple months. On the flip side though, there is an actual supply crunch on gas globally, so doing things that will increase use (like lowering the price by fiat) is probably not good policy. We likely need to step up exports to Europe from an international security perspective, so increasing domestic use is counterproductive. With that in mind, we need the Carter-level "start wearing sweaters" messaging from the government, and we need consumers to start viewing renewables with more enthusiasm (and frankly we have needed it for decades, climate change isn't going away).
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Remember that crazy lady who was the head of a national anti-abortion group that was indicted by the Justice Department and arrested by Capitol Police this week because she stole 5 fetuses from an abortion clinic they raided and kept them in here house for years? Turns out that was all wrong and fake news. She actually took 115 fetuses. And now they claim that they were given the fetuses and they didn't steal them. They hired a priest to give 110 of them a mass burial on sanctified ground and kept 5 of them in their house for ??? She also claims she is an "atheist leftist." quote:Anti-Abortion Activists Say They Were Allowed to Take 115 Fetuses https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/05/us/fetus-anti-abortion-home-washington.html
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Josh Mandel seems to have made a very large error and a false claim in his new campaign ad. Here's the 30-second ad below. See if you can spot it. https://twitter.com/JoshMandelOhio/status/1511360397244350472 If you didn't spot it, then here's the frame in question:
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I wanted to see if anyone looked into this, because it seemed unbelievable that the kind of person who would be willing and able to pull off a competent fake like this would forget about the hands. https://twitter.com/natalie_allison/status/1511478072511451136?t=ZkuR1yRxL3R3EEZ7HPPOSA&s=19
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I can't really come up with a motive on why you would edit a photo like that, swapping his head onto a black man. Still an awful ad though.
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I’m giving the internet less than ten minutes before somebody photoshops that picture so Mandel is sitting on a couch
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Baronash posted:I wanted to see if anyone looked into this, because it seemed unbelievable that the kind of person who would be willing and able to pull off a competent fake like this would forget about the hands. That's a less funny explanation to a funny situation. If the campaign is telling the truth, then why in the world did they use a darkening filter? In other news, I celebrate Joseph Crowley (the former #3 for the House Democratic Leadership team who was primaried by AOC) for gracefully dropping out of politics after his loss. Instead, he is going into the next logical step for a former member of congressional leadership and is... *checks notes*... producing and performing a traditional Irish music/Hip-Hop/Rock Ballad fusion Broadway musical about Irish Immigrants and Black Americans living in a fictionalized racial paradise based on the real life Five Points neighborhood in the 1800's? quote:A former lawmaker is raising the curtain on a new role: Broadway producer. It seems to be getting okay reviews. Although, a lot of critics seem concerned that the writing and costuming are too ham-fisted with obvious metaphor and lack subtlety, and the score leans heavily on the rock ballads and less on the traditional Irish music and hip-hop. quote:In ‘Paradise Square,’ Racial Harmony Turns to Discord https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/03/theater/paradise-square-review.html Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 14:47 on Apr 6, 2022 |
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Is this the new Hamilton?
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:That's a less funny explanation to a funny situation. If the campaign is telling the truth, then why in the world did they use a darkening filter? Why, to own the libs who would call it out and create controversy my dude
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Is this the new Hamilton? The reviews are just okay and, so far, it is only scheduled for one run on Broadway. So, probably not. Maybe it will be like Rocky Horror Picture Show or Little Shop of Horrors and be rediscovered 20 years later and declared an underappreciated classic? Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 14:52 on Apr 6, 2022 |
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:That's a less funny explanation to a funny situation. If the campaign is telling the truth, then why in the world did they use a darkening filter?
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The U.S. is still trying to walk a tightrope of applying sanctions that punish Putin, but don't seriously impact the Russian oil and gas production industry that makes up most of its economy. So, in response to alleged war crimes involving killing over 300 civilians who were bound and shot at close range, targeting non-strategically important civilian buildings like schools, museums, and grocery store, allowing rape of civilians, and taking Ukrainian civilians prisoner and back to Russian territory, the U.S. is seizing Putin's daughter's New York City condo, preventing her from competing in any U.S. dance competitions, and preventing all of his children from owning property or holding financial accounts in American territory. https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1511702405938876421 Seems like the kind of thing that is going to make nobody happy. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 15:03 on Apr 6, 2022 |
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Now there's a sanction regime I support, let's seize all rich people's second+ condos and house homeless people in them
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The U.S. is also depriving the world of art like this from the "Boogie-Woogie Masters" by preventing Putin's daughter from competing. https://twitter.com/xeni/status/561611645265674240 The full video with music really makes the performance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h1BAq_fcXI
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The U.S. is also depriving the world of art like this from the "Boogie-Woogie Masters" by preventing Putin's daughter from competing. And isn't that the real war crime?
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It's going to be really embarrassing if it turns out that Putin's kids kept all of their assets in Bank of America checking accounts and their NYC condo closets.
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Looks like 2022's campaign theme for Dems will be The Year of the Moderate in an attempt to counter the GOP's smears of Dems being radical socialists: The "good" Arizona senator: quote:He helped sink one of Joe Biden’s labor nominees, pushed the president to open new drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and hammered the administration over lifting pandemic-era restrictions on the southern border. And the "bad" senator from Arizona agrees: "Sinema issued a statement praising Kelly’s 'independent leadership' with his work on Covid, infrastructure and the border." Kelly's been joined by other party members in good standing who are facing losses this year: quote:While progressives have largely called the rescission of Title 42 — which allowed border agents to quickly kick out thousands of migrants — long overdue, moderates have slammed the administration for proceeding without a plan to handle an expected surge of migrants. The four most vulnerable Senate Democrats — Sens. Mark Kelly of Arizona, Raphael Warnock of Georgia, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada and Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire — have all spoken out against the Biden administration’s move, echoing GOP concerns about a coming spike in the number of migrants arriving at the border. And, as always, the party "moderates" are trying to battle the GOP on its own turf, with an assist from the DCCC: quote:The Democratic Blue Dogs are sharpening their teeth for the midterms. What could possibly go wrong with moderates trying to out-conservative the conservatives? quote:Last cycle, the ranks of the Blue Dogs were decimated. Zero out of the nine candidates they endorsed won, while eight of their incumbents lost their reelection battles. New Democrats, which has a larger base of lawmakers, also lost a key chunk of members.
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VitalSigns posted:Now there's a sanction regime I support, let's seize all rich people's second+ condos and house homeless people in them That's what Eric Adams is doing in NYC. Getting the homeless out of the subway stations, trains, and parks and putting them up in free NYC apartments. They only have 500 units, though. As long as there aren't more than 500 homeless people in NYC, they should be fine.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:That's what Eric Adams is doing in NYC. Getting the homeless out of the subway stations, trains, and parks and putting them up in free NYC apartments. They only have 500 units, though.
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metachronos posted:Are we allowed to discuss local politics here? My city elected a couple stop the steal cranks to city council and "anti-crt" people won big in school board elections in outlying suburbs. Seems like a bad news bellwether. This is not a bellweather about anything nationally because of the way local politics like city councils and school boards are run as open, non-partisan elections in a first-past-the-post system. You end up with several incumbents and a number of challengers running for a few seats. So you end up with a situation like where there's 2 open seats with 1 incumbent, 5 normal people, and 2 cranks running. The cranks get the Karen and racists to coalesce behind them on a culture war policy like CRT while the 5 normal people dilute the vote for any one of them. So the top 3 vote getters end up being the incumbent and the 2 cranks. This is as opposed to national and state elections that run primaries for candidates with clear party affiliations. Culture war poo poo doesn't make a difference in these elections. The only reason why the school board stuff is a thing at all is because the GOP has specifically targeted it as their new tactic to dismantle public schooling, since voucher programs have failed to succeed at the task. Xombie fucked around with this message at 15:46 on Apr 6, 2022 |
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VitalSigns posted:Nah not the same I don't support the forcibly clearing out the homeless from public spaces part, only the free housing for the homeless part. (It was a joke)
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Just got a wire buzz that the Supreme Court struck down parts of the Clean Water Act (5-4) a few minutes ago. Roberts joined the liberals. Essentially, they are limiting the government's ability to declare wetlands or inland waterways protected or claim that construction could impact protected waterways unless the waterways are directly connected to each other with no subdivision at all (even a sand dune) or the impact would directly impact the protected areas. Basically, if you are doing something that damages unprotected rivers/waterways that flow into protected waterways, then you are okay as long as there is something separating them. Instead of the previous standard, which was if it was overwhelmingly likely to impact the protected waterways. They could still take action later if they did end up damaging the waterways, but they cannot pre-emptively stop them or require a permit now. Don't see any articles up yet, but here's an older one from when they agreed to take up the case with a summary: quote:Supreme Court takes EPA case that could narrow Clean Water Act https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/24/supreme-court-clean-water-act/ Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 15:52 on Apr 6, 2022 |
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:That's what Eric Adams is doing in NYC. Getting the homeless out of the subway stations, trains, and parks and putting them up in free NYC apartments. They only have 500 units, though. Don't they buy them bus tickets to Florida for the winter?
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Oracle posted:Don't they buy them bus tickets to Florida for the winter? They had a program under DeBlasio from 2017 to 2019 where they gave them a year's rent and a bus ticket to Utah. They never told Utah and cancelled it when they found out and complained + it came out that the program cost ~$90 million dollars of the city budget.
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Willa Rogers posted:Looks like 2022's campaign theme for Dems will be The Year of the Moderate in an attempt to counter the GOP's smears of Dems being radical socialists: When all their people lose again, their only takeaway will be to get more moderate, and keep taking their base for granted.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:They had a program under DeBlasio from 2017 to 2019 where they gave them a year's rent and a bus ticket to Utah. Thinking about how many houses/apartment buildings they could've built with $270 million. Love watching the party of empathy and social justice treating NYC like a sundown town for homeless.
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Meatball posted:When all their people lose again, their only takeaway will be to get more moderate, and keep taking their base for granted. The Blue Dogs have mostly been dead since 2010. They only endorsed candidates for 9 races out of 435 last election and only have 19 members. Compare that to 2008, where they made up over 25% of the entire Democratic caucus. There's still people that listen to them, though.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The Blue Dogs have mostly been dead since 2010. They only endorsed candidates for 9 races out of 435 last election and only have 19 members. They aren't dead in red states. The guy Dems are running for House here is extremely anti-abortion and conservative on quite a few issues.
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Bishyaler posted:Thinking about how many houses/apartment buildings they could've built with $270 million. Love watching the party of empathy and social justice treating NYC like a sundown town for homeless. It was $90 million over the course of the program and not per year. So, a little less than $30 million per year. Your point still stands, though! Building new housing stock in NYC is so impossible that if even construction companies and rich people in Manhattan who want to build a room on top of their garage can't get approval, then there is no way that they were going to approve apartments for homeless people using public money. Eric Adams' housing plan was the one part of his platform that was genuinely very good, but it depended on money and zoning changes from the state legislature, and they already killed it dead.
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Kalit posted:Oh god, please don't have us follow in the footsteps of Sweden: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58317555. It is unlikely for either rent control or government subsidized housing to pass anyway. I said rent control because it's the most threatening to landlords. In reality, a combination of rent control, more housing, and several other tenant favorable laws are needed to make rent more affordable. BougieBitch posted:The policy move for gas prices was opening the strategic reserve. There are also the international overtures to Venezuela and Iran, which are clearly calculated to improve the situation in the mid- to long-term. We will also get the cyclical lower prices for summer gas (idr the specifics, something about the blend?), so it is possible that prices will nudge downwards in the next couple months. Meanwhile, much of europe is pushing for gas caps and kazakhstan ousted their leader for removing their country's caps. How badly would the oil industry be affected by, say, a 4 dollar cap per gallon? Seems high enough to prevent increased domestic use and would curb oil industry greed.
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Bishyaler posted:They aren't dead in red states. The guy Dems are running for House here is extremely anti-abortion and conservative on quite a few issues. They are going to completely eat poo poo the moment voters read the (D) on the ballots. Republican rhetoric and policy is total war.
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Freakazoid_ posted:It is unlikely for either rent control or government subsidized housing to pass anyway. I said rent control because it's the most threatening to landlords. In reality, a combination of rent control, more housing, and several other tenant favorable laws are needed to make rent more affordable. There are some things you could do, but each of them have their specific drawbacks. So, you'd have to decide which one you were okay with. But, since it is largely a supply issue, there isn't a ton you can do in the short-term that will result in a large change in gas prices. All the big solutions are medium to long term solutions. A $4 cap on gas probably wouldn't have a huge impact either way. It wouldn't save consumers a ton. If you had a dramatic and seriously low cap on prices on a supply limited thing like gasoline, then it could cause shortages because producers would just sell more to places paying higher amounts. If the government subsidizes gas costs, then you are effectively subsidizing the gas industry and incentivizing more use of gas and extraction. If you allow more domestic production, then you will drive down the price of gas, but you will also incentivize more use of gas and extraction. Processing is also a key part and refineries might need months or years to scale up production even with increased extraction. If you just give people money directly for gas, then you contribute to higher inflation and also directly incentivize more of use of gas and extraction. And Europe isn't actually implementing gasoline price caps. Plus, you have to remember that current U.S. gas prices are still below where they were in Europe 5 years ago. In Sweden, gas is the equivalent of ~$8.70 per gallon right now. So, they aren't at the same point as the U.S. in terms of prices. So far, we are just trying to increase the supply by releasing from the strategic reserve and then hoping Ukraine sorts itself out soon because we don't want to pull the trigger on any of the specific downsides of the other options.
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Woof https://mobile.twitter.com/eyokley/status/1511736140520472588 Unbelievable. This one policy might have secured Democratic dominance for a generation, oh well
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It seems like the Dems are reacting to polls like this one.The Hill posted:Indeed, a majority of voters (54 percent) — including 56 percent of independents — explicitly say that they want Biden and Democrats to move closer to the center and embrace more moderate policies versus embracing more liberal policies (18 percent) or staying where they are politically (13 percent). Now, it remains to be seen how exactly how this messaging shakes out. If "moderate" means "white kids shouldn't learn to feel bad about themselves at school" and "parents should have a say" and "police keep our neighborhoods safe" and "cancel culture is out of control," then that's probably fine - because those things have next to nothing to do with federal policy, and are extremely unpopular. If it means "the CTC was a mistake, and actually we don't think the government should help with childcare" then not so much. I mean, keep in mind that if many voters think the Democrats are left-wing radicals, then simply restating their existing positions on things like climate change, education and wealth distribution could be seen as "moderate." I think it's pretty clear that they would rather have things like the CTC and subsidized childcare as established "moderate" policies that they had brought into being, rather than just proposed and failed to pass, but they just didn't have the votes. It might be about time to start making some "we didn't really have control"-type arguments, as tough of a sell as that is. Mellow Seas fucked around with this message at 17:56 on Apr 6, 2022 |
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That poll doesn’t define what ‘moderate’ policies even are, and several of those other questions are very leading
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Is this the new Hamilton? The biggest reason why Hamilton was popular was not that it was historical, its that it was good. It was one of the best made musicals in decades. This seems like someone trying to cargo cult it's success.
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FlamingLiberal posted:That poll doesn’t define what ‘moderate’ policies even are, and several of those other questions are very leading Doug Schoen's Bio posted:Widely recognized as a co-inventor of overnight polling, Schoen was credited by The New York Times for “one of the most ambitious pollings of an electorate ever undertaken.” Mellow Seas fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Apr 6, 2022 |
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VitalSigns posted:Woof Gotta say, that's gonna go down as one historical shot in the foot.
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