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Willa Rogers posted:Politico has a piece on dark-money PACs that are raising money on behalf of potential 2024 presidential candidates; some surprise inclusions (Murphy? Pompeo?): Pompeo is not surprising to me after he lost like 100 lbs and announced a book coming out in the fall of 2022. Dude is 100% going to run.
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Sedisp posted:Hey I get it there's not a lot to discuss. (not really but I'll go with this) but also idk cis people. You will get really fired up about Desantis dont say gay bill and tell me in the same breath that it's okay to restrict puberty blockers and HRT till 18. So while i appreciate that there isn't a lot to do besides decry it and offer solidarity, (well and actually signal boost people who are trying to fight this) that is something most trans people are not getting from people that call themselves allies offline. So sometimes it's nice to hear that a greater amount of people actually give a gently caress beyond trans people cause we have to. I'm happy to post a D&D Queer issues thread but I'm I'm cis-male/mostly het dude and I already posted a transgender issues thread this week that turned out Very Bad. Perhaps somebody else besides you or me could put together a good OP because it's a travesty that there's not a current thread on the constant attacks on LGBTQIA+ people happening right now, it's a huge loving issue
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# ? Apr 11, 2022 19:09 |
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Biden just pulled a gun on reporters during his press conference on new regulations requiring background checks, serial numbers, and banning online sales of "ghost guns." https://twitter.com/IsaacDovere/status/1513589778591137799
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# ? Apr 11, 2022 19:54 |
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quote:The duo allegedly flashed official-looking IDs, carried Glocks, drove black SUVs with flashing lights, and became so friendly with some agents that they put the agents up for free in penthouses at the Crossings and gifted them iPhones, rifles, and drones Some agents are going to be manning weather towers soon if not outright fired.
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# ? Apr 11, 2022 20:08 |
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The weird story about the two possibly spies who were bribing secret service agents gets even weirder. My brother lives in that building and told us about some other things: They were living there rent free and those apartments they were giving to/trying to give to people were also rent free. The management of the community took them at their word that they were FBI or whatever and never bothered to actually check with any agency about the guys. Also somehow never bothered to ask or worry about the free apartments they were giving up with no reimbursement. That list of names of people the in buildings? Also given to them by the management and it wasn't just names and addresses it was full PII including bank information, SSNs, and the the background checks they did on the residents before they were approved. Again, simply because they said they were FBI and no one bothered to verify. Also these dudes were semi-known about in the community as some creepy fuckers who would crash parties, pull rank on public party/meeting rooms, and complaints about them to management would always just be brushed off and they would side with them. Like you'd show up to one of the party rooms and it'd be locked, with the windows covered with black out sheets, and the doors locked (things you're not supposed to do or be able to do) and if you called the front desk they'd basically imply "It's a law enforcement matter move along to another room, if there are none, too bad". But there'd clearly be loud music blasting and partying going on. So if you want a free apartment apparently all you needed to do was pretend to be in an Alphabet Agency and you'd get free poo poo and perks for a few years.
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# ? Apr 11, 2022 20:10 |
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^^^ lol, appeal to authority writ large.Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Ron DeSantis is raising an astronomical amount of money for a re-election campaign he is expected to cruise to victory in. He's also not spending any of it. You missed the buried lede of the CNN story, which I didn't see till someone else posted the Fried-Crist numbers separately: quote:Meanwhile, the Democrats attempting to defeat DeSantis are still finding their footing. Through February, US Rep. Charlie Crist, a onetime governor as a Republican and the Democratic nominee for governor in 2014, had raised $7.1 million with $4.7 million still on hand. State Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried had about $3.6 million left of the $6 million she reported raising through February, while a third candidate, state Sen. Annette Taddeo, had raised less than $1 million. I still can't believe that Crist is giving up his House seat for a race in which he's polling 20 pts behind the incumbent. Has anyone announced yet for the Dem primary for Crist's seat? Willa Rogers fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Apr 11, 2022 |
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Willa Rogers posted:You missed the buried lede of the CNN story, which I didn't see till someone else posted the Fried-Crist numbers separately: I mentioned it in the post right afterwards! Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:DeSantis' $100+ million fundraising is blowing out every other candidate for Governor.
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# ? Apr 11, 2022 20:17 |
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Biden just pulled a gun on reporters during his press conference on new regulations requiring background checks, serial numbers, and banning online sales of "ghost guns." Biden is stepping up his game to own Pete Doocey in new and interesting ways, I see.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I mentioned it in the post right afterwards! Yeah my bad for missing that. So, what happens with Crist's House seat; who's running for it, and is the district still purple? eta: I looked it up on ballotpedia & there's 1 libertarian, 4 dems & 7 republicans running. Willa Rogers fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Apr 11, 2022 |
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Willa Rogers posted:Yeah my bad for missing that. Florida still hasn't passed a redistricting plan. The state legislature said they are going to let DeSantis personally draw one and send it to them for approval, so they don't know what the district will actually look like. Unless they get really crazy with it, it will probably end up purpleish, but with a more Republican lean. The people running on both sides right now are a couple of state politicians and random nobodies because a lot of people are still waiting to see where the districts end up before declaring for a specific district.
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# ? Apr 11, 2022 20:31 |
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I'm Jewish and I still don't get what the implication is here? I've heard the "HAARP is a secret government weather control device" and "Jews control the government" conspiracy theories, but I don't think the RNC is going that abstract with this. Is there an anti-Semitic "Jews have biological weather controlling powers (and that is a bad thing the Jews should be ashamed of)" trope that I am unaware of? MTG's "Jewish Space Lasers" theory is the closest thing I can think of, but space lasers are different than weather controlling powers and I don't think the RNC is trying to argue that MTG is right. https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1513603337253531657
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# ? Apr 11, 2022 20:56 |
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Biden pulls a gun in reporters and makes Jew jokes. Too radical the GOP must be the voice of reason.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:
I think it might be this one. Instead of space lasers to start fires in California, it's "the jews use weather satellites to control the weather'. But then as you say, that this tweet means the RNC is trying to argue MTG is right, or at least is doing a "yes, and.." improv comedy bit. Maybe they're trying to imply that Biden thinks this?
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# ? Apr 11, 2022 21:11 |
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K-Mart is down to three stores in the United States after being the largest retail store in the country. One of those three is expected to close by the end of the year. quote:Once a retail giant, Kmart nears extinction with the closure of a New Jersey store https://www.npr.org/2022/04/11/1092048292/kmart-avenel-new-jersey-closes-as-retail-giant-nears-extinction
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Meatball posted:I think it might be this one. Instead of space lasers to start fires in California, it's "the jews use weather satellites to control the weather'. The alt-right, Q-people base can say "ah-HA he admit it, Jews control the weather", whereas the decorum Republicans can say "ah Dems call me racist but Biden himself is a racist" (correct)
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# ? Apr 11, 2022 21:43 |
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Why doesn't the US have something like a Schengen zone with Canada, that is to say an open border?
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quarantinethepast posted:Why doesn't the US have something like a Schengen zone with Canada, that is to say an open border? 9/11, mostly. You didn't need a passport to cross until shortly after that
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:K-Mart is down to three stores in the United States after being the largest retail store in the country. It would be funny if the last one managed to hang on through nostalgia like the last blockbuster video.
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quarantinethepast posted:Why doesn't the US have something like a Schengen zone with Canada, that is to say an open border? Edit: Beaten. But, we did until 9/11.
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# ? Apr 11, 2022 21:56 |
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Here's a really interesting story about the new CDC study examining depression and sadness in American youth. This almost reads like a companion piece to the article you posted, and it definitely does a lot more "enlightened centrist, both sides" than I agree with, but it does have some interesting takes on the impacts of virality and social media: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/ Some of it I think even applies to the way threads work on here. SA obviously doesn't have up votes or similar, but the way these threads tend to turn into twitter refeeds does mean we fall into some of the same outrage engine effects that Twitter and FB make their money off of.
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haveblue posted:9/11, mostly. You didn't need a passport to cross until shortly after that You didn't need a passport to cross if you were white. My Asian college roommate got called out every time we cut through from Michigan to Boston for spring/summer breaks to visit her family.
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Republicans posted:It would be funny if the last one managed to hang on through nostalgia like the last blockbuster video. If people are nostalgic for K-Marts they have been gaslit something fierce, or they really liked Martha Stewart in the 90s.
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GoutPatrol posted:If people are nostalgic for K-Marts they have been gaslit something fierce, or they really liked Martha Stewart in the 90s. Someone isn't old enough to remember when it was a literal Friday night family activity to wander around K-Mart waiting for Blue Light Specials.
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No and I am fine with that, my memories of K-Mart are of a dying store next to an already dead mall. In real news, several "traditional fare like border security and small government" conservatives are running against Paul Gosar. quote:These challenger campaigns are largely quixotic, run by veterans, political newcomers and local elected leaders who can muster barely a small fraction of the money, organization and news media attention as their incumbent opponents. They should note that these upsets are against "their kind" of conservative. quote:The latest upstarts are trying to tap into something different: a sense of voter exasperation with fringe views and the unending cycles of provocation and outrage that feel tailor-made to maximize social media clicks and donor response.
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# ? Apr 12, 2022 00:19 |
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K-mart is a horrible retail hellzone that got out-competed by even worse retail hellzones. There's no sadness to be had there, other than the sadness that capitalism has driven even the slighest less horrible options out.
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GoutPatrol posted:No and I am fine with that, my memories of K-Mart are of a dying store next to an already dead mall. Jaxyon posted:K-mart is a horrible retail hellzone that got out-competed by even worse retail hellzones. In retrospect, it seems hard to believe that K-Mart's strategy of "Raise prices a lot, but offer coupons that dramatically cut the cost to make it feel like you are getting crazy savings + have blue sirens go off every hour to indicate a special 30-minute sale on one specific item" failed because most people just saw the higher prices and didn't think managing a binder of coupons or waiting around the store for hours to wait for the random deal on the thing you need was a good use of their time and they just went to Wal-Mart or Amazon instead. Edit: Actually, it is more amazing that this was considered such a great way to shop for such a long time that it propelled the company to America's top retailer for about 30 years. I guess the bar for entertainment and shopping was a lot lower in the 70's and 80's. The downfall is less surprising than the fact that it somehow got to the top in the first place. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 00:31 on Apr 12, 2022 |
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K-mart in my town was the last place you could get a Little Caesars pizza until Little Caesars made their big comeback via the 5 dollar hot and ready thing.
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kmart needed little caesars little caesars didn't need kmart
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GoutPatrol posted:If people are nostalgic for K-Marts they have been gaslit something fierce, or they really liked Martha Stewart in the 90s. I have fond memories of our town's K-Mart, but nothing of what I would remember of it then (or be nostalgic of) survived being subject to Eddie Lampert's Ayn Rand self-insert heroplay that used the power of objectivism and free market fetishism. But the other half of it for me, admittedly was growing up somewhere ... provincial enough that a K-mart was of significance to the actual literal community
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I felt much worse about KB or Child World.
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Oh my god Child World, I forgot that place existed. I don't think there even are such stores anymore, which makes me sad that my five-year-old will never have the experience of walking into a huge store that's just full of toys as far as the eye can see.
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New inflation report is out. - Headline CPI inflation is up 1.2% to 8.5% over the past 12 months. That is the highest headline CPI inflation rate since 1982. - Core inflation is actually down to 6.4%. That is because core inflation doesn't measure highly volatile commodities like oil and it is a measure of general inflation/dollar devaluation and more than 50% of the entire inflation rate came from gas/energy prices. - That means inflation is falling in general, but it isn't necessarily going to translate to increased spending power. Prices for gas/energy are soaring massively above average, rents are rising moderately above average (following an even larger initial surge in pricing a few months ago), and food is rising slightly above average. Those are three major spending areas for all Americans. - Wage growth continues to be stronger than it has been since the 80's as well, but inflation has been outpacing wage growth for the last 7 months. Average real wages have officially fallen by 2.7% in the last 12 months. - Even though core inflation is down, it isn't expected to go below 6% by the end of the year. CPI inflation is heavily dependent on how long/how serious the war in Ukraine and shutdown in China lasts. Food and oil/gas prices are being highly disrupted by just those two events combined with general supply chain issues. Even if core inflation stalls or starts to decline, headline CPI inflation (driven by gas/energy, food, and housing rents) could continue to rise and those are the price increases that most Americans "feel" directly. - Workers in leisure and hospitality are the one group that seems to be nearly unanimously better off. Their wages are still continuing to rise above inflation (14.8% nominal; 5.2% inflation adjusted), but have slowed down from the significant rises they saw in early/mid 2021. - Additionally, the vast majority of people with college degrees have have had their real incomes rise or stay the same; while the majority of people without college degrees saw their real income fall. - Agricultural/Farm workers, seasonal workers, public sector workers, and workers in food preparation had the largest drops in real income. https://twitter.com/bencasselman/status/1513860243830321152 Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 15:32 on Apr 12, 2022 |
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Professor Beetus posted:K-mart in my town was the last place you could get a Little Caesars pizza until Little Caesars made their big comeback via the 5 dollar hot and ready thing. My big memory of KMart was it sold a lot of really cheap electronics that were abysmal quality versus Walmart. Target took some of the things KMart was doing and did it better now. This is one thing Walmart does well, they set a fairly high bar for even cheap items, KMart just said "If its cheap, we'll sell it"
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My memory of K-Mart is that it was one of the only places we did clothes shopping that wasn't a consignment store, so it was a real fuckin' treat for me as a kid.
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Lib and let die posted:My memory of K-Mart is that it was one of the only places we did clothes shopping that wasn't a consignment store, so it was a real fuckin' treat for me as a kid. Yeah, as a poor kid k-mart clothes were a treat. It was usually hand me downs and second hand stores.
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Someone shot up a subway station in Brooklyn https://twitter.com/cnn/status/1513873096280842261?s=21&t=dZFBZJPwkiVB1diBv8tG3Q
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Here's the largest categories that are driving almost all of the CPI inflation rate (over the last 12 months):quote:Fuel oil 70% 4/6 are fuel or gas related. And just for fun, here's the things that dropped in prices (which considering overall inflation, anything with any price drop at all, let alone a significant price drop, has had its price/demand really collapse): quote:Food at elementary and secondary schools Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 15:11 on Apr 12, 2022 |
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FlamingLiberal posted:Someone shot up a subway station in Brooklyn It's Just another tragic Tuesday. (Woah, woah)
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# ? Apr 12, 2022 15:09 |
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Here's the NYT writeup of the economic news that Leon's been summarizing:quote:Inflation Continued to Worsen in March, as Gas and Rent Costs Rose
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A visual representing the annual inflation rates for various items factoring the March info:
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