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Old Kentucky Shark posted:Yeah, being one of Trump's toadies involves an endless cycle of personal humiliation and abject debasement in order to stay inside the inner circle. It's the classic dilemma of an inner circle of a narcissist; dealing with someone who treats people as disposable and will casually destroy them for the slightest annoyance, or just if he's bored and they happen to be nearby. Cartoon supervillains are more reasonable and pragmatic.
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Push El Burrito posted:So how long until states start passing laws raising the voting age to 40? Would that mean that I'd get to enjoy a few years without being bombarded with emails and phone calls asking me to donate and VOTE in the most important election of my life?
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the_steve posted:Would that mean that I'd get to enjoy a few years without being bombarded with emails and phone calls asking me to donate and VOTE in the most important election of my life? No, I'm afraid not.
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Push El Burrito posted:So how long until states start passing laws raising the voting age to 40? Any such law would be unconstitutional on its face.
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tagesschau posted:Any such law would be unconstitutional on its face. Yeah, the 26th amendment makes 18 the legal voting age, and any law against that would be immediately thrown out by even this SC.
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Kloaked00 posted:In good news, Michigan has a Democratic house, senate and governor for the first time in like 40 years! holy gently caress go Michigan. Also lol: 
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From the election mail I received from republican candidates they def ran on culture war issues. It blows my mind that they are just saying that the economy is bad now. The economy has been bad for most people in this country for multiple decades considering if you get sick you may end up destitute as well as the fact you have the fed actively trying to limit the power of labor. The whole crime being on the rise thing also pisses me off. Most of these chuds are never going to be the target of a crime beyond wage theft. Its generally the marginalized people that these scumbags are afraid of gaining any sort of social power that are the victims of crime. Getting tough on crime has done nothing but enrich police departments and private prisons while harming certain communities with scalpal like precision. The biggest problem with the whole crime thing is that both parties use it as a cudgel. The democrats are afraid of what the republicans are painting them as. They dont want to be seen as weak on crime and republicans are just loving crazy about it. The system needs reformed and there are no two ways about it. Our police look like soldiers anymore and they act like they are in a warzone.
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Kloaked00 posted:In good news, Michigan has a Democratic house, senate and governor for the first time in like 40 years! Yeah, house, senate, governor, sec of state, att general, dem majority Supreme Court; also the propositions for reproductive rights and greatly expanded voting rights including more than a week of early voting all passed. It's loving insane in the mitt, putting abortion on the ballot backfired horrendously.
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michigan makes me hopeful. I live in Florida so I have to hope for something. I have a feeling in Florida we are going to see some more anti teacher laws soon.
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ManBoyChef posted:michigan makes me hopeful. I live in Florida so I have to hope for something. the one bright spot in florida is that trump is going to spend the next few months trying to bury desantis as hard as possible so at least that will be fun to watch but yeah Michigan is huge: it was aggressively gerrymandered to republican control for a decade despite being a blue state and thankfully they'll finally be able to start undoing the damage
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Nevada update https://twitter.com/ralstonreports/status/1590369758821593088?s=46&t=_reF36CxYhWB8nwugt0uEA
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FlamingLiberal posted:Nevada update
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What happens if a state enshrines abortion in their constitution, but it becomes illegal federally?
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Zotix posted:What happens if a state enshrines abortion in their constitution, but it becomes illegal federally? Federal overrides state, much like how all the laws outlawing Abortion were still on the books in various states but were inactive until Roe V Wade was overturned.
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Crows Turn Off posted:Does NV take forever on purpose? Creates a lot of secondary betting opportunity
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Zore posted:Federal overrides state, much like how all the laws outlawing Abortion were still on the books in various states but were inactive until Roe V Wade was overturned. It depends on how it becomes illegal federally. If SCOTUS rules that fetuses are human lives, then it's probably going to overrule the states. If a law is passed saying abortion is murder or something, then that would only cover USGOV jurisdiction (DC, federal prison, etc) and interstate travel for the purpose of abortion.
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Also there are some drugs that are illegal federally that have been legalized on the state level. They're very different situations but I'm just saying it's not always simple.
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I've heard of "older than dirt" but not this one. https://twitter.com/CharlotteAlter/status/1590190507778793472?s=20&t=GjMAaVOLhpuamIfHHDPODg quote:Chocolate chip cookies originated in the United States around 1938, when Ruth Graves Wakefield chopped up a Nestlé semi-sweet chocolate bar and added the chopped chocolate to a cookie recipe. Sliced bread was introduced to the market in 1928. EDIT: This seems like an absurd amount of money to drop so close to the election. They might as well have made it into a pyramid and burned it like the Joker. https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/1590391819665575937?s=20&t=GjMAaVOLhpuamIfHHDPODg Dick Trauma fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Nov 9, 2022 |
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Dems counted on abortion to be a loser for the GOP and to take them through the midterms, and it's very annoying that they were correct.
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Musk just sold ~$4 billion worth of Tesla stock and is now openly floating crazy ideas for how to generate some quick money from Twitter before he has to make his $1 billion interest payment in a few months. These ideas include: - Putting the entire site behind a paywall. - Offering bank accounts and paying interest to users if they link their banks to their Twitter accounts and let Twitter take loans out against their money. - Offering a special 18+ subscription version of Twitter to compete with OnlyFans. - Requiring a one-time payment to open an account (the Lowtax model, lol) https://twitter.com/MsHannahMurphy/status/1590413876021321728 Musk is having a live Q&A right now on Twitter where he is taking pitches for other ways to monetize the site from users: https://twitter.com/robinw/status/1590403084513333249
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Musk now making the strategy everyone else assumed official. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1590384919829962752
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Musk now making the strategy everyone else assumed official. Man, that's the best Musk parody so far!
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Maybe don't do the dumb things in production? lol. Unban Donald, Elon. I bet he has lots to say about Ron DeSantis right now that the world needs to hear.
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Let people pay $10 to change other user's display names. I dare you
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:- Offering a special 18+ subscription version of Twitter to compete with OnlyFans. this is legitimately the best idea he has had because horny sells, however onlyfans is already well-established in that space so while this might be the most 'successful' thing he does it also will still be a flop
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Musk is having a live Q&A right now on Twitter where he is taking pitches for other ways to monetize the site from users: This is the best summary I've seen from the call, but it doesnt look like he did any good getting advertisers back. https://twitter.com/nandoodles/status/1590420516757655552
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This whole fiasco has further cemented the link in my brain between Elon and Chris Robert's of Star Citzen fame. Both just waving their arms around and throwing every "good idea" (to a 5 year old) at the wall.
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DEEP STATE PLOT posted:this is legitimately the best idea he has had because horny sells, however onlyfans is already well-established in that space so while this might be the most 'successful' thing he does it also will still be a flop Till Visa and the other payment processors tell him to gently caress off.
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Doesn't Twitter already have the ability to tag content as 18+ only? Except they don't let users do this themselves, they apply their own mysterious and arbitrary standards. I remember seeing a tweet dump on this forum where it tagged a picture of a kitten as potentially offensive.
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BadOptics posted:This whole fiasco has further cemented the link in my brain between Elon and Chris Robert's of Star Citzen fame. Both just waving their arms around and throwing every "good idea" (to a 5 year old) at the wall. The one thing that really came through from the flood of Musk's text messages with other Big Tech leaders that we got access to through Twitter's lawsuit was that The Emperor has no clothes. Given that he is clearly a moron, crowdsourcing ideas for Twitter's development is probably one of the better ideas Musk has had, but it still won't save him.
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Bugsy posted:This is the best summary I've seen from the call, but it doesnt look like he did any good getting advertisers back. They'll stop making accounts because losing money is a disincentive, you say? Clearly he's never met any of the permabanned members of these here forums.
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Ah yes, I will definitely be giving my bank account numbers to Elon, that can't possibly end well
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DEEP STATE PLOT posted:this is legitimately the best idea he has had because horny sells, however onlyfans is already well-established in that space so while this might be the most 'successful' thing he does it also will still be a flop I could've sworn Twitter already had this idea like a year ago
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Papercut posted:I could've sworn Twitter already had this idea like a year ago They should call it Twikster.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Ah yes, I will definitely be giving my bank account numbers to Elon, that can't possibly end well Just like we did with PayPal, he definitely won't place bullshit holds that take months to resolve on your entire financial life this time
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Lowtax truly was a pioneer.
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