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Good Citizen posted:probably wont be their worst olympics experience still drat
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Honest Thief posted:https://x.com/AOC/status/1788589645413937402 
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Uncle Wemus posted:It's hilarious how terrified the dems are of their voter base the deal Augustus offered to the elites in his time was that they could still enjoy the prestige and prerogatives of the offices of the republic but he would free them from the need to depend on things like elections or campaigning and instead the offices would be assigned. I think about this a lot whenever the democratic party organs talk about subverting and derailing the intentions of the voting public. Our democracy is intensely undemocratic, illiberal, and unresponsive to ordinary voters and this is often described as a good thing.
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SixteenShells posted:I'm pretty sure this is the poll data they're reporting on: [url][/url] but I can't find a table where they break it down to the level the clip is showing; they must have had access to the source data. I can't find a table that breaks down by who they voted for in 2020. However, the top-line split is basically 30/70 approve/disapprove, so that drop is potentially like a full quarter of the votes Biden got in 2020. I think that's likely the outer bound though, the real drop is probably lower. losing even 5% of people that voted for him in 2020 is an election losing disaster
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Stick a fork in Biden, he's been done since Halloween last year.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:losing even 5% of people that voted for him in 2020 is an election losing disaster
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bedpan posted:the deal Augustus offered to the elites in his time was that they could still enjoy the prestige and prerogatives of the offices of the republic but he would free them from the need to depend on things like elections or campaigning and instead the offices would be assigned. I think this is actually one of the big goals of the NGO space. It happens a lot on the local level. Public-private partnerships take over government functions (charter schools, poverty services, hell even trash pickup and the zoo) and then the private entities get public money but have no oversight over their operations. Government officials get to do their graft in handing out these contracts and then get to do absolutely no work at all in overseeing the services because someone else has that power now. It's rampant in New Orleans. Your streetlight is out? Don't bother calling the city services, there is some private contractor in charge of that. Something hosed up happening at your kid's school? The School Board can't do dick about it, the charter school board controls that school. Garbage pickup didn't happen? Well, the city used to own a fleet of trucks and employ a bunch of workers to handle it, but we give $50 million to some rear end in a top hat to handle it now. Call him. PostNouveau has issued a correction as of 19:20 on May 10, 2024 |
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PostNouveau posted:I think this is actually one of the big goals of the NGO space. It happens a lot on the local level. Public-private partnerships take over government functions (charter schools, poverty services, hell even trash pickup and the zoo) and then the private entities get public money but have no oversight over their operations. Government officials get to do their graft in handing out these contracts and then get to do absolutely no work at all in overseeing the services because someone else has that power now. One of the big bipartisan achievements of the neoliberal era is the complete hollowing out of the state. I've shared many stories like this before, but before I was a professor I worked at a public policy evaluation firm. We had to evaluate a SAMHSA program. The CDC or SAMHSA itself probably could have done it easily. But they lacked the personnel, so it had to be contracted out, and congress attached a small business requirement to it. So a small business won the contract for the evaluation, but they couldn't do it, so they subcontracted it out to the big company that I worked at. When the company won that subcontract, they took the entire floor out to the most expensive restaurant in the city to celebrate it. The amount of waste was incredible. They had librarians on staff to check references on our papers. They had graphic designers to design posters for conferences. And in the end 100% of the evaluation was written by me and 2 grad students making 17 bucks an hour.
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glenn defends hate speech https://twitter.com/a_newsman/status/1788970846855254203 https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1788986539113922646 https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1788989241994719429
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PostNouveau posted:I think this is actually one of the big goals of the NGO space. It happens a lot on the local level. Public-private partnerships take over government functions (charter schools, poverty services, hell even trash pickup and the zoo) and then the private entities get public money but have no oversight over their operations. Government officials get to do their graft in handing out these contracts and then get to do absolutely no work at all in overseeing the services because someone else has that power now. The Unwinding is pretty grossly (and I would say naively) pro-Elizabeth Warren but reading it back in 2013 was pretty foundational for my current political philosophy and a lot of it is about this kind of poo poo as a bonus it spends a lot of time talking about how awful Biden has been for his entire career
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Scarabrae posted:I mean lol at anyone who would be surprised by this theyre only holding up 3500 jdams which is an afternoon of bombing for israel anyway
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comedyblissoption posted:glenn defends hate speech They would have found the one Palestinian who thinks being genocided rules and that would have been the voice
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PoundSand posted:Haven't there been literal studies that show voters and their preferences have little to no impact on policy development. How does someone like this square that circle? Even if Biden wasn't a total piece of poo poo and I was merely indifferent to him rather than actively disdainful what's really my motivation to vote for him, it doesn't do anything. Wow, I guess you love Trump. We don't need your vote!!
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I unironically enjoy (and watch) Eurovision (though pretty much only the big finale) but mostly because some countries don't take it at all seriously and some countries take it EXTREMELY seriously and both approaches can result in very funny things sometimes.
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docbeard posted:I unironically enjoy (and watch) Eurovision (though pretty much only the big finale) but mostly because some countries don't take it at all seriously and some countries take it EXTREMELY seriously and both approaches can result in very funny things sometimes. Doesn't everyone enter just one song? Do they all get together every week and sing the same song every time and then American Idol style cut them down?
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PostNouveau posted:Doesn't everyone enter just one song? Do they all get together every week and sing the same song every time and then American Idol style cut them down? yeah, every country enters a song. There are a couple of semifinals where the lowest-ranking ones are eliminated which I don't usually watch and then the finale (which is tomorrow). I'm sure there's qualifying round s in the individual countries as well but I don't really know how that works.
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It's actually insane how much backlash is being ginned up for the mildest fakest "rebuke" of Israel by Biden, who is totally letting them do everything they want anyway!
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Good Citizen posted:probably wont be their worst olympics experience still
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It's going to be extremely funny when they impeach the most overtly Zionist president in US history for not being Zionist enough
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WampaLord posted:It's actually insane how much backlash is being ginned up for the mildest fakest "rebuke" of Israel by Biden, who is totally letting them do everything they want anyway! He’s hated by everyone lol another pr stunt failure
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WampaLord posted:It's actually insane how much backlash is being ginned up for the mildest fakest "rebuke" of Israel by Biden, who is totally letting them do everything they want anyway! It's very Carter-like. Trying PR to "forge a middle path" that ends up pissing everyone off.
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docbeard posted:It's going to be extremely funny when they impeach the most overtly Zionist president in US history for not being Zionist enough oh my god i havent even considered this possibility
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Clip-On Fedora posted:They would have found the one Palestinian who thinks being genocided rules and that would have been the voice Lol ethically twisted. Greenwald is such a dumbass.
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gradenko_2000 posted:did Hamilton even have a message that made it particularly suited for being anti-Trump, or was it just a coincidence of timing that it became a liberal rallying point I personally like how he's portrayed in the John Adams series (i.e. loving bat poo poo insane). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaWBs46USqE
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Shageletic posted:Lol ethically twisted. Greenwald is such a dumbass.
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Shageletic posted:Lol ethically twisted. Greenwald is such a dumbass. he's right, actually
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Gottheimer continues to be the biggest piece of poo poo in congress.
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PostNouveau posted:Why is Israel in Eurovision anyway? They aren't in Europe. Do Morocco and Egypt get to be in Eurovision?  AUSTRALIA participate in the Eurovision Song Contest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzpp6996QdI You originally needed to be an active member of the European Broadcasting Union which covers more than Europe. Morocco participated in the show once in 1980 but hasn't participated since. Egypt could indeed participate but never accepted/wanted to do so. Australia is in the contest since they were invited as a "one-off" for the 60th anniversary and they accepted. Greenland could participate too. Qatar did try to join in 2008-2011 but it never happened. You just need an active Eurovision commity, really.
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1glitch0 posted:He heard about the blockbuster NCAA game and is now looking back at the audience cranking the "support women sports" dial. lol the women's tournament was way more boring than the men's. south carolina was too dominant this year, even moreso than uconn. the closest thing to an upset was 7 seed duke beating 2 seed ohio state. the whole bracket was cliffs of dover- pure chalk actually there's a serious issue going on with women's basketball at the high school level where prep academies are hoovering up all the talent leading to crazy poo poo like 100-5 games
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cnn interviewed brittney griner a few days ago and she mentioned the reason she was playing in russia in the first place is because they actually paid her a living wage unlike the wnba. apart from the prison thing she said she lived a far more dignified life in russia than she was ever able to here
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insane clown pussy posted:lol the women's tournament was way more boring than the men's. south carolina was too dominant this year, even moreso than uconn. the closest thing to an upset was 7 seed duke beating 2 seed ohio state. the whole bracket was cliffs of dover- pure chalk hell yeah. looking forward to the Doomsday School Sports thread
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Willa Rogers posted:there's all sorts of quotes that allude to their saving democracy by preventing democracy. they just have a popular billionaire boss who bankrolls the party and tells them what to do and who to vote for this is different because uhhhh black guy mayor i guess Trabisnikof posted:Good news for Biden's Climate plans: more expensive EVs, Solar Panels and Batteries! that are going to be cancelled the candidates were asked to define what a tariff is and how it works
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/cmclymer/status/1788905234791612672?t=hf4abyhORJxXFdh1E6gzQw&s=19 did a whole bunch of Russians get canceled solely for being Russian when the Ukraine war broke out
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