Hieronymous Alloy posted:

Look, everyone calling Elon Musk a moron just doesn't understand his genius

Also the same is true of Sinema except also calling her stupid is sexist for some reason

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

Selec's specific accusation of misogyny quoted my post regarding her intelligence specifically, not generalized misogyny out in the ether.

Ytlaya posted:

Dapper_Swindler posted:

i think its because the culture war is the only war now. yeah some would like to cut taxes but either making minorities die Or shutting down everything so they can hunt witches is a bigger priority.

yeah the GOP is in some genuin disarray. the carcinogen that was Newt that grew into the cancer of the tea party and accelerated by maga bs has fully matastized.

Rappaport posted:

When they're literally doing the dystopia tech from SMAC, it seems like the answer is... Not a whole lot?

Discendo Vox posted:

This would be true if Neuralink weren't actually under investigation for those IACUC/OLAW issues, but they are. There is no actual justification for grifters like ALF; they aren't "necessary" in any way and provide no actual benefit. You might as well say January 6th was necessary.

MixMasterMalaria posted:

Ftfy

Angry_Ed posted:

And directly assassinated a Major General of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

Dapper_Swindler posted:

yeah, also newer batman(and even old batman) actually did stuff for the community and like gave criminals real jobs and poo poo. the "evil facist batman" poo poo is from miller. I like batman drat it. Rip Kevin conroy.

Push El Burrito posted:

Joker just stops in the middle of a massacre because Bruce Wayne sent him a stimulus check.

TheDisreputableDog posted:

Trump: evil genius, criminal mastermind, charge him and try to keep him off the ballot

Biden: doddering, yells at clouds, no jury would convict harmless paw-paw

L. Ron DeSantis posted:

Did you not see the report that just came out that was basically "Biden willfully retained classified docs but we aren't prosecuting because he's a forgetful old man"? And have you not seen Project 2025 and the countless reports about what Trump plans to do in office?

Kalit posted:

For your second point, Trump wanted to do a lot of things during his first presidency, but was stopped by his staff, congress (including his own party members), and SCOTUS. I’ve yet to see why that wouldn’t happen again

Kith posted:

do you have substantial proof of this or are you just parroting a right-wing talking point

also it's weird that you're saying that bush's mannerisms were part of his strategy because it's implying that biden's mannerisms aren't. or are you saying that bush's mistakes don't count for ??? reasons but biden's do for different ??? reasons

golden bubble posted:

The main thing is that for non-billionaires, the housing chain is very real. A city (NYC), has added hundreds of thousands of new jobs in the last 10 years, and that means there have been tens of thousands of high paying jobs added for rich yuppies making $250k/year. But the traditional yuppies neighborhoods did not add any new housing, so there's no space for these new yuppies, and they don't have the cash to win bidding wars with even older and even richer former yuppies. But they aren't going to leave the city, they have jobs there. So they grudgingly move over to the next neighborhood over, and settle for a slightly less fancy home. They will get those slightly less fancy homes because they have enough money to win bidding wars against the people who were there. The people in the slightly less fancy neighborhood aren't going to leave the city, it's their home. So they are going to move to a slightly worse neighborhood where they can win a bidding war against people who are slightly poorer than they are. And then those people who get pushed out usually end up moving to a slightly poorer neighborhood and pushing people out in bidding wars over there. Anyway, the key things to remember are

- Almost everyone in the chain is both a victim of gentrification and a cause of gentrification for the next neighborhood down
- No one, not even the rich yuppies who start the chain, actually lives in the home they really want. They all want a nicer place than the place they got pushed to.

That's why building more housing is so important. It breaks the chain of gentrification victims becoming gentrifyers, and this works even if they are ultra expensive luxury apartments. Because luxury apartments in yuppie neighborhoods stop the yuppies from starting the chain in the first place (remember the rich yuppies don't want to live in the middle class neighborhoods they are gentrifying, they wanted to live where their yuppie forbears live).

https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Nolan_/status/1753515852018614682

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

In the continuing trend of "literally everything becoming partisan" news, views on specific states have dramatically shifted and sorted by partisanship.

California has seen the sharpest division among partisanship. It was previously rated the most popular state for decades, but now 48% of the country says that California "isn't really part of America" and that it is on the decline.

Even the weather and natural environment, two things that basically everyone loved in California, are now polarized with large segments of Republicans says that California has terrible weather and a "worse natural environment than other states."

40% of Republicans say that there is nowhere in California that is a good place to visit and they would stay away.

Over 75% of Republicans now say they would be afraid for their personal safety if they ever went to California.

Similar, but less extreme, patterns are emerging with Democrats and Florida. Florida used to be a widely popular state, but now only about 52% of Americans say that Florida feels like it matches their values.

https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt/status/1757406392715972904

L. Ron DeSantis posted:

Did you mean California?

quote:

A 16-year-old student died following a fight at an Oklahoma high school – and as an investigation into the cause of death continues, advocates point to a heightened and hostile climate against the LGBTQ+ community.

Nex Benedict, whose family says identified as nonbinary, died February 8, one day after they told their family they and a transgender student were involved in a fight with others at Owasso High School. Police in Owasso are investigating.

It is not clear if or how the fight contributed to Nex’s death. Police in Owasso have not called the investigation criminal and said Wednesday that early autopsy findings indicate Nex did not die as a result of trauma.

Mooseontheloose posted:

Eric Adams isn't white.

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

CNN has a copy of the transcript for the SOTU highlights.

- Call on congress to pass a bipartisan bill to increase housing stock (it would produce roughly 2 million homes - but doesn't say over how long of a timeline, which would be about 33% of the current housing shortage)

- A $10,000 refundable tax credit for home purchases and a separate $10,000 tax credit for people who sell a home below the median price in their area.

Main Paineframe posted:

This is the most relatable a president has ever been.

Killer robot posted:

But to work well that takes someone well-practiced and together. It's the same reason the right-wing talking point of "Oh, he gets his answers fed to him through an earpiece, that's why he doesn't seem deep into dementia" is absurd: doing that in an interview/debate/press conference is pretty challenging and not doable for the cognitively impaired.

Related to that, I think his performance last night is pretty analogous to the early primary debates last cycle. He did okay as I recall but the important thing was that it torpedoed the extensive whispering campaign of "Biden's too far gone to mount a real campaign, better line up behind (my candidate) instead!" And then he came out as familiar Biden but more wrinkly.

Dapper_Swindler posted:

i mean goons falling for obvious chud bullshit.

OAquinas posted:

With interconnects between them, so you have a fully redundant RAIB-5.

Silly Burrito posted:

Sounds like y’all need to go on MORE cruises to build up your immune systems.

FlamingLiberal posted:

I saw quotes a long time ago that he has considered invoking the Insurrection Act as soon as he gets into office so he can send the Feds into cities he doesn't like to 'fight crime'

Angry_Ed posted:

I also don't get why Trump would even give lip service to "saving" TikTok when he could instead just shill Truth Social as a perfect, huge replacement for it.

selec posted:

I heard an interview with one of the Columbia organizers on Chapo, and she said that people had shoulders and fingers dislocated. I would trust her before WaPo, tbh.

selec posted:

https://x.com/DavidGriscom/status/1783271873708507384