No excuse for the DNC, but I think seeking the “moderate Republicans” is a condition of their big donors. Every time the Democrats lose, since Reagan won, they move right because they think they lost because they weren’t conservative enough. And despite all polling that suggests otherwise, they keep doing it.

In general, they would get more money and power if they won, so why do they keep shooting themselves in the foot every fucking time? In my mind, even if you factor in that they don’t give a shit about the common people and are motivated by money, it only makes sense if they are being manipulated by their big donors to do this stupid shit.

It’s like these billionaire CEOs’ salaries aren’t merit based.

Everything that has been privatized, has ended up costing us more for shittier service. This will not be different.

Right. They design the whole rocket, spend years to build the rocket exactly according to the design doc, then the rocket explodes on the launchpad and they have to start all over.

All the businesses closing up around you? Don’t worry, the stock market is doing fine.

People need to get two jobs just to afford rent and food? Don’t worry, the stock market is doing fine.

More and more people working later and later in life? Don’t worry, the stock market is doing fine.

Inflation is outpacing food, rent, education, medicine, and nearly every else? Don’t worry, the stock market is doing fine.

It’s become the only metric for how well the economy is doing. While the country crumbles, the stock market soars so all must be fine.

How many transgender athletes are there? Of the very few there are, how many dominate?

You likely don’t know, otherwise you’d have no issues at all with them. And if you do know, and you still have a problem, then your issue is one of bigotry and not protection.

For reference, there have been more female athletes sexually assaulted by coaches and other male identifying staff by a large margin than there have been medal placing transgender athletes. I’m sure you can find a few examples of transgender athletes placing in the top three, but unless you’re completely stupid, then you know that’s fallacious thinking to ignore the whole data set by cherry picking non representative samples.

You’re basically for something that’s not a problem in any measurable way, but not against things that are actually harming women. And I get it, you can be against both, but that doesn’t change that transgender athletes are not a problem in any rational, real way. But to enforce a non-transgender policy will necessarily require putting women through very invasive examinations and tests that open them to even more sexual assault.

Now imagine being such a piece of shit against someone you’ve never met, who’s not hurting anyone, that you don’t want them to play sports against their peers. And then being so idiotic and emotionally irrational to say that they are not the victim of your idiotic bigotry.

Turns out, he wasn’t hiding behind civilians. Which is a smart move since that’s all Israel is blowing up.

I always thought it was because he’s fat, so he leans forward to hide his huge belly. Works pretty well from the front where most pictures of him are taken.

As are we all.

It’s a condemnation of capitalism and all of human society that an idiot like Elon is the wealthiest person on the planet.

I know it’s that stupid. But it doesn’t matter that it’s stupid. They’re going to use it when they see fit and they have captured the whole legal system to use at their discretion to enact it no matter how stupid it is.

They’re fascists, they’re only going to enforce it when they want to hurt someone they don’t like or when it benefits them. They don’t give a shit about precedence or conviction or morality or anything other than what serves them in the moment. They have captured the courts, and both houses, and the presidency. Consistency or hypocrisy don’t matter to them. They’ll use whatever justification works in the moment and turn on a dime if it serves them.

This is better than their AI commercial.

Say, that does look like Blade Runner…

It’s scary because it’s falling on a lot of us. And it won’t just be the US that it falls on either.

The Mexican pizza that had olives on it.

The book is good too. By the cyberpunk author William Gibson. There’s a sequel too, called Agency, but it takes place in a different stem. But has a lot of the same people from this one.