Two things: 1. there are other people running as Dems without Nazi tattoos, and 2. Dems don't "find" people to run; people decide on their own if they want to run.

Platner decided to run, and he's the one who's hanging on hard - though he still has a surprising number of supporters, given tattoo.

I feel like there are much more functional sociopaths and narcissists who understand that they need to pretend to care in situations like this.

We can't even get that much out of him.

I'm not sure how we didn't collectively internalize this lesson by 1980, but here we are

That wasn't my point. The Dem ability to stop legislation doesn't matter much when the GOP doesn't bother to advance legislation bc SCOTUS is allowing the country to be run by illegal executive orders.

Whereas Biden needed to advance legislation for most of what he tried to do.

SCOTUS now operates on Major Questions doctrine when a Dem is president and Unitary Executive doctrine when a Republican is.

Basically, that's because most of the GOP agenda is stopping things, and it's much easier to stop things in the minority than do things with a thin majority.

Conversely, when Trump is president and Dems are in the minority, SCOTUS decides that he doesn't need Congress to do things.

It is the point, though. Bills like this that fail are barely reported and then quickly forgotten by the few members of the public that did become aware of them. "Messaging" by filing doomed bills isn't effective.

This is for a primary, so the poll probably (or at least should have) screened out Republicans.

Since we were informed with 100% certainty that their nuclear program was totally wiped out months ago, we can only conclude that the Ayatollah was a true magic wizard to have rebuilt it so quickly and we were all mere days from becoming crispy critters.

Sounds like Meta learned this lesson from Tesla's crowdfunding of Full Self Driving development from its customers.

In fact, he's "fixed" her to look like a stereotypical porn star.

There seems to be a type of guy that wants women to look like they've had a boob job bc they've only ever seen women in porn, that have all had boob jobs, and don't know what they look like naturally.

At 4 months in, there shouldn't even be a sunk cost fallacy to keep you in a relationship with red flags

Did they actually ask that, or is this just Trump imagining such a thing or perhaps lobbying for it?

The idea of licensing and insuring pedal bikes seems to come and go every few decades.

It dies out once people figure out that it's impractical and costs exceed benefits. Then it comes back after everyone forgets the downsides.

The fact that this is for e bikes doesn't really change anything.

Ok, sounds like you've answered my question in the affirmative and you've personally "decided to prove him correct" in this context.

BTW, I think it's bad to ever try to prove that Netanyahu is correct.

I wouldn't put the whole far left into that category either. And I agree that criticizing Israeli actions regarding Palestinians is often not antisemitic. But I have seen a fair amount of apparent leftists crossing over the line into antisemitism as well over the last couple of years.

Are you trying to say that the US far left heard Netanyahu's false claims of antisemitism and decided to prove him correct?

Developing target lists wasn't something that Anthropic had an issue with.

Ok, but the white working class (at least most of it) has been pretty clear it doesn't want a party to support its interests.

Sounds like the intel equivalent of "the dog ate my homework."

No, there was a plan that wasn't followed after DOD evicted the State Dept from its assigned role in administering Iraq.

Yeah, IIRC there was a rivalry between State and DOD over who would admin Iraq post invasion. State kind of won initially, but DOD sabotaged State enough that the plan fell apart and DOD was able to take control - and proceeded to make really stupid decisions that got a lot of people killed.

Interesting that Reagan was president when the US joined this security council action.

It's so weird to remember the Reagan admin, which was a legit fascist dumpster fire, and then have the Trump admin sort of make it look relatively rational and reasonable in comparison.

I feel like "you should vote for this thing that sucks" is very self-defeating messaging, tho.

That doesn't mean that we shouldn't criticize the party about things that could be improved, but the way we talk about that matters.

I feel like the concentration camp budget would be more than enough to rebuild the lost counterterrorism and national security capability. I bet that Dems would be happy to strike a deal to redesignate those funds

Maybe that's a dog whistle for "this might let the poors move into our town."

Meanwhile, the far left is permanently mad at the Dems because...the Dems generally support mainstream center-left views and don't do what the far left demands.

It's almost like Matt isn't paying attention to the real world.

This would be a really good time for Anthropic to stand their ground against these demands. Not just bc it is morally right, but bc it's a business opportunity to differentiate the company from its competitors.

If there's really a compelling business case for general AI, use this to capture it

Yeah, I don't trust a reactor built by a 3-year old company, on a relative shoestring, that is headed by guys with no nuclear experience, who bellyache about how they shouldn't have to follow nuclear safety regs.

But it's probably mostly a grift to soak up those sweet VC and DOD $.