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They think stealing public money isn't corruption if you're not trying to hide that you're doing it.

On the internet, nobody knows you're a kiwi.

Yes. He's great at going into the lion's den and picking holes in the right wing media bubble. Let him keep doing that while he runs to flip one of Indiana's senate seats or goes back to the DoT. Dems need a presidential candidate who won't throw minorities under the bus.

youre asking chatgpt. im asking my discord full of autistic people that i keep in my back pocket. we are not the same.

Millions of people in the suburbs are just fine on day 1. But the water treatment plant isn't running. The power's out. There's nobody bringing food. Millions of people consuming untreated water and what food they can scavenge are going to get sick, and medical facilities are overloaded from day 1.

In most models of nuclear war, disease kills more people than the actual bombs. If a major city takes a nuke (or several) to the downtown core, a few hundred thousand die immediately. Another few hundred thousand die in the next few days from burns & injuries (without sufficient medical care).

everyone gets so mad at the mods here for doing basic mod shit. sometimes you gotta make a little murder joke and eat a three day ban for it. that’s life baby, there’s beauty in that.

one of the underlying factors in all the Epstein stuff is that his correspondents - even the ones who likely did not participate in abuse themselves - are completely incapable of imagining his victims as people. he is real to them, the girls aren't.

I'm mad about the tariffs, I'm WAY MORE mad about the 51st state bullshit. But despite those I'd still probably still rationalize visiting because "well, I'm not adding that much to the US economy by hanging out at my girlfriend's house buying some extra groceries." Safety is a lot harder to ignore.

I was already anxious last year about the possibility Jeff at Customs could arbitrarily derail my travel plans and I'd have to walk away from a plane ticket. Now I'm anxious that Jeff could decide to have me kidnapped, and I know he's way more likely to refuse entry now than last year.

Nah it doesn't get the RGB gamerlights 'til Trump kicks the bucket and JD starts redecorating.

Lindsay Graham is going to table a healthcare plan that doesn't enrich health insurance companies, lowers healthcare costs, and is better for the consumer?

I look forward to hearing the Republican proposal for single payer public healthcare! I'm sure it'll be before the senate any day now.

I've only played the base game, but from the description Anabasis sounds like it's really trying to replicate the 'feel' of the show, with escorting a convoy of civilian ships fleeing from repeated attack.

I guess the mostly negative reviews mean they didn't quite pull it off

Most elected positions are certainly in the first category. A nontrivial number are in the second!

Obviously raising electeds' salaries is bad optics, but that's the whole point of the original post - lowering them actually creates MORE perverse incentives.

This is true, but there are salaries small enough that they make the positions undesirable for candidates who don't intend to use the power corruptly.

There are also salaries small enough they make the positions unavailable for candidates who aren't independently wealthy.

I am Quark, son of Keldar, here to challenge D'Gor, son of... whoever.

Giving food aid to the world's poorest people is too expensive. Instead let's do the Iraq war again in a country 5 times the size and without any coalition allies.

Galaxy brain thinking there tubbers.

Nuremburg trials for ICE is the moderate position.

Star Trek fandom has survived a drought before, it will do so again.

No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong,

it is right.

No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,

it is a strength.

No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,

it is unlimited.

A green party that wanted to be effective wouldn't run for President, they'd run 30 candidates for the House in downtown cores with the aim of picking up a dozen seats and controlling the balance of the house. If that worked they could add senate candidates in New England after 1-2 cycles.

Now the US could have effective third parties today, but the key is they'd have to only run for House seats they have a good shot at. All the US third parties I'm aware of seem to run Presidential candidates and no-one else, which is exactly backwards!

There are multiparty political systems despite FPTP but one difference they have from the US is lacking statewide FPTP races.

The NDP can win a bunch of seats in downtown ridings. But if we had a province wide FPTP race for senate like the US? They'd be spoiler candidates. An EC for PM? Even worse.

They dropped Jared like... the day he pled guilty. There's lots of good reasons to boycott subway, but their association with a guy they publicly disavow isn't one of them.

"Speaker Johnson, it looks as though the president is currently stabbing you with a knife. Do you have any comment?"

"Well, look, this is the first I'm hearing about it. As you know, I've been really busy not doing my job, so I just don't know enough about this alleged stabbing to make a comment."

WP just raging about Mamdani being a class traitor to the moneyed class. Implicit in their statement is that it's good and normal for anyone born into wealth (even relatively modest wealth, not just billionaires) to adopt a worldview of "fuck you got mine" and resist improving the lives of the poor.

"Like the vast majority of people able to run for public office in the United States, Mamdani was born into a life of wealth and privilege. From that perch he adopted a worldview centered around using that wealth to improve the lives of those who need it instead of making the rich richer"

Making up 20 women* to get mad at.

Chitinitis?