I’ve never understood why anyone thinks that the hysterical propaganda and lies spewed by ignorant right-wing reactionaries who would never vote for a democrat in the first place should have any bearing on any decision the democrats might make about anything.
instead of propping up a creator who checks the perfect ideological boxes
Which is to say, slavishly regurgitates all of the just barely to the left of the Republicsns neoliberal swill that keeps losing elections.
Democrats should embrace the online spaces for young men that already exist.
What? Actually going with what the people actually support rather than trying to force some corporate-approved hack that nobodly likes on them, then blaming them when they predictably lose?
What a novel idea.
For example, creators like Hasan Piker, a left-leaning creator with over 5.5 million subscribers on Twitch and broad popularity among young men, has largely been ignored by the Democratic establishment.
And gee… I wonder why…
Piker’s political content leans farther left, sharing a populist economic message paired with strong criticism of U.S. foreign policy in Israel.
Oh. my. who. would. have. guessed. that.? Gee. whiz. what. a. surprise.
There is a tendency to shy away from those spaces because our favorite thing to do in the Democratic Party is to, pardon my language, shit on the left,” said Smith.
Huh. I thought their favorite thing to do was to lose elections.
Same thing either way though…
And I’m calling it now -;the Dem leadership is going to waste their time and money ham-fistedly promoting a pathetically transparent neoliberal shill, then blame everyone but themselves when they utterly and completely and entirely predictably fail.
How is that even controversial? We all watched it happen in real time.
Harris hit the ground running and she and Walz barnstormed the country with an overtly populist message and it worked - they immediately started catching up to, and even passing Trump. There was a moment there when it looked like he was dead in the water - that nothing was going to stop Harris/Walz.
Then the Dem power brokers reeled her in and, however they managed it, got her to drop the populism and switch to mealy-mouthed, pro-corporate neoliberalism, and it was all downhill from there.
It was just that simple and anyone who was paying attention at the time could see it as it happened.
And yet again, while lying assholes pretend that criticism of Israeli government policy is antisemitism, the real antisemites on the right get a free pass.
They’ll release the rest - the parts that the liar-in-chief wants to hide - at the last minute. On a Saturday afternoon.
Um… yeah. Most of us outside of the media’s self-imposed truth filter already knew there’s a reason for it - because he’s a thin-skinned crybaby.
I’ve had a copy of it for about ten years now and still haven’t watched it.
I plan on it, but I know enough about it that I know I have to be in just the right mood.
It’s not that they’re truly synonymous but that each also implies the other. If it’s true that he’s dead, then it’s also true that he died and vice versa. So it seems like they mean the same thing because if ypu say one, it can be taken for granted that the other is necessarily also true.
But even that’s not 100% - it’s possible that “he died” is true but “he’s dead” is not, since he might’ve been revived. That illustrates the fact that they actually each communicate something different - “he died” is an experience through which he went at some point, while “he’s dead” is the state he’s in right now.
So again, they broadly communicate the same thing since saying one implies the other as well, but they don’t actually mean the same thing.
There are few things I resent more than the dismissive and misguided idea that introversion is some sort of problem that needs to be fixed.
And not least because I think that, if anything, exactly the opposite is true - that introversion is a sign of a healthy mind and extroversion is an essentially parasitic aberration - a stopgap for people who are unable to generate emotional energy on their own.
Makes sense.
GAO focuses on actual waste, fraud and abuse.
Republicans prefer DOGE, which focuses on hamstringing investigators and regulatory agencies, blocking funding for science, health and education, and stealing data.
Huh… I haven’t even thought about HiAnime in years. I would’ve assumed they were long gone.
I’m starting to think that 60 years ago or so, a couple of Harvard students humiliated Trump, and he’s never gotten over it.
And the worst part is that that’s what he does each and every week, and this past week still stood out.
And that is exactly what they’re doing.
This is a fine example of why I say that even the most fiscally conservative libertarians need to promote social spending.
There is no question of whether the federal government is going to balloon the deficit or not - it is. True fiscal conservatism is not going to happen.
The government is going to spend as much money as it can get away with no matter what. So the only meaningful question is who’s going to benefit from that spending.
And there are really only two options - ordinary people or rich people. The proletariat or the bourgeoisie.
If you oppose social spending, all you’re doing is making it so that the government can and will spend all of that money to benefit rich people instead.
And it really is just that simple.
All of that costs money that we as a society have decided is better spent on more mansions and bigger yachts for executives.
As far as Pokemon goes, I’ve always been partial to the Team Galactic battle theme from DPPT. And though “catchy” doesn’t quite do it justice, the night theme for Jubilife City, also in DPPT, is tremendous. Walking into that city for the first time at night was one of the defining moments of my video game life.
And the Shiver City theme from Paper Mario is unforgettable.
I don’t think anything will ever beat Still Alive from Portal though.
The Russians called those “pogroms.”
In some ways the worst part is that he doesn’t even want to destroy them as part of some grand scheme to reshape the world - he wants to destroy them because he’s a fragile egotist with the emotionsl maturity of a toddler who can’t stand not getting his way.
Nope.
Publishers measure success or failure by one and only one thing - whether or not you give them your money.
If you keep giving them your money, they’re going to keep putting out shitty products. If you want them to stop putting out shitty products, stop giving them your money.
It’s just that simple.
Ah.
Painfully obviously, some significant part of DOGE’s actions were intended to hamstring investigators and agencies that were troublesome for Musk’s shady business dealings, so now they’ve extended that out to include other shady businesses that will also presumably now be spared the expense of actually ensuring that their products and practices are safe or effective or legal, and counted the expense they’ll be spared as if it’ll be an actual benefit to anyone other than the c-suite and maybe the stockholders (and in spite of the likelihood that dealing with the conseqiences of their perfidy will actually entail greater costs for the rest of society).
And at this point I’m too cynical to even be mildly surprised.