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Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
23hr ago
But more generally it is something that raises an eyebrow and if you have another similar candidate who doesn't raise that eyebrow, why not go with them?
The problem is the Dems don't have similar candidates. If he wins, he'll represent a significant portion of the total testosterone level on the Dem Senate bench.
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1d ago
The articles do not name names, which might well be for the safety of the people involved. Make of that what you will.
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1d ago
Per Plattner himself, growing up and getting older didn't make him more conservative, it made him a communist.
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1d ago
Possibly more assumed than real, or at least in my 'farm labourer/navvy on building site' family background, there weren't any Modernist architects:
He also went to an expensive private school and had Daddy give him money to buy his house. There's a funny bit there where after being caught lying about not getting support like that, he admitted that his dad did "loan" him the money, but it was ok because it was purportedly a higher interest rate than the VA would have charged him.
Which, honestly, is kind of believable. That's about the level of financial literacy I'd expect from a caviar communist.
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1d ago
There's nothing at all in his post history that suggests he would be sympathetic to Nazi ideology in any regard.
Aside from the general left-authoritarianism and the anti-Israel stuff.
But the actual point here is, since when does that matter? Rules for Radicals #4: "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules." Every Democrat who doesn't denounce Plattner (and all of his supporters) as a Nazi, which he is by their own standards for the last 10+ years, themselves deserves to be called a Nazi.
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1d ago
Issue is that well, I don't really know if he had any knowledge of it. The average person's knowledge of the Holocaust is basically just: Hitler, Anne Frank, swatiska, Auschwitz. Apparently a lot of people don't even know the last one.
He definitely knew. People have come forward with stories of him bragging about it. His political director resigned over it.
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1d ago
How are you going to make this post and not mention the funniest one?
I still have to jerk off every time I sit in a portashitter….that blue water smell conditioned me
That one's honestly kind of humanizing for the nepo nazi, but it's legitimately fucking hilarious.
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1d ago
I think Newsome said he had like a 960 IQ.
960 SAT. FWIW, he says that while excusing it as the result of dyslexia, but I've never seen anything that made me think he was better than actual average, which is much lower than what the average sequestered shape rotator monks here think is average.
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2d ago
Yeah. Echoing what others have said, a pint of whiskey during a night of gaming leaves me ruined the next day. Six Jack&Coke doubles at a concert and I feel literally fine within a few hours.
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3d ago
No, he's quite open about that just being how the game was played. I'm noting that there was actual economic productivity beyond the way permits and approvals are gatekept behind donations.
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3d ago
Suburban Democrats aren't.
Nah, they are. The suburban Dem women get their politics from TikTok now, and they believe the septum piercings.
Their husbands secretly voted for Trump.
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3d ago
Woke also overreached on trans issues. Peak trans activism is over. Woke pronouns are starting to seem like a brief, now-dated fad. Still in use, but much less talked about these days, and they seem to be of a certain time period.
Case in point, I suspect this issue is still a bit of a kill-shot. Corner a congresscritter before midterms and ask them "Yes/No, should the government pay for sex changes for illegal immigrant rapists that we can't deport?" I think a lot of the (D)'s running for office still can't bring themselves to say no, even if it costs them.
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4d ago
3.8% (per your source, ~1% of which is gas) is still solidly better than the 9.1% we hit a few years ago. Yes, gas prices are up and that's Bad, but the catastrophic consequences predicted by people who suddenly can comprehend second order effects in only this single situation have been greatly exaggerated.
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4d ago
Yeah, that's one of my hobby horses. The things we argue about are very granular! No single sub-sub-sub argument is going to change someone's macro conclusions (and in most cases, they shouldn't!). Conceding a point is like folding a hand in poker. It hardly means you're out of the game, much less a career, unless you got wildly out over your skis.
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4d ago
I don't really know about (or care about) crypto, so it was more than the few minutes I was willing to spend to unravel that Forbes article to understand what was going on there.
But I'll go on the record and say that generally, offering pardons to people who have made you personal money is Bad.
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4d ago
The Inflation Reduction Act and the infrastructure bill. Both shoveled out insane amounts of money for ostensible purposes that never materialized because all the cash was absorbed into the pockets of Democrat interest groups that donate to and organize in favor of the Democrats.
Just so with your point about over-regulation. If the state government instructs the agencies to devise "regulations" that siphon money away from ostensible purposes and into the pockets of allied groups that donate back to the politicians, that's actually even worse than regular corruption because it's institutionalized and on-going and metastasizes corruption towards the state in general.
Memecoin, by contrast, is piker shit that only hurts the people involved.
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4d ago
Gladly. It is positively shameful how much corruption is being excused with a pansy-ass “well, the other guys do it!” Maybe we should elect somebody to do something about it. Drain the swamp, as it were.
Can you think of any Democrats with any anti-corruption credibility? For example, anyone who has called for the ending of the mass healthcare/welfare fraud and the punishment of those responsible?
For comparison, the Trump admin just shut down a bunch of fake hospice businesses that were raking in billions of dollars in fraud, somewhere between "benignly tolerated" and "openly abetted" by the local Democrats. LA alone was $600 million, over a third of the settlement in the OP.
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4d ago
Dude’s a billionaire reality TV real estate agent. How did he ever convince people that he wasn’t the swamp?
Because he talks like common sense grandpa ("crime is bad, kill our enemies, etc) instead of like a focus-grouped actor wearing a Normal Human skinsuit.
Plus the swamp went on a 10 year long unhinged berserker rage about him, which is great for credibility in that regard.
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4d ago
You have advanced TDS. For a more balanced view on the ground, I've heard some general grumbling about gas, but it's not nearly as hot a topic as it was in, say, the Bush administration. Current gas prices are still $0.50 cheaper than their peak under Biden, with large regional variation that mostly boils down to "Democrats hate the economy". I've only heard a few people complain about general prices, and every one of them was a 100% Democrat voter. Actual store prices haven't moved in a noticeable way, especially compared to Bidenflation, aside from a few spike categories like ground beef and coffee that seem to be more about industry circumstances than tariffs.
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4d ago
What part of the article made you think that? It seemed meandering and stupid.
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4d ago
To say nothing of the multiple trillion dollar bills passed under Biden that did nothing but siphon money to leftists. In terms of scale of corruption, all of American history combined looks like amateurs compared to the modern progressive movement. They just manifestly hold an explicit "it's (D)ifferent and good when we do it" mentality and then mindkill themselves into retardation when they get asked questions like "Why does it cost $150 billion to NOT build a rail line?"
If the hand of god reached down and stripped out all corruption from America, Donald Trump would still be a billionaire and half the Democrat party would be wearing a barrel with suspenders.
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4d ago
While I agree that Russia independently attempted to intercede in the 2016 election on Trump's behalf rather than in collusion
Did they? AIUI, they preferred Hilary because they'd already bought her and thought she was a known (weak) quantity. The "intercessions" I'm aware of were a mix of general shit-stirring and (probable) ass-covering after the DNC hack was caught.
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4d ago
POTUS appoints the people who run the agencies or appoints the people who appoints the people and so on and so forth. Like you said, the buck stops with them.
Do you know what the civil service system is?
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4d ago
Do you think we should abolish the Civil Service? Going back to the patronage system would make your position here much more tenable.
The lineage is messy, but "leftist movement that walked back some important bits" is a reasonable ballpark description. Their formal party platform reads like a "What if Bernie Sanders was a really self-hating Jew" skit. "Non-communist left" is still usually quite communist-sympathetic, and the German conservatives seemed to think they were making a deal with a lesser devil against the greater.
Personally, I like the simplicity of the /politicalcompassmemes solution: Call them auth-center and let the comments section slapfight it out.
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