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12d ago
That 80% gets to vote too. I wonder what sorts of welfare they'll vote themselves.
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13d ago
And if you think marriage and children is a conservative pipeline
There is a gulf in voting preference between unmarried women and married women. Unmarried women are almost +50 D, married women are majority R. Looking at the stats from Pew it appears that getting married and having kids transforms a significant portion of women into Republicans. I get the opposite could be happening in that those women who already leaned R seek out marriage and children. But the first possible causal claim is defensible. Not some "selling you a bridge" obviously wrong idea.
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13d ago
Still got the guns though, I don’t trust the fascists to act politely.
If someone actually believed the sort of hysterical anti-Republican "they're fascists and they'll never let us have a fair election again" rhetoric common on reddit, then this is the only sensible view. He's wrong in a bigger sense, but starting from his premises this is the only correct conclusion. It's the "they're fascists, they're running concentration camps, every cop is bad, and you must disarm so only those wicked cops have guns" people who are silly.
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13d ago
My dad likes to tell his story about getting a mortgage with something like a 13% APR and that was a "low" rate relative to recent rates at the time. Home prices were low but monthly payments weren't compared to his salary.
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13d ago
No, there's no way that's true. I don't know those people or specific details of their work, but that can't be the case.
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14d ago
I'm worth more than two people in their twenties at work. I'd say they're underpaying me in some relative sense.
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14d ago
High frequency traders that make the fastest lowest-latency hardware to enable their financial parasitism.
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14d ago
They don't want to admit they overhired. That's a failure in leadership. Blaming AI is putting a positive spin on things.
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14d ago
You seem to be advocating for committing federal crimes. "HBD posters" hiring criteria is illegal. You can't Family Guy "okay/not okay" meme test candidates.
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14d ago
Yeah I read that Meta has more employees now even post-layoffs than they did pre-covid. Enormous hiring followed by moderate cuts.
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14d ago
I'll be old someday and don't want to be "cleared out" in any sense. I don't want to work and save for decades just to have it seized by entitled youths who feel it is unfair that I have much and they have little.
Yes: Grindr the gay hookup app hosted a private White House Correspondents' Association party in DC attended by the head of the DNC and some (or all?) Pod Save America hosts. He means this in the most literal sense. I just googled this and confirmed.
Presumably this was a Grindr hosted political event rather than a literal gay orgy. News articles don't specifically state the level of drunkenness or gay sex.
I listened to the Pod Save America episode in which a few Harris campaign staffers were interviewed. They said that they tried to counter that ad, but the counter ads polled poorly with test groups. They were better off with generic ads about the economy.
Supposedly the "she's for they/them, Donald Trump is for you" ad is the mightiest ad in modern history. Around a 2% shift in voter sentiment; arguably election flipping if somehow that was very well targeted to likely voters in swing states.
I think an accurate autopsy would say to not stake out the most extreme and unpopular positions on culture war issues on camera. But they can't plainly state that so we get this report instead.
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15d ago
Recently one of the Pod Save America hosts interviewed DNC chair Ken Martin about this report.
It's quite the train wreck. Ken kept asserting that the report was free and the host kept cutting in to question how that's possible. I guess this is how. Your incompetent buddy does it for free. Not literally free since people supposedly traveled to every state to interview voters and the effort took more than a year. But free-ish compared to actually paying for a well made report.
Indeed. Look at them heightmogging this shortcel. Or whatever gen alpha slang Clavicular's fans would say to describe this.
But yes it looks silly when your soldier or guard looks like a child next to theirs. There was an incident during the Obama administration in which a woman Secret Service agent was shoved out of a doorway by a man breaking into the Whitehouse. She's small, he isn't, he just pushed her out of his way.
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17d ago
That person is anonymous and large bureaucracies are opaque and resistant to external investigation. In a better world this person would be in prison. But alas we don't and won't live in such a happy world.
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17d ago
I think that is comedic exaggeration. USAID was funding similar things. Trans theaterperformances and whatnot. Raw progressive culture warring funded by my tax dollars. Also I presume graft in which a cut is kept by a non profit.
I don't want to excuse everything Trump has done by pointing to the excesses of the other side. On the other hand, now suddenly they care that Republicans (or Trumpists) are getting a taste of this.
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18d ago
The IRS was out of control and lawlessly leaked his tax returns. This is a reoccurring problem with Federal bureaucracies illegally defying the Executive if he's a Republican.
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18d ago
Revelation is singular. The Greek term apokalypsis it was originally named is also singular.
I've mentioned it before but this is part of the premise of Diamond Age. With easy nanotechnological manufacturing most consumer goods are free or practically free. So of course the wealthy only wear hand made clothes and write with ink pens on hand pressed paper. Sheets of diamond are practically free, so they have genuine glass unlike poor people.
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21d ago
driving stoned is safer than driving drunk
There are people who believe this. I've heard it argued in person. And I've smelled weed smoke wafting out of open moving car windows.
I doubt the Indian ones are drug addicts or that they're allowed to shit anywhere near rich people. Designated vs non-designated, etc.
It's hard to exaggerate the very worst I've seen in San Francisco. Having personally seen human shit on the ground right outside comically expensive condos is too obvious an observation.
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21d ago
elites live in their pristine multimillion dollar apartments in skyscrapers while the street outside (literally right outside) is squalid, covered in garbage
But enough about San Francisco.
And I'll take the cows over the junkies. I know cows shit a lot, but they'll shit less in public walkways than the junkies do. They're animals but they're not animals.
https://automatetheboringstuff.com/
My go to recommendation.
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