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shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

There's no way Musk ever posted here, he absolutely fits the profile of a libertarian shitlord that would've been purged around 2011 but if he'd been here, he would absolutely have outbid Jeffrey for the site and demanded a retroactive founder title

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Apr 8, 2005

GD_American posted:

hmmm, might check them out then

The YOSPOS cybersecurity news thread is one of the best resources on the entire web

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Apr 8, 2005

Platystemon posted:

Obama tells a story, I think it’s in Dreams from My Father, that when he was a nobody in Chicago politics, on multiple occasions he met people who expected to be shaking hands with Barry O’Bama, Irish–American community organizer.

is this why the BBC always pronounced his name Barrack O'bomber

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Apr 8, 2005

please show the class what hazard an antigravity sled poses that a 40' shipping container or SLBM doesn't

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Apr 8, 2005

A.o.D. posted:

While that's a terrible answer, and it kind of indicates that he may not even know what Asean is, I wouldn't expect even a top level American appointee to have memorized the membership of every economic partnership we deal with. Its the kind of question that just having a cheat sheet for would be acceptable for.

There are better examples of this guy's insuitability for the position.

the lack of a cheat sheet is in itself utterly disqualifying for an executive position because he's demonstrating he doesn't have a team whose only job is to keep him from embarrassing himself and would be too stupid to delegate to them if he did

finding such people, keeping them, and placing them to best effect is literally the entire job

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Apr 8, 2005

Ronwayne posted:

The whole "these charts and lines are very very good, why are you complaining you worthless poo poo eaters?!" vibes did not help. Especially now that I've seen a ton of dems openly fantasize about the republicans killing various groups/people that did not offer appropriate obsequience. Note this includes not just non voters but people that voted for biden out of harm reduction but think the dems remain poo poo, and directly and intentionally conflating reluctant biden voters with those that didn't vote at all in bringing about the second trumpenreich.

Can't just hold your nose and vote dem, gotta love 'em, gotta think they're great and doing good stuff and not just sneering at people while cashing paychecks.

Democratic politicians hold their voters in contempt for daring to ask anything of them.
Republican politicians do the stupid things their voters want them to do because they live in mortal fear of them.

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Apr 8, 2005

Acebuckeye13 posted:

I've said it before but this is a ludicrious argument that comes from people whose only exposure to politics is loving twitter. As a candidate, you do not make money by losing. Do you think people are still giving their money to Mandela Barnes? Amy McGrath? Phil Bredesen? And campaigning is the hard part - and even if you win, half the time, you're still on the phone begging for donations anyway!

There's a fantasy that a lot of people buy into, which is that the Dems lose on purpose, because the reality is actually much darker: Democrats, while flawed, are still generally well-meaning people who are doing what they think gives them the best chance to win. Oftentimes, they do as best as anyone can humanly do, taking popular positions and making strong moral stands, and still lose. And they lose because the entire American political and cultural landscape has been warped and twisted to suit the right-wing grifters and ideologues that have ascended to rule our media, our technology, our religious institutions, and the entire Republican party. They wield an enormous structural advantage such that they can run even with and beat Dems in competitive elections despite running on spectacularly unpopular policies. For example: should Harris have run on something big like Medicare for All? Sure. That also shouldn't have mattered, since Trump was actively running on crashing the entire economy with tariffs! But because the media is run by spineless cowards or are directly in bed and actively coordinating with the Republicans, it didn't matter.

"Bernie would have won" is the most common invocation of that fantasy. And sure, maybe it's true - maybe Sanders' campaign would have done what Hillary couldn't. But he would have faced the exact same structural issues facing Clinton, issues that are now even more deeply entrenched then ever, and there's a good chance they could have made him lose even harder. Simply swapping out existing Dems for candidates with politics that you find more agreeable isn't going to change those structural issues by themselves - with the very important exception that it is important to elect candidates that will actually do something with their power once they have it to actually attack those structural issues, which is one of the biggest things that Biden very clearly failed to do, as good as he was in other areas.

e: this isn't to say that better candidates don't win elections. Biden and Harris hosed up a whole bunch and a better candidate/campaign could have possibly pulled it off. But losing isn't itself a sign of complacency - because, trust me, if you're simply in politics to make money, it's easier to do literally anything else

no, he's right, I served three years on a state executive committee and candidates are not the party, campaign managers and media buyers are the party, and those people get paid rain or shine and suffer absolutely no consequence for failure. AMA about forwarding this to everyone in my contact list with the caption "yo this is why everyone hates us" to no effect.

https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1410709115333234691?lang=en

OTOH I'm invited to a townhall meeting of all the DNC chair candidates later this month (finally replacing the guy that spent $120mm losing to Lindsey Graham by 10 points) and am extremely open to suggestions of what is the funniest question I can possibly ask them

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Apr 8, 2005

Milo and POTUS posted:

Ask him about the ladybugs

Senator Graham is not a candidate for DNC Chair

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Apr 8, 2005

Laughing Zealot posted:

The January 6 pardons aside, batshit as they are, isn't it a bit unusual for a President starting handing out pardons on day one? Feels like it's usually a end of tenure thing usually.

they usually cram that poo poo in on the last day because they don't like getting yelled at, doing it the other way around is just a huge flex that nothing matters

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Apr 8, 2005

The ringleaders are staying on probation because they failed, what's hard to understand

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Apr 8, 2005

I always took the Ft Bragg thing as a backhanded thanks for being so poo poo at being a general, loser

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Apr 8, 2005

eagerly awaiting the 10-dash line

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Apr 8, 2005

Big Law is covering this pretty well because it's so much stupid so fast that it's easier for them to just have a blog post to direct their clients to

https://www.akingump.com/en/insight...stance-programs

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Apr 8, 2005

at the gate or where? Shows on the board as arrived on-time

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Apr 8, 2005

ok it is not entirely surprising that an airplane that crashed close enough to the destination would be listed as arrived: on time

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Apr 8, 2005

https://wtop.com/arlington/2025/01/small-aircraft-crashes-into-potomac-river-near-reagan-national-airport/

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Apr 8, 2005

Tyrrany is when the coercive power of the state says your girlfriend has to ride in a rear-facing booster seat

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Apr 8, 2005

Defenestrategy posted:

So what are they gonna do? Just ATC's strike you throw them in jail and replace them with ATC's from the military sure, but if a sizeable portion of your non-management level dudes strike, say 1/4, your governments coming to a halt and I don't think you have enough military dudes to replace various lower level functionaries of specialized skills as well as maintain your military readiness right?

I'm asking honestly, not telling, is that a thing they could do?

Feature not bug. The end goal is to roll back the Pendleton act of 1883.

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