I can give that on Isreal, she takes anti-semitism without the caveat of “except the ones that are in power commiting a genocide”. The release the epstein files, and protect healthcare, is either she’s actually concerned about helping people or punishing bad guys… or she’s just pissed off with something in her party and is playing a contrarian to get something she wants (which yeah, I’d lean more towards the second, but general bigotry doesn’t quite explain those 2).

Guessing middle class is… college students with rich AF parents that pay to fly them home… and people really well set, but not quite in the private jet level.

Saves us the trouble of needing to primary an incumbant moderate. Give us a good democratic socialist.

I mean it’s a trippple doom for her. She’s a woman, she’s half way shedding maga siding with dem’s on the epstein files, and on protecting healthcare, and she has a history of being outright crazy in multiple directions.

In short, I don’t think her recent forays into sanity are going to erase the stain the R party has on it now, nor erase her claims of weather controlling machines and space lasers to earn any support from the left.

Then to court maga… obviously they’d need to be less sexist, and she’d need to seem more… on trumps side.

I think AOC’s comment is probably right, she got snubbed for senate seat by trump… and now she’s pissed and wanting to break that glass ceiling.

Bigger thing here “testing nuclear weapons on an equal basis”…

equal basis to what? nobodys fucking testing them because digital simulations are pretty damn accurate, and nukes are so powerful no matter where we drop it, it’s going to wreck the hell out of the wildlife and usually some group of poor people.

Unless he’s just talking about launching empty ICBM’s like north korea does etc…

Only the media made the mistake of thinking that was negative in his mind.

So hilarious and so apt… I will absolutely laugh at the idea of, well what’s effectively been a socialist utopia for the vast majority of contexts in it, and the show that broke the interracial kiss barrier. (on top of inter species/galaxy ones… but obviously far more shocking at the time that a white guy kissed a black woman, than a white guy sleeping with a bunch of green aliens.

Yeah there’s a lot of benefits to multiverse with regards to sci-fi and fantasy. Most obvious is allowing multiple writers to work on the same series yet take it in multiple directions and not need to be perfectly synced or needing to care about contradictions.

Also allowing a 3rd author to basically do a best of taking elements from both incompatible universes (either via universal travel, or just make a different universe where things happened in a way to allow the events/characters they wanted from both other plots), and lastly a “what if things went wrong”. IE the common plot point of the characters getting to see a universe where, they did things differently or didn’t exist, and allow them to compare their world with that world. Which admitted is a fantasy we all have in our own rights, both on small level (What if I didn’t break up with my first crush) or global level (“what if japan didn’t bomb the US in WW2”).

Just imagining future ads once data collection gets to more insane points. Just imagining AI scanning your facebook page, then pushing clothing ads with pictures of you in the outfits, or the new TV with pictures of it in your house etc…

Honestly maybe we should get ahead of it… like intentionally make our facebook accounts showing some cave man living in a cave, and in 2 years when the advertisers start going stupid crazy… watch ads show up on it depicting a flat screen TV in a cave.

It’s scary for the Democrats, though, as they don’t have really good role models for what it means to be left wing populist

I mean didn’t we? I mean FDR was basically that IMO. In fact I gotta admit he had some of the flaws of left wing populism… hence the internment camps etc… But on the whole his new deal politics drove the country so far, and doing them was so successful they had to invent term limits.

You know what to top it off… we’ll build a wall on their citizenship paperwork. and we’ll build a fabulous ballroom in their houses!

Sorry my buds and I made a bet to take trumps already terrible ideas, and use them in contexts that don’t even give an air of making sense.

Worse, if you are a trump supporter, with a large platform, or a lot of money. Trump sure as hell ain’t pulling strings for the people that attend his rallys. Hell didn’t biden call the family of the firefighter that took the bullet meant for trump, before trump did, and didn’t trump basically spend 10 seconds talking about the guy and made a really tasteless joke during his comment on him.

Right but not relevant here… RBG not stepping down under obama is indeed a miscalculation. Honestly I think she may have been intending to do it right after garland got his hearing… before learning that wasn’t on the table.

But anyway, ignoring that… with regards to a senator I don’t get the concept. While not perfect I’d still have to call warren in the top 5 senators (yeah I know, stupidly low bar because most the senators suck, but there’s a lot more reason to fear her successor being worse than expecting her to be better. and unless the main fear is elections will not happen again, but sitting senators will keep their positions until they die. There’s no reason to think there’s a difference in her retiring now, or in 10 years from now.

I suppose the question is, did she shed a tear while chopping it up?

lol yeah one of those things that is attempted to be fanfic to make him seem stronger… but in the end it does the exact opposite. If most the people on your side rebel, you either made or recruited very evil people that thought you looked weak. Or you were doing things that they found horendous enough they’d rather make a futile attempt and accept the cost of failure then take part in whatever you are doing.

Well agreed in the core concept, but the reality is simply put… the network infrastructure isn’t cheap. Especially factoring in things like the fact that while doordash pays it’s drivers crap… Gouges the hell out of the restraunts deeply cutting into their pockets, It’s still losing money hand over fist itself.

Except generally speaking… those far right small government types are actually very concerned with increasing the number of people of their own race… hence why abortion, birth control etc… are what they fight against.

They just dont’ care about feeding or keeping those people comfortable, they want them toiling away for scraps.

Honestly to me the whole concept of Lucifer as written in the bible to me, makes me question the whole thing.

like 5 year old me was like “OK wait so how is this guy so stupid that he thinks that he went to battle against god, is he really stupid, everyone knows god is 100% perfectly all powerful”, then you think further and realize literally lucifer was supposedly like the closest angel to god, if anyone has a solid view on gods power, it’s him. Which honestly points to the idea that god… isn’t immortal, isn’t all powerful etc… he just uses that lie as a crux to prevent people from threatening him.

Honestly the story of the tower of babel cements that even more. Now first of all if you’ve heard this story from christians… get rid of the pre-conception because usually preachers etc remove a lot of what is actually in the text, and add things that aren’t there. The story is not about stupid men trying to build a stairway to heaven.

The story as written, in short, man was amazingly unified, world peace was achieved. They were building the tower as an enormous landmark so basically people could see their city from wherever they were, as well as just a testament to what they could accomplish when they worked together.

God looks down at it and says "wow, look at these humans, when they work together, they can accomplish anything they set their mind to. They keep this up and they would be as powerful as gods. To which, god saw that as a credible threat, and so he smashed the tower, spread them all out, and made them speak different languages. Ensuring that they would be too busy fighting eachother rather then becoming a potential threat to him later.

In short, the old testiment is kind of littered with actions that only make sense, if you conclude god, actually has weaknesses and can be beaten.

That’s indeed such a big issue… fact is the trash problems of our cheap wrappers etc… were so huge… what prevented regulation. The endless spree of ads saying “You terrible people, stop throwing your trash on the ground”.

Maybe his big brother hiding just behind… Big corporations.