I see the talking heads are yapping about how AES won "college educated voters" while Stevens won "real working class Americans" (Rural). China was right when they forcibly relocated millions out of bumfuck nowhere.
I love that some people are intensely confused as to why CAF would back Infantino and FIFA. It's because UEFA is also a bag of corruption and holy shit you cannot bitch endlessly about African teams getting more slots as "diluting the competition" and expect people to still like you.
The whole thing with AES and Stevens is hilarious because both the DSA and Dem establishment has basically gone "Okay, well that's over. Time to go murder Mike Rogers" in pretty much lock step with each other. Meanwhile voters are fighting like Kamala didn't just send out fundraising texts for AES.
The problem with VBNMW is that if nobody is willing to do it when it's not their candidate, then it becomes a very empty rallying cry.
So are we just not reporting Dearborn to keep the Esky degens awake all night?
This is fucking slop and I need people to be fucking normal about self checkout lanes. The only thing this shit will do is eliminate self checkout lanes and force all of us to stand in much longer lanes. I swear to God Western leftists would not survive a week in China. www.aol.ca/articles/ny-...
NY state proposal would give shoppers a 10% discount for self-checkout - AOL
"Customers are effectively completing portions of the checkout labor themselves without compensation."
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AES will win by double digits and then we can see if all the VBNMW establishment types can put their money where their mouths are.
I'm particularly cheesed about MAHA because if they would have their way, I would be dead or at least deprived of my medications. Fuck every single one of them.
Ways in which I can beat Serena Williams at Tennis: 1. Rules are changed where when I score, I get points, but when she scores... I also get points 2. Serena isn't told of the competition thus I win by default. 3. I'm allowed the use of 1 functional Iron Man suit with a Tennis program installed.
Here's my issue with this, and I *understand* the electoral math. MAHA woowoo bullshit artists should be treated with the same contempt as ICE/DOGE, and their supporters. Their beliefs and electoral actions have caused as much death and human misery as ICE, maybe even DOGE, will have.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 2d agoThere is pervasive corruption across our healthcare and agricultural systems that defy party lines. I meet with MAHA activists because a lot of their concerns are bipartisan issues that major corporations paint as partisan. The fight isn't left and right, it's top and bottom.
Too many people on this site think they are Luthen Rael when in actuality they are the Maya Pei dipshit brigade.
If the character of your neighborhood is defined by parked cars, garbage, and rats, your neighborhood needs to be burned to the ground and shrine trying to preserve that ridiculed into exile.
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com · 4d agoI avoid the term “gentrification” when talking about housing affordability because it mostly describes *how people feel* about neighborhood change, not the change itself. For example, this author talks about how containerized trash pickup will “gentrify” NYC’s streets by replacing parked cars:
The comment section of an food influencer's video is filled with the most insufferable people on the planet bar none.
I think it's very cool that UEFA finally took a stand against FIFA but I really wish they would've done it when all the slave labor was happening.
It's great that the left and the right in LA disagree about everything on housing except for the fact that we don't need to build anything anywhere ever and we must protect SFH zoning forever. You know...the two things that LA has been doing since the 70's and has caused the housing crisis.
Karen Bass hasn't been particularly good, but this is something if Nithya does win, she will have to contend with. Mailroom Interns at the government NGOs that have LA in a stranglehold have more executive power than the Mayor.
mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · last wk.I think it's good that Mamdani is Just Doing Stuff but more people gotta realize that it is not a matter of Will or motivation or whatever but because the NYC Mayor, as an office, is one of the uniquely powerful individual offices you can hold in the United States (seriously)
I think government run grocery stores are a very inefficient way to make sure people get fed, but the solutions I think are more efficient the people who clown on city grocers from the right would hate even more.
FIFA is corrupt as hell and it would be hilarious to watch Infantino get shitcanned. But are we under some delusion on this site that UEFA aren't also hideously corrupt? And that this isn't motivated in part by racial animus? Because UEFA has been bitching endlessly about WC spot allocations.
Christian Odendahl@codendahl.bsky.social · last wk.No Europe, no World Cup. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
One of the most annoying aspects about my side...(side side? I don't know which side hustle is my main side hustle) job is telling small business owners that it's all nice and well that you feel your product is worth a certain value. It means nothing if nobody else does.
I like people talking about the Shohei 30 for 30 like "I can't believe the bank would let this happen!" Bitch, Bank of America had one of their fucking branches foreclosed on because they tried to wrongly collect a mortgage, refused to fix the clerical error, and ignored a court order for 5 months.
Fetterman made his entire personality about being a boorish slob, and all of a sudden we're pearl clutching that someone described him aporopriately?
One of the things about economic and financial discourse is that we really need to understand that sometimes, people are just *bad* with money. More often than not, I get people who are coming in after getting 10, 20k raises, and immediately committing all that money in a splurge.
The left has outgrown the need for Bernie Sanders and it's time for him to retire. The older he gets, the more unable he is of tempering his base biases. The rugged, rural, blue collar coded white man can never do wrong in his eyes. thehill.com/homenews/cam...
Sanders says he does not regret supporting Graham Platner in Maine Senate race
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Sunday said he did not regret supporting former Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner (D) after a former girlfriend’s accusations of sexual assault came to ligh…
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To tie into the Taiwan discourse, it's really easy to find a campist by asking them their opinions about the desires of Puerto Ricans and Taiwanese. Campists never consider the dignity of the people they're supposedly fighting for, so they twist themselves to fit the results into their world view.
Revan@revan.eurosky.social · last wk.“Self determination unless I don’t like your answer in which case fuck you”
As we approach election season, before anyone gets any big ideas about how we should treat the median voter as intelligent adults "I voted for President Trump because he supports real working class Americans like small business owners and Elon Musk" was a sentence that someone actually said to me.
This entire thread is infuriating. The Republicans are most likely making a lot of mistakes and depriving themselves of a seat because of Trump's beef with Massie. And there's way too many "do something!1!!!" bots insisting that Dems should step in and help Republicans figure their shit out.
M Meerkat@kackbro.bsky.social · last wk.Hey Governor Beshear, Do Something, Get Up Off Your Ass....
The wildest shit I've seen are like old libbed out Dodger fans going "I've been a fan since the days of the legendary Tommy Lasorda" and like, how the fuck have you lived this long without understanding that in Baseball, your heroes *will* disappoint you if you're not an archconservative?
Tommy Lasorda's Legacy Includes Silence Over HIV and His Gay Son
<p>One of the most famous figures in sports sadly perpetuated a culture of shame.</p>
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