UnderpantsWeevil @ UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world

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Region governed by eugenicists doing exactly what you'd expect.

I mean... its a big deal if you're anywhere near the launchpad. Or, in or around South Padre Island.

Also can't help but notice that Starbase, Texas is practically hugging the US/Mexico border. Almost as though Abbott didn't want this shit landing in his own backyard when it failed.

Just put on Marti Grais masks, you freaks

A lot of the modern devices make uninstalling a pain in the ass. Especially if its native bloatware that's been bundled with the OS.

We've been busting through constitutional amendments with abandon. I don't think you could point to one that this administration would honor or respect.

having an opposing candidate that can read the room may significantly increase chances of victory

Only in a large-turnout neck-and-neck general election, where the game actually is about who can deliver the right mix of popular red meat and inoffensive centrism.

In the more local races where the game is 90% getting name recognition, you don't need to read the room of voters. You need to court the donor pool that will endlessly and enthusiastically promote you. Go look at the NYC Mayoral race. One reason Cuomo has been the favorite to win since Day 1 - despite being a well-established sleazeball, DINO, and sex pest - is the 24/7/365 friendly media coverage.

Zohran's recent surge in support has come thanks to tons and tons of grassroots activists screaming his name at the top of their lungs. And the debates proved he's masterful at reading the crowd, focusing on the popular issues, deflecting criticism, and engaging a wide audience. But it's still an uphill climb against a guy whose family name has echoed through NY politics for nearly a century. Cuomo can shit the bed every day for a month and still never dip below 40% favorability, purely thanks to political inertia.

Just buying celebrity friendships is enough to keep Cuomo above water, even if he does have to spend $1000 for every $10 Mamdani can bring to bare.

I'm hardly "off the grid", but I've managed to get enough distance between my eyeballs and the fire hose of ads not to see it more than tangentially, while pocking around the Google Play store.

I do pity anyone who doesn't have the kind of tech-friendly elders willing/able to scrub all the bloatware off their retail devices, though. Had to spent an hour de-contaminating my mom's new Samsung because of all the random extra adware packed into it. And with newer mainline devices, it feels like a constant struggle. Heaven help anyone on Windows 11.

We are moving faster towards censoring and criminalizing climate science than denialism and deception.

Nobody is talking to Hegseth

I'll believe that when I see the next leaked Signal chat.

Literally all marketing. $1B in marketing.

none of the checks and balances have any balls

Trump took full control of the DHS and the FBI, staffed it with loyal goons, and is actively arresting/assaulting anyone who stands in his way.

This isn't a matter of "no balls", its a matter of Biden handing Trump's biggest supporters a bunch of money and guns back in 2021 and Trump telling these guys "Arrest all the Bidencrats" the moment he took office.

Dafuq is any judge or legislator supposed to do in a country when ICE can kick down your door?

They fucked up thinking they'd never lose power. Now its too late to politics their way out of the mess.

How is he being blackmailed by TWO superpowers?

It's hardly blackmail. He's benefited immensely from the right wing turn on TikTok. They've got a Sword of Damacles over their heads that can drop any time the site turns against him.

He's extorting them.

Sorry, I hired a political consultant at $12,000/hr and he told me voters will only support idiots.

Besides, we need to do something as a party to distance ourselves from Muslims, Women, PoC, and the LGBTQ community. They're holding us back and scaring off all the white male social media millionaires!

Like: Why don’t these corpos just use a PIN system, god damn it? (rhetorical question, they probably don’t care)

This is what a Zero Regulations For The Last Forty Years government does to the business sector. Very simple, obvious solutions that you'd think multi-trillion dollar tech companies would have no trouble implementing aren't worth the effort.

Why bother doing anything for the consumer when you can just spend another $1M on advertising to make your shit service irrelevant?

Still an ugly pain in the ass for the person who wanted to exchange currency for goods and/or services.

I do find it amusing that Doordash itself seems so blaise about this misuse of their services. Like, what an amazing racket. Get paid by one of the biggest retailers in the country to not-pay drivers so they can not-deliver expensive hardware.

Best I can do is "Above Rocks, Jamaica"

No need to stop at Australia. You can take this international.

• Unterhaching, Germany
• Unterseen, Switzerland
• Sous-Bois (as in Montfermeil-sous-Bois), France
• Sotto il Monte, Italy
• Altındağ, Turkey

He's too popular. Precisely because he brought $77B into the state to line his friends' pockets.

Who is going to run against Abbott that isn't just a more Fash version of him? Any Democrat that runs will campaign on "Actually I always supported the wall and I'm upset he didn't build it fast enough". Any Republican in the primaries will complain that Abbott is too nice to Jews.

And then every newspaper and TV channel in the state will endorse him, because that's what their sponsors told them to do. The state will split 46/54, with a weird 40,000 vote undercount in Harris County and six counties in the Panhandle voting GOP to a man. And he'll be in for another four years while the Green Party gets blamed for another liberal defeat.

It's absolutely not. Bush, Biden, Clinton, Reagan - they all whined about how mean the press was. I think Obama was the only president in my lifetime who just mugged his way through it.

And Nixon? Regularly squeeled like a stuck pig, if you work his way through the White House tapes.