considering how israel is viewed among democratic circles these days, being endorsed by aipac I do believe will be more of a drag than being accused of being a hamas supporter.
I would have but I got caught up in the great recession before I could leave.
then when I finally got enough money to consider looking for a place, I received a very serious medical condition that wiped out finances and seriously affected my working ability. this condition also makes it almost necessary for someone to be around. so unless I hit the powerball or megamillions I'm going to be in my parents house for a while.
what killed bernie's chances in 2016 was the total lack of grassroots efforts in turning out and supporting viable progressive candidates in 2010, 2012, and 2014. both the party and the base thought that with obama in, everything would be solved and there wasn't any more work that needed to be done. instead the house got lost in 2010 and the thinking was in order to regain power the dems had to be more like republicans instead of, well you know, democrats. none of the progressive groups ever pushed their people to run for democratic party positions which would have made it easier for a bernie or similar candidate to be taken seriously.
and that's why we have biden: he's a known quality, and the black women of south carolina trusted him over the other white old guy who has ideas that would probably benefit them more but were never exposed to in local political races.
if you want the party to start shifting in your political direction, just voting isn't going to cut it. you're going to have to actually get involved in the local party. I wonder how many progressives would even do that or once again tune out if their pet candidate doesn't win.
has anyone listened to jon stewart's political takes when he wasn't reading them off a teleprompter? remember, when colbert had his capitol rally to make a point about what (the republicans in) congress was doing, stewart joined in with his rally watering down the impact of the initial rally because he thought colbert was doing a giant bit.
jon stewart has generally had terrible political takes. it's just that during his heyday it was the no drama obama years and there generally wasn't anything to both sides on the democratic side so liberals didn't hear him badly try to equivocate the two parties.
then again I've never watched the daily show, even the kilborne years so what do I know.
so what's going to be their punishment? this is the only question that matters. because if the sanction isn't significant, there's nothing stopping this group or similar groups from doing the same thing.
o can say as an elder millennial that not only have I gotten more conservative, I've probably gotten more a little liberal as the conservatives have gotten a lot more extreme.
when the overton window has skewed that far to the extreme right, you have rock ribbed hardcore conservatives like liz cheney, john boehner, paul ryan, george dubya freaking bush and ronald fucking reagan seem like centrists and liberals and this is not healthy for political discourse. and the media making every political thing an equivalency when it clearly is not makes it worse.
conservatives by their actions want women either pregnant or at home taking care of children, whether they are theirs or someone else's, or both. they especially want them silent and totally reliant on their men since hod forbid they get paid for their work.
liberals want to provide equal rights and equal opportunity.
from my perspective, if you aren't white, male, wealthy and christian, I don't know know why you are a republican since the party doesn't care about you.
people are wondering if bluesky will end up like twitter. I'm not for one reason, twitter didn't start going to shit until elon took over, fired the content mod team, and let the neo nazis, porn bots, and cryptobros run rampant. twitter before elon was fairly functional and useful.
when they eventually scale up I can see bluesky being what pre elon twitter was, especially with content moderation.
how ironic, if a man rapes a woman she's forced to have the baby and he goes to jail. but if a man rapes HIS woman (wife, daughter, sister), she'd forced to have the baby but he needs to die.
they don't care because this doesn't involve them.
well, it is cnn. they're more interested in appeasing fascists these days just in case if fascism takes over, they won't be the ones at the head of the line when they put us in the camps.
I know the rules essentially state no editorializing the post titles, but in situations like this it should be amended to change the title from "Congress devolves into chaos..." to "REPUBLICANS devolves into chaos...". it's the republican's show in the house. the democrats don't have much of anything to do with house business.
headlines like this perpetuate the both sides bullshit nonsense that ruining political discussion and has put democracy at risk.
didn't elon just have twins with a tesla staffer or am I misunderstanding? cause if that's true I can very much see that kind of thing going on at spacex too.
the government should investigate that, and they really could do it since spacex has that multibillion dollar government contract.
It really wasn't much of an embarrassment considering primary voting in Nevada is meaningless and it's all chosen through separate caucuses.
she chose to put her name in the primary ballot. and in nevada since they're having a primary and caucus you could only enter one. what was the plan here? if it was to show she's got general election appeal that was a massive failure. and it's totally embarrassing, trump wanted a caucus and he got one. and trump's name is the only one to be voted on, where the delegates will be awarded. that's not just a stupid strategy it's a losing one.
Haley didn't spend any money in Nevada specifically because it was already rigged for Trump.
if that was the case she shouldn't bother running. the entire republican primary process was rigged in favor of trump.
taylor swift publicly has a tour schedule that anyone with internet access can get. and I'm sure that these places have airports. and flight logs are public. it's not hard to figure out what plane left from the city she was in is going to her next tour date.
if she, the most famous and richest white woman on the planet doesn't want her movements tracked her movements would not be tracked.
technically speaking yes. but what really matters is if the enforcement agency decides whether or not it's worth it to charge and prosecute you.
if everyone got charged for breaking any law, there is an entire generation of people who would be locked up because they never paid for winzip.