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I mean, most posts like this aren't real to begin with if we're talking about suspicions.

But they do get engagement so it's worth popping in with general advice some people do need to hear.

The Democratic likely presidential

I wish him all the success Cuomo just had...

Burn a shit ton of billionaire money, show everyone we can just stop listening to 80 year old's endorsements, and accomplish absolutely nothing but solidifying the resolve of the progressive movement within the Dem party.

while the Dems are scrambling to figure out how to keep the base content

What?

The DNC pivoted hard left with Martin, and did a complete 180 on the victory fund

They know exactly what they need to be doing, and they're doing it...

I don't know what exactly people expect

Last names weren't really a thing until very recently in human history.

That's why a lot of last names are places or jobs.

You were Chris the Farmer, or Chris from Cleveland. And when your king wanted a last name to tax you more accurately, you likely didn't give a fuck and just said whatever.

But the thing is people would say names/jobs in different languages.

An immigrant from Germany who spoke mostly German would say "My name is John Deutsch". if they were fluent in English they may say "My name is John German".

Same guy. Describing himself the same way, just in two different languages.

Fo Colombus specifically, that's not even his name in his native language. It was Columbo, which meant Dove and given mostly to orphans, but at least his dad had the same name. Whenever last names became standard, Columbus's oldest living direct ancestor was an orphan

So like, it's not asking why just the places named after him are different, it's why he had different names.

And the answer is people just really didn't care that much about names until very recently.

Lately there have been some running jokes about how we’re basically a throuple already, and those jokes have been getting a little more… not-jokey.

Those jokes are almost never jokes...

If the other people were the ones starting the jokes, that's called "testing the waters" and you might be in more of a trouble than you realize already.

Like, I get that guys don't learn that as early as women, but most people figure it out

“This was shocking,” Jennifer E. Smith, a biologist at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and the study’s lead author, said in a press release. “Squirrels are one of the most familiar animals to people. Yet here’s this never-before-encountered behavior that sheds light on how much we still have to learn.”

What?

Squirrels eat mice all the fucking time...

They compete for the same food source, but they're drastically different sizes, it's like if a silverback fought a chimpanzee. And after the fight the squirrel doesn't waste the free meal.

Good.

Silwa, Adams, and Cuomo will split the vote of all the idiots.

Two neoliberals having to run as independents in a general because they can no longer win a Dem primary is a good thing.

They're no longer to buy their way thru the primary.

Eh, that's over the estimated life of the universe.

Our solar system is likely a third that age.

It was just the first example I got when googling it, and I didn't want to break it down and convert it to make it more accurate.

Even then, pole reversal are common (speaking of, were like 100k years overdue and inexplicable shit is going on under the antarctic right now...) so even over the life of the Earth you'd have to keep teleporting to each new North Pole.

But it's a good example of relativity.

Fair, I always want turnout by percentage of total voters, because percent of total voters in each party is a big part of it.

A candidate that grows the party shouldn't have their accomplishments reduced because they drive turnout.

We don't live in an ideal word, most people don't even vote in generals.

Ironically enough he was arrested in Florida which is far enough away there's likely a real difference over that long of time.

Like "real" as in there is a difference. Not that it is in anyway significant.

I googled and apparently in the ~14 billion years we think the universe has existed, the north pole has experienced about four more days of time than the equator.

So like 37 American years or 37.000000000000000000000001 Canadian years.

I'm assuming American.

Around 1 million New York Democrats showed up to vote, the highest raw total in a city primary since 1989, before Mamdani was born.

Weird...

Almost like giving people a candidate they agree with, makes them more likely to vote...

Well, yeah but he probably just got here...

Checks notes

ICE noted Noviello had been a lawful permanent resident of the U.S. since 1991, after entering the country through legal visa status in 1988. However, it also said he was facing removal for being convicted of drug charges “as a non-immigrant overstay.”

37 years ago

I left /microblogmemes and /political memes

If there's anymore left they're just flying under the radar.

But those are "memes" by the Richard Dawkins original meaning of the term. Not "memes" as in "haha, guys like how stupid I am, don't you think I'm stupid" humor.

Memes aren't just shitty jokes, but thats all that's in the shitty meme communities.

Or if you good mateys know of any tricks one could apply, cause every other post here is about the US

A very simple method would just be blocking those as you see them.

And then keep blocking them.

It's not exactly difficult, I do it with all the AI and most of the meme communities.

Every once and a while someone makes a new one, but you just block it when you see it.

I'm confused...

Your "business" is asking people to follow you on social media?

That's...

That's not a business. That's not even a job

It's one of those things where we shortened a phrase and then it stopped making logical sense.

"The three musketeers" werent just musketeers who carried muskets.

They were "the king's musketeers". They were elite special forces as well as the personal bodyguard for the King. The best of the best. The "musketeer" part was the common bit, it just sounds fancy centuries later.

But the book might as well be called "The Kingsguard"

“This election is a choice between a candidate with a blue collar and one with a silver spoon,” Adams said. “A choice between dirty fingernails and manicured nails.”

An ex-cop with international corruption charges...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/nyregion/eric-adams-charges.html

Who got the federal charges dropped by sucking up to a literal fascist...

Yeah, Eric...

I don't think you need to worry about doubting your fucking hands are dirty

On the plus said him and JoJo's crazy violent uncle are going to basically hand Mamdaninthe general by splitting the asshole vote. The only danger is if one of them pulls an RFK and drops lastinute to endorse the other.

But I'm still confident Mamdani would be a that

He gave people something to vote for...

It was a stupid hateful thing, but it was a thing his base wanted.

Biden/Kamala didn't, at every opportunity they'd talk about their similarities to trump on things like Palestine, the border, healthcare, fracking, pretty much any question they asked they'd say they mostly agree with trump, but have slight differences.

That was trying to get people to vote against trump due to a slight difference, still voting against trump because the difference made trump worse.

So yeah...

That's the largest reason trump is president again.

Give people something to vote for and people will vote.

Gotta build it before people show up, even Kevin Costner knew that 35 years ago

https://youtu.be/t1T72wuj0o8?t=15