Also Musk: "This is the woke mind virus in action. Now, it is time for the mind virus to die."

The two party system is bullshit, and the solution is electoral reform like ranked choice voting.

One party, the Democratic party, usually (but not always) approves of such reform efforts.
The other party, the Republican party, universally opposes such efforts with extreme fervor.

So it makes sense to hate the two party system, but that system is one party's fault in particular.

Because it's just going to make them more popular. One can argue that the failed assassination of Trump was actually key to his victory. Or if that's not clear enough, look at what happened with Charlie Hebdo - it just made muslims look petty and violent to the point where most people would rather side with the paper that was bullying a religious minority than recognize their concerns.

Losing a lawsuit, meanwhile, makes them unpopular and poor at the same time.

Later this year: "I was right, but I actually meant to say 'into' instead of 'to' and 'someone's' instead of 'your'"

The headline is misleading in that this is not the court's overall opinion, but a concurring opinion that would've gone farther:

While Mintz agreed with Amit’s ruling, he dissented on the notion that Israel has any legal obligation to provide humanitarian aid to Gaza, asserting that the matter falls under the discretion of the government and security authorities, and the court should not intervene.

Basically the majority opinion is that Israel is complying with international law...which I won't defend, but it's quite the opposite from what the video is claiming.

I know everyone's gonna respond that Israel doesn't actually care about international law, but the video is saying they're not even pretending and they are, in fact, pretending. No - stop - reality does matter and you shouldn't encourage people who spread misinformation even if they agree with you. Because then they become Matt Taibbi.

A little late but OpenTaxSolver - free desktop tax software that gives you a printout of tax forms that you can mail in. And it includes a few states too. Way easier than the annoying corporate sites that constantly log you out and charge a fee for every little thing.

Edit: To my non-American friends, you don't need to worry about this

The bible just says he "was taken up into heaven", not saying how and suspiciously using passive voice. So aliens.

I've played civilization and I'm pretty sure there's other forms of government besides Communism and Monarchy that have low corruption, albeit lacking the ability to force the citizens into war on the leader's whim.

Promise them a little wagon

Only sorta. The only election the nazis won outright was after they had basically already seized power. Prior to that there was an alliance between the moderate right/business elites and the nazis where the moderate right wanted to use the far right to win and thought they could control Hitler but then he just used the little power they gave him to take more and...ok it's exactly like right now.

We could've.

My main criteria is can we fix it.

If a Democrat wins in 2028, we can hypothetically fix immigration policy, tariffs, and all the rest with enough popular support. In fact now that the far right has shown themselves to be a clown show, maybe that phase of America's maturation may finally be ending. We might even bring Abrego Garcia himself back.

But if we deport citizens - who can vote and participate in democracy - that puts the thumb on the scale. It makes permanent fascism like in Russia more likely. And it's worth dying to avoid that permanent fate. But if it's temporary, it just doesn't rise to that level.

I'm gonna guess this sort of thing is more the rule than the exception. The goal isn't to deport actual gang members, it's to signal a tough-on-illegal-immigration policy without the challenge that comes with actually deporting people who aren't trying to be found. So they just deport law abiding people who are easier to find because the reality doesn't matter.

This is because of red state Democrats like Manchin. Because every state gets two senators, there are more senators from red states than blue states. So Democrats have to capture more of the center to hey the majority in the Senate.

I think the confusion is that it actually implies AOC, who is a Democrat, wants universal healthcare - she does.

Has anyone actually jerked off to AI porn? No shaming but for me there's this fundamental emptiness to it. Like it can't impress me because it's exactly like what you expected it to be.

Reminds me of Blockchain

According to new research from Deloitte, 74 percent of large companies (with sales over $500 million) see a “compelling business case” for blockchain technology.

Indeed, from supply chain management and regulatory monitoring to recruiting and healthcare, organizations are applying blockchain to their business models to revolutionize how they track and verify transactions.

It's not a fake or fundamentally useless technology, but everyone who doesn't understand it is rushing to figure out how they're gonna claim to use it.

I would never ask someone else to risk their lives for me. I think we all need to figure out where our red line is - for me it would be a successful attempt to keep serving in a third term, or actually successfully deporting/imprisoning US citizens without due process. Merely trying or talking about it isn't enough because if the constitutional process stops him, that means it's still working.

It's not just Republicans, it's businessmen. Hoover, George W. Bush, and of course Trump were all businessmen. Reagan technically not but he kind of was an adopted businessman with all the corporate friends he had.

What happens is, people think a businessman would be great for the economy. But what makes someone a great businessman? Not strong knowledge of economics, that's what makes you a good economics professor. A great businessman is one who is good at fundraising, which basically comes down to having lots of rich friends who you can convince that giving you money will pay off for them down the road. This is why guys like Adam Neumann still raise gobs of money after failing - if people see you as a guy who can raise money, they're less worried you'll go bankrupt.

So anyway, when these Adam Neumanns end up entering the white house, they find that they've made many promises to their wealthy friends but don't know how to keep them. So they try their best, conducting sweeping changes to financial and regulatory systems, but lacking the economic knowledge to understand the often complex effects these decisions have. Inevitably, there's major economic problems down the road.