Its a small silver lining, but at least they tried this time. Usually they assume they’ve already lost and don’t even make an attempt.
Meanwhile, the GOP is happy to spend years running headlong into failed attempt after failed attempt until something finally lands.
I like how this illustrates the absurdity of gender essentialism with a cat.
“Chipmaker sells chips” is less salacious than cheating. It’s what sticks out in people’s minds.
And… its not like these things are actually key to anyone’s ‘national security’, despite what lawmakers and the advertising departments of hyperscalers say. You get an edge in how quickly you can iterate software. Big whoop. This has less strategic impact than a fan forum for War Thunder.
Even if you wanna blame propaganda, FOX news has a far wider reach and influence over the American electorate than facebook posts ever could.
Even then, you can only blame it so much. Propaganda does not reprogram people like they’re machines. There is no wizard waving a wand to make your uncle racist. Propaganda gives people the encouragement/excuse to do and say what they already wanted to do and say. It works on people who are already predisposed to reactionary thinking.
It’s a legal precedent nobody in DC wants to set.
A living organism is a strange loop. Computer software isn’t. Just because you can describe both in probabilistic terms doesn’t mean they’re the same phenomenon.
I’m still kinda bitter about how everything after Bush was handled. The platform Obama ran, the margin he won with, the national attitude even! He could have started rolling back everything Bush, try to actually deliver change.
Maybe all the entrenched institutions would have been able to push back. But we’ll never know, cus the admin never even tried.
I think a lot of people who know what a cassette is would be surprised by one that holds computer files.
Sue me, I like comparing and contrasting consecutive administrations. Almost like there’s historical insight to gain.
And while the inflation was a result of Trump’s policies, it still peaked halfway through Biden’s term. People blamed it on Biden. That’s just the electorate acting like they always have done. And it really didn’t the admin did a shit job of communicating - well, a lot, but - that they were trying to bring it down. Cost of living polled very high as a concern going into Nov 2024… as it is now.
I’m saying both administrations ignored economic pressure felt by the people they rule over, not that the situations are 100% the same.
Doing the same thing the Biden admin was doing for groceries, but for gas prices. How can the economy be bad, my investment portfolio is doing amazing! Ironically, the very same flub that gave him his second term in the first place.
It’s the USA, we’ve had fascist foreign policy for over half a century. Only now that the fascism is becoming domestic policy are a fraction of the population not OK with it.
Two billion across the whole country isn’t all that much, especially considering how bonkers property evaluations are.
If you don’t mind me asking, whats that big, greener patch in the south east? Forest? Swamp?
Which president goes with which clause?
so whats a passkey and how is it different from a password?
That’s where the term “reactionary” comes from. It means they want to re-enact the past… or, more usually, a rose-tinted second-hand narrative of a past that never really was.
His administration also used the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 to purposefully run highways through black neighborhoods, seizing people’s homes and apartments through Eminent Domain.
George Bush the 3rd
oh shit thats hilarious