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I say Blooski (easier and more fun) and it hurts me that I’m in the same camp as Senator leghorn.

Wurman will say or do anything to get Duane Benton’s seat on the 8th Circuit. I bet he’s nominated within the year.

Average neolithic farmer upon seeing a primeval forest: “here I go burning again”

“I think Sam Altman is full of shit” is not that bold of a statement, really.

I do not think that’s what she’s saying based on the post-script but rather she’s specifically against new electronics that purport to solve problems but don’t. But her determination for what is a useful electronic & what isn’t appears to be nothing more than “I don’t believe whatever tech bros say”

Don’t you know the saying, two wrongs make a right? Wait, is that how it goes?

sorry to be an old-fashioned scold but there is something deeply pathetic about being an adult and shoplifting just because you kinda feel like the rules don't apply to you

everything outside nyc is a highway/stroad/cul-de-sac and none of those things have corners

only NYC has corners so, I don’t know how this changes anything

These are good points I did not consider though I was thinking mainly about electability in the general vs how good they’d be in the senate. Craig/Stevens would probably still win in a general but they would be worse senators no doubt. Allred 2026 no excuse though. Guy can’t campaign for shit.

You can go to jail for not putting your child in a car seat, which can be expensive, and there are so many to choose from; how do you know which is best?

Whereas sticking to the vaccine schedule does not require you to do any additional research. Just sit back and let the white coats do their job!

Images of kids “just” being taken by ICE stirred up a huge amount of anti-government sentiment and we’re all still mad about it, so I am puzzled why people think Trump backing down will make Iran forget that America bombed 160 schoolgirls to death on the literal first day of the war.

Relatedly I see so many criticisms of him from people who do not understand that there are 53Rs and 47Ds, with 53 > 47. And that’s not really his fault either. 2024 was a bad year, three 3-term democrats lost, and another retired (Manchin). That is not a recruitment problem! That’s just a bad year!

You can criticize Schumer for a lot of real, not madeup reasons, like not being aggressive enough, or being a bad, inauthentic communicator, and having terminal senate brain.

But he is basically pretty good at evaluating candidate quality. Mills is the exception, not the rule.

Who, besides Janet Mills, is a bad “Schumer pick,” and who counts as a Schumer pick, anyway? I don’t know what goes into “recruiting” candidates but this year Schumer has been credited with some stellar picks: Mary Peltola, Roy Cooper, Sherrod Brown. I bet he preferred Conor Lamb, too!

I am becoming anti-anti-Schumer. This is getting ridiculous

In our house “because of woke” has become the new “thanks Obama”

Can’t even blame ins v chadna for this debacle

Republicans voted down Schumer’s attempt to end this war.

It is reasonable to criticize Garland for being a slow bum while it is unreasonable to criticize Schumer for 53 being a bigger number than 47, be real here.

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Honestly would expect it to be much higher considering the war just began, is against a very well known and unpopular adversary, and we are visibly “winning.”

This is correct. State bars have utterly failed the test of the moment. In the most pathetic ways possible. They would absolutely love to be relieved of their duty to regulate DOJ lawyers!

reading over Malliotakis v. Williams and lowkey think New York courts/the NY Redistricting Commission should be like...since the Supreme Court clearly lacked jurisdiction to intervene in the case at this time, we are treating it as the nonbinding advisory opinion that it is, thanks for the input tho

company doing business in WB/Gaza) would be very disruptive to their economy and difficult to circumvent. Israel’s arms industry is also not developed enough to keep doing adventurism without foreign support. In 20 years their economy would look much worse, even if it evaded some sanctions.

That is a good point and I don’t mean to say sanctions will quickly result in any Israeli policy change; Israel is much stronger vis-à-vis its oppressed people than white SA (weak economy even before sanctions). But even a more expansive version of Biden’s banking sanctions (say for any Israeli… 1/2

The anti-sanctions crowd seems to think they will not work because the Israeli electorate will not respond to economic ruin, pointing to NK, Russia, Iran as examples. Well those are dictatorships. Of course they do not respond to economic ruin. But white South Africans did because they had the vote.

A gov’t that justified increasingly draconian repression because it believed it faced an apocalyptic “Total Onslaught” negotiated Apartheid’s end when it became clear the human and economic costs of maintaining it were too high. I am puzzled why people think that logic would not apply here.

this is where i've been at for a while, same with the oil states providing the Trump criminal family with all their money laundering needs

you lose cynical realpolitik alliance privileges once you start enabling fascism in my home

Apartheid ended because the Nationalist government realized they did not have the money or manpower to maintain it, so they chose to negotiate its end on the best terms available. They were weak in no small part due to SA’s economic and diplomatic isolation.