It’s Dale Earnhardt and a couple other people

I still think you’re a conservative, just the kind that wears a Mao t-shirt instead of a Reagan one.

That would make me a tankie. Tankies are super authoritarian and I’m the opposite. That’s one of the things I dislike about Biden, remember?

I tend to occupy a very wide field between European style Social Democrat to Left Libertarian bordering on anarchism, depending on the specific subject.

Always on the “no such thing as inherent authority” end of the axis where Biden’s at the “cops are great” end, though.

Also go look up what astroturfing means

I’m well aware of campaigns disguising themselves as grassroots when in actuality some very rich people are behind it.

Ironically, every campaign of The Senator From MBNA has been more or less astroturfing.

hilariously out of your element

Says the one who calls me a

conservative

Dude, can’t you read? I clearly said that Biden’s the lesser evil by far and that the Trump presidency was a catastrophe.

I’m not calling Biden an evil because I think he’s too far left. I’m calling him an evil because he’s way too far right and way too authoritarian. Dude loves cops and the fascist apartheid state Israel, just like Trump does.

No. I was about to refute their misconceptions point by point but decided it wasn’t worth the effort since we’re ostensibly on the same side and nothing I or anyone else can say would convince them.

Same with you, it seems, so unless you actually have something to add, I suggest you take your conclusion jumping elsewhere.

You obviously have a lot more faith in the rationality of voters than I do, in spite of the whole gestures at entire world thing.

In stead of pointing out details, I’m just gonna hope that your faith will be rewarded in a little under 11 months and wish you a nice day.

He won the popular vote by a smaller percentage of votes cast than Hillary and the Dem candidate winning the sub-45yo vote is pretty much a given. In most elections, it would be by much more.

As for the 65+ group, a lot of fascists and people who don’t consider fascism more of a deal breaker than a (D) behind a name are aging into that group, perhaps as many as are dying off.

And no, I’m not assuming anything. I’m pointing out that there’s a big risk of the pro-democracy candidate losing if he and the rest of the DNC don’t stop thinking that “Not Trump” is enough and start listening to what the public wants.

Warm night, cold beer, blue jeans, red pick-up

Biden BARELY beat him the first time around and conditions are WORSE this time around:

1: The electorate has a ridiculously short memory and aren’t currently suffering from Trump being president.

2: Related to but distinct from 1, Biden’s main strategy of “at least I’m not the other guy” is much less effective for an incumbent than a challenger.

3: Biden is currently alienating a large part of his own base by supporting two seperate genocides (Gaza and Yemen), one of which Democrats actually care about even when there’s a Dem president.

Don’t get me wrong, I REALLY want him to win since he’s by far the lesser evil, but for the above reasons and others, there’s a significant risk of him actually losing if the traitor isn’t disqualified as he should be

my radical and poorly regulated militia

Talk about fighting fire with fire!

As Denmark’s queen abdicated and Frederik X became (hopefully our last) king, I was forwarding this in the family group chat with the comment “more important things are also happening in the world right now”

The name of that cat? “Wire”

Everything looks like a penis when all you need is to get nailed? 🤷

Why do you want to know? Do you think Chavez singlehandedly controlled the price of oil?

You know that’s a worldwide commodity, the price of which is affected by myriad factors out of any one country’s control, right?

There’s no such thing as “price of Venezuelan crude oil” seperate from the price of all other crude oil.

Venezuela is an example of a petrostate, where the government is highly dependent on fossil fuel income.

Petrostates are vulnerable to what economists call Dutch disease, in which a government develops an unhealthy dependence on natural resource exports to the detriment of other sectors.

The oil price plunge from more than $100 per barrel in 2014 to under $30 per barrel in early 2016 sent Venezuela into an economic and political spiral, and despite rising prices since then, conditions remain bleak.

(Source: Council of Foreign Relations)

So yeah, socialism didn’t kill the Venezuelan economy, over-reliance on fossil fuel did.

Confirmed: back in my theater days my preparation for roles was identical to that of Christian Bale.

I like that the article consistently refers to Meta as what it is, an adtech giant that also runs social media platforms rather than the other way around.

Except in this version, Dr Jekyll is less a severely irresponsible chemist and more of a medical doctor who likes baking and doesn’t let bananas go to waste.

Biting the corrupt lord is the win condition

Just like real life!

Except for the Brother printer everyone has.

Yeah, or put in another way: treating this health issue like a criminal one scares people away from seeking the help they need.

It also exacerbates the socioeconomic issues that put people at greater risk of developing the disease that is addiction in the first place.