jkf
27d ago
My guess would be (assuming some level of competence on the part of the Trump team, I know) that they'd lean into the self-deportation -- if you crack down on illegals working/driving/transacting business in an effective way (which is theoretically possible, federally) then American Life becomes less attractive. Also it's not clear how much Trump cares about effectiveness of deportation per se -- being able to claim to have taken action and being cock-blocked by California or whatnot is probably fine with him.
jkf
27d ago
Isn't a fetish by definition a minority preference? And by implication a small/fringe minority?
Someone saying they have a pizza fetish doesn't just mean that they like pizza; almost everybody likes pizza, it's not a fetish. (unless taken to some extreme; do not recommend googling "pizza fetish")
jkf
29d ago
At time of this posting it's at 18 million views in the same number of hours.
Plus Spotify -- the reach of Rogan is just wild.
jkf
29d ago
I'm about halfway through -- quite a lot of just shooting the shit, some MMA, some of Trump's usual talking points. Joe is being a very sympathetic interviewer, but he did sort of push back slightly on tarriffs/taxes/environmental issues.
Pretty bland honestly -- hard for anyone to claim that Trump is mentally incompetent when he can hold down such a widely ranging three hour conversation off the cuff though.
jkf
30d ago
I meant more in a carefree sense where people around me are able to do this stuff. Growing older brings more responsibilities. So I appreciate being in these environments around people.
Those environments are usually called 'bars' -- i recognize they are less common in India, but around here they are not hard to find.
If not the manosphere, where are you getting this 'life ends at 30' stuff from? It's not real man.
jkf
30d ago
"Make no mistake, I have the best piss tapes -- have you seen Kamala's? Horrible, just horrible -- mine are the best, just really really hot"
jkf
30d ago
I really enjoy being youthful, most people reading this cannot do a bunch of what I can. Getting hammered with strangers or friends without much worries is amazing.
You are quite hilarious but should really stop with the manosphere readings while you are at it with quitting the booze -- I can confirm that although I am perhaps twice your age I am indeed still able to get hammered, lol. My dad can pretty much do it to, so your worries are over for a long time I guess!
Concerta is Methylphenidate exteded release, do not fuck with any other form of methylphenidate, you will need to take upwards of at least 36 mgs, take it daily in the morning, cant smoke, drink or do drugs on it.
Ha, so now who can't get hammered, Mr. Enjoys Being Youthful?
(BTW I can also confirm that's it's possible to smoke and get hammered while taking way more speed than that, but I wouldn't necessarily want to recommend it for somebody in your apparent state)
jkf
1mo ago
Didn't even see that, lol.
I wouldn't have, but was somehow induced to click through on #KamalaGropedMe on Twitter this morning.
Bad on purpose, made me click -- a bunch of dudes sarcastically ridiculing waiting 20 years to claim sexual assault two weeks before the election by inventing stories about being fondled by #DrunkKamala.
I don't expect votes to be swayed either way.
jkf
1mo ago
We already have words for masculine women (butch, tomboy...) and feminine men (there's a lot!) though -- unless you want to argue (as somebody downthread seems to be) that "being a machinist" makes a woman a man, why would you want to invent/bend this concept of 'gender' into some new categories?
It's possible I'm not understanding you here though -- do you mean literal trans people? In that case we also have a word for them: trans.
jkf
1mo ago
I think there’s room for a stable equilibrium, and it probably involves distinguishing sex from gender.
What benefit is derived from distinguishing sex from gender?
jkf
1mo ago
Trump is a narcissistic dude, and is probably much more interested in being elected himself* than repairing the electoral system per se -- this absolutely is a character flaw, but it doesn't mean that he's faking the interest in fixing the fraud.
*I do think that he wants this because he truly believes he's able to improve America, which is an important distinction between most politicians who are guided by more of a lust for power
jkf
1mo ago
The Trump-Raffensperger phonecall is closer to filing a false police report than it is to normal political lying.
If you listen to that call Trump is very very clearly asking R. to 'find' invalid ballots that should not have been counted. (and that he believes to exist in large numbers)
If you call the police to report that somebody stole your bike, you think it was your neighbour, and they ought to investigate and 'find your bike', this is not a false report just because it turns out that you were mistaken as to the culprit.
jkf
1mo ago
No? The first data I found claims that early voting by mail was from voters registered 31% R to 45% D (24% minor or no affiliation), versus early in-person votes from voters registered 45% R to 32% D. That's not as large as the "how could you go out in public during a pandemic" vs "are you going to be a shut-in the rest of your life" bluster to pollsters before the election would have suggested, but it's still pretty large, and that's for the state as a whole; I wouldn't be surprised if the less moderate Democrats and more moderate Republicans were disproportionately in the larger cities.
I may not have been thinking of Florida, and was definitely thinking of actual vote tallies rather than "registered as" -- but regardless, 45-32 is nothing like the 90%+ D in the late-nite Biden drops seen in other places.
jkf
1mo ago
No, it was in a neighbouring borough as it happens -- but serviced the whole province for serious cases AFAICR.
jkf
1mo ago
Weird that this effect only occurred in certain states though -- it's been a while since I dug in, but as I recall the breakdown for mail-in vs in-person ballots is available for most states. If I'm remembering right, Florida is an example of a battleground state in which:
a. the votes were counted in a prompt manner
and
b. the difference in Dem/Rep turnout for the two methods was not very large.
jkf
1mo ago
Publish all the evidence that made you absolutely positive.
If this evidence is less than absolute proof that more fraudulent votes were counted than the margin of your loss, your case is immediately dismissed and you are mocked/demonized for promulgating baseless claims of election fraud -- the other way at least there is some chance of having your day in court.
jkf
1mo ago
And yet DJT only lost $10-20M -- people were quite happy to buy Twitter when it was burning hundreds of millions.
If (for instance) you think that Truth Social might become 'Right Wing Twitter', getting in early would be a smart move. (not investment advice lol)
jkf
1mo ago
I'm thinking more of the early stages -- note that even at the end they were losing quite a lot of money and yet people were still investing for some reason. I'd think that the people investing in TrumpCo also have some analagous reason.
jkf
1mo ago
You keep saying "outcome determinative fraud" as though the first part matters -- how's anyone to know whether the fraud was 'outcome determinative' or not without serious investigative authority; maybe even at all, given the way the ballots get separated from the PII early on in American elections.
Actually you lead me to something I've thought for quite a while in the 2020 aftermath -- the way that courts require proof of fraud that turned the election directly led to the low quality of some of the Trump campaign's lawsuits. If you are expected to prove not only that there was fraud against you, but also that the fraud amounted to at least some specific number of votes, unless you have significant cooperation from the folks counting the ballots (hint: Trump did not) your only play is to throw everything you have at the wall and hope that enough votes are found to stick.
This didn't work ofc, but I'm not sure that anything else would have worked better -- why don't you try a steelman: put yourself in the shoes of a Trump who was absolutely positive that there was significant fraud in PA, GA and NV, but can't prove exactly how much. What is your best move?
jkf
1mo ago
If it's any consolation a good cyclist would have clocked you a mile away as 'that guy that will hit me' and altered his path accordingly -- it's not even that hard, and makes you a much better driver to boot!
jkf
1mo ago
One might note that Twitter was bought to the moon on similarly dismal fundamentals year after year -- until the nasssty Musksises dropped a tonne of cash on it of course.
Hastings is a street in Vancouver that at one time (60s-ish) was core shopping district, but for something like 30 years has been a centre for drug addled homelessness, prostitution, open sales of drugs and stolen goods, plus assorted crazies. (the major decline was contemporaneous with the shutdown of a large mental hospital, fancy that)
This:
vs this:
https://www.vmcdn.ca/f/files/via/import/2019/08/19141502_dtes8-min.jpg;w=960
I assume this is what he's talking about; Kensington is a street in Toronto that used to be kind of... bohemian and funky but has maybe gone the same way? I don't know, I don't care about Toronto at all.
But there are similar areas in all the West Coast Cities -- substitute "Tenderloin" if you are in SF or "Skid Row" in LA. (although I think Skid Row has maybe always been bad? "Skid Row" in Vancouver is now full of gentrified brew-pubs and lofts, IDK)
jkf
1mo ago
Demos estimates tuition for Howard University at the time of her graduation as "Tuition Then: $3,045 ($6,668 today)", aka 2016 dollars, in contrast to $23,419 in its 2016 tuition -- maybe hard to cover if you had a lot of other expenses, but at least something you could seriously dent.
That's about the same as mine in the 90s (more like 4k/a as I recall) -- thing is, McDonalds paid even less than it did now, especially (I would think) in California.
Plenty of people (including me) had part-time (or more often, summer) jobs that were relatively menial and got by without student loans that way -- but these jobs were not pulling $5/hr shifts at McDonalds.
Minimum wage in California seems to have been $3.65 in the 80s -- if one were trying to pay for tuition (and were remotely hireable; ie. a law student) I'd think that one would find a better job?
The Canadian globohomos seem to be running into a bit of a brick wall already, so it might be sooner than you think.
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