zeke5123a
1mo ago
No. Just because Bill Barr said “we found no evidence of fraud” doesn’t make it a fact there is no fraud. It was fucking weird how all swing states just happened to stop counting at the same time. It was fucking weird how Biden received a vote dump in the middle of the night. If this happened in a foreign country after years of the IC actively plotting against the executive, we’d presume shenanigans.
I do think Trump genuinely believed he was cheated and there was real reasons to believe it. Now I don’t think belief was enough without hard evidence but I do think it is really shitty how unwilling the system was to analyze in detail prior to J6 what the evidence actually was.
zeke5123a
1mo ago
Now you are engaging in a strawman of the other poster. I don’t take the hyperbole to mean that literal progressives believe there are zero criminal assholes. Instead, I think progs genuinely believe that the vast majority of criminals are just good people for whom the systems they are in led them astray. That is, criminals are a fault of society; not a blight on society.
zeke5123a
1mo ago
The big Steelers storyline going into Sunday was Tomlin’s decision to switch up QBs. It didn’t look good through the first two quarters. But then Wilson hit a couple plays and seemed to get in groove.
The question now becomes is it repeatable. If so, then the Steelers become a strong second tier contender.
zeke5123a
1mo ago
I don’t think republicans think menial labor is per se ennobling. Instead, it is admirable to work instead of take hand me outs. That is, I don’t want people to stay working at menial jobs but if they start there and work hard in an effort to move up — kudos!
zeke5123a
1mo ago
It was a bullshit DPOY. Watt deserved it but he was doing DPOY type things in Oakland.
zeke5123a
1mo ago
If Trump wins and there are a decent four years then it would seem that Vance is likely a shoe in for the nominee. He would be endorsed by a popular two term Republican president. I could see him making RDS the VP.
zeke5123a
1mo ago
Isn’t it worth looking at the folks who haven’t done as well yet didn’t get their grant pulled? Or all of the other legal nonsense against Musk?
zeke5123a
1mo ago
It truly is amazing how relatively dumb the two dem candidates are. I’d peg both of them as having around 100-110 IQ points.
zeke5123a
1mo ago
Sure one could in theory conclude A is better than B. But would you be on that? 9/10 B is going to be better at the end of the day and if you are going with the 1/10 you really really really need to show “here is the unimpeachable crystal clear rationale.” Especially when you have an admin that has been hostile to Person B.
zeke5123a
1mo ago
Starlink is almost certainly a 100b plus company standalone. You almost wonder if they will be spun out to go public at some point.
zeke5123a
1mo ago
This feels like a legal technical answer. If person A fulfills 5% and person B fulfills 85% it would seem per se corrupt to cancel Bs without cancelling As.
zeke5123a
1mo ago
Have you drive a Tesla? I own one and they are great cars (and honestly not that expensive). I don’t think they are anymore a toy compared to any other car. It truly was a feat building a new freaking car company and yes they did benefit from subsidies but so did a lot of other EV cars that failed. Musk is great at building companies.
Similarly SpaceX gets a lot of government contracts. So does Boeing. One is a good company. The other is Boeing.
zeke5123a
1mo ago
The question isn’t “did Starlink underdeliver.” The question is did Starlink underdeliver compared to other parties that didn’t have their funding yanked.
zeke5123a
1mo ago
I agree but if you are going to dole out contracts it can’t be partisan which it seems here clearly to be. Starlink is the only game in town for the most part and is much closer to completing their contract compared to the others but the FCC is crystal balling it.
zeke5123a
1mo ago
I don’t know if tongue in cheek but I hard a discussion with someone on this esteemed website where I pointed out that rounding errors add up. If you can kill 15 of these kind of projects that’s 300b and real money.
zeke5123a
1mo ago
Did they double blind the proposals? How do they even know what the proposals are?
zeke5123a
1mo ago
Vance is probably in the category. Yale JD. VC.
Hill dawg by qualifications as well.
Again take a 20,000 foot view. The IC had spent four years making shit up to try to undermine Trump and or help Biden. On election night Trump looks poised for a victory. Then in almost unprecedented fashion the counting stops and then lo and behold Biden wins after a giant ballot dump.
If you just had those facts and it was a third country you would say “that smells really bad.” You wouldn’t say “oh but the people in charge of the elections said it was good and sure they destroyed the evidence but we have no reason to believe they were wrong.”
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