They aren’t the first, and won’t be the last. It’s so fucking sad.

A lot of people here are interpreting this incorrectly. Guys, this is actually a good strategic move as much as I want Jeffries and Schumer gone.

Follow me:

• The GOP are forking Democrats to choose a loss of SNAP benefits, or a loss of healthcare tax subsidies that will see premiums skyrocket to unaffordable levels for millions.

• Democrats DO have the negotiating leverage right now considering Trump’s approval is plummeting and more Americans blame Republicans than Democrats.

• However, this move has a slightly veiled one: It punts the issue to become a talking-point on healthcare right around midterms next year, which will be hugely beneficial to Democratic talking points.

• As a result, Democrats seize a win for the American people in both restoring SNAP benefits and ACA tax subsidies for a year more, while at the same time loading up political leverage for midterms next year.

• NOT TO MENTION: It solidifies the side who is trying to viably come to the table and to HELP the American people. Makes them look like the adults in the room.

Dare I say, great move.

Naww we can’t do that, man! Clearly they need their 10th house, 3rd yacht, and 2nd private jet! Homeless kids be damned!

Good! Republicans are putting the lives of Americans in danger with their bullshit.

Wish we could freeze their assets and stocks, and start selling them off to pay off debt the actual workers.

Well said. So tired of these boisterous bullshitters always running their mouths off conveniently from somewhere else. If they’re so concerned and would do the right thing, they can simply buy a plane ticket.

Ah, nothing like stochastic edging from someone conveniently from the other side of the pond, huh.

Alas, who are you but yet another neighbor, bystander, witness to this tragedy? Why don’t you buy youself a plane ticket, good samaritan? Simply so you can clearly show us how it’s done, whatever it is that you’re referring to of course!

From dead war criminals to this, lots of good news today! Not necessarily making up for everything, but I’ll take it.

Prop 50 should be a done deal too, yeah?

But ask how them how they feel about Russia’s genocide in Ukraine and they will become curiously defensive probably lol.

The only things to know is that (1) Wiener is an AIPAC plant who tried to ban the mere act of protesting Israel and Zionism on California universities, and (2) the other candidate is Saikat Chakrabarti who was AOC’s 2018 campaign manager and Justice Dem co-founder, and actual progressive.

Sounds good to me! I think people get nervous when they hear only “needs” and not necessarily wants or desires. If I understand you correctly, needs and wants can both be fulfilled — within reason, of course. No billionaires for starters.

Hard to know if pc or smart phone proliferation or widespread internet access as an example would’ve ever occurred in that alternative universe, and who is the arbiter of determining what is such a need versus luxury?

At the same time will one argue these aren’t needs, but mass communication and aggregation of all human knowledge at our fingertips is certainly the next step from the Gutenberg Press. Liberation of communication and knowledge to masses certainly is pursuant to a need in my mind, yeah?

Such things weren’t necessarily known needs until they manifested through innovation in the first place, right?

But should we all simply revert back to Hunter-gatherering aborigines with the lowest impact possible?

I guess in my mind we all have musical instruments or video games our toys be it dirt bikes, etc., which are certainly luxuries of the modern era. The constraints should of course be limited by whether we can (a) take care of the poorest amongst us, (b) be the best stewards of our environment as we can, and © ensure justice and equality is applied to all.

So maybe we get phones and games and musical instruments; but just lower the ceiling a bit as other nations with the highest life satisfaction in the world have shown can be done. That’s the other nice thing about mirroring these models; they’re actually tangible and proven to work at a nation-state scale.

Might certain inventions or discoveries become so positively consequential to society they become nationalized and in the public domain? Take starlink for example, or 5G cellular that gives rural and city access alike to communication and knowledge and therefore potential and opportunity.

I’ll be very honest. I’m extremely active in politics and been so for around 2 decades. My family navigated the political spectrum right and are now pretty progressive-left by US calibration. By European I’m most closely aligned with Social Democrats and the Nordic Model.

Where I’m being honest is that I don’t think socialism or Democratic socialism is well defined, and I don’t think even the left does a good job conveying consistency on this. It certainly doesn’t help that there are far-right astroturfers trying to wedge-drive the issue and complicate it.

For instance, if Bernie Sanders pitched himself as a Social Democrat as opposed to a Democratic Socialist, which is precisely what his policy proposals are in reality, then that would be SO much easier to convey to the less informed, apathetic voters of this country.

That is, a truly mixed economy with strongly regulated markets in favor of the consumer, environment, and promoting small-business competition while curving corporate conglomerates too big to fail. One where collective bargaining / unions are strong; where Democracy is decoupled and inoculated from private money with strong campaign finance and election laws. Where select industries like healthcare are nationalized in the hands of the people via Democratic institutions, but there is still some market capitalism and profit to be had to assume risk and investment. Where the rich are taxed heavily and social safety nets strong for those to get back on their feet.

It doesn’t help that big D Dems work against this at every turn…

I was wondering if there was any way to see whether following CK’s death of other right-wing pundits either toned down or got more emboldened overall.

Amish were always very good builders.

Then their church said they could have power tools and then they became unstoppable.

Worth noting that Michigan is a Hotspot for far-right extremist groups. It was from here they conspired to kidnap Whitmer. False flags are of course common, too. Wasn’t a recent shooting there from some qanon nutjob, too?

Is it unusual for a CEO to last as long as Huang has with nvidia? (1993 if I’m reading right).

Not too mention people holding their cash and toning down holidays massively, like my family is doing.

So much for individual freedom and small government, huh.

Holy shit they had to close a 17 mile stretch of the I-5 for this bullshit? For those unfamiliar that’s a major artery linking LA to San Diego. Talking an 8-10 lane highway.

But kudos to Newsom for closing it for traffic safety and going against the hubris of the military claiming it was safe.

What a way to mark 250 years of the Marines with a couch fucker and shells detonating over the interstate.

I’m reading pilot error is around 70% with 10% being mechanical? Either way, the amount of regulatory oversight, having 2 pilots on commercial flights is far safer. Leaving aside the fact that a single engine is a single point of failure while all airliners must be verified to fly with half their engines working.

I think while pilot error can lead us to believe we can train ourselves to be above the problem, we must also understand the nature of GA and single points of failure leave little room for error, again, unlike commercial aviation where there are often multiple levels of redundancy.

So for me personally, I just can’t bring myself to do it. Especially considering that driving is already one of the most dangerous things we do on a daily basis and I only do that mostly out of necessity.