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wildcat09

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  1. Oh good, he's citing AI now.
  2. A fucking Reagan appointee just noted that this is a path to perfect lawlessness and supposedly-not-a-nazi Ojo is here explaining that actually it's fine. You're either lying to us or to yourself, and I'm entirely out of patience for people doing either.
  3. Let's say ICE black bags you in New York. Within one hour, they move you to New Jersey, then within two hours they fly you to Louisiana. Within another 12 hours, they're flying you to El Salvador. During this time, you're not told where you even are and you're not allowed to contact anyone. How the fuck are you going to file a habeas petition in the correct jurisdiction? We all have issues right now. Some of us are more honest about them than others.
  4. I think I hate you more than the actual nazis.
  5. *Roberts rubber stamping the summary execution order for Ojo* Ojo: "It's still too early to say whether Roberts is a jurist committed to an honest interpretation of the law or if he's a political hack."
  6. A compliant tech press that until recently thought their jobs were more PR than journalism and happened to be looking to anoint the next Genius after Jobs died probably isn't THE explanation for Elon, but it's certainly part of the explanation.
  7. Full employment does not mean 0 unemployment. We were already at full employment. And other countries putting tariffs on a few luxury goods that they import from us and don't produce themselves is literally not a fucking problem for anyone in America. You said it yourself, they don't make golf carts in Honduras and still buy them from American companies; their rich assholes just pay a little more for them. If you're talking to a conservative who thinks that's a problem, ask him why he wants to cut taxes on cartel bosses.
  8. And bringing this back to the main topic of the thread, now is the time to go "hey, are you starting to think you might've gotten conned?"
  9. Yes, it's resonated because for decades now virtually everyone else involved in discussing American politics has validated it in an attempt to seem reasonable instead of pointing out that it's obvious bullshit. We should try something new.
  10. Imagine letting Jim Cramer dunk on you. Lol.
  11. People believe that Democrats are far left radicals because that's what people in the "center" say, because every time a center-left Democrat runs for office they say "I'm not like those crazy communist Democrats, I'm a salt of the earth farmer/military veteran with a conservative background and conservative values who just thinks my opponent is a little bit too far right!" "Democrats are far left communists out of touch with American values" is literally Republican propaganda and tens of millions of dumbasses do their work for them by mindlessly repeating it.
  12. Telling swing voters that the Democratic agenda aligns with the far left is how we've gotten here. You're part of the problem you're decrying. Stop it.
  13. *echo
  14. No, not except immigration. One of the first things Harris did as VP was go on national television and tell immigrants not to come, Biden ramped up deportations, and the Dems negotiated an extremely conservative immigration bill that had the most racist republicans in Congress salivating before Trump ordered them to kill it.
  15. GOP propaganda gets negged, dipshit.
  16. I don't really believe Trump himself picked the formula, unless he's actually bought into the AI = god shit that Elon and Thiel believe. More likely, he just doesn't want people thinking that he outsourced his favorite policy to a bunch of underlings.
  17. A reminder that SCOTUS has always sucked.
  18. To be fair, Roberts essentially saying “what do you want us to do? Our jobs?!” is pretty much the most relatable he’s ever been.
  19. I am so sorry.
  20. It's not about whether the party moves left or right or manages to park itself right in some mythical "center." These are abstract concepts that serve more to confuse than clarify. They're not going to help you understand how politics works. There is not a single voter in this country who is a fully rational automaton who just goes into the voting booth and rationally chooses the candidate that proposes the optimal "centrist" policy mix. Most policies are completely immaterial to most voters. Every Texas Republican loved free trade until Trump started dumping on it. The Republican party dominates Texas because Texas politics have always been dominated by the "conservative" party. This is because we were a slave state that joined the confederacy and post-reconstruction the slave power reasserted political control of Texas. You see the same pattern in every other confederate state. It's not a coincidence that Democrats have had more success in fucking Kentucky and West Virginia, despite those states being much Trumpier in many ways. The remedy isn't progressive policies, because the remedy isn't a policy question. The remedy is making people hate Republicans.
  21. Don't do that. Push them in front of the bus instead.
  22. Two days ago. Followed by pages of responses explaining why that's a dumb question, to which you follow up just repeating the same question. What's going on man? Are you like the guy from Memento?
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