mozz
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Usually NYT can be found with their lips on the metaphorical ring of the neoliberal western order, so if they're not full-throated in support of one of its champions, that's a little interesting but not very.
Personally my belief is that "is this true or not?" is way, way more important than "does this line up with my ideology or not?"
I'm comfortable reading stuff from all kinds of viewpoints, neoliberal communist whatever, as long as the facts that are underpinning it are relatively close to reality. That obviously excludes some stuff, but reading what remains is actually a pretty good way to understand the world.
Man... don't involve her in our bullshit.
I love the idea of Biden giving her honors, inviting her to the White House and talking with her, basically so that she can know that there are people on her side, to some degree, something like that.
The State of the Union isn't that. Marjorie Taylor Green is going to scream at her that she's secretly a transgender dolphin and Navalny was trying to steal all the gold that Dr. Evil buried under the Kremlin in 1966. Jim Jordan will try to serve her a subpeona so he can finally get to the bottom of Hunter Biden's laptop. There's all kinds of weird bullshit that goes on in the U.S. congress, and I genuinely don't think it's polite to expose her to it.
Just let us have our weird governmental thanksgiving with all our weird uncles and have the serious stuff happen somewhere else.
I cannot for the life of me imagine who your target audience for this comment is.
I think most likely is just that you know it'll get people riled up, and that's fun.
So surely you were posting a TIDE of stories pushing particular other less-moderate candidates during the time when Biden was getting selected (for 2020 or 2024)? Similar in volume to the current tide of "now that Biden's the guy let's shit all over him" that we're currently seeing?
Because that effort actually sounds super productive to me. Biden has actually been doing fine, but even that being said I'd still like to know what realistic thing I can do to support a Democratic candidate that is younger, for this election or the next one.
I'll cut to the punch line: Chances are, only a very small handful (like two or three) of the current fedi platforms will survive for the long term. Mastodon is probably here for quite a while. Most of the others will fade into obscurity as the big niches get stably colonized, network effects become more and more dominant, and there starts to be less and less reason for anyone to switch. But so many of them are so much in their infancy now that it's tough to tell in advance anything about the future. Plus, the competition and profusion of new ideas during the current time will be ultimately beneficial for whatever the outcome will be.
In charging the senator last September, prosecutors said investigators had found gold bars and envelopes stuffed with cash inside jackets in Menendez's apartment.
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chair of the Senate foreign relations committee
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Did you read the story, where they dug pretty deep into a factual story where it seems at least a little likely that the NYT is reporting poll numbers that simply don't exist the way they say they do, in order to bash Biden?
Kissing ass or friendly or not friendly has literally nothing to do with it. You might have made up a story in your mind that Salon wrote, and reacted on the basis of that imagined situation, but that wasn't this Salon story. "The facts the New York Times are reporting should be true, but they seem like they're not, and that along with the specific political direction in which they are not, is important news" is the story they wrote.
I like the concept but AI clearly made this man's pictures
I get the concept that mental associations form, without the logical brain needing to be involved. I'm aware of the power of certain types of branding, and yet still I still buy Crest for the most part, because it's the "right kind" of toothpaste and that association was formed in my brain without there being a good reason for it and without my consent.
I'm also familiar with people in the real world who would be 1,000% the first ones to suffer under Trump's egregiously fascist policies, who still support him for some fuckin reason. Hispanics who support Trump because they have some weird linkage in their brain that makes him "socially conservative" in a way that make them feel good about him, even though the reality of him is far, far, far from anything that would have created that linkage based on reality.
All that being said
What on earth type of black person sees a picture of Trump with some smiling black people and thinks anything except "man those smiling black people are some bullshit" even if they think the smiling black people are real people
Scholarly journal enshittification casualty 😢