The problem is that we have no sociological or political way to dissuade them from holding that opinion publicly.

Might even argue that we’ve created a number of powerful incentives to encourage people to hold the opinion publicly.

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez

Also a staunch Zionist and a huge fan of AI. She took the seat after redistricting swung it from 60/30 R to 51/49 D.

If you wonder why people despise Democrats, this woman is a textbook example of why.

It’s a toxic community on a toxic website

Surprised this wasn’t in LeopardsAteMyFace, given how this community normally votes

How many is Newsom going to veto, I wonder?

A lot of it simply isn’t worth debating in a media that’s suffocated with fascist rhetoric.

When you know the only coverage you’re going to get is “Politician defends Baby Eating Terrorist, flees confrontation with half-eaten baby when confronted” there’s no yield in engaging a Steven Crowder tier interviewer on the subject.

Staying on message on local issues plays better in the long run. And deflecting from “How do you feel about all the Dead Venezuelan Babies that socialism created?” to “I’m busy filling potholes on 47th and Main, where we’re also throwing a pizza party and handing out baby blankets to new moms and college scholarships to telegenic high schoolers. Why won’t you let me talk about that?” is just the standard - highly effective - retail politics that make someone like Zohran or AOC have sky high local approval numbers.

It sucks that we can’t have any kind of serious conversation about foreign policy. But I’m not going to blame that on the heart-of-gold socialist currently getting heckled by a news anchor with a swastika tattoo on his forehead.

Idk, man. As political prisoners go, he’s looking reasonably well taken care of.

Glad he’s in a Brooklynn jail than one in Texas or Florida. Dude would probably have been Epstein’d by now if he was kept in a Red State.

But even beyond that, it’s a Federal Prison. What do they think the city’s mayor is going to do? Ask Jessica Tisch to order the NYPD to bust in and release him?

than you think

Journalist-talk for “There’s nothing worth reading under the headline”.

So was “Gay Bowl Syndrome”.

Not if it’s a hardware job, no

Twenty years of people being beaten down will have that effect. The degree of police brutality and surveillance is suffocating

I wouldn’t hold my breath

The extent of this man’s hustle is legendary.

Houston’s Mayor John Whitmire has been on the warpath against any kind of public transit or pedestrian/bicycle pathways his entire time in office. The man is an absolute fucking menace.

If nobody does anything, it shows the constitution is worthless.

What if some people do some things, but they’re mostly perfunctory or performative and done more as a means of fund raising off gullible rubes than obstructing a tyrannical state government?

What if other people do things, but are immediately categorized as lawless radicals and foreign-sponsored insurgents who want the country to fail?

What if still other people do things, but they are in support of the tyrannical administration - either explicitly through armed support or implicitly through financing and propagandizing in defense of the state?

What if a large body of people don’t know what to do or who to align with, because so many different high profile people with different motivations and ideologies all claim they are Constitutional supporters acting in opposition to anti-Constitutional tyrants?

“But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist.”

― Lysander Spooner, No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority

It’s only suicidal when the funds are chronically mismanaged.

Also, steadily rising property values have been a de facto tax increase for decades.

Al Green lost his primary, so no.

No cuts to alfalfa.

No regulation of golf course water use.

No limit to how much State Farm Stadium can use on it’s chronically over watered turf.

No effort to fix municipal pipe leaks.

No conservation requirements for high rises or new builds

But you can guarantee the cost of a toilet’s worth of pee will be 3x by the end of next year.

What we saw with Israel was a bunch of Israeli firms rebranding as American companies.

I suspect any attempt to de-couple from Big Tech in Europe will go the same way. You’ll have Øræcle in Sweden and µSoft in Greece and Paulintir in the UK. But the financies will all tie back to the Usual Suspects - Marc Andressen and Gary Tan and Masayoshi Son.