Find a girl who will whisper “great shot, kid, that’s one in a million” after you nut

Always makes me wonder if the engagement is in a warranted amount.

We’ve hired so many cops and they’ve all got nothing (practical) to do. So it’s not unusual to see cops piling up around any kind of dispatch.

No. Wouldn’t work. African swallows are non-migratory birds.

They get what they vote for

They don’t. If they did, they’d have universal health care instead of another war in the middle east.

the hundreds of millions of people commuting to work is a bigger problem than the thousands of people driving loud sports cars

Sure. But it’s not the individual commuters who are setting national transportation policy.

The folks driving the sports cars (and in the yachts and private jets), on the other hand…

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Well, I’m a huge fan of Challengers. And she was a great Mary Jane in the Tom Holland Spidermovies.

Texas aside, it’s definitely a selfish lack of voting.

Texas isn’t the only state with abysmal election practices.

There’s no way in the world outcomes wouldn’t be different if at least 80% of them turned out to first primaries then the actual elections.

I think Democratic turnout has to be predicated by a certain understanding that you’ll get at least some of what you asked for by participating.

If you’re in a 60/40 district where people kick sand in your eyes when you lose, and you always lose, then there’s very little incentive to show up.

And, when you look at all the people who were turning out in the 80s/90s for third parties and independent candidates, only to get blamed and screamed at and shat on for participating outside the two party system? I can’t say I’m shocked to see them give up on the public sector and focus exclusively on private accumulation as a political remedy.

Sorry but I’m tired of their shit

And they’re tired of yours.

“Things would be better if you voted harder!” is a promise that is consistently broken.

At some point, it’s your duty to deliver if you want someone to keep turning out for you.

Sometimes racism is a collection of unfortunate priors.

More often, it’s just cultural alienation supercharged with an advertising budget.

In the end, having your own view - even if it’s unpopular or outright wrong - is better than letting your understanding be shaped by someone else’s marketing budget.

It’s a three hour movie. If you need a heuristic to justify why you saw it (or skipped it) do what is necessary.

especially Zendaya

She’s a stellar actress and a smokeshow.

I’m more annoyed that they included Matt Damon in the leading role. That guy’s been washed for years.

I don’t care about the historical accuracy or the racial makeup

I do think it’s very funny to be mad about Elliot Page for being transgender when I’d be more upset that he’s got zero tan in a movie about rugged sea faring people just north of Egypt.

Like so much Sword and Sandal that Hollywood produces, it’s way too white. Maybe make more movies that take place in the Baltics if you want to use this many Brits, Franks, and Nords.

Bytedance was founded in China

And incorporated in the Cayman Islands. So the election much have been stolen by a bunch of dodgey UK bankers.

It’s a CCP/PLA run company.

Without a single member of the party on the executive board?

it’s all caused by a selfish lack of voting…

I’ve seen far too many election irregularities in Texas, up to and including the arrest of poor black residents on spurious charges, to write this off entirely as “selfish” lack of voting.

I will not be surprised if we see Talarico and friends eat shit in another Blue Wave year, as Abbott’s goons pull thousands of extra votes from countries with no election monitoring and flimsy election infrastructure. Or if we get a wave of broken machines, extraordinarily long lines, and missing boxes of ballots in the big urban centers.

You don’t have to go all the way back to The Brooks Brothers Riot to find rot under the electoral floorboards. But that’s not the result of China or Russia or Iran or Transgender Muslim Communist Athletes or Time Traveling Space Aliens or whatever the scapegoat of choice happens to be this year.

They know it takes some hardship to fix now, they aren’t prepared to deal with that so they’re lashing out.

America’s greatest vice is in assuming it’s always someone else’s problem to solve.

So much of this is just the result of turnout. And so much of turnout hinges on how efficiently the campaigns operated.

The big difference between Obama, Hillary, Biden, and Harris is who knew how to organize the machinery to get their supporters to the polls in the highest numbers and who didn’t.

After that, you’re just living in a country where 45% of the voting base consistently goes with the most naked fascist on the ballot, because they’ve been programmed to hate hate hate outsiders. And if you can’t juice enough of the remaining 55%, fascism is what you get.

history of false statements bad ratings

Like CNN has ever had a problem airing out a professional liar’s bullshit.

That’s all true. But I’m still firmly of the belief that the correct form of Podcast is some combination of British trans woman, Brooklyn journalism washout, and Philadelphia engineer talking about classic movies, election news, and engineering disasters.

Podcasts are a blight on humanity

They’re just radio shows you don’t need a broadcast station to distribute.

Some are definitely better than others

I don’t relish listening to people talk ad nauseum about inane shit.

Shrug

Nobody is forcing you to

Chinese companies like byte dance still answer to the Chinese government.

Bytedance isn’t a Chinese company. It’s a multinational - just like so many of the other social media companies - with corporate oversight coming from the same Silicon Valley cartel that backed Trump on every other platform.

And if you’re going to keep being bad faith

Why is it so hard for you to accept that Americans did this to themselves?

Why do you need to make this an Evil Foreigner problem that can be used as a rationale for war?

byte dance who still owned Tick Tock in 2020

And who owns ByteDance?

Sequoia Capital, General Atlantic, SoftBank

:-/

Yes I am exactly as racist against China

At least we’re getting to the nut of it.

Fucking wild to tune into MSNBC and get the latest “China Invasion Of American Media” scare story, then spin around and call someone else a campist, though.

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