#6

Xitter, not "x".

File under "No ----, Sherlock."

Looks like we've got a new Russian bot election denying troll.

Everything in those posts is utter nonsense, but here's a tidbit:

#8

Exactly. I don't understand why judge Merchan doesn't take that for what it is, and order his immediate bail revocation pending sentencing.

#2

Publix? Seriously?

Their prices are higher than Kroger, and the Kroger employees are generally happier here, because the Kroger stores here are union and Publix isn't.

I tried Publix a few times when they showed up in town. Nope, was not fun.

That said, if Kroger pulls this price stunt here I'll switch to Save A Lot, I'm not encouraging that behavior.

So, why is it an issue if there are tampons in boys restrooms? Are boys dying from tampon exposure? Being injured in any way?

Maybe controls a nosebleed with them? Maybe uses one to survive a gunshot wound?

Or maybe one of the boys in the school is trans, and actually needs them for their intended purpose.

"Tampon Tim" isn't an attack. It might have been meant as one, but in the real world it's calling the guy a hero.

#8

And no, it unfortunately didn't hold. We're back to ---- again.

It would be really nice if that would stop. For a little while, the f-word was clearly visible in multiple posts, but we're back to pretending we're children again.

#7

It looks like the only one right now is actually Menendez. He's leaving on the 20th.

This site is uncensored now?

I hope that's a permanent change. Seeing ---- all the time is really annoying.

Also, ---- Putin.

This is literally foreign interference in US elections.

Most of us here oppose Russia's land grab and attempted genocide in Ukraine.

Why are there so many shills supporting Israel doing the exact same thing?

And you can take your "wah wah antisemitism" and shove it right up your booty hole. My disabled girlfriend is jewish, and she spends most of her day helping Palestinians in Gaza raise money to be able to eat.

Oh, and you also get nice perks like free healthcare, a fully functional social safety net, representatives that treat you like their boss, not like they're your 'better', and you even get to keep pretending that your invisible sky wizard is real, you just don't get to shove it down other people's throats. We're mostly sex-positive if that's your thing, just get consent first, and we won't hold your choice of partner against you. We're not going to make you get an abortion, just leave other people's uteruses alone, because they aren't yours.

#3

When their demographic is "deplorable" they deserve all the attacks they get.

As an actual leftist who only votes for Democrats because there's no viable leftist party in this country, I absolutely DO NOT want Democrats to stop attacking deplorables. They played nice for FAR too long, let the Overton window shift much too far. It's WAY past time to hit back, they should have been hitting first. Fascists are much too comfortable right now.

Don't worry, we won't forget that "deplorable" isn't an immutable characteristic like skin color, sexuality, or gender (trans women are women). And if you join us on the left, you get your guns back. "Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary" Karl Marx

#11

He's a spoiler all right. But he's clearly going for the crazy vote, which hurts the orange menace.

NOBODY on the left is going to vote for this nut other than by accident. The dead bear story makes me wonder if it's calculated, because while he might have picked up a few of the craziest antivax nuts on the left before, they don't tend to be ok with stupid pranks with baby animals.

What's with the idiotic "yes but" nonsense at the end?

"The most extreme abortion [rights] laws in the country" is not a criticism, it's a goal for other states to meet or exceed.

There's NO negative there.

#27

It was a police riot. The riot and destruction was started by the police, numerous undercover pigs were caught infiltrating the crowd and escalating violence, while uniformed pigs attacked peaceful protesters.

And that's where Walz screwed up, he did not use the opportunity he had to significantly reduce police funding and shift it to positive community action groups.

He's fine.

I mean, he's an old straight white guy, and I honestly think Mayor Pete would have been a better choice to win this, but he seems to be more progressive than Pete, and definitely a better pick than Shapiro or Kelly, Shapiro is EXTREMELY problematic on the Israeli genocide, Kelly is (understandably, but still disqualifying) too gung-ho on gun grabbing.

#6

Yes. Humans are just biological machines. Philosophers and theologians are just biological machines, and theologians are just particularly stupid ones. It's not a particularly disturbing question, it's just reality.

And we will eventually figure out how to make other machines that think. But it's going to be a while, and it's going to take some breakthroughs in computing, because we're getting to the end of how much smaller we can make transistors.

Ugh.

Large language models are NOT artificial intelligence. Sure, it's popular to call them "AI", but that's really a misnomer.

I would seriously doubt real AI will exist by 2050. We don't know how to do it yet, and we don't have the processing power for it yet. And Moore's law is dead, the next 25 years of processing power increases are NOT going to look like the last 25 years.

Can you build a sexbot with a LLM in it? Sure, that could be done. But you're still just ------------.

For those of you claiming that "Israel" has existed in that location for 3000 years (it hasn't) and is therefore the rightful "homeland" for the jewish people, I'll just point out that North America was the homeland of Native American people for around 13,000 years. You wanna give it back?

"Israel" didn't exist from about 135 CE until 1948 CE. That it's where it is now is one of the stupidest things the Brits ever did.

I'm going to have to agree that the sane thing to do (if "Israel" was to be created at all, I hate the idea of a religious state) would have been to carve it out of Germany. The justification for doing pretty much whatever to Germany was definitely there. The obvious location would have been the southern half of the French zone. Putting it where the Brits did was guaranteed to create decades of conflict.

At this point, Israel's current behavior is more than sufficient to justify a multinational coalition stepping in to force it back to the 1967 green line borders and occupying it long enough to remove from their possession all WMDs - which, unlike Iraq, they actually have. Unfortunately the US government continues to protect an apartheid state engaged in an ongoing genocide.

#8

Are you talking about the Senator Larry Craig Memorial Restroom?

#3

This is and will always be necessary in EVERY COUNTRY.

The list of corrupt US presidents is very, very long. The period from 1932 to 1968 was an anomaly, not the norm. The corruption started with Monroe (I'm not counting the earlier 3 slaveowners ONLY because being a slave-owning dirtbag wasn't considered corrupt back then, even though it's obviously incredibly evil), and continued until the brief pause with Lincoln, then resumed unabated until FDR. Since 1968, the "mostly not corrupt" list is only Carter, Obama, and Biden.

And I still maintain that if Nixon, Reagan, Bush I, and Shrubby had been prosecuted, T---p would never have even considered running.

What we REALLY need is a 4th branch of the federal government - a branch that exists only to prosecute corruption in the others, a branch that would have no power over ordinary citizens, but would go after corrupt elected officials, political appointees, and judges at all levels of government.

It should have been killed before it ever started. It was a horrible bill.

The ONLY immigration bill we need is an amnesty - and an agreement with Mexico and Canada on a plan to open the border Schengen-style.

Mr. Biden, TEAR DOWN THAT WALL!

#18

All of those things are a good start.

But I don't see critical things like returning to the 90% top income tax bracket, a wealth tax, free education through PhD at public universities, defunding religious private schools, taxing churches, a universal basic income, guaranteed housing for all, replacing food stamps with a much larger cash benefit, ending TANF and replacing it with AFDC, phasing out coal and oil - banning all production by 2040, another 'cash for clunkers' program to get ICE cars off the road, requiring all new construction to be significantly better insulated and only be heated by heat pumps, a 90% reduction in the number of police on the streets and disarming 90% of the ones left, or adding "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" to the constitution in the list.

She's unfortunately NOT a leftist.

We already know what word he uses when he thinks nobody is watching.

#5

They can't. Not until T---p is either dead or in prison for the rest of his life.

They're stuck. Their agenda, everything about the GQP, is now defined by this one narcissist. They are not equipped to recover from him, and won't be for a long time.

They don't have anybody. Cults of personality depend on that personality.