Fyodor

I am very worried that Dem success in the house will kill the necessary motivation to do our own gerrymanders. In a D+8 wave it doesn't matter much if you have 235 seats or 240. The point of these Gerrymanders is to make it possible to hold the house even if Democrats win by three or four points.

I hope that he wins but AES may give us a Republican senator during a wave year whereas Fetterman won in an R+3 environment and still votes Democrat 80-90 percent of the time. Unless and until he pulls it out is is extremely strange to be touting his political benefit.

A serial rapist was elected twice as President, a fact we don't reckon with nearly enough. Now one of two major political parties has been molded in his image, run for and by violent sexual abusers who hate women.

South Carolina's former governors Jim Hodges, a Democrat, and David Beasley, a Republican, shoot a joint 60-second ad endorsing Annie Andrews for Senate. You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARZ5...

I agree with Jacob that these results are completely baked in and nothing can go wrong and that Democrats should just take their feet off the gas and chill for the last week or so. You've worked hard and it's time to kick back. Everything is good to go.

Scrolling through online discussions of heterosexual marriage sometimes makes me feel like Homer Simpson saying "I sleep in a big bed with my wife." "I like my husband. He's a good person and kind to me."

NEWS: the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders have unionized and the Cowboys have agreed to recognize the union

Your proposal is acceptable

Why is this student so upset about the mushroom, though? What could it have done to make her protest across the whole continent

The Japanese title of "Dexter" is "Dexter, The Policeman is a Murderer." I don't know why, but I laughed for a minute straight at that.

JD Vance greeting Bengals players and most are ignoring him lol

“Fascism rises from desperation, a crisis of essentials” no it doesn’t. No it isn’t. It rises from guys wanting to look cool and be cruel

this remains a great study of the estranged parents movement, and one of the almost universal features of these narratives is the missing missing reasons--the extreme caginess with which these parents present the events that led to the estrangement

I suspect that this is a hint about what is going on.

“I should only pay taxes for things I use” is a fun precept to adopt after you’ve stopped using services that were funded by the full tax base — you would have needed to pay much much more when your kids were in school if seniors hadn’t been pitching in with property taxes back then!

The problem is always that on Congressional and Senate maps that are tilted so badly towards Republicans, the optimal strategy *in all of the individual competitive elections* is usually to run as a bipartisan problem solver even while the optimal strategy for the party as a whole is to trash Trump

I like David French but the thing is that while I believe he is sincerely opposed to fascism, he likes a lot of the traditionally conservative things this Supreme Court has done and wants to avoid the cognitive dissonance of admitting that its preservation conflicts with survival of our democracy.

RANDOM POSTER WHOSE OPINION I HAVE NO REASON TO TRUST: A result like this in NV-03 would be seismic. That’s deep Blortles country. It was Vinkum +8 in ‘24 ME DURING ELECTION SEASON: totally. i just need to look at 9000 more of these

It always was darkly hillarious to me that the only reason they summoned the effort to impeach Trump the first time is that it it was on a "secret" phone call that was leaked. If Trump had just gone on TV and bragged about it would have been treated as a normal partisan dispute.

I don't think that there is anything to be done about this, but virtually all the data from specials/2025 points to ongoing collapse in the Jewish vote. There are a lot of Jews who may disapprove of the war crimes in Gaza who won't vote for a party they see as hostile to Israel.

This is a prime example of how the constellation of bigots and crazy shapes self-identified "Centrists" like Singal.Since he fancies himself a reasonable persons positioned between the different sides he must treat any claim from the right no matter how obviously deranged as a credible point of view

Frankie and Johnny was specifically about unattractive people and they cast Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer.

Why would he say that Collins has links to nazis? Shameful.

BALLGAME! CLEVELAND HEADED TO THE ALCS! #FORTHELAND

The gap between “This feels satisfying to believe, this validates me, it embarrasses my enemies, it supports my politics, I can make arguments to support this, my friends believe it, I’ll be lauded for believing it” and “This is true” is small and very easy to step right over. But you shouldn’t!

This question is going to be a lot harder when they can very clearly out think us in a few years.

Speak for yourself.

What you are seeing here is that there was big savings glut during Covid when people had incomes and government checks but nowhere to spend it and since 2022 they have spent down some of that glut. This is part of the inflation story too as the economy couldn't absorb all that money.

There's this ongoing drama in the online knitting world where people are mad about people who draft patterns that aren't completely size-inclusive

It is pretty clear that Ossoff thinks that he has 2026 wrapped up and he is auditioning right now for the nomination.

It doesn't seem hard. Just say "this isn't America. We don't watch someone die on live TV, even if we think they don't deserve to live. And more and more, Trump doesn't represent America."

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Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps

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He looks like one of those rap guys girlfriends

"Hard work is not an American Value."

I would also like to know about the flood of transgender girls and women dominating women's sports that polling shows Americans to believe in despite the statistics showing them to be incredibly rare. Will you respect people's lived experiences or the sneering charts of people like Will Stancil?

He said in 2012 that Obama was going to eschew reelection so that Hillary could be the 2012 nominee.

new wolfenstein looks like shit

This was partially a bad electoral environment but also national polarization really hitting. It just wasn't possible for candidates to outrun the president by thirty points.

Urbanization - it's very important.

My ex-husband is one of the rapists at Aella’s simulated rape orgies that John Wentworth, Nate Soares, and I’ve heard Eliezer Yudkowsky also attended. He was an emotionally abusive partner and, until I left EA/rationality, he used the cult to keep me trapped. Journalists please DM.

When I lived in the Bay Area, there were streets with a ton of glass on the ground. Those were the streets where you didn't want to park overnight or have anything in the car, because car thieves would break your window. I think most people can see that this is a failed state. This isn't normal.