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In the you-didn't-vote-for-Harris-so-you-voted-for-Trump vs Harris didn't even try to get my vote, I come down for the latter. Here's the thing, elections in the US are turned on motivating the base and activating voter blocks that aren't traditional. In 2024, the younger voters, 18-28, who tend /1

Their voices and preferences weren't heard. They've been told to sit down and shut up and wait your turn. This reinforced that complaint. I don't understand why anyone was surprised that the younger progressives tuned out. The Harris campaign made a strategic choice and it didn't work. /4

In the you-didn't-vote-for-Harris-so-you-voted-for-Trump vs Harris didn't even try to get my vote, I come down for the latter. Here's the thing, elections in the US are turned on motivating the base and activating voter blocks that aren't traditional. In 2024, the younger voters, 18-28, who tend /1

To be more progressive and Democratic, were available. They asked to not fund Genocide, that was what their activists were working on. On the other side were Republicans and the AIPAC, who stated that anything less than a full throated support of the Israeli government is anti-Semitic. You can /2

Even if the Senate makes a deal to end the shutdown, the House is still closed because of the Epstein discharge. They've painted themselves in a corner.

I've seen people go crazy over drones in containers, and Chinese container ships, and so forth. Just a reminder that these were cheap drones with a 10km range. How far is our bases in Guam, Hawaii, San Diego, Norfolk, etc. from the sea? How hard is it to have a autonomous drone carrier sub

It has been clarified multiple times that the protections in the Bill of Rights apply to ALL people within the US's jurisdiction. (and in the constitution, except where specifically stated). ALL people, documented or undocumented, citizen or foreign, criminal or law abiding.

The news that the tariffs are just our trade deficit divided by imports shows their hand. They want to make government funded by sales and use taxes. Of which tariffs are just a form. Income taxes and death taxes will go away. Entitlements and most services will be privatized.

To follow up on the previous post's concept, if you fail at something, acknowledge it, learn from it, and move on. I've had plenty of failed startups, that's the life. None of the failures were solely due to me. I could make excuses and blame everything else, or i can learn and move on. /1

The first way gets me stuck in the past, and makes my next startup less likely to succeed. But makes me feel better. Oh no, XYZ screwed up our client relationship and we don't have enough other business to go. Oh no, COVID made our partner pull our first contract./2

I don't get this rush to defend Merrick Garland. He had a job, he failed at it. Sure, he had opposition, sure, many of his problems were not of his making, but whether or not you think he was too cautious and tactical, the end result was that he failed at his job. /1

There's bigger problems than him. He's a failed politician who never got that as you rise in DOJ, your job becomes more and more political. That's the way the world runs. It's fine, many career people can't make that transition. /2

I get that people on this site is celebrating the orange menace's failure to repeal the debt ceiling, but I'd like to remind people that the debt ceiling is one of the stupidest maneuvers by congress to avoid responsibility. Their job is to pass a budget. The debt ceiling lets them pass /1