is that he was a Republican plant (his money comes from big GOP donors) that's so crazy that Democrat nut jobs (we've got plenty of ours) seem to be nopeing the **** out on him leaving him pulling more votes from Trump than the candidate he was actually trying to spoil.

It's telling how weak the modern GOP is that they haven't been able to get a spoiler off the ground. Even the Green Party doesn't have a real candidate this cycle, and from what I can tell what little talk there is around their candidate is just another GOP backed spoiler that the actual Green party voters are spotting a mile away.

Back when Karl Rove & Dick Chaney were in large and in charge of the GOP none of this would be happening. Those bastards could make a spoiler. But the modern GOP just seems to be nothing but gifters lining their own pockets. I wouldn't be surprised if the party split between the pure girfters and the corporate backed guys. Normally the Billionaires would step in and sort it out but the grifters aren't interested in their money, they wanna sell bibles and Trump Bucks (look it up).

it looks like it recovered, but it dropped something like 15-20%. I also remember reading that one of the big exchanges had a flash crash down to $10 or $15k thanks to some market manipulation by *one* whale.

I know it's all just money laundering at this point, and from what I understand it's easy to buy in but not so easy to cash out, but still how is anyone treating this as anything more than a mildly disturbing threat to the stability of our finance system at this point?

I don't Trust US billionaires and oligarchs. Right now they're not in charge of nuclear arsenals, but they're making moves to change that. Trying to install dictators they can control.

I could easily see a whackjob like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg setting up AI nukes.

who don't look "womanly" enough and have been harassed and approached by police after Karen types called the cops. Any time you call the cops there's a chance somebody's getting killed. We've been telling the police they're in danger for decades now (even though it's not even on the top 25) and it's made them trigger happy as can be....

That's made with soy stuff of any kind he's going to be sick as a dog for about 2 or 3 days. On the other hand he can eat tofu no problem same goes for edamame.

Meanwhile we've both been eating beyond Burger is for months now. And you can buy a bag of sugar-free gummy bears that have a 30% chance of putting you on the toilet for months on end.

A lot of people have problems with certain foods. It's not surprising there's some people who can't eat what's in beyond meats food or the impossible Burger.

Oh and red meat used to cause my mother's arthritis to flare up so she had to give it up. She wasn't exactly a healthy woman either died from cigarette smoking and heavy beer drinking. But for whatever reason red meat would make her joints hurt brutally

That the right wing are in favor of small government. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The core value of the right wing is obedience. You obey people above you because they're better than you and in exchange for that people below you obey you. It's all about obedience. This goes all the way back to the origins of the right wing when they were monarchists sitting in the literal right wing of the French assembly.

Once you understand that everything the right wing does makes sense. Especially how they call themselves conservative while doing crazy ass shit that no actual conservative person would ever do. Because the core value is obedience and maintaining that obedience is more important than maintaining safe conservative policies

He can't run for governor again in 2026 because of constitutionally mandated term limits that he would need the voters to sign off on at 66% to repeal. So he's going to not be in any political office in 2026.

He pissed off and shit on a ton of his own people when he was trying to secure the nomination for this year. In particular he had 300 million dollars in federal funding that he blocked in order to punish people who voted against allowing him to run while remaining governor.

DeSantis is a scary ass mother fucker. There are multiple credible reports of him taking part in and enjoying torture. He has repeatedly banned books. His surgeon general is a horrible political appointee who openly spreads pseudoscientific nonsense. He is legitimately terrifying.

He is however basically inhuman and a complete unrepentant asshole unable to hide that on the campaign trail and it's basically sunk him this year. And he bet too heavily on winning the primary and being the Republican candidate and also on the Republicans in the House of Representatives shutting down the government and causing a recession that would make him a shoe in.

He bet and he lost and when he's no longer in a position of power where he can use that power to punish his own party members they're going to eat him alive.

Yeah I know every single religion has pedophile sex scandals. All of them even the Buddhists. Gandhi used to sleep with young girls supposedly as a test to keep himself chaste but let's not kid ourselves.

Extremist religions need to have warped views about sex because that creates a guilt feedback loop that keeps you coming to the church for absolution so that they can hit you up for money. This and the 4 to 14 pipeline are two of the most gruesome examples of how the sausage is made among the religiously extreme.

I said people who are heavily repressed and emotionally broken by a false religious teaching put forward by right-wing extremists can be broken in other ways especially when they're worse impulses are actively being encouraged and protected by those extremist religious organizations.

Or to put it more bluntly religious extremism encourages pedophilia.

Jokes aside my Kid's an adult, and the politicization of religion in America killed the last vestiges of faith I had, but I gotta say I wouldn't leave my kid alone with a preacher.

the problem's actually pretty basic and fucked up. Because of mistranslations in 1946 the church has gone whole hog against the LGBTQ community. And they weren't exactly pro-LGBTQ before then.

So let's say you're raised during the "4 to 14" in a religious context. So you genuinely believe the church's teachings. But you're also Gay. So you're forever cut off from fulfilling romantic involvement, a basic human drive. What do you do?

You join the Church as a celibate preacher. And now you're around vulnerable young boys all day.... Then the church catches you and rather than pass you to the police they move you around to other parishes because they're afraid you're crimes will undermine their authority.

TL;DR; the Church is creating and attracting pedophiles.

The entire thing comes down to the Church shitting all over Gay people and breaking their brains, then covering up the damage they're doing.

there's zero evidence that letting trans people use their correct bathrooms hurts anyone. There's *lots* of cases of trans men getting the shit kicked out of them when they're forced to walk into a women's bathroom or vice versa for trans women.

And that's the point. It's supposed to put trans people at risk in public spaces so they're forced to detransition for safety. A kind of genocide. This dispite the fact that trans healthcare has a 98% success rate with most of the remaining 2% detransitioning because of social pressure, not because they felt they shouldn't transition.

I've got a bad back. Surgery was offered. It has a 60% success rate. I skipped it because it was difficult and painful and 60% was a low success rate. I'm doing physical therapy. But you can bet your *ass* if my doctor said "98% and by the way most of that remaining 2% is because people with back surgery have to use the wrong bathroom" I'd have done it.

Facts don't care about your feelings. I get it. Trans people weird you out. Uncanny valley effect kicks in. But that's a you problem, not a them problem.

you're not worried about the radio in your car anymore.

And from a customer standpoint I'd much rather spend $20 bucks on a crank radio in the trunk of my car than $1000 on the complex research and circuitry to make my EV run FM radio. Realistically the only thing I'm gonna listen to on FM while driving is the ghost of Rush Limbaugh.

Because they have a de facto Monopoly on search and long-form video. They are also the only other viable operating system for phones.

If we do not start enforcing antitrust law pretty much everything is going to collapse. The problem is that we need to start making political decisions based on economics and not moral panics and culture wars.

This is hard because people don't understand the difference between a moral panic and civil rights. You can explain the difference to people but like Reagan said if you're explaining you're losing.

But as hard as it is we've got to do it because the alternatives are terrible.

Is for the benefit of Microsoft and at the detriment of the user. Even the most hardcore Microsoft Fanboys hate it. They somehow made a operating system worse than millennium. Hell it now nags you if you don't have a brand new CPU supposedly because of AI features but let's not get ourselves that's just Microsoft helping oems sell new computers. It's that kind of crap people hate and that drives them to stop computing on Windows.

we've had non stop growth for decades. We're producing more every year. We've been able to feed, shelter, cloth, and give medicine to the entire population of Earth since the late 70s.

Our problems are distribution. Which is addressed quite well in this short video here.