It's a bit like media piracy, these are not people who would have spent money on the product no matter.

Anybody so wary to not have an Amazon account or even risk making a burner account wasn't watching the Emmys anyway. The people turned off by that requirement is like a percent of a percent.

Sure I can see that perspective and DACA was subject to the same problems all EOs are; they can just be undone with the stroke of a pen. However I think it's worth understanding that DACA didn't just go from idea to EO via Obama as soon as the idea came about, this was an issue that was attempting to be dealt with for the better part of a decade before DACA came through. Also I am not gonna listening to whining about EOs from a supporter of a man who has all but discarded Congress and passed more EOs in 2 years than Obama did in 8.

I mean just today the NY Fed said that we have 2% across the baord inflation solely due to the tariffs, tariffs enacted via EO. No smoke for that?

Would I have preferred real legislation? Absolutely. Did I want a bunch of DACA kids to be deported to countries they have never known in their lives because Republicans want to keep immigration a campaign wedge point forever and ever? No. We've had at least 2 Republican trifectas since then, why no new legislation?

And yeah, here we are because we still don't have an immigration legislation. Republican's refusal to pass that bill for decades means we are going to end up granting amnesty to way more than 1.3m

None of that happens in a vacuum though, the reason DACA was done via EO was that Republicans refused to pass the DREAM Act which was a bi-partisan bill kicked around since 2001 but Republicans would filibuster it at every oppurtunity.

- Same with the McCain Kennedy bill, bipartisan legislation never got a vote in the Senate
- Same with another bill in 2007, never made it out of the Senate
- Same with the Gang of 8 Bill which did et over 60 votes in the Senate, bipartisan! Then John Boehner , Republican Speaker, let it die on the vine, never got a vote.
- Then we have the Lankford bill, a bipartisan yet very conservative bill that Biden signaled he would sign. Was going to be actual law until Trump told Republicans he needed the issue to campaign on (Ted Cruz admitted to this explicitly) so they let it die.

So at every opportunity to pass actual immigration reform, something we have needed for like 50+ years, the last major legislation being from the Reagan era (where he granted amnesty!) Republicans stand in the way, almost like they don't really care about the issue, I mean, if immigration is this huge crisis why no legislation? Someone answer that question.

Absolutely fucking not, the lawlessness, the destruction of norms, the bending of the alw, the craven grifting, the brutally divisive rhetoric, it's incredibly different and any equivocation is really just copium or ignorance, usually the former, it's a self soothing permission structure, "we can be fucking unhinged because i feel personally slighted"

Even the bitter clingers thing is just nonsense, even the smallest bit of context destroys that whole talking point, there's a reason it's always brought up and never quoted

But the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there's not evidence of that in their daily lives. You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Um, now these are in some communities, you know. I think what you'll find is, is that people of every background -- there are gonna be a mix of people, you can go in the toughest neighborhoods, you know working-class lunch-pail folks, you'll find Obama enthusiasts. And you can go into places where you think I'd be very strong and people will just be skeptical. The important thing is that you show up and you're doing what you're doing.

What exactly is so offensive about that statement? Who are the snowflakes here?

That is not responsive to anything I said. What statement did I make that is false?

I don't know Elon Musk managed to kill 9 million children without a gun so...

I don't think this is about creating useful or profitable content this is more about training their AIs and showing them off to investors.

Remember the problem AI is designed to solve is wages. Paying wages.

That said we all laughed at horse armor and they just kept cramming it down people's throats until kids grew up who were used to that crap. And yeah you might not be someone who would buy horse armor but it does fuck up the industry and the quality of your hobby is substantially lower as a result.

It probably will be the same with AI slop. You and I will hate it because we grew up in a world without it but to kids who just get that stuff blasted into their eyeballs it'll be normal and they won't have any defenses against it. It will take over the industry through the kids and we will lose access to the stuff we want.

Ilhan has been in her seat for 4 terms, any day now she'll reveal her secret plan for Sharia? What's she been waiting for? I don't even particuarly like Omar, I think she's an omnicause slopulist but I'm not so deranged to think she's some secret Islamist.

I guarantee whatever media figures you get your news from are far more radical. How about you share your media sources and podcasts with us?

And yet the fact you said that shows us all you actually haven't read the history of either of those places to understand why they are where they are now. Also you know who is the biggest fawning fan of Erdogan? Donald Trump and Republicans.

Meanwhile we have JD Vance campaigning with Victor Fucking Orban which is a form of authoritarianism far more likely to grab hold in the US but that's white folks so you have no worries about that do you.

Close to how I want to see nuclear power re-launched in America:

Legislation for funding 10-30 new reactors, owned and operated by government (like TVA does already)
Build them on selected Federal land sites
Have the Army Corp of Engineers certify and plan on a standardized design for construction (example, work with Westinghouse on our own version of an AP1000)
Fund a Manhattan Project style research initiative into fuel reprocessing and build a site(s) to absorb waste fuel.

This is all true and part of the reason the successful nucelar programs currently, the ones building new plants and plans for expansion and have kept up those capabilities are all State-Owned-Enterprises. The risk-reward and incentive structures just are not there for private industry.

Here is the list of planned and under construction reactors currently: https://world-nuclear.org/info...

All of them are State-Owned-Enterprises.

American nuclear power advocates are a contradiction; they want a big expansion of nuclear power in the USA but for their own political reasons refuse to leverage any state power to do it, thus here we are in a 40 year lurch wondering why anything is not happening while they've been their own worst enemy to that cause. At this point even though I am an advocate for nuclear power I would say the last 10 years have led me to the position that it's too late, there will never be the political support for such a venture so we can just give it up.

America ceded the opportunity to be the leader in both renewables and nuclear power for the same short sighted craven political reasons: "gubmint bad" as the foundational principle for half the political power in the nation. Dopes.