Bottom line it’s a message to your voters. obviously if you don’t play ball they will cut that funding out next cycle… but just imagine in a hypothetical world with voters that actually do bare minimum research. They see you are taking AIPAC money, they use that information to decide whether or not to vote for you.

Of course the reality is the average voter isn’t educated, won’t take the time to look up who is funding their candidate, in which case the only way to publicly announce to your voters that you aren’t beholden to a group, is to publicly reject the money and issue a press release, like this one we are looking at right now.

I mean he spends every day supporting a man who in his own words is “America’s Hitler”. Somehow I don’t feel he changed his mind on that topic… just at the time people didn’t realize that was a compliment from him.

Hassan? pretty underwhelming, in short, dog is walking around on this treadmill kind of thing, looks to me almost obvious that his dew claw got snagged on it and he yelps, roughly at the same time hassan’s hand is out of frame for a few seconds (that some are claiming he is pushing a shock remote).

oh and someone found a 2 year old clip of him saying that his friend gave him a shock collar that is laying around his house but he’d never use.

I don’t get it, we’ve kept peoples pay the same if not lowered it, allowed housing prices and rent to go through the roof, mandated everyone to go into massive debt to get a school degree, and then told them they are struggling because we told them the problem is they are throwing away all their money on luxuries.

Now they are cutting down on luxuries… (shocked pikachu face).

Wasn’t she a large part of amazon before the divorce though? I mean yes I can look at it and see she’s doing far more good with her money than most billionares. But it doesn’t change the fact that the money came from exploited workers. She participated in exploiting billions, and is actually following through on the pledge to give half of it back.

Agreed, she’s batshit crazy… but I have to say crazy and stupid, is actually an improvement from the normal of morally bankrupt.

This broken clock has just been on fire lately… I still have to say it’s not coincidence.

I think it’s because she actually was stupid. Most republicans are smart opportunists, they don’t believe anything they are saying, but they know what to say to rile up the crazy conspiracy theorists and get the votes, money and power to do what donors want.

MTG is one of the conspiracy theorists created by this rhetoric. she still believes in the democratic weather machines, still believes climate change is a hoax, but she’s saying those things because she actually believes them, not because of a paycheck from Exxon. Which makes her very dangerous when she’s given real evidence of actual conspiracies like, big insurance companies putting money to charge insane amounts of money, or an actual leader of Isreal committing a genocide, or an actual ring of elite pedophiles.

Bottom line the sellouts like Charlie Kirk and Patel etc… that can turn it on and off at will. IE “release the files now!”, oh trump says he doesn’t want them released, my bad “trust the government they know what they are doing”.

She has no off switch… when she spouts a conspiracy nonsense it’s because she believes it… which means they can’t wave a bag of money or tell her “same team stop”.

I was going to say… what wasn’t on my bingo card, is MTG acting… fucking sane, almost consistently at this point.

Healthcare, Epstein files, hell she actually did better on not giving weapons to isreal than AOC…

Was she actually that ignorant and stupid when she started, but because it was ignorance and not corruption… she can actually learn? Or maybe she actually had some kind of mental illness, and she’s secretly getting it treated now that she has government level healthcare?

I know that more likely than not the shoe is going to drop… but it’s like she’s magically changed from Sarah Palin to John McCain.

With MTG’s post saying she’s not suicidal and not going to kill herself and suspect someone if she is killed.

I frankly feel that an actual feasible event that may happen is. If they cannot get someone to flip. A mysterious shooter will take out one of the R’s on the side of releasing the files… he won’t be caught, but he will leave a nice manifesto saying he’s trans and a far left person.

Rustin and King knew that 1960s America wasn’t ready for a gay rights movement, so they kept Rustin in the background.

Though it is worth pointing out MLK’s movement continued to expand to other groups, was more of a pro-socialist push near the end and probably would have kept going, had he not gotten shot.

Somehow the amount of terrifying options here are through the roof. Not sure why but I find Gaza or Iran the least terrifying outcomes…

Can we like, maybe normalize adding descriptions of the product to these announcements? On the blogs of these apps pages that’s one thing, but on selfhosted forums etc… where we are drawing attention to the product of which many aren’t familiar with… a 2 sentence summary of what the product is before going into the long changelog, would make everyone so happy.

I think the one thing both sides are fully aware of, we live in vastly different realities.

I mean lets be real, none of these charities are pushing to ban guns, more like simple things like universal background checks etc… Point is if the goal is to give a middle finger to conservatives while describing it as honoring kirk, gun control would be the ideal, as that’s litterally the cause of his death.

To me my biggest hope is that he takes their calls to donate to TurningPointUSA… and flips them.

"So, some asked me to donate to TurningPointUSA as an apology, I’ve decided it’s more appropriate to donate to (pick a gun control charity here),

I mean, the declarations are often intended to basically satirize trump, and no it’s not as horrific because quite simply the intent is obvious. Anyone with 2 brain cells knows newsom isn’t going to put pressure on, concert venues or whatever the hell would make the choice to allow kid rock to play.

So no it’s not the same thing, at bare minimum because it’s super obvious that I cannot do it. If me random dude on the internet makes the declaration that I’m going to drop a nuke on turkey, you can pretty easilly tell I’m joking. If trump talks about dropping a nuke on greenland… that’s a very different thing because he can do so.

unfortunately I don’t think so…

I don’t think they actually care about Charlie Kirk at all… half of maga hated kirk. Laura Loomer was bashing kirk while he was alive (obviously for very different reasons than us).

His value to maga just went up massively BECAUSE HE’S DEAD. They’ve wanted to crack down on free speach in the left for ages, but they’ve lacked the right hook. They wanted to do it with Luigi and Brian Thompson… but sadly they realized that average american’s were very familiar with the predatory nature of the health insurance industry, and even brainwashed right wing maniacs have horror stories involving health insurance.

Kirk is a pawn, they aren’t trading their values of free speech to protect Kirk. Removing free speech was their values, and Kirks assassination is an excuse to make it happen. If we gave trump a time machine to go back and save Kirk, he’d absolutely turn down the opportunity.

Also could just be a general concept of investments… IE we lose 10 million here for canceling this show, we make 100 million in the merger we want to do next year.

Hate speach won’t only speech that might incite someone to commit violence.

Expected result

“Mexicans are all rapists, and murderers and are harming the fabric of our society” – Protected free speach

“that’s really hateful to say about a whole class of people that have all walks of life in them just like us” – Potentially inciting violence

In particular when they’ve already announced over 1000 victims.

How the hell did Epstein have time to rape 1000 victims… and still have so much time to party with and manage money for so many powerful people.

Also yeah, the trafficking itself is such a crazy concept. You don’t solo traffic so many people by yourself.