Someone like Mamdani will be poised to win. But then the DNC will suddenly start pushing their candidate hard. They’ll decide that they need a candidate that can at last truly appeal to Republican voters, someone who has bipartisan political experience!
Say hello to 2028 Democratic presidential nominee David Duke!
I’m surprised they haven’t just started building 5g chips right into the tvs. That’s the end goal here. Just make it so the devices don’t even need your cooperation to phone home.
TO HELL WITH SPAIN, REMEMBER THE MAINE!!!
So send the protester the agent’s dry cleaning bill and be done with it. Make them pay for a new uniform if the stain can’t be removed. Simple enough. The fact this is a criminal matter is absurd.
They’ll use the DOGE hacks to legally change his name against his will to Juan Roberto, and they’ll record him in their system as a citizen of Venezuela. Then they will deport Juan to a Liberian prison camp.
The universe is an anomaly. It’s a miracle life is even possible at all.
Obviously, the only rational explanation is that you were abducted by aliens. They beamed you up, experimented on you, wiped your memory, and sent you back down. It’s the only rational explanation. Or maybe it was the devil. The literal devil. The guy with the horns and pitch fork. Again, the only rational explanation!
Just look at the stuff people say on Lemmy, to someone they will never even meet, ever.
That’s ridiculous! I will find you and flay your children alive! :D
Tudor? It still happens now. The family my parents bought their house from? Big traditional Mormon family. The family had 6 boys and one girl. One of the older brothers was married and unfortunately died young. His younger brother married his widow. This was in the US in the 1990s. A younger brother marrying the widow of an older brother is an ancient tradition. See Levirate marriage.
If she was a real trad wife she would have married Charlie’s brother. That’s some true trad wife behavior.
Nah I’ll buy the mobile home used off Craigslist. The car will be of similar quality. I’m committing to the bit!
Well if money is no object, I’m guessing I’m a sociopathic billionaire in this scenario. With that in mind, I’m going to live in Manhattan. Specifically, in a home that flaunts wealth in the greatest act of poor taste imaginable. I will buy up and bulldoze an entire block of dense Manhattan real estate. Then, surrounded by skyscrapers on all sides, I’ll live in a mobile home with a block-wide chain link fence around the property. There will be at least three cars on blocks in the yard.
Monkey’s paw version: you’re a shapeshifter like Odo in DS9. You have to consciously model every aspect of your form. Imagine the most detailed image of a human you can in your mind. That’s the fidelity with which your form will be represented. You can only take on a form that is as detailed as your understanding and perception of an object is. Your form is more of a human-shaped animate object than an actual human being.
Unfortunately, we do not in fact have the technology necessary to blow up the Moon.
You ignored the part where you only tax compute over a certain threshold. We have all sorts of taxes and regulations that apply only once you a certain scale.
This man cannot be allowed anywhere near the White House. He is extremely unlikely to reverse many of the Trump administration’s worst policies. For example, he is unlikely to reverse Trump’s rules on trans/nonbinary passports and social security name changes. Newsom is going to take one look at the polls, see that trans people are unpopular, and that it’s politically advantageous to leave bigoted policies in place. He will be too much of a coward to risk headlines that say, “President Newsom endorses child sex changes with passport policy!!” Simply put, if he is the Democratic nominee, I will not be voting for president in 2028, consequences be damned.
You can whine that “surely, he must be better on trans issues than Trump,” but there’s no evidence of that. He’s built in the same mold as some of the most vehement anti-trans bigots in the English speaking world, the current labor government in the UK. A Democrat can absolutely be just as bad for the trans community as a Republican can. The labor party proves this beyond a shadow of a doubt.
You can complain, “well, surely, even if he’s bad on trans issues, then he’ll be better on other things.” But frankly, if the Dems follow the Republicans down the path of bigotry, this is no longer my country. If that comes to pass, I see no reason to participate in elections for a country I no longer consider my own and do not plan to remain in. For me and my community, an anti-trans Democrat is even worse than a Republican in office, as it will so completely shift the Overton window as to deny trans Americans their rights for decades to come.