Lmao

That’s a nice fantasy, but, it’s not real. This will be painful for the US and it will have less of an ability to leverage its ability to project power for diplomatic gains, it will be far more painful for the overwhelming majority of the rest of the world. The only winners in this are Russia and Iran (pending sanctions relief and the ability to rebuild their infrastructure), but the US and China (and their closest economic partners) lose the least, and between nations that’s as near as makes no difference to winning.

For as long as the US remains a cohesive entity, it will remain a world power, if maybe not the global hegemon that it has been, but it’s a long road from here to there and despite the best attempts of Trump et al, we’re not there yet and there are many things that could yet happen to derail that process.

It’s incredible that peoples’ minds are so colonized that their first instinct is to blame voters instead of party leadership that shut down all discussion of Biden’s declining health, undemocratically anointed a wildly unpopular successor and then failed to listen to voters who were saying that supporting an ongoing genocide was a bridge too far.

I am trans and a U.S citizen, the UK govt cannot comprehend how hostile I can towards it.

If AI were cost effective and in demand, he’d be right, but it’s not and it’s not. There’s no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow because the moment they start having to charge what this stuff actually costs to run it’ll be obvious that it’s cheaper to just pay a person to do people things.

Poor people from the global south don’t count to the white South African. Shocker.

And people with botched phallos or for example, a friend of mine who needed multiple surgeries on his genitals as a child should be assumed to be morally deficient?

Go wash the properity gospel out of your brain.

Some relevant viewing material.

+1 for this, cataloguing his nonsense isn’t newsworthy. Let him sit in his 44 billion dollar echo chamber and screech at bots. At this point everyone who’s not delusional knows he’s a miserable idiot conman who’s carried by the talent and effort of people much smarter than he is on the rare occasion he can get out of their way. His opinion means less than nothing.

My girlfriend acquired 37 limes In a row?!!

Yes, that helps a lot. Knowing that Grainger/McMaster-Carr aren’t throwing money behind neo-nazis is a big help.

I’m thinking more for like, warehouse type stuff. Not so much for shipping as storage/organization.

Genuinely what is the alternative to them? Like, is there another company that offers standardized shelving/totes/general logistics supplies that isn’t also in bed with republicans (and maybe isn’t as awful to their workers as uline)?

Goncharovia

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat on cocaine

I mean, I’m a hardliner on this sort of thing, no bank apps or mobile banking in general, GrapheneOS on the phone, apps via obtanium for the most part and aurora for the work shit, but, I suppose it’s not a zero sum game and there’s things even I’m not doing right.

Republicans have always cared about supporting “the troops” and abandoning veterans. Anyone who buys what they’re selling after… well shit after the parties became what they are today in the early 70’s.

You’re on fediverse, you know what f-droid is and use it to install apps…

Why are you even on the Play store in the first place? Even for the shit that my work makes me use I have a separate profile on my phone and use aurora store (and even that is a stopgap until I can get a separate work phone).

You’re deliberately misreading what I said, and if you think that he didn’t know or wasn’t part of the negotiation as to exactly who was going to vote to end the shutdown amongst senators who wanted it to end but didn’t want their fingerprints on it, I have several pieces of waterfront property for sale. For their part, senators Durbin, King, Hassan, Shaheen, Masto, Rozen, Fetterman and Kaine should not have a place within the Democratic party (Also Manchin, Sinema had she not already fucked off of her own accord).

If you want to be a pedant, there has been no vote on the ACA subsidies other than a failed cloture vote. The vote to re-open the govt passed. The agreement to have a vote on the ACA subsidies was the “compromise” that was the condition of voting to pass the appropriations bill and end the shutdown.

Schumer is neither all-powerful or completely powerless, but he is the leader of his party in the Senate, so he is ultimately responsible for actions taken by Senate democrats. He is either insufficiently committed or insufficiently competent, for the family who’s health insurance costs become unaffordable, it doesn’t really matter which.

Dems are weak because they can’t win elections because they fail to deliver results (because they can’t win elections). The shutdown was the only real lever that they were able to pull unilaterally, they picked the right hill to die on, and ultimately accomplished nothing.

My agenda is being able to leave my job for a year to focus on finishing a degree and a couple of professional licenses without completely wiping out what little savings I’m able to scrape together by delaying every other financial goal and for my peers to have an easier time with similar hard choices. Whatever makes that happen, yeah, I’m fine with.

He caved in exchange for a vote he knew would fail and logrolled the votes so that the I’ll informed would think he didnt have a hand in it.

The shutdown was painful, but what comes next will be a lot more painful.

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