that the uninformed would mistake for an AK

I’m guessing the report about the type of rifle came from secret service who saw it.

According to that NYP article someone was a few holes ahead of trump with an ak47, secret service shot at them and they fled, dropping the gun. The suspect was then arrested in a traffic stop a 50 minute drive away from the golf course. I’ll believe it when I hear it from a credible source.

This article is bullshit from a disinfo website:

Alaska has been part of a push by Outside dark money coming from groups like UniteUs.org and FairVote.org to get ranked-choice voting in place in every state.

Republican voters, many of whom are not inclined to rank candidates. Ranked-choice voting favors the more malleable Democrat voters

This makes absolutely no sense. Not inclined to rank candidates? What the fuck does that mean? Humans rank things. We have preferences. Malleable voters is also absolute nonsense.

Ranked choice favors the candidate that the majority of voters support. Republicans oppose it because they want to win seats where the majority of voters don’t want their candidates or policies.

If it were only a handful of people this wouldn’t be happening. It usually takes an appreciative audience for people to feel emboldened to leap from rhetoric to calling in a threat or actually committing racist violence.

Given trump’s persistent support, it could be that 40% of the country see this and think, like Lucille Bluth, good on her. Or that’s what I worry about anyway.

Is this singer legit nuts, or did they wheel out a dump truck of money?

This is quite reassuring - if medvedev said it you know there’s no chance it could possibly happen.

Having thoughts of suicide is not the same thing as committing to an act of protest that may take your life.

I’ve been shocked by the amount of pushback I get when I talk about compulsory voting. I suspect it has less to do with freedom and more to do with how classist US society is.

Many people here seem to have internalized the idea that it’s better for the country if ‘apathetic’ and ‘stupid’ people don’t vote. Of course the bulk of non voters are working people, the poor and those who benefit most from an increased voice in society.

Voting absolutely should be compulsory, it would be such a moderating force on US politics if you couldn’t get more votes just by stirring up your base.

Our town…

Do you mean Babylon, Marduk?

per 538, the last two polls of “adults” (not likely voters or registered voters) showed trump support around 40%

This feels to me like the best metric to judge ‘right wing’ by.

Voting for right wingers or being a Republican is not quite the same as being right wing - many people register and vote strategically. My grandparents in Alaska were left wingers who knew Democrats didn’t stand a chance. I’m sure there are plenty of right wingers registered as Dems here in the PNW. Voting can also be about identity more than ideals - I’ve known Republicans who have mostly leftish ideals as long as you don’t call them that.

But saying you personally support trump feels more unambiguously right wing to me. I’ve heard plenty of polls over the years putting trump’s support at around 30-40%, so 40% right wing sounds believable to me.

Almost half the country is right wing

Where are you getting that stat?

Of voters, almost half are registered or leaning Republicans.

In 2020, only 22% of the country voted for trump, the most right wing 2 party candidate in the modern era.

When you ask about specific policies that are seen as left or right wing, left wing policies poll much higher than dem votes at elections.

The reason Democrat leadership keeps tacking right has less to do with Americans and more to do with money and support from key centers of power. Dems stay right because US aristocrats and large interests skew righter than Americans. The money would dry up if their policies matched what Americans want.

I will always hear that in Bart’s voice.

He’s taking a principled stand in favor of the rule of law. It’s important to our nation’s soul that there’s a legal memo written before we brutalize and torture people.

I wonder how much of this stuff is open-eyed lying and how much is an instinctual identity defense mechanism. There’s definitely a lot of both going on.

The cult of personality around trump makes his perceived power and competence one of the most important parts of the identity of his followers. Trump being a pathetic incompetent loser is a threat to their entire perception of reality. Believing one more gross improbability is just less stressful to a human brain than demolishing your worldview and starting again. In this way, even trump’s supporters number among his many victims.

Completely unnecessary - Donald Trump can’t shit his pants without telling the whole world about it.

Most of the climate change talk was actually talking about the importance of manufacturing jobs, Kamala was guilty of it too.

impacts small indie artists

How?

I read the article but I don’t understand how bots making and listening to songs to generate royalties for the bot owners affects anyone but the royalty-payers?

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