WalrusDragonOnABike

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[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

He was at the fight at the commentators table before the match, so I'd assume so. He also either didn't know how to turn on his mic or someone cut his mic.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How is it a spin on the truth? Forced labor sounds a lot like slavery and they voted in favor of it. Just because some people justify slavery with a reason like "criminals deserve it!" or "but look at their skin color!" doesn't change that they're voting for slavery. Just because the criteria isn't directly skin color (80% of prisoners are not non-hispanic white... so its pretty much is still forced labor based on skin color) doesn't change it at all.

There was also the cost of running twitter. Granted, his return so far has been about 50 bil and twitter still has a market value of like 40 billion, so it's not like that asset has gone away. Like 4 billion in net costs to make 50 billion in two years is pretty solid return on investment....

That's a real world example of what happens when you have self-driving (even in beta mode with some safety features turned off to prevent that from happening). Obviously the driver this manually override and stop the car before hitting the person. It doesn't even need any searching: the story itself makes that clear if it mentions the car hit someone.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They wouldn't? Trump didn't get more votes than 2020. Kamala just got far less than Biden.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Stop giving bombs for genocide and stop telling people that the economy is already great so they should not ask for more and instead give popular policy positions that help people more than a week before the election/after early voting.

It still would be a mistake and would prevent some people from voting for him, but Bernie would at least compensate for it by actually supporting popular policies instead of the opposite and have some energy.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)
  1. Not 70+ years old.

Still managed to make enough mistakes to offset Trump's age.

Americans just weren’t convinced that Harris would do anything to improve their economic situation.

Why would they? She never proposed anything specific AFAIK except like 1 week before the election after early voting was already over. If she hadn't avoided taking any policy positions except unconditional aid to israel, lower proposed tax rates for the rich than even Biden was proposing, continued fracking, no improvements to healthcare, and more lethal military/border while avoiding talking about abortion for months, maybe people would have reason for some hope for improvement.

How many Americans know about proposals about things like tax credits for parents or plan to expand medical care coverage under medicare (or was it medicaid?) to at-home care except the small percent who follow that kind of news.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I sincerely hope there is a future election where they have learned something from this. In the mean time, good luck everyone.

Given you're expecting an apology instead of giving one, nothing was learned apparently.

 

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