WatDabney

You're talking about two different things.

Context was the idea of a government banning certain popular foods

This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not?

It's entirely possible to be in favor of food safety regulations and opposed to the government banning foods outright. In fact, I think one could safely presume that those are the positions most commonly held by most people.

I've never understood why anyone thinks that the hysterical propaganda and lies spewed by ignorant right-wing reactionaries who would never vote for a democrat in the first place should have any bearing on any decision the democrats might make about anything.

instead of propping up a creator who checks the perfect ideological boxes

Which is to say, slavishly regurgitates all of the just barely to the left of the Republicsns neoliberal swill that keeps losing elections.

Democrats should embrace the online spaces for young men that already exist.

What? Actually going with what the people actually support rather than trying to force some corporate-approved hack that nobodly likes on them, then blaming them when they predictably lose?

What a novel idea.

For example, creators like Hasan Piker, a left-leaning creator with over 5.5 million subscribers on Twitch and broad popularity among young men, has largely been ignored by the Democratic establishment.

And gee... I wonder why....

Piker’s political content leans farther left, sharing a populist economic message paired with strong criticism of U.S. foreign policy in Israel.

Oh. my. who. would. have. guessed. that.? Gee. whiz. what. a. surprise.

There is a tendency to shy away from those spaces because our favorite thing to do in the Democratic Party is to, pardon my language, shit on the left,” said Smith.

Huh. I thought their favorite thing to do was to lose elections.

Same thing either way though....

And I'm calling it now -;the Dem leadership is going to waste their time and money ham-fistedly promoting a pathetically transparent neoliberal shill, then blame everyone but themselves when they utterly and completely and entirely predictably fail.

And yet again, while lying assholes pretend that criticism of Israeli government policy is antisemitism, the real antisemites on the right get a free pass.

Um... yeah. Most of us outside of the media's self-imposed truth filter already knew there's a reason for it - because he's a thin-skinned crybaby.

It's not that they're truly synonymous but that each also implies the other. If it's true that he's dead, then it's also true that he died and vice versa. So it seems like they mean the same thing because if ypu say one, it can be taken for granted that the other is necessarily also true.

But even that's not 100% - it's possible that "he died" is true but "he's dead" is not, since he might've been revived. That illustrates the fact that they actually each communicate something different - "he died" is an experience through which he went at some point, while "he's dead" is the state he's in right now.

So again, they broadly communicate the same thing since saying one implies the other as well, but they don't actually mean the same thing.

I'm starting to think that 60 years ago or so, a couple of Harvard students humiliated Trump, and he's never gotten over it.

All of that costs money that we as a society have decided is better spent on more mansions and bigger yachts for executives.

As far as Pokemon goes, I've always been partial to the Team Galactic battle theme from DPPT. And though "catchy" doesn't quite do it justice, the night theme for Jubilife City, also in DPPT, is tremendous. Walking into that city for the first time at night was one of the defining moments of my video game life.

And the Shiver City theme from Paper Mario is unforgettable.

I don't think anything will ever beat Still Alive from Portal though.

I keep wondering the same thing.

It's especially galling when I see some cautionary piece in the legacy media about how some Republican policy "might" lead to some negative consequences. As if the Republicans are unaware of that and it's up to the media to gently nudge them and point it out.

The Republicans are fully aware of the harm their policies are going to do and that's much of the point. They quite simply want everyone who's not one of them to die. They're not only okay with that - they're eagerly looking forward to it.

Israel is a rogue state.

Heathers changed my world in more ways than one.