Listen . . . (shhhh)
To what the troll DM pixels say . . .

Ah-aahhh-ahhhh-ahhhh-ahhh-ahhhhhh

Latino Men, stop listening to these propaganda stations.

Let’s ask the patriarchy. Maybe they’ll be cool about it.

Propaganda works.

(Happy cake day)

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What it does do is turn what had been public space into private space for the wealthy.

It was always the plan, it was never secret, and there was an opportunity to stop this already. We fucked it up.

He’s not leaving the Democratic Party.

So that’s one thing people should be aware of. He’s leaving his role at the DNC, in part because he can have less arguments and fund the candidates he wanted to fund anyway with his twenty million dollars.

If you do not have a twenty million dollar PAC, you can still run for the DNC and hold the exact same positions he held and be in the exact same arguments he was in and they’ll have to work with that. Because that’s how a national political party works. He decided he didn’t have to do that anymore.

Personally, I think he got tired of getting blamed for whatever Ken Martin was blaming him for and thought, “fuck it, I’ll just do it myself”. Which is perfectly valid if you’ve got a twenty million dollar PAC to join the races with.

For this story, Military.com reached out to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office as well as the Army and the 82nd Airborne Division directly with a series of questions that ranged from the optics of the event to social media posts showing the sale of Trump campaign merchandise on the base, to the apparent violation of Pentagon policies on political activity in uniform.

Internal 82nd Airborne Division communications reviewed by Military.com reveal a tightly orchestrated effort to curate the optics of Trump’s recent visit, including handpicking soldiers for the audience based on political leanings and physical appearance. The troops ultimately selected to be behind Trump and visible to the cameras were almost exclusively male.

One unit-level message bluntly said “no fat soldiers.”

. . . Service officials declined to comment when asked about the extent to which troops were screened, whether soldiers displaying partisan cheers on television – a violation of long-standing Pentagon rules – would be disciplined or if soldiers who objected to participating in the event, citing disagreements with the administration, would be disciplined or admonished in any way.

“This has been a bad week for the Army for anyone who cares about us being a neutral institution,” one commander at Fort Bragg told Military.com on the condition of anonymity to avoid retaliation. “This was shameful. I don’t expect anything to come out of it, but I hope maybe we can learn from it long term.”

Woah, woah hold up there! Let’s not get medieval!

It was irrelevant November 6th, 2024

How big does an asteroid need to be to wipe out just 50 eight people but leave everything else untouched?

Given that detention and questioning constitute arrest, I’d suggest the current administration consists largely of utterly incompetent fuckwits who have no goddamned idea what they’re doing.

You’re gonna get so sick of Constitutional crises.

It depends. Have you used it? If not - Yes! It does do . . . all the things.

If you have used it, I’m sorry that was incorrect. You simply need to pay for the upgraded subscription. Oh, and as a trusted insider now we can let you in on a secret - the next version of this thing is gonna be, like, wow! Boom shanka! Everyone else will be so far behind!

The general public understands this isn’t some be all end all.

I disagree.

bUt tHe DeMoCraTz dOn’T SuPpOrT wOrKiNg FaMiLiEez!!

See you’d make a good reporter. Those are the right questions.

Just not a good corporate news reporter. As we see.

Ah yes the critical hit of someone writing a number down on a piece of paper. Let’s go to the tape:

But wait, does all this mean that nonvoting Democrats stayed home in 2024 because Democrats’ policies were too progressive? Not necessarily; while the CES data gives us the ability to judge issue preferences, we can’t use it to determine issue salience. That is, we don’t know which issues were most important to voters nor even if candidates’ issue positions were important factors in nonvoters’ decision to sit out the election.

That seems less sure than you’re making it out to be. I wonder what the next sentence is.

We should also be careful not to extrapolate too much about the implications of these results for whether Democrats should or should not have moderated their policy positions in different areas, since nonvoting Democrats overwhelmingly supported a range of views typically associated with progressives—such as support for banning assault rifles, believing that skin color gives whites an advantage, support for Medicaid expansion and infrastructure spending, and support for corporate tax hikes.

Wow! that was a doozy of a sentence wasn’t it. It sure was. But no, by all means continue to believe that poll results are more true than people’s own words and the life experience of anyone. That is the quantitative mindset and many many enormous things have been built using it.

For funsies - let’s see who participated in this poll you linked to here:

A large portion of the CES respondents are YouGov panelists. These are people who have made an account on yougov.com to receive periodic notifications about new surveys. Others are recruited live from online advertisements or are recruited from another survey provider. Therefore, while panelists are prompted to participate in the CES, they opt-in to being a YouGov panelist.

Yeah. You know a lot of progressives that sign up to receive political survey notifications do you? Well, if you did it would be irrelevant because a poll says different. Somewhere. Actually, it’s this very poll you cited. O Irony!

Okay which of you space nerds wants to be a hero? This handle is going up for grabs on any fediverse instance. All you have to do is pull the latest from whatever nazi sewer it gets thrown into these days and post it verbatim.

It’s not impossible. You used to bulls-eye womp rats in your T-16 back home.

Your value stream is showing

So - just wander around in fatigues? Do a little shopping maybe. Start a pickup game?