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The article is behind a paywall, but to be clear (because TC never is) it's an advice column and the headline is from the perspective of someone writing in, not the columnist.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/09/trans-man-sex-anonymous-hookup-advice.html

He did worse stuff

I agree. I'll marinate some chicken breast, cook it in the oven, and have sandwiches for days

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/instagram-looks-for-ways-to-revive-interest-in-threads

Gonna spitball some thoughts here

1. I think we're generalizing; Biden and Trump aren't successful because they're old, and their spots at the top of their respective parties reflects circumstances and qualities unique to themselves. We aren't having this conversation if Obama wasn't term limited or, imo, if Michelle had run in 2020. Likewise on the GOP side the people running against Trump are mostly of standard politician age.

2. The Democratic Party didn't have a tea-party type movement sweeping new faces into power over incumbent until very recently (and even then, I wouldn't say the recent progressive/socialist surge has had the tea party's success.) Challenging an incumbent is a good way to get your career prospects within the party stymied. This has resulted in a relative lack of young people in positions that Presidential candidates usually come from.

https://www.nydailynews.com/2023/10/01/adams-campaign-donors-say-they-cant-recall-their-contributions-raising-concern-from-law-enforcement/

I'm sure there's a normal reason for that

Zikten posted...

Unfortunately, it takes decades usually of being in politics before you can have the realistic chance of getting elected. I think that's the most simple answer.

Pushing back on this: before Biden, our previous presidential elections...
Trump had significantly less political experience than Clinton
Obama had significantly less political experience than McCain (and even Hillary in the primary)
W had 5 years as an elected official to Gore's 15

She lives in Maryland and advised Uber on how to avoid classifying their workers as employees. But other than that, great pick

HHH_is_the_game posted...

Not allowing the police to cover up crimes and push out people who try to help.

These things are already "not allowed."

HHH_is_the_game posted...

More accountability for the cops that do things wrong.

Any time a city implements accountability measures (or just hints at it) the cops stop doing what they're paid to do:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-union-suggests-work-slowdown-after-nypd-officer-fired-eric-n1044486
https://www.propublica.org/article/what-can-mayors-do-when-the-police-stop-doing-their-jobs
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/baltimore-police-reforms-crime/2020/06/18/7d60e91e-b041-11ea-8758-bfd1d045525a_story.html

HHH_is_the_game posted...

There is a lot of police reform needed but ACAB is harmful.

What sort of reform would you like to see, exactly?

I think incumbency advantage loses some potency when
1) people generally aren't thrilled with how things are going
2) the opponent enters with as much, if not more, name recognition

I could Google this but I'm asking CE instead.

Try getting a physical copy of a DS game

What I would say is: the Democratic Party is ordinarily concerned with polling and "elect ability." It's glaring that the response from party officials towards polls suggesting most people, even most Democrats, have concerns with Biden's age is "ignore it."

People are pitching Biden as the guy with the best chance to win, but his age does carry a big risk towards that, imo.

That's a damn shame.

ClayGuida posted...

Targeted legislation attacking companies or in this case hurting a companies negotiating tactics.

Their tactics in this case amount to starving people out.

Tom_Joad posted...

I thought that the studios and strikers had reached an agreement already?

That was the writers' union, not the actors

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/7/1/AAc3zuAAE4z3.jpg
Just what everyone wanted

https://twitter.com/ZavalaA/status/1708305294194012515

My girlfriend's dad

I think there's a pipeline of people who were really outspoken about atheism in the 00s who wound up being "anti-PC" or "anti-woke" crusaders.

But Maher's deal is that he enjoyed the cultural cachet of being the leftest guy in the room by being anti-Bush and pro-weed 20 years ago; that's not the case anymore and he resents those to his left for calling into question his cool guy credentials.

GranTurismo posted...

isn't maher considered very liberal....very left of center....etc... Don't know that much about him

Very liberal, sure. Very left of center, Eh.

That's different from being first.

divot1338 posted...

Anyone want to guess who was the first person to correctly predict that Donald Trump would stage a coup?

Gonna need a big citation on him being first.

Playoffs are a statistical crap shoot.

I should see that

Yeah sure why not

punkfanalways posted...

Does this happen often?

More and more so with climate change.

Inohira posted...

Trump is evidently an idiot so that simply calls into question the credibility of an Ivy League degree.

Yeah. You're right. And that credibility is the basis of the careers of just about every major figure in our politics. Eight of our nine Supreme Court Justices. Every president from HW through Trump.

Damn I know it smell crazy in there

GranAures posted...

But the voters won't be in the top tier because the top tier will still be the rich.

Sure, you and I view things that way. But is it possible that they conceive of their interest in ways beyond the financial?

Smallville posted...

So in the original constitution there was a 2 term limit for the prez,

No, there wasn't. They passed that in the 50s because FDR was simply too popular.

GranAures posted...

I would be hard pressed to call bigotry, or supporting it, sane or rational.

If the creation of a two-tier society can guarantee your spot in the top tier, isn't there a rationality in that?

Tenlaar posted...

Being sane and rational do not just automatically make somebody a good person with good beliefs.

This is a point worth making. A lot of times I see here a desire to conflate intelligence or education with one's moral and pollitical choices. Richard Spencer went to Duke. Ted Cruz, Ron Desantis, Vivek, even Donald Trump: they all have Ivy League degrees. They rationally, sanely, seek a country where they have power and those they dislike do not.

Now, I think they are wrong. But that's a moral and political question divorced from intelligence or sanity.

Torgo posted...

There is a massive billionaire funded media misinformation infrastructure dedicated to allowing these republicans to inhabit an alternate reality where only conservative propaganda is legitimized and facts are meaningless.

This is important too. The world is too big, and even the political events of one's country are too disparate for one person to have first hand experience with it all. We are all reliant on intermediaries in the media for our understand of events beyond our own perspective. We place a lot of trust in outlets and individuals to be giving a roughly accurate accounting of things.

A question that I think everyone should ask themselves: how would you know if the media outlets you rely upon were lying to you? Or not even lying, per se, but omitting significant events?

Please do not question his cowboy credentials
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/1/9/AAc3zuAAE4jb.jpg

Crimson_Corsair posted...

This wasn't even a lifetime appointment. Fucking Californians, complaining about old ass fossils in government while simultaneously failing to primary the cryptstalkers wife for the better part of three decades.

Smh

So, California has a top-two primary system, where there's only one primary and the top two vote getters advance to the general. In 2018, this was Feinstein and Democratic challenger Kevin De Leon, who campaigned to her left. Feinstein won the general 54-45, presumably with a good chunk of support coming from Republican voters, without a candidate on the ballot, looking to keep a progressive out office.

It's unfortunate that she'll be remembered for her dementoid later years, when she could be remembered for flying the confederate flag as mayor of San Francisco.

But in fields of text where I can't type

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/1/9/AAc3zuAAE4bn.png

See here, in the word "minutes"

This isn't usually the case, right?

The Democratic presidents post-Reagan haven't tried to undo his work; they've followed in his wake. Much like Republican presidents did post FDR.

The turning point in a lot of those charts appears to be 1980 (Reagan's election), not 1971

Solid_Sonic posted...

That isn't right but you would have to agree it's not the policy's fault but the kinds of people enforcing it in that case.

Gonna ignore everything else in this topic before posting to focus on this: you should think about what enforcement looks like when creating policy. Enforcement is what the policy will look like in action.

I love going to Leftism Church every Sunday. We pray to Marx and read about his son, Lenin

In general, my view is that philanthropy is not a solution to the problems caused by wealth. It's preferable to hoarding, but still gives pretty significant control over the direction of resources to largely unaccountable men whose expertise (if they have any) may be in other subject matters.

It sounds good, for example, that Bill Gates is giving X amount of money towards public health in Africa. But how certain are we that he's the best person for such big decisions?

Ferroseed posted...

it is very telling what users are saying "mm scalpers give me more ill swallow it all" lmao

Are they saying that? Or are they making the point that the lines between "scalping" and standard business practices are blurrier than some think?

StealThisSheen posted...

They don't need to sell to 100,000 people, like an actual retailer/business does.

Are, say, luxury car manufacturers an actual business, under this definition? Auction houses? Realtors?

https://www.tmz.com/2023/09/26/abraham-lincoln-assasination-tickets-sold-auction-theater/

@joeBiden do something about this!!

"Military," like "working class," is purely an aesthetical consideration for many Americans.

Related to the related thing:
https://tinyurl.com/zafy3jy3

https://jasher.substack.com/p/why-is-target-closing-stores

lilORANG posted...

Success-based residuals is interesting. Does that mean streaming services will actually have to share their streaming numbers now?

With the guild, yes. They won't be made available to the public, though.