i think people from the US officially lost their right to being smug and mock chinas authoritarian surveillance state the past decade or so
you have AI flock cameras, palantir, massive surveillance state, being slave to billionaires, cant even touch a pool of water
BREAKING: In its next CBA, the league is proposing a max contract length of 5 yrs for free agent players switching teams, 6 years to retain their own players. No deferred contracts. Qualifying offer is gone too. Also, 5 years to free agency for players 30 or older.
@nikicaga Idk they run into each other at a major inn on the main travel route, it's a timing coincidence but they probably would've run into each other anyway along the kingsroad. The Jeffrey catspaw thing is also kinda famously disliked by many book readers
The response from Letitia James, Hakeem Jeffries, Jamie Harrison etc has essentially been to claim their candidates were entitled to victory and that it was underhanded (and maybe racist) to primary them. Not exactly a mystery why that wing of the party is struggling with voters.
@DegenerateBets1@CameronCorduroy I think there are more issues than benefits to this but the reasoning would be, at least for decisions with mostly long term implications like brexit, that voters that will have to live with the consequences of a decision ought to have a greater say in the decision
"Rhaenyra told me the greens keep eating her sons so I asked how many sons she has and she said she just sends another one to to the front afterwards so I said it sounds like shes just feeding her sons to the greens and then baela started crying"
@mattyglesias its not that interesting, hes well liked in his district and his challenger had zero institutional backing by any progressive faction in city politics