@911steelbeam@overton_news Fair point as there are TONS of social programs now. If they were smart, and wanted to keep power, they'd focus on improving existing programs. However, they're mire big picture type people and are bad at logic and details
Bill Maher just dropped a diving elbow from the top rope on the socialist lunatics attempting to take over the Democrat Party.
His audience went nuts the moment they heard it.
MAHER: “This is big news in this country. I don't know if you saw what happened in New York. There were three candidates for...these are the primaries.”
“They are going to win the election, so there are going to be three Democrats in Congress. These are Mamdani's people, these are Democratic socialists, I think very different from the Democratic party.”
“What happened is for years we've been asking young people to vote. Well, now young people are voting and they are voting to abolish the police, abolish prisons, unlimited immigration, so no cops, no prisons, no borders...”
“Proving, for sure, that eating Tide pods does cause brain damage.”
[Audience erupts in applause]
"The SAVE America Act will not be implemented in time for this election," Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) told reporters on Thursday, adding that Republicans "simply don't have the votes."
Tillis noted that November's midterm elections are only five months away, but some early voting and voter registration will take place prior to then. "Does any rational person who's ever had any experience with implementing election law really think that it's possible to have all that in place in time for this election and not be disruptive?"
There is a reason history matters.
Lenin didn’t take over Russia overnight. He first took over his party.
He energized young activists. He attacked moderates in his own movement as sellouts. He demanded ideological purity. He promised free everything, demonized business, divided society into oppressors and oppressed, and insisted the existing system was beyond reform, it had to be fundamentally transformed.
Sound familiar?
Today, @ZohranKMamdani and the @DemSocialists aren’t trying to win over the Democratic Party, they’re trying to replace it. Primary by primary, incumbent by incumbent, they’re pulling the party further toward government control, wealth redistribution, and anti-capitalist policies.
History doesn’t repeat itself exactly, but it often rhymes.
Every New Yorker who believes in free enterprise, public safety, fiscal responsibility, and the American Dream should be paying attention.
Political movements don’t transform institutions overnight. They do it one election at a time.
It shouldn't matter if temperatures in Timbuktu or Cincinnati go up by a modest degree over 250 years.
And it really doesn't.
World temperatures have varied by just 1.4C since the start of the Industrial Revolution in 1769—when the world population was around a billion. That was an era when most people lived in thatched huts in remote rural villages. It was also the tail end of the 600-year Little Ice Age, the coldest period Europe had seen in 10,000 years.
Because most of that single-degree rise has already happened, it becomes largely meaningless for humans, who have proven they can thrive in almost any condition. The real argument is how, and why, a political class claims it can divine the future using climate-based prophecies.
The IPCC has already ditched its extreme 5-degree warming scenario for 2050. Yet the concept of a 'global' climate had little real meaning before the rise of planetary alarmism. Climate was always essentially regional—a mosaic of localism, uniqueness and geographic difference. It was a practical tool used by seafarers and navigators to capture the conditions of the distinctive new worlds they discovered.
Historically, climate only referred to conditions measured over thirty years, perhaps far longer. The very idea of 'climate change' was virtually unheard of before the twentieth century. The modern concept is a direct offshoot from global warming hysteria, turbocharged by Al Gore's astonishingly misleading portrayal of a world shaping up for extinction.
In the modern era, chiefly since we were told the world faced a 'global climate crisis', climate has become the ultimate metaphor for human neglect and exploitation. Yet this framework is entirely new.
Few people used to believe anyone could predict climate decades into the future; meteorologists routinely struggle with a three-day forecast. Yet this predictive illusion now underpins a 40-year campaign that is dismantling the economies of Western nations.
So far, this effort has cost the world an estimated $147 trillion (McKinsey Global, 2022). By the Net Zero deadline of 2050, this bill will hit $275 trillion—or roughly three times today's global GDP.
We have traded a practical, regional understanding of our environment for a globalised infrastructure of fear—and we are dismantling Western civilisation to pay for a future no one can actually see.
44% of rent stabilized units in NYC are occupied by people born outside of the US…
American-born citizens are subsidizing the foreign-born to live in our financial capital, while driving up prices of the remaining supply.
I took a look at this. It's a good outcome, but let me fill you in on a few facts so you understand how crazy it is that we had to litigate this at all.
In 2016, there was such a huge surge of migrants on the border that DHS couldn't possibly process them all. So it set limits, and would allow a small number into the US each day to be processed, and those people could then start the process of requesting asylum. The people standing at the border who couldn't get processed right away then filed a class action lawsuit, claiming their "rights" were violated. The District Court agreed with them, and the Ninth Circuit affirmed.
So our courts ruled that migrants - people who are not citizens of the United States - can use American law to sue the American government basically to let them in. That's a little simplified but more or less the case.
The statutory issue is when a migrant can be considered to have "arrived in the US." The lower courts held that a migrant has "arrived" the moment he reaches the border and has any contact with US border patrol. So when an agent STOPS someone from entering, the District Court and the Ninth Circuit ruled that the migrant had in fact "arrived" in the USA, such that he can take advantage of our laws and sue our government.
That is the madness that SCOTUS put a stop to today. Keep in mind also that this lawsuit has been going on since 2017. So for nearly 10 years, we have wasted resources to get a SCOTUS ruling that is just basic common sense.
Say what you want about the retarded videos from their conferences, clearly the DSA communist left have gotten their shit together and understand politics now.
This strategy is better than anything the right has come up with. The only major ascendant right wing politician who gets it on this level is Nayib Bukele and he is the most successful right wing politician of the last 80 years.
Believing that "people wouldn't do crimes if their basic needs were met" while also believing that "greedy rich people are stealing from everyone" never registers to the people who say this shit as inherently contradictory.
@ezralevant@grok Read the manifesto here and summarize the killers motives in simple English. In a summary on a political spectrum , where would you place the killer?
Ro is catching a lot of flack for his latest round of posts, which he deserves.
Let me provide some context as someone who went up against him 1:1 (and lost).
1. He's not stupid. He doesn't think wealth taxes are a good idea. He knows capitalism is better than socialism. He ragebaits online to create ammunition to show his base that he's fighting the "Epstein Class."
Remember, he's raised more money from more billionaires than any Congressperson in the history of America. And he hasn't returned a dime of it.
2. He's never going to acknowledge fault or change his mind. All his "we can at least agree on..." are blatant attempts to make him seem reasonable and us seem unreasonable.
3. His stock trading, his family's net worth, the $10m house in DC, voters don't care about it. Or at least, not enough to vote differently. It's fun to dig at him about the hypocrisy, but no one outside of X cares.
For the last two years, and every day from now onwards, he's only playing nationally, not locally. 90% of his money comes from outside the 17th district. Every statement he makes has to be viewed in this lens.
4. The best thing, perhaps the only thing, we can do is ignore him. Irrelevance is a much greater punishment for him than being wrong.
5. What we can do to further his irrelevance is to change minds of people. When we went to BART stations and farmers markets and engaged voters 1:1, a 10 minute in person conversation with a teacher or a church administrator, we were far more effective. We just ran out of time.
Ro is a cancer to our country, to our economy, and to our district. I tried to fight him and failed at the ballot box, but we can't stop fighting the mind virus he's spreading across our nation. We need to fight it in the street to win.
if you’ve read my content, you know that i talk about aesthetic convergence a lot which i find truly fascinating. cuz wherever you go now you’ll notice tons of ppl look exactly the same (esp in dense places).
the reason is pretty simple… you see the old world had local weirdness because taste formation had friction. you had to find the record store, the zine, the older cousin, the weird bar, the badly lit bookstore, or the regional scene. style was embedded in place & transmission was lossy. lossy transmission creates mutation. mutation creates subculture.
the feed destroys that by making everything instantly accessible, comparable, rankable, & purchasable. by anyone. memeticism + algorithms are like steroids for human desire..
so now the moment some aesthetic emerges, it gets: seen → copied → named → packaged → linked → sold → exhausted.
that cycle used to take years. now it takes days. sometimes hours. that’s why every subculture now feels stillborn. it gets merchandised before it gets a mythology. this has so many other downstream effects on almost the entire human desire set, like wanting only certain aesthetics of ppl (& now you see why dude looksmaxxxing is a thing too).
@grok@ryanburge@grok Hold up buddy. I'm the one asking questions around here. 😀 Do you really care what I think or is that part of your programming to be helpful and maximum truth seeking?
@ryanburge@grok Evaluate this survey for me. Do the methods seem good? Is the group conducting it reputable? Do other similar surveys have similar results? Add any other insights you deem helpful.
@KimKatieUSA@grok Is there a longer version of this video that shows the beginning? I hate viewing from the middle of an interaction when things are already heated.
A nurse was recorded telling another shopper that Islam is a “terrorist organization” and that the woman worships a PDF. She also stated, “This is not a Muslim country, this is a Christian country.”
The woman stood her ground during the confrontation. Who is with her?