From hearing him speak, and reading those first clapbacks and appeals to humanity, there is no doubt that Hunter Biden is charismatic and smart as hell.
But the most recent posts are a testament to why "just put it in the AI" is still (at least for now), TERRIBLE advice 😕.
I'm not running for office. But if I were, these are some of the lessons I'd take away from what happened in NY yesterday.
1. Authenticity is measurable. Voters can smell a focus group from a mile away.
2. Endorsements from the current Democratic leadership now read like warnings. The establishment wing of the party is no longer a sword. It's a question mark.
3. Conviction beats caution. The candidates who said hard things about rent, about who pays for what, about Gaza, they won. The triangulators lost.
4. Cost of living is everything. Everything else is wallpaper.
5. The middle is not a strategy. It's an empty room. Voters reached past the establishment to grab someone who actually believes something.
6. Don't fear the base. Court it. The Democrats who ran from their own voters lost. The ones who ran toward them won.
7. If you want to lead a party you have to be willing to fight inside it. Mamdani didn't ask permission. He took the field.
The lesson under the lessons: the country is tired of being managed. People want to be led.
reminding you that, during the covid-19 pandemic, i was hopeless in life and, suddenly, meryl streep, christine baranski, and audra mcdonald got together and performed the song 'the ladies who lunch'. who can survive without art, my god! incredible women!
I think part of what makes this account’s work so satisfying is they are doing a form of pattern recognition that is computerlike in many ways but actually requires a soul to pull off. Proof humans are still on top
Do you remember when radio stations used to give away concert tickets and backstage passes? I just heard a midday radio giveaway, and now the prizes are groceries, a year of gas, or rent paid. It’s a strange reminder that survival has become the prize. That’s pretty sad.
Imagine taking a few Bible verses on human sexuality as literal divine commands from God for all society, but minimizing 2,000+ verses calling for the care of immigrants, the marginalized, the oppressed, and the poor to be a personal choice.
The lesson should be that people who are surviving under unequal immigration systems often don’t have the same freedom to respond. That’s not a character flaw or even a cultural flaw. That’s what power, citizenship, and global inequality look like in practice.
so this American babe made a tiktok about how when black Americans go abroad people aren’t used to how confrontational they get towards the micro aggression and subtle racism Europeans are used to giving Africans and although she’s right, she and the comments were being condescending towards the Africans, so I’d like to correct that.
Mbappé y Haaland. El primero un tipo que habla abiertamente de política, que tuvo una novia trans y le importó poco el código de machos del fútbol. El segundo vive hablando de la mamá, de su novia de toda la vida, con un lado sensible muy manifiesto que busca romper constantemente la tradición. Hay una nueva configuración de ídolos, de tipos de ídolos y me fascina.