man... blakeman got my vote, but hell... he absolutely sucks on a debate stage. he portrayed himself as slightly less gooder than the trailer park trash we call governor.
"she sucks so vote for me" is never a winning message
she drove the conversation with the help of the mods as he spoke with an unnaturally elevated voice that made him seem fake.
disappointing. i need to move to FL with the rest of my friends. that's ok, i guess... i have no friends left in NY anyway...
@VeritasPerpetuo@atrupar in fairness, kamala never won a single primary. the last time the dems elected a presidential candidate was obama.
2016 - they screwed bernie and installed hillary
2020 - primaries were cancelled(covid) and biden chosen
2024 - kamala pushed in at last second
it wasn't napster that was killing the industry. there are tons of artists that would have never been discovered without it. the issue was more about having to buy a $18 CD(1990's money) to discover that there's only one song worth listening to on the album. this caused so much disappointment that people stopped buying CDs. it got so bad that tower records and "the wiz" installed kiosks with headphones so you could listen to an album while standing in the middle of the store. napster forced artists to create a quality product.
the best music in my lifetime was produced during the napster era, regardless of genre. it allowed me to listen to a band's music before deciding to invest in their album. good bands who embraced the concept did damned well(blink 182, limp bizket, korn, offspring, foo fighters, smashing pumpkins, etc).
metalica, a band that was discovered through bootlegged cassette tapes because no radio station would play their music, decided to go against their own roots and fight this. this was seen as a betrayal by their fans.
@tboyblues people once said the same exact thing about detroit... it was considered to be the city of the future. now it's full of abandoned houses with plumbing ripped out and sold for scrap metal.
well... you're somewhat right. ukraine, as a nation, didn't exist. it was russia with ukrainian people living in the region. russia forced the jews to live ONLY in poland and what's now ukraine. the ukrainian people weren't happy about it and slaughtered a bunch of them
they DID side with hitler because he promised an independent ukrainian nation. hitler betrayed them, but the sentiment against the jews didn't change
the jews in ukraine DO NOT consider themselves ukrainian. they're russians and speak russian. part of putin's version of the war suggests he wants to protect the russians(the jews)
if you ever meet a russian jew, they're actually from what is now ukraine.
@theblaze The President probably shouldn't have said that. Zelenskyy needs the world to feel pain to get them invested in his war. he's winning the PR battle, so all the support would go to him.
for the EU, it makes sense. they can bring in canadian labor and choose which countries(like croatia) they want to build up.
i'm not sure what canada would get out of it. what does the EU have to offer that canada doesn't already have? if canadians can make more money overseas, they'll just stay overseas and wouldn't be canadian anymore.
which brings me too... you have all the resources the world wished they had. why aren't your leaders taking advantage of that and making your nation self reliant? you guys can be so wealthy that taxes would never be needed... AT LEAST for the next hundred years...
and it's not just carney... it's every leader you ever had. why has no one ever built canada? it doesn't make sense!
@Mega_Halifax@Tablesalt13 they at least need a passport... a document that shows the country of origin, where they've been, name of the person... etc etc... just like i would need if i wanted to go to canada
@DogsAreMoreCool@Tablesalt13 the swiss will stick to their reasoning. at some point, however, they'll be out populated. this is the danger of a democracy, and is the reason why every democracy ultimately fails.
51% of the people can take away every right from the other 49%
@Jake61443536 @Tablesalt13 of course they can... but without a visa or a passport, if that's what the agreement is, it'll be like me traveling from NY to NJ. no idea who's coming in and from where
rubio isn't going to run in 2028. his name wasn't mentioned once during that huge mid-term convention. this suggests(to me) he's going to take a back seat for vance.
switzerland has a shot. they banned muslim face coverings and the construction of new minerets. their problem is that they're an actual democracy... meaning once 51% of the vote is established, it's all over. every law gets changed at the ballot box