dumb enough to think that a fresh face also means a fresh start instead of just more of the same late capitalist rot

absolutely

Do they have anyone who is liked by donors and who is at least not reprehensible to voters?

multiple governors that are not personally doing genocide but refuse to condemn the president or party?

The Constitution’s Eighth Amendment serves many important functions, but it does not authorize federal judges to wrest those rights and responsibilities from the American people and in their place dictate this Nation’s homelessness policy

just perfect double speak

Rather than criminalize mere status, Grants Pass forbids actions like “occupy[ing] a campsite” on public property “for the purpose of maintaining a temporary place to live.” Grants Pass Municipal Code Under the city’s laws, it makes no difference whether the charged defendant is homeless, a backpacker on vacation passing through town, or a student who abandons his dorm room to camp out in protes on the lawn of a municipal building.

just literally and unironically that_Anatole_France_quote.jpg

Biden did call him out, repeatedly but the format would've been fucked for that with a competent person in his seat. 2 minutes of nonstop gish gallopping bullshit cannot be refuted in a 1 minute response. the moderators never tried to force trump to stay on topic, or to actually answer the questions. they did this because they want him to come back so they can get money on the next debate, it's also why there was no public audience

we should be able to step back from the horserace and say "it's bad to let a man spout genocidal lies on TV for an hour" and journalists should have a responsibility to challenge that, regardless of how 'partisan' that would be in the context of the competition. CNN does not have journalists, of course, just craven little eichmanns and goebbels

Condom use in the past year among sexually active 16–24 year old men increased from 61.0% in 1990 to 82.1% in 2000

the earliest data i can find is from the late 80s, with expectedly slightly lower 52%. then we're into the reeds. there's claims condom use was down from some high point before the pill was introduced but i cannot verify this. but idk there's just a very strong pattern with more recent generations tending to increase use, and a reverse of this trend has not yet borne out.

conservative politicians are always hard at work getting that number down though, i think 2020+ might present interesting data but i don't think anyone has that published yet

according to the cdc the youngest demographic remains the best about that. and to whatever extent "Well she is (or I am) on hormonal birth control" exists, it's significantly different from how men used to make up lies to avoid using them

it's just labor dynamics. why soldiers don't mutiny is the same as why a workforce won't go on strike: material interest, manipulation, and discipline.

its about to happennnn

im reading about medieval afghanistan

is China a country where courts can actually do that? all the charts seem to place them as using civil law so it seems a bit anglo to assume a court decision would impact more than the immediate case

going behind congress, outside the law to give child murderers child murder tools: just normal statescraft, he doesn't want to do it!

having his "keystone" legislation blocked by single members of his party or literally unelected rulebook-scolds: he tried his very best, these are the most important issues to him

liberals are just debilitatingly naive and credulous. SAYING SOMETHING DOES NOT MAKE IT SO!

that's just convenient for films, not a documentary detail of yankee lifestyle. im sure somebody does it tho

that was basically it as far as i'd heard. canadian gov't has lacklustre language accessibility so chinese citizens need more help navigating it

i think it's relatively accurate and illustrative to put FDR/LBJ/Truman into a socdem box--they point out, with Typical American Extravagance the inherent contradictions of this political programme. the rightful disdain these names elicit is what people should feel for "social democracy" writ-large.

putting Teddy Roosevelt, a naked imperialist & Bernie, an unaccomplished collaborateur on the ends really completes the picture

e: im sorta dumb i copied their demsoc framing when its obv about social democracy, not democratic socialism.

i am actually the dictator general on all posts i participate in, not simply when i am OP.

this post is now dedicated to the brave mujahideen of afghanistan

this is just a basic contradiction of capital, obviously its true in the long term but capitalists will always pursue the road of maximum profit to the ends of a common ruin of the classes. they're going to do surge pricing and all manner of new horrors if not restrained by a state or overthrown

pricing can be completely automated

when that's working there's no reason they couldn't do surge pricing. an infrastructure existing with only the prospect of modifying their pricing algorithms & updating it more frequently to enchance profitability.

you can't squeeze blood from a fucking stone

you can bleed an awful lot from monopolized essential goods

the byz royal family were running Montferrat at the time there is no escape

Giudicato Sardenga "what if we had an italy literally named guido?"

oh no i'm not falling for that one again, if you want me to change into a cute maid outfit before sitting on the couch you're going to have to ask nicely