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  • And yet somehow in a country of 340 million people we see these polls:

    • 80% were not in favor of attacking Iran
    • 80% believe abortion should be legal
    • 60% thought Trump should be barred from office in 2021
      • Similar numbers want him removed now
    • 65% are opposed to ICE's reign of terror
      • 50% want to abolish ICE completely
    • 74% support universal free school lunches
    • 62% support raising the federal minimum wage
    • 67% want to raise teacher's salaries
    • 75% want to reverse the Citizens United ruling
    • 88% support federal laws that would guarantee PTO
    • 60% support replacing the Electoral College and FPTP voting

    But zero of those things are anywhere close to legislation because our congress is under the thumb of a dozen celebrity personalities and party flip floppers. The more diluted the voting power, the harder it is to make personal backroom deals and buy elections.

    Inflating the House doesn't solve similar problems with the Senate or Executive + Judicial branches, but it's better than nothing.

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  • In what way? It's not like they don't already have rules around how long people can debate, when sessions happen, what technology they use, the powers of committees, etc...

    It's not the 1700s any more, it doesn't take a month to organize and transit 1000 people or even 10,000 people. Hell, you can fill a football stadium with 100k people on two weeks notice when the team advances in the post season.

    Changing apportionment rules is not even that rare historically, we've just been brainwashed to think 435 is some sacrosanct number. If we scaled with the number of reps on the 1910 census we'd be well over 1400 by now.

  • Mayor Zohran Mamdani is going live on Twitch in new streaming series 'Talk with the People'

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  • 🤡🤡🤡

    Edit: "No alternative to shipping companies" but there's somehow an alternative to reaching millions of people all on a single platform that they're not leaving due to social inertia. Get on a bike loser, you can't carry a package?

    You need to educate yourself or keep your mouth shut. There are plenty of people who put a lot of time and effort into optimizing political engagement and weighing the pros and cons of all avenues.

    400k people tuned in live to watch a one-off stream of AOC playing Among Us on twitch. 4.8 MILLION people watched the vod and that was nowhere near "all of Twitch".

    I want to see YOUR math on building a system that can do that with any consistency and then fit that into a mayor's budget. Show me your road map to even sniff that audience size; where is your marketing spend going? Then on top of that, show me that there's no better way to spend that money from the political war chest; explain how not generating a few pennies for Amazon is worth cutting N community outreach/charity events.

    I'll even help you out: we have a great comparison and it's publicly traded so we know a bit about it. Truth social has about 6 million MAU, so we're almost reaching that AOC Among Us scale (assuming they all engage with your stream). It took something like $5-$10M to stand up and costs $60M to operate every year. They ate a $31M deficit in their first year.

    If you want a mayor to shell out that kind of money as a political stunt.. I guess you must love millions of big-donor dollars that finance that kind of thing.

  • Mayor Zohran Mamdani is going live on Twitch in new streaming series 'Talk with the People'

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  • psychosis

    noun

    psy·​cho·​sis sī-ˈkō-səs:

    serious mental illness characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions

    Example:

    looking at the problem we have with Big Tech and saying "yes, this is fine!"

    Absolutely nobody here is doing that. Nobody in this entire comment section has said anything close to that. Car dependant infrastructure and fossil fuels are bad but you still have to get in your car and go to work if you want to not die.

    You realize there are thousands of email platforms not owned by Big Tech? You could even host your own.

    Gmail is 30% of global email traffic. It doesn't matter what platform I choose, my message is still going to end up in someone's Gmail inbox and stolen by AI.

    If I was taking that problem seriously I would at least cut out Apple, Gmail and Microsoft domains and automatically lose 84% of my mailing list. Why don't you care about that?

    Sure, why not? Again, there are thousands of alternatives. You can even host it on your own hardware.

    Why not should be obvious: the NYC Mayor's office isn't in the market of building, hosting, operating or managing social media platforms. Full stop. That takes money, time, marketing and expertise and provides zero value to his constituents beyond performative fuzzy feelings.

    If you're so smart and righteous what's stopping you from building your own platform for these politicians? Why the fuck should Mamdani have to do it? And make sure to build up 240 million MAU while you're at it, this has to compete with Twitch's reach.

    LOL you don't need a "datacenter".

    Well shit somebody call up Amazon and let them know! This genius has figured out a way to host an interactive live streaming service scalable to millions of simultaneous users from his closet.

    Let me tell you about this thing called email...

    See my comments above, you're sacrificing your own privacy and feeling sanctimonious about it. Snail mail has far stronger legal and physical protections than your email.

    You say that like FedEx, DHL, UPS, etc. don't exist.

    Lmfao you're here to shit on Big Tech but don't care about these corporate vultures?

    Bro try trolling a little bit harder.

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  • Your argument is completely psychotic.

    Gonna send emails? No way, 90% of people use Gmail and you shouldn't give Google traffic.

    Stand up your own website? Well it better not be in AWS, GCP or Azure. You're still gonna need DDOS protection and the ability to scale to hundreds of thousands of users for this event so I hope you have the money to build your own datacenter. But be sure you're making your own ethical internet backbone. Don't want your money going to Verizon or Sprint.

    Maybe thats all a little too complicated so we'll need to go analog. But have you ever mailed a letter? USPS is run by fascists, gotta do better. Get on a bike (can't have those emissions!) and hand deliver your 20k political zines. But don't put it in their mailboxes, that's reinforcing the status quo.

  • Trump Blurts Stunning Gas Price Rant Amid Sinking Polls: ‘This is Peanuts!’

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  • I'm really tired of everyone comparing the US to countries with completely different fuel consumption profiles.

    In 2024, 72% of all US freight was transported by trucks. For reference, the EU average was 25% road (sea was 67% with optimal fuel efficiency). Freight is also transported over much longer distances, making gas prices a larger part of operating costs. So already, high gas prices hit much harder in the USA than most places.

    Secondly, population density and existing infrastructure require personal car use. There is almost never a rail or public transport option. Despite lower prices and higher average income, fuel spending is a larger percentage of household spending in the US than the EU (especially among the poorer population).

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    why are .mls and grad.mls like that?

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  • The ml multi-paragraph response under this is 🤌

    Got them going like a top. The tldr is always the same

    "When [bad country] commits an atrocity it's obviously because they're mustache twirling villains. When my dictator commits an atrocity, it's really due to complex material conditions and the state of geopolitics and capitalist counter-revolutionaries and probably the CIA and Mercury was in retrograde and the sun was in his eyes and ..."

  • Does anybody else feel like everything is off lately? What have you noticed is different?

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  • Bro we evolved to live in groups of a few dozen people and be hyper focused on physically present danger. How could an early human possibly conceive of billionaire; someone who personally holds more wealth that hundreds of millions of people.

    There's no neoliberal mind prison. People just focus on physical, tangible threats (a lack of healthcare, food prices) and not the vague concept of some guy with 9 zeros in a bank account who's causing it (often indirectly with 2+ degrees of removal). We need to wake up to the fact that no shiny ideology will magically spawn cohesion among 8 billion people.

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    The U.S. Still Doesn't Have an Answer to China's EV Dominance

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  • This is some low effort trolling, do better.

    Perverse fuel economy legislation and optimizing for high profit luxury vehicles meant consumers were choosing between a $20-30k ICE truck/suv or a $40k stripped trim EV.

    In 2024 (when automakers were finally getting off their asses), only 10 BEV models were under $40k, most with pitiful range and only 2 just under $30k.

    For comparison with ICE, there were 18 compact cars under $30k and 13 trucks under $40k. You could buy TWO Ford Mavericks for the price of an Ioniq 5 or a mid-trim Ford Mach-E.

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  • Setting aside fascism, the solution is expanded train infrastructure.

    People in here are talking about battery IP but that's not as important as simple BEV production capacity. An EV is dead simple mechanically but you've gotta have the raw resources and factories to keep up. Even then, the US would need to do some major infrastructure upgrades to support a bunch of heavy and plug-hungry EVs.

    Trains are a big investment but getting track laid and a few hundred thousand running is much more manageable than trying to replace ~280 million ICE vehicles (97.9% of all US vehicles in 2023).

    I predict China is going to feel the same car dependence pain in a few decades if they continue to ramp production and climb the cars-per-capita leader board. It's crazy expensive to keep millions of people puttering around in multi-ton metal boxes.

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    "Counterterrorism" now officially means targeting trans people. The White House will prioritize the “neutralization” of groups it considers “anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist.”

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  • What is your policy on letting a child use the internet?

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  • Even so, less is better. Being exposed X hours per week through friends is still better than giving them direct access to a dopamine drip feed for 56+ hours per week (avg for teens in 2025). If they really want it, you can set limited access via a home desktop/tablet and teach the same digital literacy.

    A kid doesn't need a smart phone in the same way that they don't need their own car. They don't need to go far distances with bulky items and passengers; they don't need pocket access to banking apps and Slack. A dumb phone/watch can keep them in contact with anyone they could possibly need to talk to.

  • 'They’re Lost, Dude’: Jon Stewart Torches DNC After Democrat With Massive Lead Says He’s Heard Zilch From Them

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  • Ah yes, it's not a train of systemic issues compounding over 250 years combined with weaponized wealth disparity to keep everyone sick, isolated and tired. It's because they won't pull up their moral bootstraps.

    Give me a fucking break.

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  • I'll be the contrarian and say IMDb ratings are pretty accurate for me. The two exceptions are super inflated Cinema™ ratings and middling ratings for comedies. A 9.3/10 silent era movie gets too much credit for having functional lighting while a 6/10 comedy gets panned for its shallow character development.

  • Jeffries says Trump impeachment not a top priority if Dems win House majority

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  • Just look at the reaction to the proposed minimum wage hike.

    • "They're only pushing this bill now because they know it won't pass"
    • "This will make inflation skyrocket"
    • "This will kill small businesses"

    Blah blah blah...

    The same song and dance happens for every bill. Universal health care? "Boohoo my taxes, waiting lines, traaaaans..."

    Abolish ICE [through budget whack a mole due to veto]? "Dems are destroying the country, another Dem shut down, they want illegals to take your job..."

    Limit Iran war? "Unconstitutional, un-American, they hate the troops, antisemitic..."

    There is one clear and obvious problem that is much harder to equivocate: the admin is shitting all over the constitution and lining their own pockets at our expense. The abductions are right there, the paper trail is right there, the election rigging is right there, the pedophilia is right there, the economic and material damage is everywhere.

    it would certainly be better messaging than "vote for us, and we'll impeach Trump...

    Idk, being a contrarian got Trump elected after a brutal first term because eggs were expensive. You think it's not gonna work with these gas prices??

    If you care about policy then stump for progressives and call for corporate ghouls to get primaried. But when you're talking about keeping a sliver of a chance to resuscitate the USA's corpse then veto is the only answer.

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  • Congress's main duties are legislation, budgeting and impeachment. To fully realize those powers they need a super majority or a cooperative president, and they'll have neither.

    The administration will veto any legislation and has fucked with budgets. There is quite literally nothing useful Congress can do (unless you think they'll have a sufficient super-majority) except obstruct or compromise with fascists.

    If they had the power to do anything useful I would expect several Constitutional amendments to top the list along with impeaching the whole executive branch and some Supreme Court justices. But they won't have that so what performative bullshit would you rather have them do?

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  • I don't follow your logic here. You know what slows a flood of garbage legislation? Forcing impeachment over and over

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  • Revolutions happen because systems are forced to adopt organisational structures that satisfy (novel) needs

    It's just that somehow those novel needs are always coincidentally "people can't afford bread"