Oh yeah, I’ve seen her before, my gf shows me her tik toks, didn’t know her name or that she was on YouTube, will have to check out more of her stuff.

I agree the lawyers that dominated, and still do to some extent, politics for the last half century did use very tricky language to disguise what they were actually going to do. Trump though doesn’t really do that, take for example Venezuela, he’ll either blatantly lie: “they’re sending fentanyl” or be blatantly honest saying the quiet part out loud: “we’re going for the oil”.

Even for immigration trump wasn’t really hiding behind an implication that criminals meant murderers and rapists, he was explicitly saying they were only going after the murderers and rapists and just lying to his constituency.

Trump just doesn’t have the brain to come up with the weasely stances the ivy League lawyers have been using in the past. His statements are very direct and simple with little room for interpretation. He’s using lies rather than language to trick people.

I’ve come to the conclusion that this is a personality difference between “judging” and “perceiving” in the Myers Briggs sense. You seem to be solidly on the judging side of the spectrum while I’m pretty far on the perceiving side. Neither is “correct” which leads to arguments like this, judgers are annoyed by perceivers for their laziness and perceivers are annoyed by judgers for their pedentry and chauvinism.

Again neither is right, so the best thing to do is be aware of this difference and try to avoid the things that annoy people. Perceivers need to try to not make those grammatical errors and judgers need to not call them out for it.

On the political side yes we should be making the best possible arguments in the best language when trying to bring others to our side, I’d say my original comment wasn’t trying to do that, just an offhand remark but either way. Along with that we should avoid calling out and judging people for the language they use, as long as it’s coherent and not offensive, as that alienates people.

Most car manufacturers have ties to fascists. The German and Japanese brands collaborated with their fascist governments during WWII, Volkswagen was in some sense created by Hitler, and now we have musk running Tesla.

OK, but do you get distracted by my use of legit instead of legitimately or the tons of other things we all do that simplify things but deviate from “the kings English”. Yeah it’s lazy but you understand it and that’s all that matters, to me at least.

What would you say to a person replying “is it that hard to say legitimately, just type one extra letter and your auto complete will do it for you”

Also out of curiosity would you say you’re “judging” in the Myers Briggs sense? Maybe this is just down to a difference in personality.

1. Not everyone without a formal education is a trumpist, and looking down on them like that is classist and part of the reason we lost the election
2. Using the right there is not a sign of a good education, good critical thinking skills, reasoning, eloquence and rhetorical skills do. Especially by college professors give less of a shit of whether you use the right your then if your argument is strong, well backed and makes sense.

The only thing using the wrong there shows is that you’re not an AI.

No, but I really don’t care, and I don’t really get people who do. Like your brain read it and understood it very easily, it’s not like I’m misspelling something where your brain has to put in extra work to figure out what dreme means or something. At least for me my brain just reads it “out loud” in my head where there, they’re and their have no differences.

Legit question why do you care? Does it make it more difficult to read or understand?

The linked article is one about trump meeting with Machado, not the insurrection act.

This may be there backup plan if AI demand doesn’t materialize and there stuck with billions of dollars worth of data center capacity doing nothing. Could even cause a race to the bottom and bring game streaming to rock bottom prices.

Is this anything like og cube world, before the official release?

This is how you know they’re sending in people from bum fuck nowhere Alabama, no midwesterner would look at that and think that’s a good place to run, or even drive.

Yeah, this is why every article that mentions Venezuelas huge oil reserves needs to also mention it is the costliest/ lowest margin oil too. Not all oil reserves are the same, the Saudis being able to pull a barrel out for $15 and sell it for $80 is a way different position then Venezuela pulling a barrel out for $60 and selling it for $70.

It is probably just part of the media manufacturing consent for regime change: “look how resource rich Venezuela is and how poor the people are, it must be because the evil Maduro regime” completely ignoring sanctions. Yeah mismanagement is part of the reason Venezuela is doing poorly but even if they were run perfectly with no corruption they still wouldn’t be living like the Saudis.

Trump’s just trying to juice the betting markets on whether we’ll bomb Iran or Mexico next.

This won’t solve that though, “strategic” bombing campaigns never work. The best they can do is occasionally knock out a leader which causes more immediate violence as the underlings fight for control afterward. This will only cause more chaos and violence.

The only thing that will stop the cartels is getting rid of the constant flow of money and guns flowing south from the US for drugs. Until that happens there will always be someone willing to perpetrate violence if the money is good enough.

Aren’t these already public? Whenever I canvas they give us a list with everyone registered and their party affiliation, and if people ask how we know we tell them that it’s from the voter rolls.

Wasnt even that adversarial, rumor is that Maduro was willing to take a deal to leave with some guarantees but Rubio shot it down because he wanted Maduros head to show all his rabid anti-communist constituents in south florida.

So the U.S. government telling the U.S. population they can’t do dealings with Cuba

That is not what the embargo on Cuba is, the embargo on Cuba is the US telling the world population that they can’t deal with Cuba. The US embargo says not only that we won’t trade with Cuba, we won’t trade with anyone who trades with Cuba. The US uses extraterritorial means to force third parties to stop trade with Cuba.

Don’t take my word for it take it from the UN general assembly, in the resolution GA/12650 in 2024:

Concerned about the continued promulgation and application by Member States of laws and regulations, such as that promulgated on 12 March 1996 known as “the Helms-Burton Act”, the extraterritorial effects of which affect the sovereignty of other States, the legitimate interests of entities or persons under their jurisdiction and the freedom of trade and navigation,

This resolution was passed with 187 in favour and 2 against ( US and Israel) and a resolution like this has been passed by nearly every UN session in the past couple decades . Everyone voted yes not because they necessarily want to trade with Cuba but because they don’t want to set the precedent that the US can unilaterally blockade a country from the global economy. A precedent that is being exercised now to say Venezuela can’t sell its own oil. They’ll probably even cite the Cuba embargo laws as justification for this when/if they ever get dragged into court for this.

This is what we get for normalizing the blatantly illegal embargo of Cuba. Now the US thinks it can say who can trade in the Caribbean.

https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-page-leave-california-wealth-billionaire-tax-koop-google-2026-1

IDK why OP didn’t post it

I don’t think MAGA is more informed on this, they just have a different myopic view. They’re only listening to the Venezuelan diaspora in the US who are almost entirely happy about Maduros ousting.

The reality is Maduro is a controversial figure in Venezuela, just like trump is here. A majority don’t like him, a smaller percentage hate him and some people like him. Ignoring any of these factions and flattening all Venezuelans down to one opinion is why we got here. Trump was buying everything the diaspora was telling him about how everyone over there hates Maduro and we just need to take him out and his whole regime will fall down like a house of cards. Maduros regime wasn’t a house of cards like they were told though and it does have some base that will require a lot more than I think trump is willing to do to topple it.

Never said they were all millionaires, only that they tend to be wealthier. In general immigrants from developing countries are on the higher end of income from the country they emigrate from.

Also 7.9 million Venezuelans did not cross the Darien gap, most Venezuelan migrants stayed in South America in neighboring countries like Colombia, Brazil and Ecuador. Those that could afford it did make their way to the US but not all of them crossed the Darien gap and could’ve taken alternate safer and more expensive routes, if not legal routes including hopping on a plane.

I fail to see how it’s any of those things you just mentioned, I didn’t say don’t listen to Venezuelans or even don’t listen to the Venezuelans in the US, I’m pointing out the biases that that group possess and telling people not to overgeneralize and think “all the Venezuelans here are cheering, so every Venezuelan must love this” . Saying that emigre Venezuelans are representative of Venezuelans as a whole would be racist, classist, xenophobic etc.