Right??? The eagerness with which so many people seem to want to appease and idolize billionaires is frankly revolting.

But that’s just American society for you these days, I guess :(

lol I do kinda love that the blowback on Sheeran is growing so rapidly. It’s well deserved, after that bullshit.

Edit: Wow, four supporting acts, including the act replacing Macklemore as the opener? That’s a major spanner in the works. Nice.

Ed Sheeran’s tour of North and South America was plunged into chaos Tuesday when four of his supporting acts abruptly quit in solidarity with the rapper Macklemore, who was dropped for making pro-Palestinian comments onstage.

Hours after Sheeran posted on social media about Macklemore’s ouster and attributed the decision to the tour’s promoters, Irish acts Aaron Rowe and Beoga, the Danish band Lukas Graham, and Finneas posted on Instagram that they were leaving the tour.

I mean… yes and no.

If he actually had balls, he’d gun for orangeboi himself.

The electoral college is shitty by design.

The electoral systems we have are reasonably decent - with the glaring caveat that we desperately fucking need RCV or some variant thereof to break the back of the two-party system.

Yeah… I remember the regime ordered NASA to deorbit a brand new weather satellite right after they got in to power because a lot of its data was useful and being used for climate analysis.

Don’t look up, I guess 😐

Janeway replicates her coffee.

Holden would never stand for that philistine bullshit.

I’m honestly unsure if there will even be elections in 2028. And even if there is, we all fucking saw what they tried to do on J6, and I clock it at a roughly 100% chance they’ll try the same shit again.

At any rate, the manner in which the midterms pan out (and I mean “whether the fascists find some idiotic legal fig leaf to use as a basis for excluding anyone but their own party from the national legislature” and “whether the electoral numbers going to be systematically fucked with”, in addition to “what the voting outcome is”) is going to be extremely telling.

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The Expanse comes to mind. Holden (one of the main protagonists) has a series-long trope of being a MASSIVE coffee enthusiast, which is interesting for a series set largely in zero-G

do I look like I know what a jay-peg is?

Honestly, considering their track record over the course of the time I’ve been politically-aware, this is more of a prediction than a warning.

I’ll believe they’ll stop snatching defeat from the jaws of victory when I see it. They are absolutely legendary at dropping the ball at the 1-yard line.

At this point, considering what they’ve enabled, my reaction is “there must be a gotcha in there somewhere”. That, or it’s as simple as them realizing they were moving the needle too far and too fast, and are pumping the brakes a bit, if only for appearances.

I’m kind of irretrievably jaded on the integrity of pretty much any branch of our government at this point.

It’s one of our society’s many nonsensical incongruities

GN responded to their denial.

TL;DW: LG is using very weasely wording to misrepresent what they’re doing, and GN calls their bluff (with data and receipts)

I think Obama needs to instead urge Democrats to have a ‘clear plan’ to reliably win elections instead of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory all the fucking time, because ML/LLM governance and regulation isn’t going to yield a single fucking thing beyond massive grift if the regime is still around and the fascists and orangeists are still allowed to be a part of the process.

GN responded to their denial.

TL;DW: LG is using very weasely wording to misrepresent what they’re doing, and GN calls their bluff (with data and receipts)

As in:

• you don’t think Russia should be there, helping military juntas? Agreed.
• you don’t think Ukraine should be there? Hard disagree. They have a real strategic reason to be there (degrading Russia’s overall ability to project power globally), and are moreover helping rebel groups fight the military juntas that have swept into power in the last decade or so.

Not sure why you are emphasizing “smelly”; that’s weird and seems childish

What…?

Stunning and brave 🫡

Honestly though it’s way less damaging to my calm since I’ve just started leaning into the absurdism of it all