This is unironically good for Kamala’s chances. The average person in the US is racist, but not racist enough to not to feel second hand embarrassment from such overt comments, which may, ironically, make them a little bit less racist and make them think twice before voting Republican in 2024.
For all of y’all anxiety-pilled people: this is great news. Biden was stuck in negative momentum because his health issues had been exposed and were not going to stop resulting in terrible headlines, which is a problem whoever comes next is not going to have, unless the delegates are somehow stupid enough to pull another dinosaur from below the rug.
More interestingly: now that Biden has pulled out because he’s patently too old, as it was a concern for plenty of voters, this is a golden opportunity to put the focus on the other candidate whose age is a somewhat less obvious but still noticeable issue.
Plenty of other countries’ electoral campaigns advance far faster than Americans expect theirs to move, and US media is talking about politics all the damn time. If the Dems don’t do a massive screw up somehow, I think they’ll find out that switching the candidate will be far easier than they were expecting.
Disciplining the civil population for verbally expressing their opposition to a fascism sympathizer. I hope we all know what the end goal of this is.
On that, I agree.
This will be great for the workers, but I don’t think it will necessarily fix the issues in Bethesda’s organization when it comes to game development (and it won’t make them worse either).
Given what we know from Starfield, Bethesda is really lacking when it comes to planning: they aren’t doing a good job at establishing a compact vision for the final product which also results in having issues to establish an agile workflow to get from start to finish. In the best cases, this results in ludonarrative disonance where the story isn’t really supported by the mechanics of the game (example: Fallout 4’s story incentivizes the player to hurry up and look for their son, but they assign a lot of resources into making sandbox mechanics such as those related to base building); in the worst cases, this results in teams returning the ball to each other all the time because they aren’t properly coordinated to build things in the way other teams of the studio needs them, which loses a lot of time and becomes even more glaringly obvious the larger the project is.
The silver lining is: this problem isn’t so noticeable when the designers have the template of Oblivion in their minds and they’re making Skyrim, but it was going to be completely exposed when making the jump to a new IP (and thus a new universe), with a new engine, with some large design jumps such as ceding ground to dynamically created areas; so ES6 doesn’t have to be as much of a low point as it has been Starfield, as long as they’re conservative in their design choices. I’d vastly prefer the leadership of Bethesda to be completely reorganized, which would allow them to innovate by taking well measured risks, but I don’t have much hope for that scenario.
Hey folks, you ain’t gonna believe this,
Yeah, I mentioned it as a factor, not as an all-determining fact that explains the whole of Israeli demographics.
Your average law enforcement agent already has a worrying tendency to be a moron. Now imagine if that person is also a conspiracy theorist.
I think… I think it’s one that begins at “Il” and ends with “legal”. So it’s legal after all! Nothing to see here, folks, move along.
Pedro Sánchez was an hypocrite during his first years under the spotlight of national politics. Watching him grow a spine and become a decent president that I’m sometimes even a bit proud of has been a surprise for sure, but a welcome one.
There’s a very logical filter at play here: if you didn’t think seeking beef with Arabs and participating in a colonialist project in the 50s/60s/70s was a good idea, you would have stayed in the US, and otherwise, you would have moved to Israel. This made it so that Jews in the US lean liberal and Jews in Israel lean ethno-nationalistic, in very broad terms.
Or in a less ludicrous example, Romani people. It would still be met with relentless opposition from whoever you were trying to take the land from.
AOC - Pelosi’s protege? With all respect that is possible, this opinion is disconnected from reality.
I’ll just paste the top headlines of Googling “AOC Pelosi”:
Inside Nancy Pelosi’s War With AOC and the Squad - Apr 15, 2021
‘She got so mad at me’: book on the ‘Squad’ details AOC-Pelosi clashes - Nov 30, 2023
Why AOC is behind Biden — while Nancy Pelosi is not - 5 days ago
Video features deepfakes of Nancy Pelosi, Alexandria … - Apr 28, 2023
The clash between AOC and Nancy Pelosi is now a play - Jun 26, 2024
AOC says her life ‘completely transformed’ for the better after Pelosi stepped down from leadership - Nov 30, 2023
Ocasio-Cortez Said Nancy Pelosi Mocked Her Because Of Her Age, New Book Relates - Nov 30, 2023
They want a plant in Europe to produce cars locally, rather than importing them from China, which will soon have pretty high tariffs. The mere fact of not having them be transported across half the globe is great for the environment. Spain isn’t at the top of the EU in terms of green energy percentage, but given how efficient solar energy is here (and the fact that we’re mostly disconnected from the central European grids), it will also be a positive in the medium term. And on top of it all, MG produces electric cars.
The only downside I see here is the reliance on foreign capital.
Twitter has 368 million active users, a huge chunk of which are presumably European. As a communication platform, it must be regulated if it’s doing social harm.
And don’t forget the last step, which is also the most dangerous of all: the crazies get so organized that they become politically relevant.
Also, Reddit is flooded with coomer level maniacs who are desperately looking for any kind of discussion. To the point they misread shit intentionally just to start some shit.
That’s extremely frequent here too.
I see Israel is working hard to achieve that peace deal /s
Biden managed to get a bunch of unions to endorse him for the elections, both due to negotiations and his policy. Given that Kamala was in his team, the only thing she needs is the will to declare that she will continue along Biden’s lines.