Wait you’re telling me it’s Kickero? 🤯

It was a test lick! I’m very well hydrated!

You’re asking me if it’s better that there are ~14 million less Nazis in the US than you thought?

That is also an oversimplification, because you’re assuming that all 36% of the people who didn’t vote had the option to vote. We are the most imprisoned population on earth, with some states (including one of the 2024 swing states) removing voting rights from people convicted of felonies.

That’s not even going into things like people working in jobs that have no problem violating the law and refusing to let them take time off to vote, people being illegitimately denied the vote at the polls over ID issues, long poll lines that mean some people wind up unable to vote for unavoidable reasons (childcare, disability, etc), 14 states don’t allow no-excuse voting by mail, I can keep going on with all the problems people run into while voting in the US if you want.

Obviously that’s not all of that 36%, but you are living in a dream world if you think every American citizen that wanted to vote got to.

Let’s not rewrite history, this is Trump’s first win through the popular vote. The American people chose Clinton the first time around, the electoral system set up to appease slavers 200+ years ago is what put him in power in 2016.

They fucking deflated him 😭

I think the largest US plane crash in the past 20+ years having happened within the past 3 months might have something to do with the increased reporting, not politics.

My knowledge is more related to the meat side of things than the egg side honestly, but here’s a citation: 70 percent of chicken farmers with no other job live below the poverty line. That’s not people who work on a chicken farm (although they’re certainly not paid well either), that’s the people who own it.

These farms may technically be ‘small scale’ in that they aren’t owned by a giant corporation, but they often contain multiple times as many chickens as their European counterparts, in more crowded conditions, which is part of why disease spreads so fast.

For meat, the reason the farmers are in this mess is because separate companies buy and process the chicken, and they won’t buy from you if you don’t follow their arbitrary and frequently changing guidelines. They also don’t pay a given amount per pound, they pay you depending on the yields other chicken farmers got on their farms. And the farmers don’t have another place to sell their chickens, it’s these companies or nothing, as 20 companies control basically the entire US market.

It’s illegal in Georgia for anyone other than poll workers to give people water while they stand in line to vote. Also, it’s not mandated that poll workers do so.

Seems relevant when it comes to paying voters.

It doesn’t have to be gay sex, is the thing. You can criticize homophobes without engaging in homophobia yourself. “But they’re the ones that are upset by it, so in this situation homophobia is okay” is a bad excuse for it, and it also glosses over that they are not the only ones affected by homophobic imagery.

JD Vance is a racist, would you cheer on images that depict him marrying a non-white woman as shameful? If you are more comfortable with one than the other, you should ask yourself why.

On the off chance this is a genuine question, Trump is depicted as subservient to Putin and bad for the US in this image. While both of those things can be true, the way this was conveyed visually was with gay oral sex. Portraying politicians you don’t like engaged in gay sex is only a snappy own if you accept the right wing position that gay sex is shameful and exploitative. You don’t have to do that to criticize them.

For such a long article it’s really disappointing they didn’t at all go into how chicken farmers themselves are ratfucked by contracts with processing plants and live below the poverty line if they don’t have a second job.

FCC investigating Disney, ABC

:D

for DEI initiatives

D:

The Trump administration’s federal hiring freeze is squeezing the team of meteorologists

*Team of meteorologist

Yeah, them all being the same is what makes me think person; when you look at those AI images with legible text, the text wiggles and is inconsistent when you compare something like one A to another A. But if you’re a person using linocut stamps or duplicating things in photoshop, letters will look the same.

There’s other little things too, like the knot in the wood that the paper dips into, that make me lean more towards ‘real but strange looking photo.’

I’m torn on whether this is AI. The AI detectors I put it in say no, and the letters being consistent (all T’s looking like all other T’s, etc) says real person to me rather than machine generated. The wood grain is also consistent beneath the lettering, and it and the chain link fence don’t meander or disappear in any weird ways that I see.

That said the building in the background looks weird to me, as does the lighting. And the combination of the wood grain plus the texture on the lettering does give it that weird quality that AI text tends to have, it immediately made me question it as well. I just can’t decide if it’s a weird artifact of real textures clashing or not.

Used to be you had to worry about the FCC crawling up your ass if you jammed signals.

Same for Bic

What do you believe is being contributed to the discussion by being so negative about citizen political engagement? Don’t punish behavior you want to see more of. And if you think you can do better, get out there.

Regardless of the car you’re in, what would you do if you found yourself surrounded by people who want to hurt the vehicle you’re driving?

Love the exonerative tense here. He just ‘found himself’ surrounded by protestors out of the blue, not that his vehicle aimed directly at and drove through the crowd.