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Just for the record Musk is not a particularly successful businessman. He is just, like most multimillionaires, rich enough to be effectively immune to all the stupid crap he has done to his businesses. He is more successful than Trump, but that is such a low bar you'd have to be shorter than the Planck length to limbo under it.

I'm not talking about Americans or even just Americans who voted for Trump, though. It's the same here in Europe. Or say, entirely randomly, in places like South Africa.

What still surprises me is how so many people have an idea of Trump that does not track with reality in any way. Despite what he is being right there in everything he says and does openly and plainly.

From TPM.

If you vote in a platform that is explicitly undemocratic, democracy definitely does not win.

The principle in the US, unlike in most of the developed world, is that people should not be forced to have a form of ID. So if not everyone has to have an ID, and not everyone, additionally, has easy access to a form of ID, due to specific socio-economic constraints, requiring ID to vote is a targeted form of suppression. Essentially if you require ID to vote you should provide ID to all who are eligible to vote.

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/30/g-s1-30644/supreme-court-virginia-elections Why the US may already be screwed. The Supreme Court effectively nullified a law, by fiat, in a move favouring Trump's election.

That's the only counter argument I will really consider. That nothing will change because things are already irrevocably in the crapper and Trump's term already derailed things enough.

Uh, statistics say that's just not true. The cost of living has increased a lot more than wages, and life is now costlier on average than it ever was in the post war period. This new robber baron era of extreme deregulation and lower tax revenues will only exacerbate this tendency, as the lower and middle classes lose social protections and purchasing power. With the House and the Senate being increasingly unable to legislate anything and the Supreme Court insulating the presidency from consequences for any bad actions it may take the US are in for a really bad time, with guard rails significantly weakened.

https://bsky.app/profile/sonic.bsky.social/post/3l7lkwmn6ks2t Kamala Harris' campaign has set up an island in Fortnite, another foray into the gaming space for Democrats. Trump's campaign also has an in-game presence as the antagonists in the classic franchise "Wolfenstein"

The American political class has really sold their country down the river. If Trump wins you guys are definitely set on a catastrophic path you'll never get away from. And maybe the world too.

The problem with Afghanistan wasn't if it was legitimate but rather how the US handled everything after the successful invasion. No follow through.

https://www.comicsbeat.com/pierre-christin-dead/

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1841644041219256496.html A helpful thread.

It has also been established several times that Trump is lying about that and only started lying about that when it became clear project 2025 was deeply unpopular.

I don't think pointing this out will help any, but if one candidate is stating facts, or at least well founded opinions, and the other is just stating bald faced lies, someone saying both candidates need to tone down their rhetoric strikes me as either ignorant or just dishonest. And specifically dishonest in favour of the liar.

My problem with Taylor Swift is that she isn't even bad. Just so bland, generic, nondescript.

A lot of people are just that ignorant of the world around them, and not in the conspiracy rabbit hole sense. They are ignorant of things just because they are for the most part entirely uninterested in things that are consequential.

It was twenty degrees here at midnight yesterday, which was weird.

Don't threaten me with a good time.

He was saying and doing racist things long before he went into politics.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/lollaparooza/crazy-parodies-of-the-last-supper-8s5g?sub=1992906_839049 Article from 2013. Sopranos, Simpsons, South Park, House, Lost, Mash, DC Comics, Battlestar Galactica and more.

Harris' campaign.

Actual official statement.