Disagree. Landline-multipart-questionnaires are positively an alien concept from the dark ages of three networks and an independent city newspaper.

It’s more a commentary on photo editors, really. Honestly just like they’re going to run a picture of Taylor Swift for the Ticketmaster story, they’re going to find (easily, apparently) a goofy picture of OpenAIguy to run next to his stories.

I’m not bullying anyone, least of all this billionare crypto pinhead. I’m being mean, yes but if that’s your beef then I dunno what to tell ya. There are some people it’s okay to be mean to in public forums where they’re not present. (Are you Sam? Hey if so, you suck, otherwise please disregard, I’m sure you(not-Sam) are quite nice.)

This is an example regarding mail-in voting (for our Canadian friends, republiQans are very much trying to prevent this as well for the same reason)

This is republiQans threatening other republicans to vote as they demand.

This is the threat-to-arrest mailer wrt ACORN, which is a whole other rant, but particularly relevant.

? Did not know that. I assumed they were essentially WORMs but otherwise identical. Do they not use the same laser or something like that?

Polls show a lot of things. They are very often critically flawed.

Yeah this billionaire techbro of future dystopia is so bullied. His sister would know.

What if we didn’t forge a relevant equivalence for every criticism in order to negate it?

Ah! Yes. Hm. Well then . . . where do distributors get theirs from? Not Sony, presumably?

I don’t know how you mean, but okay.

Hell yeah :)

Honestly I think anyone who is old enough to vote and saw the unholy shitshow that was 2017-2021 is literally incapable of being undecided.

If that is even possible somehow, I’m sure there’s nothing Biden can do that will specifically change that.

No, but that is a compelling narrative.

It’s because men sexually assault women a lot. Like, an awful amount. Children, relatives, the whole thing: 1 out of 3 women have been sexually assaulted. That’s why it’s different.

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Oh! Oh, yes, it’s a whole thing here since the “Moral Majority” group in the 80’s that packaged well-meaning people into hateful ignorant political cheerleaders.

And I appreciate your perspective because it highlights a different aspect of the right-wing agenda: part of their process is to build in a “reasonable interpretation” of laws that they actually have no interest in whatsoever.

As an example, there was a big push in many states to enact “voter i.d.” laws. We used to just walk into the polling station, give our name and address, they’d look it up, put a checkmark next to it to show we’ve been counted, and we’d go vote.

Well the right wing media in concert with the republiQans and propaganda mills, i mean, “think tanks” started complaining this was a system ripe for abuse. “SO MANY people just vote multiple times under different names!”

That absolutely never happened in any even-close-to significant amount. Never. There were individual cases - we still see them once in awhile, and it’s always the republiQans doing it. Anyway, they kept this lie up for years.

While that was going on, republiQan legislators, united by ALEC, passed laws saying everyone had to show a valid government ID to vote. I had several conversations with friends and family about these, and either due to parroting the fox news talking points or genuine well-meaning concern, they said, “but doesn’t it make sense to know someone is who they SAY they are, before they vote?” And it does. It does make sense.

But that’s not why they did it. They did it because people without government ID are largely older minority voters, who mostly vote Democratic. This was just to prevent them from voting. They had all sorts of made up lies about “oh they can just go down to the DMV and get a free ID”, yeah if someone takes them and walks them through it and they brought the right paperwork, yeah. It was a big burden for a lot of people who just stopped voting (mission accomplished).

Secondarily, anyone with outstanding parking tickets or who suspects there’s a warrant out for them (or is in general targeted by the cops, like black men) will see lots of ads and mailers before the election that when they show their ID to vote they’ll be arrested and taken away. They won’t, it’s just scare tactics but it works well and voting went down for a lot of Democratic-leaning voters.

To this day they stand by the now long-discredited idea that people are using false identities to vote - trump even clings to this as one of his Big Lies of how he “mysteriously” didn’t get enough votes in 2020, still. It was always bullshit; it was always designed to keep Democrats from voting, and it worked.

But . . He said not to! With a ol’ scary snake on it and eveythang!

Hell yeah

Media to the Mentally Unwell: Just Stop Being Mentally Unwell

? . . . as opposed to - ?

This one. Easier setup, cleanup’s a breeze, no muss, no fuss.

He’s worn diapers for twenty years. He shits himself all the time. He wears a big plastic girdle and lifts. He’s got a scar on his nose from where he blew it out snorting coke. He can barely read. He screams at everyone.

Etc.

Typically if you turn yourself in to the cops peacefully, even if you’re shitfaced hammered, they don’t usually slap more drunk charges on.