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Ro Khanna is a Democrat seemingly only because it's the easiest way for him to make money and return power. He's not a serious person.
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It's funny they mention Owens in the piece like she also came out of nowhere for podcasts into YouTube fame, as opposed to her being a RW crank for over a decade and speaking at the RNC just last year. They're serving the same market but she's a known commodity.
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It's the "Charlie Brown had hoes" tweet about politics, and it's even crazier since that account claims to be paying attention to politics for decades. So like, they absolutely were alive and cognizant of Obama and his tenure and then just made up an alternative reality.
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I'd be interested to know how much the tariff announcements around that time also hurt his numbers and as that also has faded from daily discussion (since most haven't stuck) he's ticked up. I'm always suspect about immigration being a huge issue for a lot of voters, but it has some legs.
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What's funny is that on the tech blogs and subreddits where I saw this story covered, they framed it way more as the first because it was such a poor implementation of these models and beyond the politics they thought it portrayed the technology poorly. Only the MSM thought he was a hero.
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I read it some time ago and it was a long read so it's a little fuzzy, but the Team of Rivals book about Lincoln drove home the point he was a political animal but his actions were definitely based on a consistent moral compass that didn't waver and instead was used to bend others to its goals.
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Idk what the term is but we need something like illiteracy for people who can like, read words but whose ability to interpret facts and context has been completely destroyed by the internet
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Her and Vince are locked in a never-ending battle royal to determine who the worst McMahon is and it's the longest, most expensive Pay-per-view we all have to suffer thru.
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Thompson self-describing as a progressive is a bigger narrative reach than any story these guys could cook up.
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Hell, take a bench guy in the G league and put him against a bunch of HS kids 1:1 and see if they can even hit the rim.
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This is similar to the reporting about Amazon engineers being told to use AI coding tools more without any real reason beyond "it'll generate more and longer code commits". It's Bezos likely making a bet on AI tech and not wanting to see his investment tank.
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The fact the conversation is going on between two people who pay $8/no to have a blue checkmark next to their name as they post on a site owned by a Nazi South African billionaire makes the discourse even funnier.
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So many parents just have absurdly inflated senses of their kid's athletic potential and, more often than not, ruins the sport for the kids as a result.
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Success is framing him as a terrible leader and drive his popularity down even further so that more members in Congress and their constituents feel emboldened to take back power. Yeah it's an imprecise weapon but painting a bad leader as bad helps make beating him easier.
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The most predictable outcome possible. This keeps happening where investors stupidly believe these lies about automation (Amazon's "just walk out" stores that actually had humans reviewing cameras jumps out) and yet they seemingly never learn from it.
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It takes a special type of administrator to show just enough spine that it offends one school for not being enough (Michigan) and too much for another (apparently UF)
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Elon Musk's actual history is one long screw up where his inhumanity and lack of common decency allowed him to "succeed" for short periods of time before the inevitable fallout of his bad decisions caught up with him
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Yeah, it's insane anyone gives him credit for something that will occur, at the earliest, a billion years from now. He'd be way more accurate to say an asteroid will destroy all life on Earth, as 5 of those have happened over the past 500 million years, but then he's sound like an Armageddon stan
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"The nation changes every election as demographic shifts arise and change" doesn't feel like analysis you need a whole podcast to cover, but then again I haven't spent a decade and a half sanewashing Trump so I can see why you'd want to deflect.
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Tech bros continue to not beat the case that their aspirations and inspirations are just recreating tech they saw on TV and in movies growing up.
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I understand that journalism doesn't require the writer to be an expert on the topic but this article reads like someone who wanted to say "AI is coming alive!" and then working backwards from that conclusion. It's such a weird vibes article with little substance.
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What always gets me is there are these often performative acts/statements about how shaken to the core they are about some tragedy (which I assume are genuine)...that they then post about dozens upon dozens of times a day, every day. They gotta remind you they "barely" can enjoy food all day.
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Without even reading the article I can promise you Ro Khana is quoted heavily as a prominent Dem in support of Musk returning.
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But speaking from experience, I got married 17 years ago and were both liberal and I know of only two "mixed" relationships politically and they were equally divided between conservative man/liberal woman and vice versa. And with the conservative woman it was more they were both religious.
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I know there's a gap but it mostly seems to be in the 4-5% range. And I suspect that marriage is a more conservative/heteronormative relationship, which skews the numbers more.
www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
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What I don't get is the logical corollary is that liberal men wind up marrying conservative women (or not at all) which on its face everyone would sort of reject.
I think the more realistic situation is lots of men were assholes and women put up with them; now they do so less often.
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But even that spike seems somewhat temporary (it's down 3.5% today) as more news comes out about his rampant drug abuse and people still don't have any to but his dumb cars.
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"When liberals won't buy my shitty book because it's a hatchet job and conservatives won't buy it because OFC they won't, that's also lawfare."
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"More intense than previously known" should probably be switched to "more reported on than previously" because anyone who saw him walk, talk, or tweet on X could tell you he was just mainlining a cocktail every day.
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You keep reporting about him like he's not a bald-faced liar who is still heavily influencing this administration, only he's also seen his companies crater due to his awful management and he's doing damage control.
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Good Lord, you make the people who spray painted racist terms in front of their own houses and then claimed it was those dastardly, marauding liberals who did it look tough.
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I've only been tangentially following this whole thing but it really does seem like she thinks the whole world is on her side and is hell bent on punishing anyone who disagrees regardless of how awful and spurious her actions are.
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They are only to try so hard to memory hole all of this when he's no longer in the government and just shilling for silver water pellets or kiwi enemas to cure autism or whatever he does afterwards.
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And if you expect a payout that means you're sticking around on Earth afterwards, which isn't a great place to be if you believe scripture.
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The argument I keep seeing is "but this will let us reuse the booster rockets" and, last I checked, them blowing up in flight isn't helping that cause and, anyway, the old rocket tech had boosters that were recovered and reused. Musk is basically stuck on a problem that was fixed decades ago.
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But I do agree that this isn't some revelation by Dems and messaging remains an issue for them and it would be nice if some of their billionaires spent their money wiser in terms of media outreach.
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I agree they need to address the information deficit and getting more involved in local markets would help (I'm not sure supporting alt-weeklies necessarily breaks into the conservative bubble but it's something). So yeah Substack isn't a massive change agent but I just don't see it hurting.
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But I guess my argument is they can do both? Dems not owning a Sinclair-like station or not pumping more money into the Metro Times is a distinct issue that isn't really affected by them having a couple of politicians hosting Substack newsletters to reach their followers.
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Then I guess my follow up question is what platforms you want Dem pols to pivot to? TikTok is run by China and is full of propaganda, YT has some truly awful content and openly feeds tons of RW trolls, etc. BSky is fine but it's small and isn't particularly popular with young men.
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I just see it as part of their online approach to appeal to different demos. I subscribe to substacks (as well as ghost.io) because that's where I get the info I want. I know there are Nazis who use it but I've been on the internet for 30+ years so I'm used to it.
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But then should the Dems jump off X, Meta platforms, and similar platforms? Like, AOC on Twitch was good but that place absolutely has a toxicity issue. I just think fighting fire with fire can also mean trying to mold a platform like Substack to benefit you even if it has bad elements.
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I also personally think this "we gotta appeal to the Andrew Tate fans of the world" is throwing money after a "problem" that feels somewhat dubious and not easily fixable based on which social media service you use. But conceding Substack to RW nutters seems unproductive when the costs are small.
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I guess I'm just naive but I don't read this as them giving up on other platforms (Buttogieg announced his newsletter on Instagram) but simply making their presence larger on another platform. And while it probably won't draw in a ton of men, Substack is popular with other consistent Dem voters.
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I also think so much of this discourse is about a minority of young men; I've got young kids and a lot of their male peers are just regular, non-asshole kids who are thoughtful. They just don't demand attention like the manosphere types.
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The internet sucks generally, and I do think women get it worse everywhere than men generally, but in a world where XWitter is run by a Nazi and has an AI fascist generator, BSky isn't inhospitable to brands or outside voices as much as it just pushes back against the worst ones.
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There are dicks, sexists, racists, etc. here but that's true on every site on the internet I've ever been a part of going on 30 years. It's the Internet. I got called a f@@@ot on X once for arguing former Michigan QB Shea Patterson was just mid when he transferred from Ole Miss. It's not new