Man I hate these fucking headlines. The race is insanely close and news headlines like this aren’t helping that. It just helps reinforce Trump’s narrative that media outlets are irrationally out to smear him.

And when you point that out to the AI, those code snippets get replaced with even more spaghetti that is maybe 1% closer to actually working, at best. Been there!

Stochastic terrorism needs to have more severe criminal penalties for career politicians specifically. Right-wing figureheads have been getting away with this shit for too long.

We’re now penalizing the parents of school shooters, so if we find out that someone who threatens to bomb a school is a super fan of X person, then X person should face some sort of penalty if they continually put out deliberate lies about said school. We did a version of this with Alex Jones already, just follow through with that logic honestly.

Young people who didn’t consider voting before probably.

Adding “the first ever” is really telling on yourself there

Kamala is much more likeable than Clinton. I really think that’s why she lost in 2016, not because of her politics but because no one liked her as a person.

Disinformation is a powerful tool, that’s all this is. He knows better.

I would agree that the proximal issue is how easy it is to illegally obtain guns, but I think the solution to that is just reduce the availability of guns for those who don’t need them, are on the fence about buying, won’t take the responsibility seriously, etc. I think the problem is how overly normalized gun ownership is, and how unseriously it’s taken. The solution just has to be more barriers to entry to ensure the people getting them are (on average) more serious about safety and responsibility. I also agree about the handguns thing.

Yes, effective gun control measures need to target the buying process for firearms more generally, instead of fixating on specific models.

Mission failed, we’ll get 'em next time

You can’t tell me what to do!

Apparently for some, this is where right-wing political philosophy starts and ends. Everything else seems to be retrofit around this principle, regardless of its rationality. Even if the party in question is giving you sound advice, like not to drink raw milk, and is doing nothing to prevent you from doing so if you please.

“Please, I can’t afford food or housing”

Media outlets:

Economy doing great!!! Inflation down and stocks up!!!

“Okay, I guess I’ll just fucking die then”

If he’s okay with genocide over there then he’s okay with it here

That is a gigantic jump but go off

This only makes sense if the people who think like you reach a critical mass, which they have not and very likely never will.

Just start yelling at me and I’ll probably shut down and cry.

The choice is:

• Support candidate that is tacitly okay with genocide
• Support candidate that is enthusiastic about genocide and stripping away LGBTQ rights
• Say nothing and let the second candidate operate unimpeded by your opposition in key states

I mean… come on, let’s be reasonable.

It’s more like

Republicans are willing to bend the rules and cheat to get what they want

Democrats are cucks to the system that they think is perfect

Honestly, fuck both of them. There are no good candidates this election.

That just tells me that she is a psychopath who is only held back from killing humans by the fact that God might punish her for it. As an atheist, I don’t kill humans because I don’t want to. It would be extremely emotionally scarring for me. Apparently for her, it’s just a matter of “God would hurt me if I did”.

It also encompasses any support from medical professionals to do extremely simple shit like wear different clothes or change your hair. Also accessing gender-affirming support groups, therapy, changing your name and pronouns, or non-permanent hormone treatments.

This new law doesn’t ban all of those things, but it does go pretty far to limit what can be done and has a chilling effect on other forms of trans-related healthcare.

For instance, even if a kid wants to use a nickname that doesn’t match their sex assigned at birth, it has to be reported to their parents. Stuff like that is clearly just designed to make sure kids aren’t allowed to express that they’re trans if their parents don’t approve.

Almost 40% of South Dakotans have not critically evaluated Noem

FTFY. I refuse to believe that 40% of anyone would see what she did as justified. The only reason you would is if you want to kill dogs yourself, you don’t know what really happened, or you don’t understand why it’s bad and are giving her the benefit of the doubt.