But it doesn't help to know

Doesn't anybody stay in one place anymore?

America NEEDS Ranked Choice Voting (RCV).

Only sorta in NYC; they use it for primaries but not the general, IIRC. Better than nothing though, since it helped Mamdani get past the primary stage.

The word "liberal" is useless because there is no consensus on what it means. Similarly useless are the words "left" and "right". "Marxist" is still useful because nobody can deny that it denotes adherence to the ideas of Karl Marx. Similarly, even though people TRY to erode its meaning, "Christian" must ultimately mean adherence to the philosophies espoused by Christ. So for example anyone who identifies as "Christian" but makes no attempt to follow the principles he espoused, is simply lying.

I'm starting to think that maybe Elon DIDN'T turn off Ukraine's access the other day and merely said he did, in the same way the Russians say "the Ukrainians didn't blow up that depot; a soldier was smoking and accidentally started a fire".

>>"Spoiler alert: it's not you"

>>proceeds to display a chart of companies who sell a fuel we all use

I've seen brief ads and trailers for the movie and I still have no idea what it's about or why I might want to go see it. Tom Cruise plays an old guy who... does stuff, I guess? And John Goodman's in it? But, like... what is it? I genuinely don't know.

I think the art of making a trailer has been lost somehow. My "return to monke" hot take is that trailers were better when they followed the "in a world where..." format, or the "...but now, he's about to find out..." format. At least they communicated what movies were about.

I'm considering renaming the United States of America to Cringetopia

Too late. I've already switched to Linux Mint and am never going back.

On what evidence are you basing this claim of it being a false flag?

It really is hard to find a job where you can go home at the end of the day and feel like what you did that day has benefitted the human race at all.

It's not that they're afraid of society collapsing. They clearly don't care about that, as most of what they do ignores that.

What they're worried about is the "Great Replacement", where white people become a minority. If that wasn't what they were really afraid of, then they would consider the problem of declining birth rates to be easily solvable with immigration.

You know, it never occurred to me that most pornos depict an inherently friendly world. Everybody wants to introduce themselves to their new neighbors, everybody tips the pizza guy, everybody's willing to cut poor people a break by accepting alternative forms of payment, different races get along famously, teachers are able to dedicate time to one-on-one tutoring, blended families are very accepting of each other, etc.

I think Greenland should send law enforcement and have them demonstrate as much restraint and accountability as ICE agents do.

How do I know?

Well, what are the alternatives? Are you suggesting that Ukraine targets its own civilians with drones? Or are you suggesting that, say, Turkiye is sending drones into Ukraine to target Ukrainian civilians?

How does Ukraine know?

The debris from the drone can be inspected and the type of drone can probably be identified. Different countries use different drones.

Why do you ask?

EDIT: And according to Zelenskyy, the Russians have even admitted to it, though I don't know what he bases that on.

The man actually survived. He suffered blast wounds, shrapnel wounds and a concussion, but seems to be otherwise fine. I don't even see any disfigurement:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/injured-kherson-market-vendor-says-drone-followed-him-before-strike-that-ukraine-calls-a-war-crime/vi-AA29oiCV

So yeah, it's not a snuff film.

I must say, this Mamdani fellow seems to be having a lot of success very quickly. One has to wonder why nobody ever tried any of this before. Can it really be that the switch to using Ranked Choice Voting in NY primaries made THAT much of a difference in the type of candidate that made it through?

The rest of the country really needs to implement Ranked Choice Voting in order to give more people like him a chance.

SOMEBODY STOP HIM! HE'S GOT EUROPE IN HIS POCKET! HE'S GETTING AWAY!