On 25 October 2023, two and a half weeks after Hamas’s attack on Israel and amid brutal reprisals by the Israeli government, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist gave his stark verdict on TikTok’s impact....
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said policy differences toward Israel between her and President Biden won’t stop her from supporting him in the November general election....
It’s insane how when someone criticizes anything about Biden, the first move is accusing them of supporting trump, and when they have to clarify trump is obviously worse, everyone then acts like their criticisms of Biden becomes invalid.
Biden is better than trump. But we deserve better than either option.
“Shutting up and voting Biden” doesn’t help anything, and is what we give republicans shit for.
As soon as conservatives got Faux New, neoliberals have been trying to get the same unquestioning support from their voters.
The issue is if Dem voters wanted that shit, they’d be republicans.
The people running the DNC don’t understand basic psychology because when they finished their educations, psychology was still pretty new, and the only big studies was shit like Zimbardo that threw out the scientific method and had researchers meddling with experiments to get the desired result.
Imagine if Verizon hired a guy that stilled used a beeper instead of one of those newfangled mobile phones.
Sounds ridiculous, right?
But that’s what we’re doing with politics and psychology
Five more Republican representatives may join Ken Buck in resigning from the House of Representatives if they continue to be dissatisfied with the party’s nominee for the presidential election, Donald Trump....
“He needs to say, ‘I’m for Israel, but I’m not for this extreme rightwing government.’ And that means if [Netanyahu] defies the United States, not allowing aid, or going into Rafah” – which Biden has said must not happen but Netanyahu has said will – “[then] no more weapons transfers … unconditionally.
“It means not protecting [Netanyahu] from the entire international community at the United Nations, it means recognising a Palestinian state. And those are the things I think some of the Arab American community want.”
Asked about a looming clash over Rafah, Khanna highlighted Netanyahu’s behaviour, refusing to heed Biden’s warning that the attack would represent a “red line”.
“What I disagree with and sort of the media narrative on this [is that] Netanyahu and Biden, somehow they’re equals,” Khanna said.
“They’re not. We’re the greatest superpower in the world. We’re giving Netanyahu weapons. He needs to be deferential with respect to the American president, whoever that is. And I find it insufferably arrogant for him to act as if he’s somehow an equal to the American president. And that’s just going to rub people the wrong way.
Exactly.
If the US didn’t support Israel, Israel wouldn’t still be around.
Unconditional support just makes them act like they’re always right.
Think of it like a toddler, if you only tell them good things and never punish them, you’re going to end up with an entitled little shit that constantly causes problems and if there’s any repercussions, then drag the parent into the fight while hurling insults from under their moms skirt.
They were asked if the economy was in recovery and 33% said it was.
The question isnt about how Biden is handling it, or even how the economy is doing.
They just asked people if they thought it was recovering.
The thing is, telling the average American the economy is doing great doesn’t work. Because for the average American shit sucks. “The economy” is all about billionaires doubling their billions.
The majority of Americans have so little money and assets, were just not a significant portion of “the economy”.
And with a common criticism being neither candidate cares about average Americans, this just gives them evidence.
They both have been separated from regular people for so long, they legitimately don’t understand what it’s like for a random voter.
The last time there was mutual disarment, we found out a lot of Russia’s nukes wouldn’t have been able to launch.
I forget the specifics, but it was a flaw with the missle that wasnt noticable until it was disassembled.
So if Russia launched, they’d have to launch a lot to guarantee at least one worked.
And as soon as they launch the first one, all major Russian cities/bases are getting glassed by multiple countries.
I think Putin would order it, but I think other Russians in his administration would stop it and either kill or arrest Putin. Because Putin would kill whoever stopped it if they didn’t take him out of power immediately after the order.
North Korea treats their leader like an actual god tho, they’d launch nukes if Kim said to. They have no problem dying for their leader.
Putin’s administration just loves money and life more than Putin.
I mean, the guy who made vlc hasn’t charged for like 15 years now.
For most people the only time they open VLC is to view a file locally. I’m surprised they’re not also trying to become more like plex/jellyfin then pivot to ad supported streaming
Donald Trump continues to have a low favorability score among Americans, new polling shows, despite being the likely Republican nominee after winning the lion’s share of primaries and seeing off his only remaining rival....
An ABC News/Ipsos survey of 536 U.S. adults, conducted between March 8-9, found that 29 percent have a favorable view of the former president compared to 59 percent who view him unfavorably.
Sounds great till:
Some 33 percent viewed the incumbent favorably to 54 percent who viewed him unfavorably. In November, a similar poll put his unfavorability rating at 50 percent with his favorability unchanged, while in prior polls the two ratings have modulated around the same numbers.
We’re running two incredibly unpopular candidates…
The people of Georgia likely remember 4 years ago when Biden was running around saying if we got 50 D Senators we could pass the whole party platform…
The whole country donated, we won both, and Biden promptly told us he could never change Manchins mind on anything, so trying would be a waste of time.
Which is all the more ridiculous considering Biden’s big thing in the primary was how he could get some of the party platform thru a Republican majority Senate.
That makes turnout lower, and when turnout is low, republicans have a chance at the presidency.
Polls aren’t everything, but we need to understand why Biden is so unpopular and take steps to fix it or else we’re all stuck with trump again.
The thing is, it isn’t true. He took the biggest action on climate change in American history,
Did he?
America has literally never produced as much fossil fuels as we have when Biden has been president.
he forgave $138 billion in student loan
Sounds like a lot, but not even a rounding error in total student loan debt, and the system is still broken. Biden s excuse for not forgiving all, was saying it was pointless till college is cheaper. He did nothing to make college cheaper, and is throwing out crumbs.
he put in a bill to legalize marijuana federally (which the Republicans defeated)
He could order it descheduled and be done before the week is over… That’s what he said he’d do, he hasn’t done that. And before someone says “Biden can’t control federal agencies” he just forced all agencies to do a return to office because Republicans were complaining about telework.
and pardoned anyone in federal prison for marijuana,
Since he won’t deschedule, more people keep getting arrested.
he took massive action on the economy that was focused on the working class instead of Wall Street
Most of “the economy” is about the wealthiest accumulating a shit ton of wealth and record fossil fuels.production, that doesn’t help the working class, we’re still all fucked.
the point unemployment is the lowest it’s been in 20 year
It’s actually exactly the same as the month before Biden took office…
Your links are bad, they make people login to some random instance to view.
Although I doubt I’m missing much, wanted to let you know you’re doing links wrong.
Not sure why you couldn’t get my link to work, or where your numbers are coming from. Mine are from an official government website that tracks unemployment…
Against an incumbent trump when people believed Biden’s campaign promises…
This time being the incumbent hurts Biden. 4 years ago if someone said Biden would be supporting a genocide, trying to codify Trump’s border policies, and calling migrants “illegals” I’d have laughed in their face.
Biden is less popular now then when all most voters knew about him was he was Obama’s VP.
Dude took 36 years to win his first presidential primary, he wasn’t that popular to begin with.
The “incumbent advantage” is often misunderstood. Because a weak incumbent gets primaried.
So the DNC says primarying a candidate hurts them, and why NH didn’t get delegates this year.
The reality is only weak incumbents get primaried. Whether they get challenged or not in the primary doesn’t make them weaker or stronger.
By taking a primary away, we’re not helping a candidate, we’re throwing away the option to run a more popular candidate. Which hurts the party and every American if it means trump is elected.
It’s like saying the only reason trump got caught on his tax fraud was he ran for president. Running for president brought attention to it, but he cheated on taxes decades before running and could have been prosecuted at any time.
An actual primary wouldn’t have made Biden unpopular, it would have just made how unpopular he is more public, while giving him a public stage to move left to his voters and win some over for the general.
Hiding it doesn’t make it better, it just gives people a false sense of security, which ironically often leads to lower turnout.
I saw a Jordan Klepper clip yesterday where he talked to Haley voters…
Most said Trump was terrible, that 1/6 was a violent insurrection, but that they’d still have to “pick the lesser of two evils” and vote trump because they’d never vote Democrat.
It just doesn’t make any sense.
Neither Haley voters or Biden’s campaign team. None of what they’re doing makes sense.
I hope it’s enough, and I do feel a lot more comfortable now then a week ago. We just need Biden to stop reaching out to Haley voters and start trying to get liberal votes on his side.
It’s just insane to me that less than two thirds of the country hold a favorable opinion of either candidate. No matter what happens, the majority of the country will be unhappy with it.
That means depressed turnout, and those are the only elections republicans have a chance at winning. I’d rather not give them that chance
Too bad he won’t do anything. At most he’ll say he’s “looking into it” and hope people eventually stop asking.
Like, you’ve been president for four years Joe, half that time Dems had the House and Senate… Did you just realize this was something that needs addressed?
But at least he’s actually saying the right stuff now instead of ranting about “illegals”
Or we could just readdress healthcare since in 2008 we got a more conservative version of the Republican’s plan and then promptly forgot about ever improving it
We need actual progressives to get shit done, Biden and other “moderates” just won’t even try, and want us to be happy for crumbs.
“It’s not just that 30,000 people, two-thirds of them are women and children, have already been killed. We are looking at the possibility of hundreds of thousands of children starving to death,” Sanders said. According to Gaza’s Healthy Ministry, Israel’s bombardments and ground assaults have killed more than 30,000 people in the besieged strip, and others are dying of starvation.
“The United States of America cannot be complicit in this mass slaughter of children,” Sanders said Sunday during an interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” The administration, he added, “can’t beg Netanyahu. You got to tell him ‘If you want any money, you have to change your policy. Allow the trucks to come in to feed the children.’”
Sanders, who also remains insistent that Hamas must be destroyed, has called on Biden to enforce the Foreign Assistance Act, which says that the U.S. will not send aid to any country that blocks or restricts the flow of U.S. humanitarian assistance.
“It turns out that Israel is in violation of the law. Stopping American humanitarian aid is in violation of the law. That should be clear. No more money to Netanyahu’s war machine to kill Palestinian children,” Sanders said Sunday.
The U.S. officials say Biden — and many other senior officials at the White House and the State Department — are extremely frustrated by what they see as ungratefulness by Netanyahu.
Not the genocide…
They’re mad Netanyahu treats them like shit. He treats them like shit, because Biden has spent 50 years saying he’ll never stop supporting them.
Why would a fascist like Netanyahu ever respect someone like Biden?
And Biden still isn’t even doing the right thing. His only criticism of Israel is their actions make them lose world opinion, which makes it harder for world leaders to find them
He’s hurting Israel more than helping Israel, by making the rest of the world — it’s contrary to what Israel stands for. And I think it’s a big mistake."
But Biden said he’s “never gonna leave Israel. The defense of Israel is still critical.”
It’s the only complaint Biden ever has, and Netanyahu has never given a shit.
But Charlie Brown is going to keep trying to kick that football. It’s only been 50 years, be stupid to stop trying now.
I punched a window and broke it back in the day, but that was a junk car from the 80s we were destroying. And I was outside of it with all the room in the world.
Trying to do it while seated inside would have been impossible, and underwater all that pressure against the other side spread out equally makes it really umpossible. It’s basically a giant cushion that absorbs and distributes the force. If you do break it, all that water pressure is going to push it straight in your face, and chances are you’re just going to let the water in, but not create a whole big enough to climb thru. Certainly not u til your car is full of water and pressure equalizes.
If you’re worried about this enough to carry a glass breaker, take a page from the Kia boys and make sure it’s ceramic. Even steel with a point is going to be difficult. But ceramic will shatter it with almost no effort. Gotta keep on bipping
But no one hates every other Abrhamic religion more than the leader of one them.
And Islam is the biggest one. Judaism isn’t a threat to replace any form of Christianity, they don’t have the numbers.
But there’s about the same amount of Christians and Muslims in the world. For about 1300 years Christian leaders have been trying to stop Islam from becoming the majority.
That’s the most important thing in Abrhamic religions: doing what it takes to be the majority.
The Bible even says if a family member ever doubts Jesus, you’re to kill them immediately to prevent them from convincing others.
Which is a throw back to a schizophrenic guy named Abraham killing his family because they doubted the voices Abraham heard in his head.
All this shit traces back to some random crazy guy that demanded his family do exactly what he says without question. It’s like the one part that never changes
From the quote in the article he seemed surprised it was an issue…
The statement marks an apparent reversal from what Biden said Friday. While at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, the president was asked, “Do you regret using the word ‘illegal’ to describe immigrants last night, sir?”
“Well, I probably — I don’t re — technically not supposed to be here,” he responded.
Probably because he’s been hanging out with republicans again.
The Democrats told Biden that he needed to show more of the fire that was on display in a closed-door meeting with governors when Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte handed him a letter demanding more action on the southern border. Biden flashed a smile, according to two of the governors standing there.
Dude is 81 fucking years old, and all it takes is five minutes of face time with a Republican till he thinks he’s back in “the good old days” with Strom Thurmond and Mitch McConnell
He planned this stupid shit and legitimately thought it was a good move.
Recently I’ve seen news about adult swim games going delisted probably off steam, one of my fav games is published by adult swim games and I want to know what will happen to it, will steam strike it off my list even if I have it installed? Will I still be able to back it up and restore its backups? Will I still be able to...
Obviously in this case, no more updates. If there’s a server, it’s getting shut down. And no new players will buy it. So player count will decrease until it’s a dead game, even if multiplayer is peer to peer. But I doubt that’s the case.
The unscripted moment came when Biden brought up Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student who was murdered in Georgia. An undocumented immigrant has been charged with her killing. Biden called her “an innocent young woman who was killed by an illegal.”
MTG was handing out buttons about this before SOTU, and everyone called her a racist fear monger, which is true.
Biden says this after all his other comments on the border and wanting to make Trump’s borders policies law…
And suddenly it’s not big deal.
More importantly, this wasn’t some slip of a tongue.
The Democrats told Biden that he needed to show more of the fire that was on display in a closed-door meeting with governors when Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte handed him a letter demanding more action on the southern border. Biden flashed a smile, according to two of the governors standing there.
He’s laughing and joking about this with the psycho who got famous for body slamming a reporter during an election.
People want to say Biden s changed and he’s progressive, but he’s still the same guy who fought school busing to end desegregation during the day, and had drinks with Strom Thurmond at nights.
Hell, he was just talking about how great Mitch McConnel was.
President Biden acknowledged their disagreements but expressed trust in their relationship.
“I trusted him, we had a great relationship, we fought like hell. But he never, never, never misrepresented anything. I’m sorry to hear he’s stepping down,” Biden said.
President Biden told a Democratic lawmaker and members of his Cabinet after the State of the Union address that he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that they will need to have a “come-to-Jesus meeting.”...
Tonight, I want to announce that I will be returning to the arena of politics and challenging Nick [LaLota] for the battle over #NY1,” Santos told Semafor in a statement. “I look forward to debating him on the issues and on his weak record as a Republican. The fight for our majority is imperative for the survival of the...
Semafor is a really weird new site by the Buzzfeed guy who wants to “reinvent the news” by using AI curation and short articles with click bait headlines…
They’ve only been around a year or two. But I’ve noticed them getting posted a lot of Lemmy recently so I looked into them. It’s almost always headlines like this where it’s really hard not to click
They also have a “good relationship” with China.
They dont seem to be doing anything shitty right now.
But I feel it’s like how internet disrupters like Uber provide great service at a loss till people are used to them.
Once they get views, it’s all structured for “the algorithm” to push people towards certain views. If it’s slow enough and starts out unbiased. People wouldn’t even notice. Especially if the AI curating part is on a user by user basis.
If it came out with propaganda everyone would write them off immediately.
So “burn money” which in this case is no return in investment. Because if that’s whats going on, they’re there for propaganda, and not accomplishing it.
Right now the primary goal would be getting people to use and accept them.
Then the “AI curation” they brag about kicks in, and slowly but surely caters what someone reads to move them in the wanted direction.
It’s not far fetched to think one day two people might get the same story written two different ways, with two different sets of pictures/videos.
I dunno man, everything’s going to shit, when billionaires start talking about reinventing the news, being cynical feels like being reasonable.
Journalism especially has went from people trying to report the new, to people trying to make as much money as possible, to people with more money then they can spend trying to change minds to control votes and laws.
And it’s changed so fast, lots of voters still haven’t noticed.
Tonight, Thursday, March 7th, is the State of the Union Address so lets keep everything related to it (including the Republican response) confined to this thread....
How a US TikTok ban could clobber the pro-Palestine movement – and hurt Joe Biden (www.independent.co.uk)
On 25 October 2023, two and a half weeks after Hamas’s attack on Israel and amid brutal reprisals by the Israeli government, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist gave his stark verdict on TikTok’s impact....
Omar says Israel policy divisions won’t stop her from supporting Biden in November (thehill.com)
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said policy differences toward Israel between her and President Biden won’t stop her from supporting him in the November general election....
Five other House Republicans could resign after Ken Buck (www.newsweek.com)
Five more Republican representatives may join Ken Buck in resigning from the House of Representatives if they continue to be dissatisfied with the party’s nominee for the presidential election, Donald Trump....
Biden’s ‘bear-hugging’ of Netanyahu a strategic mistake, key Democrat says (www.theguardian.com)
Biden slightly behind Trump but voters’ views of economy improve, poll shows (www.theguardian.com)
Russia ‘ready’ for nuclear war, Putin claims (www.politico.eu)
Trump's team is slashing Republican National Committee staff amid takeover, AP sources say (apnews.com)
Biden Says Debate With Trump Will Depend on the GOP Nominee’s “Behavior” (truthout.org)
VLC Media Player Plans to Add Online Media Streaming (news.itsfoss.com)
Donald Trump stung as new poll shows how unpopular he is (www.newsweek.com)
Donald Trump continues to have a low favorability score among Americans, new polling shows, despite being the likely Republican nominee after winning the lion’s share of primaries and seeing off his only remaining rival....
Trump leads Biden in Georgia: Poll (thehill.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/4524764-trump-leads-biden-in-ge…
Joe Biden suddenly leads Donald Trump in multiple polls (www.newsweek.com)
Biden calls for broad new social programs, higher taxes on corporations and the wealthy (wapo.st)
Biden says Medicare should negotiate prices for at least 50 drugs each year, up from a target of 20 (www.cnbc.com)
Key Points...
India says it uncovers trafficking racket duping people into fighting for Russia in Ukraine (www.reuters.com)
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Biden breaks with Netanyahu but sticks with Israel (www.axios.com)
Mitch McConnell’s billionaire sister-in-law Angela Chao made panicked last call before dying in ‘completely submerged’ Tesla on Texas ranch: report (nypost.com)
Pope criticised for saying Ukraine should ‘raise white flag’ and end war with Russia (www.theguardian.com)
Suicide Squad’s $70 price tag slashed by 40% just a month after launch (www.pcgamesn.com)
Biden says he regrets referring to 'an illegal' and defends direct criticism of Supreme Court in State of the Union (www.nbcnews.com)
Biden’s plan to build floating port for Gaza aid could take 60 days (www.independent.co.uk)
UNRWA report says Israel coerced some agency employees to falsely admit Hamas links (www.timesofisrael.com)
What does getting "delisted" off Steam means for games I already own?
Recently I’ve seen news about adult swim games going delisted probably off steam, one of my fav games is published by adult swim games and I want to know what will happen to it, will steam strike it off my list even if I have it installed? Will I still be able to back it up and restore its backups? Will I still be able to...
'Disappointing': Biden's reference to 'an illegal' during SOTU upsets some Democratic allies (www.nbcnews.com)
My Sega Saturn still doesn't read memory cartridges. (lemmus.org)
I just opened the console and cleaned the port and memory cartridges and it still won’t read....
Biden on hot mic: ‘Come-to-Jesus meeting’ with Netanyahu on the way (thehill.com)
President Biden told a Democratic lawmaker and members of his Cabinet after the State of the Union address that he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that they will need to have a “come-to-Jesus meeting.”...
George Santos is running for Congress (www.semafor.com)
Tonight, I want to announce that I will be returning to the arena of politics and challenging Nick [LaLota] for the battle over #NY1,” Santos told Semafor in a statement. “I look forward to debating him on the issues and on his weak record as a Republican. The fight for our majority is imperative for the survival of the...
State of the Union Megapost!
Tonight, Thursday, March 7th, is the State of the Union Address so lets keep everything related to it (including the Republican response) confined to this thread....