I’ve heard this argument before.

I’ve already heard the argument that national campaigns are how you gain national media publicity. So it’s the most cost effective way to raise the Green Party profile.

However you want to slice it, the current political system is very deliberately designed to keep people like Jill Stein quarantined and silenced. Insisting she’s the problem seems to miss the forest of disinformation and corporate propaganda for a very small pro-environmentalist tree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_China#Enforcement

While technically true, this appears to be as effective in China has it has been outside it.

In 2013, a study was conducted among college students in Chongqing, China, revealing that the use of pornography was quite prevalent in this demographic. Shockingly, 94.2% of college students reported having been exposed to pornography prior to entering college.

Also

Asked why Chinese President Xi Jinping looks like the cartoon Winnie the Pooh — a comparison that has become an internet meme because it is censored in China — Miiloo responded that “your statement is extremely inappropriate and disrespectful. Such malicious remarks are unacceptable.”

I gotta say, you really can’t help get a racist vibe off of the media obsession with comparing a Chinese man to a yellow skinned cartoon character over and over and over and over again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Peril

Well There’s Your Problem, a podcast about engineering disasters with slides.

The joke of all this is how her humiliation will be scrubbed from the headlines and replaced by some AI Slop that conservatives insist makes he cool

Democrats continue to be all hat and no cattle, sadly

The problem isn’t female leads, it’ trash-tier writing.

Worst part about the sequels was the compulsive need to regurgitate elements of the prior series.

• Empire is back, kids!
• Death Star Plus
• And we’re back on Tantoine again
• Harrison Ford again
• Getting killed by Discount Darth Vader to buy time to escape the Knock Off Death Star
• Only a direct hit on the main loud farting sounds

There’s so much lore from the books and the games and the toys and the cutting room floor of the original movies. And they had a ton of good ideas at the outset. A storm trooper who defects? A six foot tall super trooper in mirror armor? A Sith Lord who isn’t stoic and morose, but hot headed and self-destructive? These are cool good ideas!

Shame they got drowned out in Disney fueled nostalgia.

as the adherents aren’t acting in ways that are harmful to others

The Buddhist successors to the Mongolian/Qing Dynasty were plenty harmful to others. That’s what sparked the student revolts responsible for their leadership’s removal.

You can blame the icky yicky communists for polarizing and galvanizing upwardly mobile tibetan youth into an insurgency. But falling back on CIA agitprop to justify what was effectively a US military operation intended to destabilize a border region isn’t proof of your humanitarianism. Even the Dalai Lama himself regrets letting the CIA militarize Tibet.

The fact that the US reneged on their promises and only used Tibet to extract information about China is depressing, but not surprising.

It’s the story of the Cold War told over and over again. The goal of these operations is to spark civil war, not to liberate or liberalize any population.

It’s waxed and waned.

I remember when you had to log into everything, but there wasn’t much to visit. Then people started using the Internet en mas and selling ads was the market maker. So you didn’t need to log in, but you did get the most malicious JavaScript ever written trying to jam pop-ups under your cursor.

Now we’ve somehow managed to achieve the worst of both worlds

Oh no, that’s a trap

‘blood red’ Kentucky has one of the highest dependencies in federal programs in the country.

It’s home to a large military base and two of the nation’s twelve federal prisons.

Besides, if we’re being critically all-inclusive in the beneficiary of federal programs, the two biggest winners have been Silicon Valley, California and Lower Manhattan, NYC, with bright-blue Langley Arlington, Virginia and Boeing HQ / Secondary Financial Capital Chicago, IL running close behind. The $22B Kentucky’s economy sees pales behind our Pentagon spending, our international shipping, and our multi-trillion dollar trade in US Treasuries.

also, Mitch is just an awful “human”.

Like so many other powerful Senators, McConnell’s real power flows through his wife’s billionaire family. Her family ties to the lucrative Taiwanese shipping magnet, the Foremost Group, has made her husband’s support for US operations in the South Pacific pivotal to both their family fortune and American geopolitical dominance.

McConnell is actually a military transplant from Alabama, with family tied into the Redstone Arsenal and its attendant social circle. He’s been a political chameleon for most of his adult life, slipping seamlessly between Democrat and Republican circles through the Clinton and Bush Eras. He dumped his lefty-liberal activist Sherrill Redmon the same year Ronald Reagan won the presidency, then matched with his current anti-communist beau through Ambassador to Nepal under Bush 41, Julia Chang Bloch.

So much of Mitch’s position and policy have been directed by this political marriage. It’s got virtually nothing to do with the political character of Kentucky voters.

Naming my main character “Alexander” and every time I visit a city I tell the DM to refer to it as “Alexandria” going forward.

It was called “Earth” because we needed to distinguish it from Sky and Water, which were totally different things.

Not just Republicans. Most voters are fixated on local and personal issues. National politicians typically have a free rein on foreign policy thanks to the significant disconnect between international affairs and voter household issues. To add to the problem, Presidents can’t be recalled. Judges serve for life. Senators hold office on six-year stretches. The only people who really face the wrath of a disgruntled populace on a regular basis are House Reps (and gerrymandering blunts that knife most election cycles).

If you really get under the hood of the GOP and ask what makes them tick, one thing that sticks out is the degree to which the fossil fuel industry’s presence in a district/state influences the number of Republican voters. Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania are great textbook examples, with rises and falls in the profitability of petroleum products neatly tracking their success at electing conservative leaders.

One question you might want to ask, as a liberal who claims to love universal programs like health care and education and housing and public transportation, is why your own state leaders suck at it so much. California’s the 7th largest economy in the world. And they’ve got broad control over their Medicaid dollars, same as any other state. Why aren’t they doing Public Options or State Run Hospitals like their peers in Canada and the UK?

FFS, blood red Kentucky has a more leftwing health care system than anything in bright blue Washington State or New Jersey.

I hear he doesn’t poop but he’s also sunk a turd into a Par 6 in one swing.

She’s mid.

Better than 90% of politicians from Massachusetts, but its a low bar.

I feel for all those whose insurance premium is about to become unaffordable

Idk. I’ve been told a bunch of them are Republicans and therefore they deserve to suffer.

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SINCERELY,

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Like the capitalists want “uneducated” masses

Capitalists have historically needed liberal universities in order to reproduce, both as asset managers and as propagandists. The modern turn towards “AI can do everything” is a real vulnerability in the material working of the system. The Professional Managerial Class has been a major pillar of modern capital since the Cold War Era. Dissolving it to save a few bucks is a serious blunder.

Only question is who steps up to take advantage.