While this can be anecdotally true, higher order thinking does require a mastery of language.

“Investment” here is a euphemism for parasitism.

What Trump doesn’t(can’t) understand is that these artists would have been fine doing the gig if Trump hadn’t made it so radioactive for their long term career prospects. At this rate, they’d be lucky to get a gig playing at a local Indian casino.

They really need to pre-empt all networks and all streaming services for this. Force Americans to watch their beloved president. That will make them love him harder.

Let’s see, that means steadily increasing gas prices in July, August, September and October.

The GOP should be pretty cooked by the time the mid terms hit in November.

But Dems never cease to amaze me in their ability to fail when everything is stacked in their favour.

AIPAC doesn’t think the Democrats are failing, quite the opposite.

It’s my understanding that this former campaign manager has been sacked from his most recent position because of this. He proved to his employer that he is untrustworthy.

I’ve never ever ran

*run

Sorry about being pedantic about this, it’s like a splinter in my mind. It’s never “have ran”.

https://grammarden.blog/has-run-or-has-ran-which-one-is-correct-with-useful-examples/

In the US almost 20% of the adult population is functionally illiterate.

I once worked with a guy who did not know the sun was a star and didn’t know what planets were. This was when I was in the military. I had a an unlabeled world map in my office and whenever someone new(to Germany) came in to be introduced I’d point to the map and say, “I’ll buy you a beer if you can point out our location on the map”. It was just an icebreaker so pointing at Europe was good enough. It was shocking how many people couldn’t locate Germany on a world map and quite a few couldn’t locate their home state on that world map.

I worked with another guy(a computer programmer) who thought the earth was 6000 years old. He also once told me that vertigo is when you feel like you’re standing still and the earth is spinning and indigo is when it feels like you’re spinning and the earth is still.

I work with and interact with professionals and am often reminded of something Richard Feynman said, “Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.”

The document was AI slop. I can see why they didn’t want to release it, but for crying out loud just be honest about why. The way they handled this only makes them look untrustworthy.

Actually Trump said he never read it, which was a rare instance of Trump telling the Truth.

This does not mean that someone didn’t give him a tl;dr and he said, “New Jim Crow?! Sign me up!”

Weird that AIPAC isn’t mentioned at all in the comments.

Lesser of two evils is just for general elections where you only have two choices and you need to slow the rise of fascism.

Progressives need to get on with primarying the fuck out of establishment Democrats. When you have a progressive running against a fascist in the general, polls have shown that the progressive ideas will win…if the voters are focused on policy rather than succumbing to emotional manipulation.

It’s Calvinball.

<sigh> A condition of Biden dropping out and Kamala taking the reins was that she was not allowed to publicly differ from the Biden administration on policy.

You probably also don’t know that Kamala was the only one who could legally step in once Biden dropped out.

But sure, blame her for the handcuffs that were placed on her. Fuck that bitch.

If the universe is infinite, then the pattern of molecules that make up your memories and thought processes will eventually be repeated.

Yeah I think you’re right.

But still, they are sending money out and it will never be recovered.

His face isn’t everywhere because the Epstein class needs the population to stay distracted while they extract more wealth from the average person.

We’ve been fighting a stealth class war for fifty years now. The oligarchs have been cooking this pot of frogs successfully for quite some time.

If they strike it down, it will be years after the money is already gone.