I see too much of this online to dismiss it entirely, but my daughter is a senior in HS and every single friend of hers I have met has been informed, incredibly active in the community and very, very good at just getting their shit done without having to be nagged.

Feels like there is always a grift available somewhere. I view this and the Cuomo campaigns the same way. They didn't really care if they won, but we're happy to suck up donations to redirect to friends and family for 'services'.

what's "funny" is when I see this stuff covered by the press, the idea that regulatory capture and corruption is directly responsible for poor security standards/hacks, isn't even a concept that shows up anywhere on the page

Well, given the subsidy now works the other way around I think you could say, at minimum, that more people would want to live that way than currently do.

Might get that put of a shirt for Thanksgiving with my father, who hates & never visits NYC and is freaking out about Mamdani.

We breathed in a fuckton of lead.

According to political media rules (starting January 2025) if a candidate wins they are allowed to do anything they want as long as it was vaguely in front of voters.

Anyways, bad news for Todd Gilbert and possibly any Republican in Virginia.

Yeah. Hard to bet against the favorite company of the state in a state run economy.

Feels like this is better for them than being kidnapped by actual ICE agents.

Rs: Make up a new issue that gets national traction every week and ride those fake issues to sweeping victories.

Ds: We must carefully poll people to see what they already believe and then tell them exactly what they want to hear. People famously love politicians that tailor messages this way.

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It's pretty much guaranteed to be a runoff, no?