You're right, charisma matters too. But I think when your proposal isn't wonky and it's "I'll cap your rent and make your transportation free", it's not policy in the mind of the voter, it's material improvements.

This is why D's should really run on an uncompromising M4A platform.

I felt this way briefly, but I honestly think The People are just ill-informed materialists in the aggregate. I think if you knew very little and wanted to feel the prosperity you felt before the pandemic, voting R made sense. This is why it's so important to put forward big proposals like Mamdani.

Yes! What if he's hired by wealthy/powerful people in that situation to provide cover by hiding evidence/reinforcing their alibi?

More or less, yes. You could also read summaries of the other movie's plots and miss nothing, rocky movies are mostly vibes.

Gunn deserves heat for this too. Guardians unleashed all new levels of quip. Although I think he's actively turned away from it now.

"Out here, in rural America..."

discorb morbs now orn morbil

Love that he dropped this in there halfway down the article.

FYI, it seems like you tried to censor this persons name and face, however, I can see both underneath the marks you made when I zoom in.

If any group organizes the general strike, it needs to be marketed as an "opening chess move" not a "death star torpedo".

Ironically, this on eBay today would have been their highest paying investment!

Aaand he blocked me too.

wow okay 👀

I've heard Fox News and other online slop outlets are just rerunning 2020 footage as well.

Mother fucking greg proops. I cannot believe that I used to look up to that guy.

Just a quick scroll through his bsky profile (which I'm now seeing for the first time) confirms everything about why I stopped idolizing him years ago. Yeesh.

It was believable up to that point

the purpose of a system is what it does, etc

Sitcom: Frasier
Animated sitcom: King of the Hill