[T]he ages of eight of the 11 participants in the chat: They appear to range from 24 to 35. Ages for three other participants—Bobby Walker, Michael Bartels, and Rachel Hope—were not publicly available.

The oldest appears to be Joe Maligno, who public records suggest is 35. In the chat, he spoke about gas chambers and used a racial slur toward Chinese people.

Annie Kaykaty, New York’s national committee member who, in response to Maligno’s comment about gas chambers, said, “I’m ready to watch people burn now,” is 28. Alex Dwyer, chair of the Kansas Young Republicans, who wrote a series of numbers used by white supremacists and wrote, “Sex is gay,” is 29; Peter Giunta, former chair of the New York State Young Republicans, who referred to Black people as “watermelon people” and “monkeys” and said, at another point, “I love Hitler,” is 31.

Chat member and supposed “kid” Samuel Douglass is a 27-year-old state senator

People have a sense of tiny comfort. One of which is not to have to think about death even for the deserving. They will, at the same as being offended by this, will support the death penalty, feel justified in invading random nations, and help defund social services. But that’s never felt as confronting death. That’s all in making sure their small comforts stay stable.

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At first I was outrage by this: forældrekompetenceundersøgelse. Then I read this sentence: “The municipality told her she was “not Greenlandic enough” for the new law banning the tests to apply, despite her being born in Greenland of Greenlandic parents.”

I’m gonna post about. I’m gonna post the hell out of it.

Why won’t anyone let the market decide?!? 😭

facts are always backed by numbers*

9/10 bolded statements are true.

* this fact isn’t backed by numbers

There was one question and answer on the past and future of the Democrats. I don’t expect Inskeep to do a hard hitting interview, but this should not have been the title.

From memory, they talked about:
• his beard and how Republicans do like it

• the Epstein files and how the Republicans are reacting
• Pete Buttigieg’s knowledge or lack thereof of Biden’s mental acuity
• Dems going forward
• is President Trump a good president?

So the one question and answer:

INSKEEP: Let me put a proposition on the table, and we’ll see if you agree with it or not. The country has changed. Politics have changed. Republicans figured that out and captured the moment, and Democrats have failed to do so up to now. Do you agree with that?

BUTTIGIEG: I would mostly agree. Yeah. I think that Democrats have been slow to understand the changes in how people get their information, slow to understand some of the cultural changes that have been happening, and maybe most problematic of all, to attach to a status quo that has been failing us for a long time.

Right now, you’ve got an administration that is burning down so many of the most important institutions that we have in this country, which is wrong. It is also wrong to imagine that we should have just kept everything going along the way it was. And I think that my party needs to do a better job of addressing the fundamental problems that have led people to mistrust everything.

I don’t know what his fundamental analysis is, but how can you not lay a mammoth sized amount of blame at the feet of Democrats since Clinton? I’m sure Mayor Pete will find a way to not look backwards, only forwards.

Textorcist

Get gud

Trumps a self aggrandizing chaos agent who thinks punitive methods are the same thing as strength. They were always going to move fast and break things after they used the breaks too much the first time. They regularly declared they would make their enemies pay and they went for the least powerful first. The specifics are besides the point.

surprised the Democrats are not always fully unified against.

Who did you think the Democrats were?

You didn’t know that was going to happen in 2024?

Physically. But psychically?

Who the fuck is thinking about 2028?!? I’m just trying to get out of 2024 alive.

The candidate that gets 270 electoral votes wins. In most states, the candidate who gets the most votes and not a majority wins all the electoral votes for that state.

This has to be the most persistent, stupidest reading of the vote.

Doing something that resonates with your base and, frankly, most Americans, could help. I can’t help you beyond that.

It’s far more complicated than that to get an amendment passed including a route that doesn’t require Congress.

Second, there is value in trying things that will fail. It sends a signal to the citizenry that this isn’t acceptable. This can be a good just as much as it can damage their reputation. In my opinion, the Dems need to rebuild a reputation that is connected to the people in some meaningful way. I don’t get the sense that Democratic leadership see that as the core issue

Lemmy Easter egg. Gives access to Bizzaro Lemmy. They get a mustache. That’s it.

They may need to.

They are not capable.