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I’m going for Mussolini.

Is she volunteering?

Bethesda was notorious back in the day for using uncompressed textures. Not lossless textures, just fully uncompressed bitmaps. One of the first mods after every game release just compressed and dynamically decompressed these to get massive improvements in load times and memory management.

You think they did a good job of building a platform and communicating a message? Energizing their base? Pushing back against the GOP’s instanity rather than normalizing it? They didn’t even have a competitive candidate until the 11th hour for fucks sake.

I actually liked Kamala. And I thought Joe did a good job of appointing and trusting competent people in general during his tenure and letting things normalize. But really, they ran a piss poor election and shouldn’t have let Biden ever claim candidacy for re-election.

100% agreed on this in the current state. But the new DNC chair is part of a more progressive and assertive variety of Democrats (DFL) from my home state in MN. Similar factions have been forming a growing coalition in the DNC and got him elected, and have started the process to unseat the existing ragdoll leadership.

I’m not saying we’re converting the DNC to a party of Democratic Socialists, but the progressive factions are working together (finally) and capitalizing on the DNC’s failings.

We can only hope they’re successful.

For those uncertain, it means that suddenly Johnson isn’t so sure he has the votes to pass his agenda, and now the Republican party will meet behind closed doors to negotiate or intimidate members try to bring the “rogue votes” to heel.

I predict more and more votes in both the House and Senate are going to go this way as the rats begin to flee the MAGA sinking ship. As ashamed as Democrats should be of their performance and platform last election, Trump and Congress (and DOGE) have already done some deeply unpopular things. And I think threatening social security might be the straw (or in this case, the thermonuclear device) that breaks the camel’s back.

The swing voters and non-voters, surprise surprise, it seems voted in ignorance of MAGA’s very clear plans to destroy as much of America’s institutions as possible. Institutions relied upon disproportionately by the Republican base and the ignorant swing voters. In my humble opinion, main stream media and social media needs a lot of the blame here for sane-washing last election cycle.

Now we get to see if the DNC leadership sees this as a natural pendulum swing and sits back and continues to learn nothing, or if the growing discontent in the party will continue to gain steam and the leadership continues to get pressure to change.

Hopefully the progressive element in the party continues their momentum. Getting the DNC chair and Schumer’s recent blowback are glimmers of hope.

Much as I would love a true progressive party, in the current system I think we have to settle for a democratic party acting as a coalition of anti-Republican/MAGA factions until we can fix our fptp voting system.

Panama. Greenland. Canada. Gaza.

It truly feels like Trump is desperate to cement his place in history with a territorial expansion. I honestly think these seeds were planted by Putin to destabilize Euro-American (and NATO) relations.

Silly. They’re looking for a fall guy, not actually addressing the problem or being responsible.

“Oh God! The consequences of my actions are impacting me!”

• The honorable Mr Bacon.

Elno & Trump:

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If only they could have known in advance that the man who constantly screamed that he was going to deport all the migrant workforce, fire most of the federal workforce, and slap tariffs on any country that refused to capitulate to his every whim would hurt the economy!

The things Walz has accomplished in his time in Minnesota is actually remarkable, especially given Minnesota’s traditionally libertarian/purple local politics.

Literally the only attack Republicans in Minnesota have is his handling of the George Floyd protests and his COVID response, and those are weak and they know it.

Under him we here in Minnesota got dozens of extremely progressive policies put though, our social programs have dramatically expanded and are extremely well funded, corruption has been rooted out, and our economy is booming. The Minnesota DFL under his leadership have gained a ton of ground as well, where nationally the DNC has given up a ton.

No, he isn’t a great orator or debater. But as a politician and policy maker he’s a rare combination of progressive, well respected, and effective.

Yep. Will actually make plant based and lab based alternatives competitive, and as they’re allowed to gain market share, become cheaper.

It’s the power structure in question.

When labor makes the money, labor has the power.

When services and information make the money, oligarchs will quickly consolidate power and use their control over services (like Twitter?) and information (like WaPo?) to control the narrative.

Now that isn’t to say that a services and information based economy can’t be equitable, but there needs to be an educated and informed public, and a governing body capable of making intelligent, expert informed regulations. Something the US surely lacks.

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Elno reminded him he owns both X and Trump.

They needed an “other” to reunify the fundamentalist Christian bloc against, since abortion isn’t seen by them as much of an issue these days to motivate their voters.

And since they lost the battle of the 80s, 90s, and 00s against openly gay people and society is rapidly becoming more accepting of gay marriage, they had to shift their targets. Trans folks are an easy target because they seem so different and hard to understand. Surgeries, hormone treatments, bathrooms… Obviously interfering with ‘gods biological plan’ for themselves etc etc.

It’s sickening. And once society manages to begin clearing the trans hurdle they will find another minority to target.

Voyager uses a different format.

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I know the org intimately. This this exactly correct. Most of their business is B2B. UHC is actually a fairly small slice of the pie. They have literally dozens of CEOs. The one killed is the CEO of the healthcare insurance entity.