Raptorpat

I remember playing a MechWarrior tabletop game my maybe like 2003? Is this the same franchise?

it's actually his freakishly long jacket

very bold of niantic to add a new feature (dynamix/gigantamax) that effectively ices out all prior game progress and forces everyone to effectively start from scratch within that context

I'm not a pacer but I'm definitely a leg tapper

oh is that how you get around? I sit on my butt and scoot from here to there like a dog with worms

That's what I was getting at in my comment last night. The pre-Harris Trump campaign very specifically and publicly planned to micro-target minority men within the 18-34 age bracket because that's where they saw the best chance to make inroads, the platform being male aggrievement.

This is from a NYTimes/Siena poll this week just as an example of the education gap (which I am using as a proxy for working class/professional-managerial class) overlaid on top of race in the far right column: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/13/us/elections/times-siena-poll-likely-electorate-crosstabs.html I saw another one the other day I can't find that also broke it down further by gender and the gap is monumental.

I don't understand, maybe because it's 1:30am. Polling has consistently shown over the past decade-of-trump that the education gap is the biggest (or maybe second biggest since Dobbs) demographic driver in the overall shift in support between the two parties. The Dems have hemorrhaged people with less than a four-year degree and MAGA has pushed away people with a four year degree or more. This education gap is observable across race, gender, union/non-union etc., though it is obviously most prominent with the white male demographic. That's not to say demographics are destiny (it would be silly so say there are no college graduates supporting Trump or no high school grads supporting Kamala), or that people are sitting to have polite rational conversations about their education/class and which box they belong in. Aggrievement populism doesn't really lend itself to rationalism, the whole idea is they're just mad as hell and want to point the finger at the "other" who is to blame.

I don't think it's philosophically conservative - it's populism. But I think simply calling it stupid people aggrievement does overshadow what I think are clear socio-economic demographics that the core MAGA platform by-design resonates with.

I said "white working class aggrievement" which is irrespective of gender, which they wanted to expand to also focus on general male aggrievement as well.

To be more succinct, his platform represents the politics of white working class aggrievement, and the goal to expand their base beyond that was built around emphasizing male aggrievement generally.

genuinely the political/media ecosystem needs to leave, but they can't do it unless wholesale. if I didn't have to be vaguely aware of things for work I'd delete my account and move on.

I wish I screencapped when the Nazi account praised Elon for letting people "call retards retarded again" but I couldn't find it when I went back for it. Would have been a great side-by-side with the inevitable abuse report rejection.

nothing happening at work right now, browsing Twitter and saw an actual like out and proud Nazi in someone's replies like full on with swastikas in their handle so of course I spent the last half hour systematically reporting everything that account has ever posted, we'll see if something sticks

I'd wager the actual case doesn't begin and end at the 1A, the article says the Space Force is seeking to apply military exemptions to SpaceX despite it not being for military purposes and the article goes on to say the commission and the Space Force have been fighting consistently over everything for more than a year.

They kept their parks open until halfway through Wednesday

what in the jeffrey epstein

pssh everyone knows that's not what the end of main street usa looks like

english has enough inconsistencies that everyone else is excused

happy birthday @TrigunBebop

ploose

yeah real curious how that played out in Brazil