It's definitely an empty gesture, complete with banning a few rude but innocuous left-wing subs so they can say they're just neutrally enforcing the rules. Still, the_donald going from untouchable to getting banned as an empty gesture says something about the context beyond reddit.
Even if there was even a remote possibility Mitch McConnell would allow Trump to be impeached, it wouldn't be done by November. The Democrats might try again anyway if Trump gets reelected, but I doubt they bother otherwise.
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Oh. Yeah, it's real.
It's not from the Biden campaign if that's what you mean.
It's as if he's writing Biden's commercials for him.
I only listened to a few episodes, and the one in the link is the worst of them. Most of them are her interviewing artists she knows, and it kind of has the feel of being a fly on the wall of the coolest retirement home in the world. I've been enjoying it.
There are dozens of peach farms within driving distance of me. I can definitely find ripe ones.
... damnit, now that you said that I want to make peach ice cream.
I'm... not sure what I was expecting, but that sure wasn't it.I mean, go do a Google Image search. Just "Burkina Faso."
In his defense, the real world likes to reuse that punchline too.
There's always Library Genesis.
Police work is less dangerous than you think it is relative to other jobs, and encouraging cops' action movie fantasies to the contrary might have something to do with their itchy trigger fingers. Besides which, the article itself says they're not going without law enforcement, just that they're replacing the police department with a ' “community-led” public safety program'. Most likely they're overstating a reform that's going to move their policing more in line with saner countries in the hopes that protesters will think they've gotten a bigger concession than they have and be satisfied.
People are getting impatient with the old school "one side thinks this, the other side thinks that, and we'll give equal weight to both" idea of journalistic objectivity, because the right takes advantage to make ideas that should obviously be unacceptable look acceptable. The NYT isn't becoming more insufferable because it changed, it's becoming more insufferable because it needs to and hasn't.
I'm sure they're not representative, but I've been following /r/army since Tuesday because it's the window I've got, and most of the upvoted comments are either along the lines of "I really don't want to do this" or "I'd be ok if they asked us to rein in the police". There's a distinct lack of enthusiasm for beating down people to protect windows.
I've heard from a lot of people who were inspired by Seattle in 1999 to get involved in politics, enough that I'm convinced Occupy wouldn't have happened if Seattle hadn't happened first, and silly as it got at points none of the new waves of activism in the last 10 years would have happened without Occupy. It's not about the Nikes, even if it was about the Nikes for the kid stealing them. It's about showing that capitalism isn't invincible, that it's not hopeless. I thought that kind of symbolic gesture was counterproductive for a long time, because it seemed like more people read it the way you did than didn't, but 2020 looks a lot less hopeless to me than 2010 did, and a lot of the people making it that way were dumb kids posting riot porn in 2010.
On the other hand. while I didn't go out for this round because the nearest city to me has been very calm and mostly just black protestors saying "hey, we don't want to be murdered", at every protest I've been to since Charlottesville we've had things like church ladies bringing red-and-black cupcakes to the anarchists and aged WWII vets needing to be convinced that the black bloc kids could handle 4chan nazis and they don't need to break a hip helping. I'm not willing to predict a left turn in US politics, especially after the Democratic primary had the most depressing outcome possible, but I don't think a hard turn to the right is likely either.
Yeah, but then it's just Trump and guys who have been daydreaming about running over protesters since before Charlottesville circlejerking.
While I acknowledge that America punishes optimism, I don't think a "red and black scare" is going to happen. I mean, even the NYT is calling bullshit. The FBI is uninterested enough that Christopher Wray had to make himself a wingnut punching bag shooting down Ted Cruz back when that was his obsession.
Palmer Luckey isn't the original anything, the VPL guys were, and in their defense they were mostly earnest hippies hanging out with Timothy Leary. Virtual Reality is probably much more impressive combined with LSD. Palmer Luckey read the The Virtual Reality Homebrewer's Handbook in the age of kickstarter. His achievement was reanimating a dead horse.
Ahmadinejad addressing americans is always weird. It doesn't make sense as propaganda, because it's not like public opinion has much effect on US foreign policy, and it's not like there are many people outside of government who are both able to point out Iran on a map and think antagonizing it is a good idea. I'd almost believe he's sincere just because I can't think of any other reason he'd bother.
Unfortunately the states that should be wondering whether right to work laws were really a good idea are instead worrying about getting a haircut.
Back when it was twttr you interacted with it by sending a text message to its shortcode and it relayed it. Also displaying the messages publicly on the web seemed like a privacy issue to techcrunch of all things. They really caught on by pushing it at sxsw for keeping up with other people there. As for the Ruby thing, I didn't follow it that closely. _why coined the term tumblelog for a blog consisting of really short posts, links and images. Microblogging was the term that stuck, but tumblelog gave tumblr its name. Because _why was excited about the format and he had his weird cult of personality going the Ruby community got excited about it too. Twitter started out as a Rails application, so a lot of its early users where Ruby guys, for the same reason there were a lot of lispers on reddit early on.
Twitter wanted to be broadcast SMS. It was for asking all your friends if they wanted to get beer at once. It got adopted for more because that same _why post that inspired tumblr got the Ruby community really excited about spewing whatever crossed their mind at the world.