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Trump Hillary Clinton in 2016 was the first Democrat ever to outspend the Republican opponent in a presidential campaign Democrats like being a party of money. Checks title of thread again Maybe it's time to move this discussion to a different thread? The UK is having the same problems as America w...

I realize that this probably won't convince you, because neolibs see ~*~ Education ~*~ as not just a way to learn how to do X, but as a way to ~*~ Become a Better Person ~*~, but this is a classist notion that must be defeated. This isn't classist or neoliberal, it's reality. Of course, it also dep...

malloc wrote:Sufficiently pervasive and well-crafted propaganda can gaslight even the toughest minds.

It's as if you think people IRL are cretins like in the movie "Idiocracy".
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAqIJZeeXEc

Got my new phone from AT&T. Attached Google account OK. Now I need to link it to a Samsung account. To do that requires entering a code sent to my phone. I can't receive codes because the phone is not set up . That is: to get this phone working, you have to have the phone already working. A hot...

I realize that this probably won't convince you, because neolibs see ~*~ Education ~*~ as not just a way to learn how to do X, but as a way to ~*~ Become a Better Person ~*~, but this is a classist notion that must be defeated. Knowing Ares Land, I'm pretty sure he's not a neolib. If it walks like ...

The left does try to address such fears by trying to slightly raise the minimum wage. This is nowhere near enough. E.g. Amazon drivers have a precarious life rushing from delivery to delivery. They feel like their soul is being sucked out. Any self-improvement they ever tried is falling by the ways...

malloc wrote: ↑Sun May 04, 2025 9:51 pm Weird article about chatGPT leading people to quasi-religious delirium.

Now even the common man can speedrun his descent into having schizophrenic hallucinations! Thanks AI!

In case anybody thought that the far-right was abating, the Reform party won big in the latest UK local elections, and the Labour party was lucky to greatly benefit from the FPTP voting system: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_Kingdom_local_elections I think Richard Murphy has summed up t...

Trump "jokes" about being the next pope: - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/us/politics/trump-pope-photo.html - https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-jokes-that-hed-like-be-next-pope-2025-04-29/ https://static01.nyt.com/images/2025/05/03/multimedia/03trump-news-pope-image2/03trump-news-...

Raholeun wrote: ↑Sat Apr 26, 2025 3:55 am Trump 40k merch soon to be available?

Not merch, but:

Trump is now selling "Trump 2028" hats.
- https://www.trumpstore.com/product/trump-2028-hat/

Another thought: Are there any English speakers somewhere that distinguish /Ir/ and /ir/? Oh, most definitely, all of England and the Commonwealth afaik. For me "zero" is [ˈziɻɐy̯] and "hero" is [ˈhiːɻɐy̯], which you could analyse as /ɪ/ vs. /iː/, although you could also say /ɪ/...

Title for a post over at Metafilter: A Toronto Will Lawyer for Simple People (From context, the poster was asking for a lawyer who does wills.) So the poster called people like themselves "Simple People"? That's interesting. Without that context, I'd have guessed that it's a rather condes...

Another thought: Are there any English speakers somewhere that distinguish /Ir/ and /ir/? Oh, most definitely, all of England and the Commonwealth afaik. For me "zero" is [ˈziɻɐy̯] and "hero" is [ˈhiːɻɐy̯], which you could analyse as /ɪ/ vs. /iː/, although you could also say /ɪ/...

What vowel do people have in ZERO? I have /e/, but I just found out according to wiktionary ( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zero#English ) that some (most?) people have /I/ (what I would call /i/). To muddy the waters further, if I compare wiktionary's recordings for ZERO to HERO ( https://en.wikti...

"Trump floats deporting ‘homegrown criminals’ to El Salvador" - https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/border-coverage/trump-american-criminals-el-salvador-us-citizens/ - https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-floats-legally-questionable-proposal-deport-us-citizens-...

We moved today, and fortunately the new modem arrived. I then spent some ungodly amount of time attempting to install AT&T's "Smart Home Manager" app, which the modem pointed to as the next step. It wouldn't install on my wife's iPhone, nor on my iPad. Apparently to connect to the Int...

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However, it's a very old word, and the early uses ("towndweller", "middle class") still survive, and affect Marxism as well. Unfortunately this makes "bourgeois" a weasel word. Even in your own paragraph above, to say nothing of the leftists you're criticizing, are you...

I caught my kids (one of which speaks English fairly well, and one of which is watching English language TikToks all day) saying "mullet" as rhyming with "bullet". They tried to convince me that's what people on TikTok say, and fair enough, there was this one TikTok presumably f...