Victim of Communism
Only works if you can cement the process against a Republican wave election that flips everything back to gerrymandered again.
This is why Ranked Choice voting, maybe even a full conversation to Parliamentary elections, is what you really need as part of electoral reform.
Just redrawing districts one more time won’t cut it. This is a systematic failure, not a Bad Maps problem.
One election cycle later, we have Tommy “Name three branches of government” Tuberville elected right back in and remains there to this day.
There’s a real fundamental difference between the fluke election of 2018, where Republicans nominated an actual out-and-proud pedophile for Senate and he underperformed every other candidate on the ticket.
Democrats in Texas won across the board. Every statewide office flipped. Dems took the Texas House for the first time in decades. All Four state SC judges flipped. Dems hit a high water mark of 5.4M votes - more than in the Presidential election of 2024. Dems were winning in Bastrop. In Jefferson. All over the valley.
This wasn’t a bunch of moderate Republicans skipping on field on a ticket. This was a sea change built on the back of successively better Dem turnout going all the way back to the disaster of 2014 (1.4M Dem votes) to now.
More Democrats voted in Texas than in California (5.1M) this year.
Regime change in an oil rich oligarchy under the banner of liberal democracy?
I guess we’ll give it another shot.
I’m really curious how we don’t know where he lives yet.
A of these guys own a ton of properties and only declare one of them a primary residence due tax purposes.
If Elon lives anywhere, it’s on a private jet. I doubt he spends more than ten days a year at any single building.
You need a bit of a hype cycle to get people to notice.
It’s like a bank robber lining up hostages, except the hostages all deserve what’s coming to them
AT&T was effectively a government-supported monopoly
It was certainly a monopoly. But hardly government supported. The government has issued major sanction against the company no less than three times.
Solar R&D was hardly private. You’re completely excluding things like the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Advanced Solar Energy Research and Development Division.
The NSF has always languished in funding and has historically failed to deliver major breakthroughs, much less any kind of physical rollout, of a public solar/wind energy grid.
If anything, it has operated as an echo chamber of the fossil fuel industry, downplaying the efficiency and ultimate profitability of a renewable grid.
Hardly a subsidy.
And yet, my point is, even they’re still subsidizing solar orders of magnitude more than nuclear!
Show me the solar powered submarine.
Show me the solar powered aircraft carrier.
Show me any meaningful federally contracted project to implement solar power for domestic or international consumption.
At the very least, I can point you towards Georgia’s Vogtle 3 and 4. Nothing like that exists in the renewable space.
We’ll see where she stands in a year. “The party kicked her out” doesn’t mean anything when she’s not running for anything
Fetterman Energy
blue no matter who and proven.
This seems like a stark rebuke of the above. The national party has been absolutely toxic towards El-Sayud since he filled to run.
Vote Who Chuck Schumer Tells You Too, is more like it
If people don’t stand up
Stand up and do what? With whom? When and where is this happening? What are the anticipated consequences? What is the anticipated pushback? Who is leading the struggle? What are the demands?
I see a ton of “Somebody Should Do Something!” but vanishingly little “Join the DSA, rally around AOC, and unionize your workplace. Here’s the steps. Here’s the meeting. Here’s the agenda. Here’s people with resources and experience who can make it successful.”
In Soviet America, Anthropic Boycott You!
YouTube algorithms are flush with AI boosters in gaming subs
You’re never going to own an industrial scale datacenter
I suspect we’ll see these features opened up for US-allied actors against their foreign competitors.
You can guarantee US auto companies are going to be free to reverse engineer software and manufacturing techniques of Chinese companies, for instance.
But you’re not going to be allowed to use Grok or Meta to hack your Tesla or BMW, pull out the OS, clone it as freeware, and offer a substitute unconstrained by subscription fees and gated upgrades.
Intel is down, AMD is down, SpaceX is going down slowly.
Off of stratospheric highs. They’re now merely overvalued, rather than extremely overvalued
Buy The Dip
Not the entire time. The original computer architecture was big central processors that took commands from remote consoles.
Personal Computing wasn’t a thing until the late 1980s. Even then, it only lasted 20 years before the Internet enticed people back into Cloud Computing and SaaS.
Ffs, the whole appeal of the Internet browser window is that you just make requests from foreign systems and they do all the work, returning you the finished result. Client side code has been bad system design for decades.
Pipes are inefficient. If you want water, you should buy it from my big lake. Also, I should be able to set the price of water. Also, fuck these three people in particular, for using water in a way I don’t like.
The GOP isn’t any more dead today than it was in 2008 or 1992. No more than the Dems were dead after 1994 or 2016.