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[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0 3 points 1 month ago

Apparently states that do that are being naughty/cutting corners.

This is like the "millions of dead people voting". It's not a thing. There are no states that do this. There's no reason to, it takes days to print ballots, not 4 months.

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They'll be violating several of their own state laws, and federal law if they do so. I know it's easy to go with the "but Trump gets away with everything" - reality is our elections to date have been free and fair and there's no indication that's going to change. The folks that own the elections by and large actually care about democracy. His fake electors scheme failed for a reason, and it wasn't just dumb luck.

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

has a critical shortage of psychologists trained to treat PTSD.

Huh, a country whose entire persona is based on the idea that any man who needs any help with anything is weak and feeble has a shortage of folks trained in how to actually help men who need serious help. SHOCKING.

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0 34 points 1 month ago

So, what he's saying is all of his spending so far has been personal attacks, and nothing of substance about policy? Because if you had been spending your money telling us all what you're planning on doing if you win, it wouldn't matter who you're running against. Oh, right, because your entire plan for presidency is project 2025 and anyone with 2 functioning brain cells thinks that plan is absolute fucking insanity, so you need to distract with personal attacks and red herrings.

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

The map is just bad? They're throwing large groups of states together that have literally no control over what other states do. For instance, it groups part of North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois together as if they're one giant blob and then saying they're only 10% renewable and 31% "low carbon" (whatever that means).

A quick look at Illinois shows it's 55% nuclear and 21.6% renewables for a grand total of 76% of their power being carbon free. Minnesota is 41% renewable, 25.3% nuclear, for a grand total of 66% carbon free electricity. Iowa is 90% (!!!) renewables. Even Wisconsin is 20% nuclear and 15.6% renewables.

https://www.eia.gov/state/data.php?sid=MN

https://www.eia.gov/state/data.php?sid=IL

https://www.eia.gov/state/data.php?sid=WI

https://www.eia.gov/state/data.php?sid=IA

However this map is being generated, it appears to be absolute garbage and intentionally skewed, and isn't basing any of this on any logic. It can't be based on population served or on size of ground covered.

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0 2 points 1 month ago

I don't do ANYTHING on twitter other than occasionally click on a post by a local sports guy when I get a notification. Literally EVERYTHING else in my feed is right wing political non-sense. The extent of my interactions were hitting block early on, and when I realized that did nothing to give their "algorithm" a clue that I wasn't interested I just started ignoring it entirely.

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0 7 points 1 month ago

No, but his relatives won't allow him to be alone with any of his nieces or nephews because that "little incident" back in 2012.

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0 -1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Biden is not a popular candidate and not who the Democratic party electorate necessarily wants: instead his whole candidacy and presidency has solely been not being Trump. This condition is fully transferrable to any candidate with support of the party.

Biden may not be a popular candidate on Lemmy, but he absolutely was prior to that debate showing with the general public. It turns out moderates and independents make up a large portion of the voting block and they aren't all drooling at the prospects of Bernie Sanders. They WANT a boring president.

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0 13 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Don't disagree, but also curious why the same pundits aren't ripping apart Trump's senility? 30 seconds of watching a Daily Show weekly roundup will provide COUNTLESS examples of Trump rambling endlessly and forgetting what he was even talking about. Just because it wasn't as stark at the debate doesn't' mean it isn't happening. I'd also imagine that Trump was probably coked out of his mind at the debate after he spent weeks leading up to it claiming Biden would be on drugs. He has a well-documented history of projecting whatever he's doing wrong on his opposition.

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0 36 points 1 month ago

This would be far more convincing coming from someone that isn't an evangelical religious nutjob teaching at a school with barely enough students to field an American football team (yes I know it's Australia) much less be competitive in any major sports.

Controversial thesis: if you teach creationism in college as a factual accounting of history, then it's not a university. It's a cult with a side hustle in tertiary education.

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0 -5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I see this guy has never tried to use a public restroom in san francisco... Providing public restrooms resulted in absolutely horrendously disgusting and unusable public restrooms that literally require a hazmat suit to clean, ignoring the needles.

The primary issue was the defunding and closure of mental health facilities. While far from perfect, we probably should've focused on improving them instead of throwing mentally unstable people onto the streets to fend for themselves.

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0 57 points 2 months ago (6 children)

"If you’re trying to reach senior decision makers, if you want to reach the most influential people in the world," Musk told Read, "the X platform is by far the best."

Does someone want to break it to him that he's one of about 4 executives of a fortune 500 who spends any time on Twitter? The rest have PR people who might make a couple posts a month for them, but they sure as shit aren't wasting any time on it arguing with idiots and bots. They're busy flying around on private jets or playing golf when they aren't spending their 30 minutes a month working.

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