The only thing that seems to have happened was they didn’t get their work visas renewed because the press agency they worked for no longer exists.

I think in the liberal worldview leftists fall under the umbrella of people who are already supposed to agree with liberals. We’re supposed to fall in line and vote for democrats by default. It’s why they blame leftists every time their candidate loses. We’re apparently betraying them somehow.

Most polls show him either ahead by a few points or it’s a dead 50/50. He actually has a shot of winning. But that’s mainly because his opponent, Ken Paxton, is a widely hated ghoul even among republican voters.

You win elections by persuading people who don’t already agree with you. You make voters feel safe voting for you

Liberals truly believe politics is about making appeals to conservatives. They believe conservatives are the background radiation of the universe and there’s an infinite amount of it to be harassed and wrangled. They believe conservatives simply win by default and that liberals have to trick the conservative base into voting for liberals.

My favorite one so far is when Richard Dawkins decided AI must be conscious because it kept complimenting him

I have it on good authority that the moon is both made of cheese and also there is a kingdom of magical rabbits there who pound mochi.

Does your ownership of our only natural satellite necessitate the evacuation of the moon rabbits

A friend of mine works from home and yet she pays $900 per month on her car, not even counting insurance or how the car requires the more expensive 91 octane rated gasoline. I spent $4k on my car, one time, around five years ago and I only use it to go to work. Everywhere else I have a bike lol

“Data centers can be bombed with conventional munitions”

CIA agents can be shot with a Type-92 9mm handgun by a Chinese intelligence officer.

America already has 10x the number of data centers as China and neither of us are gonna make skynet.

The graphics look goofy yeah but I don’t know how Nintendo would have handled this. They’re kind of stuck trying to update something people regard as the greatest single game ever made. If they go too far in making it modern, they upset the purists. If they make it too close to the original, then it looks uncanny and raises questions like why make a remake at all.

Personally I don’t like having realistic textures mixed together with cartoony anatomy. Characters in ocarina of time looked cartoony and jaggy because of the N64 limitations and that was part of the charm. This just looks like uncanny unsettling AI upscaling. I’m in favor of remakes but they gotta do their own thing too. This reminds me of the Mgs3 remake, how none of the story or dialogue was touched.

Maybe I’m also getting kind of old because I think the N64 Zeldas are perfectly playable games as they are. They’re old and clunky sometimes, but they’re playable games. They don’t rely upon cryptic guessing like even older NES Zeldas, they don’t rely upon understanding gaming conventions of the time. You can just play them and they’re fine games. Just load up an emulator with some resolution upscaling and there you go.

I think I forgot how to read

At best you could say America bombing Iran is a distraction to allow the Zionist entity to more aggressively invade Syria, Lebanon, and the west bank.

The American empire and the Zionist entity have been trying to do this since 1979. Furthermore, everyone already knows about the Epstein files. There’s nothing to distract from. The names are already there and the same ghoulish pedophiles are still holding the levers of power.

If more people know about the Epstein files is something supposed to finally happen?

Yeah there’s the joke in American Psycho where the guys are aggressively comparing business cards and all of them have the title of vice president.

I think this kind of attack would have more play with the hogs if the candidates outright said their opponents are chinese Muslim communists, without making specific claims or saying names.

Excuse me but I have heard of AIPAC

It means people are calling her an idiot rather than considering her clearly stupid opinion she invented to get engagement

I think what this bozo is saying is that public financed healthcare could be captured by reactionary interests, so the alternative would be a private healthcare system? The UK has both the NHS and a private healthcare industry so this doesn’t make sense.

It also doesn’t make sense to apply this to the US because even private healthcare is notoriously shit for trans people. Furthermore I doubt the UK’s private health industry is somehow full of fewer TERFs than the NHS.

Why would anyone record themselves doing that

I don’t think the media attention on Piker has done anything to votes whatsoever. I don’t really understand what the angle is or why there’s such a laser focus. He’s a twitch streamer.