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[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

It ain't about what voters want, it's about what donors want...

Hopefully that changes after the election, but I'd be very surprised

Considering Kamala made the tie breaking vote to expand fracking, I'd be really surprised

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 hours ago

That's not what OP is doing.

He's buy a "brand new" phone the store opened and unlocked.

Completely different, and if a store is doing that, they're probably doing other shady adjacent shit.

I wouldn't buy any "brand new" expensive electronic that's already been opened and had shit done to it

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Kamala won't be perfect, and we need to keep pressure on her from the left....

But at the end of the day, she's able to beat trump where Biden likely couldn't, and she'll sure as shit be a better president than Biden or trump could be

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

You can "unlock" a locked phone.

You can buy a factory unlocked phone.

I wouldn't buy a "brand new" manually unlocked phone.

You're also going to spend a lot of money at once, where a provider would do interest free over two years plus likely a discount, and your not leaving till the contract is over.

I always take interest free deals, and so should you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Your bot spams multiple times an hour and no one ever seems to give it a single up vote and definitely not comments.

I'm just blocking the shitty bot, but lots of people are probably just blocking your subs because the shitty bot is the only one posting here besides you.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 23 hours ago

Do you think cops like prosecutors or AGs?

Cops want to be the end all and be all of the justice system, it's not even unheard of for them to stop doing their jobs to protest the DA/AG/prosecutor who tries to hold a cop accountable or not do something they want.

They'll still arrest and hassle people, even lock them up. But when it goes to trial, they don't. And in our justice system often the only proof of a crime is what a cop says. So if they don't show the case is lost and that hurts the careers of DAs, AGs, and prosecutors.

They 100% identify with a corrupt politicians more than a prosecutor.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 23 hours ago

is obvious that they are going to spend a lot of money,

That is about raising money...

I'm talking about how they can spend that much money.

Most of the actual work on voter outreach is done by volunteers. Are they spending it on radio/TV ads no one see? Spam calls and texts asking for donations? Fancy fundraisers to get moreoney?

We spend money to make money, and it just keeps going in a loop and they never really get around to trying to get votes.

It's like infinite unnecessary middle men...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

Cost over a billion to beat trump last time and this time is going break the record again.

I don't understand how they're spending this much money, like I understand the answer is corruption, but I'm just amazed they have the balls to claim that much is legitimately spent on campaigning.

Most of it is probably the salaries of the people in charge of collecting donations. They're just after a commission, but Jamie Harrison got the DNC chair because he ran against a nationally hated Republican in a seat he had no chance of winning

Biden didn't care he lost the election, just that he broke records for donations. Everyone ignored the donations weren't so much for Harrison, they were against his opponent.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Most countries can kick out a PM, hold a national popular vote election. And have a replacement PM in office in like 2-3 months.

For a fraction of the cost of what we do.

But having the primary start so early and called after 5-10 states vote gives this huge election where fundraising happens nonstop. Which is insane because most people don't see TV/radio commercials anymore. We learn about candidates from what the media says about candidates more than anything, have for decades.

Even in person campaign stops, who goes to one of those if they aren't already voting for them?

It's costing each party over a billion for presidential campaigns these days, and for the life of me I can't understand how they could spend that much if they tried.

It's literally Brewster's Millions, but if someone's team is raising the most, they act like it's a good thing.

Everything about American elections is inflated because there's so much money that can be made in what's essentially legalized bribery. And 99.9% of Americans are priced out of the system. With the "victory fund" nonsense, an individual can give like 960k this year. Why would they waste time with average Americans who might give $20?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Great.

So the social media site is older than I thought, and the person who made the comment on that site is a lot stupider than it seemed.

Like, Facebooks been around for about 20 years. Would you take a link to a Facebook comment over PBS?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

And that linked accounts last comment was advocating for Biden to stage a pre-emptive coup before this election...

https://www.metafilter.com/activity/306302/comments/mefi/

It doesn't matter if it was created before Ask Yahoo or if it's older.

It's random people making random social media comments, sometimes stupid people make the rare comment that sounds like they know what they're talking about. And I already agreed no one had to take my word on it either.

But that PBS video does a really fucking good job explaining it.

Cuz if I can't explain to you why a random social media comment isn't a good source, I'm sure as shit not going to be able to explain anything like Penrose's theory on consciousness to you.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Also because they signed a Paramount exclusive contract for new episodes...

Then cut their season length almost in half and started doing "mini movies" on HBO or some shit

So now there's legal stuff going on and they couldn't release now if they wanted to.

I think it's funny they did what they did, and it's fucking over shitty corporations, but it was just incredibly stupid unless the second streaming company pre-emptively agreed to fight any resulting lawsuits on their behalf.

There's no way they weren't getting sued over that shit.

 

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