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Better to be Himmler than a political prisoner.

Because I provided a link backing up his claim that I was wrong?

Ok.

I just spent a while googling it, and nothing looks conclusive at all. But looks like Snopes has it as false as least.

But as far as the downvote, just saying "you're wrong" is not helpful in the slightest. Maybe include a source, or even just an explanation that there was some early misinformation going around, and doesn't look likely at moment.

And also hilarious, since he was all too happy to fully enable Trump.

All that power that he cheated our democracy to put in Trumps hands, so that he could use him as a puppet to further his far right agenda, has turned on him. Even after kissing the ring after falling in line again after a very brief "perhaps we've gone too far" moment on Jan 6th.

Fuck you, Mitch. You destroyed our democracy. You did this. You raised an idiot to a dictatorship thinking you could control him. Great fucking job.

It's only missing a fascist puppeteering them

Whitmer, Shaprio, Walz, Buttigieg all don't have the nationwide name recognition needed to hit the ground running with so little time before elections.

Newsom only has name recognition because the Right has been demonizing him for years because they recognized him as a threat. We'd just have a repeat of Hillary.

I'm not saying that these wouldn't make decent candidates in a normal Primary time frame. But it would spell disaster to pivot to any of these candidates this late in the race.

Then name a name.

Who has that kind of charisma and name recognition, with no baggage, that they can storm in like the Koolaid man and take this election?

No? Yeah, I didn't think so. You have been shitting on Biden every thread, even non-Biden related posts, for this entire election year and have never offered an alternative.

As a southern Californian, I measure inflation by the cost of tacos.

Inflation is out of control, despite whatever metrics the government uses. Tacos don't lie.

Don't know why you're being downvoted. I thought that the current theory was that his ear was cut by a glass shard from a teleprompter.

Has that been disproven?

I don't know if the algorithm has been tuned better, but I have totally missed big events until someone has directly mentioned it to me, because of mega threads. I suspect it may because the initial burst of community participation may happen in the first couple threads, and by the time a mod comes in and either uses an existing one as a mega thread, or starts a new thread, the participation has waned, so minor stories rise above.

I heard, by mouth, that Trump had been shot about an hour after it happened. It was no where on my front page, either "Active" or "Top Six Hours". I had to go to the News community directly to find it.

I personally hate mega threads. It fucks with front page algorithms. Sometimes I'm not even aware of large events because I didn't know there was a mega thread on a specific community that you might not see if you're just looking at your front page, depending on how late the mega thread gets to the scene. Or newer articles with additional detail revitalizing the discussion under a new post.

I would rather comb through a couple threads, which tend to have some subtly different angles on the overall discussion.

But I think I'm in the minority.