The only thing that really matters is PA. If GOP wins PA, they win election. Right now it's neck and neck with Trump a little ahead.
Kamala was always going to be up in national polls and she will always win national vote.
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Vulnerability is attractive. But not trauma dumping.
There's a time and a place. So don't be afraid of opening up, you just have to do it in an attempt to connect with people. Not to try and abuse their attention for validation.
Secondly, never pay for an app membership. It's not worth it and you're getting the wrong idea how it works.
Make a casual profile with some good pictures and send casual messages. Try to be light hearted and show a little bit of personality.
That's all you need. Anything more is a red flag to most women. Realize they are trying to sift through hundreds of people. They maybe have a few seconds to look through your profile.
Also stop using the word cuck. Don't be terminally online and read some books. Expand your perspective. Women are attracted to empathetic and intelligent men. Someone who pays attention and listens. They will give you a lot if you give it back.
Call me tin foil hat man but I think the COVID was just a way to take spotlight off of Biden so he couldn't say anything stupid
Almost every time he's spoken publicly in the last few weeks he's made some gaffes. Imagine a press statement and he mixes up Kamala'a name with someone else.
Not worth the risk. Biden speaking in public is too risky, might mess up the message they're trying to send.
Have you not been paying attention? Every time Biden goes up to speak, he makes a fool of himself. At the debate he was mumbling and staring blankly into space with his mouth open. He then did an interview afterwards to try and calm the mood that only make it worse. Then he showed up to the NATO summit and introduced Zelensky as Vladmir Putin. He called Trump the vice president.
All in the course of a couple of weeks. Biden simply isn't all there. His polling numbers were on a downward trend and the key problem is that concerns about his age and mental capacity can only get worse with time. It will never get better.
There was no other option but to change Biden. Everybody knew this after the debate. I think it took so long for him to drop out because they didn't know who to replace him with. Kamala isn't pilling any better and in some places worse.
But it seems the DNC has done their research and figured Kamala is the best chance they're gonna get. Which I think is a grim omen for the near future.
Biden was 100% going to lose. Kamala is probably going to lose, but at least there's a chance.
There was no other move here. Democrats put themselves in Zugzwang by Biden seeking re-election in the first place.
There are very few items worth keeping Windows for. I have window on a VM on my MacBook for one specific program for work.
On my desktop, I used to dual boot but deleted my windows install after a couple of years.
All the games I play on Steam work on Linux. There are some multi-player games that have anticheat that don't work well with Proton.
Besides that, if you're a professional and you need a software like Photoshop or Ableton or whatever, when you can't get by with the open source alternatives, then I think it's a valid reason. Although even in that case, I prefer MacOS
MacOS is a little annoying at first because it has a bunch of safety rails but with some tweaking, you can get it more or less functionally identical to Linux.
Ideas spread between humans. On systems designed to facilitate communications between people, these ideas will likewise spread. Did AfD exploit TikTok's algorithm or is right wing populism seeing a large growth worldwide?
When the printing press come out and certain news agencies starting "Yellow Journalism" were they exploiting that system of communication for profit?
Did JFK and Nixon exploit TV for their own political purposes?
I believe wholeheartedly that every social media algorithm should be open source and transparent so the public can analyze what funny business is going on under the hood.
But is it any different from how TV channels pick what shows to play or what ads to run? Which articles get printed and the choice of words for a newspaper?
I think people are quick to jump on TikTok because of some unusual socially acceptable jingoism but I don't see how at its core is fundamentally different from other forms of media, let alone other popular social media platforms.
It's sort of legally gray but generally speaking in the US downloading is a civil offense but not a criminal one. You can get sued by the copyright holder for example but you won't end up in jail over it.
People usually never get sued for it because it's not worth it for Comcast to pay for lawyers to try and extract any money out of regular people. Not only will they almost certainly be unable to even recoup the lawyer fees, they risk getting a lot of bad PR for no gain.
What's usually considered an arrestable offense is uploading aka distribution. Once you start hosting seedboxes then you enter the area where you're liable to go to prison.
While there's some element of truth to what you've said- the DNC is using the "End of Democracy" meme as one of their primary themes in their campaign messaging- I don't think that had anything to do with this shooting.
Statistically speaking the vast majority of domestic terrorism comes from far-right extremists. We don't know the motivations behind the shooter at this point in time, but the consensus seems to be so far that he was conservative.
I think it's much more likely he was radicalized online and either
a) wanted to kill Trump to further polarize the political tension in an accelerationist sense (sort of like how far-right organizations were shooting both protestors & police during Euromaidan. Just to increase the outrage, the violence, etc).
Basically an attempt to weaken the regime
Or
b) he became a white supremacist and those tend to hate Trump. Go on stormfront forums and see what they say about Trump. They think he's a jewlover, fake messiah, etc. They hate Jews, Trump loves jews. Therefore, Trump is a potential target.
Or
c) was just nutty plain and simple. Ie killing Trump would unite him with some cartoon character from Nickelodean in the afterlife.
All of those are vastly more likely than someone being radicalized by DNC messaging, I believe.
Dems promise status quo. America as a whole does not want status quo. Cost of living keeps going up while technology rips apart society in ways we would have never predicted a decade ago.
As long as the only alternative to Trump is status quo, Trump will always win. The DNC's only real concern is maintaining the current power structure. But it's like Blockbuster ignoring the rise of Netflix. The winds have changed. The future is going to be radically different for better and definitely for worse.
That's a nice part of accepting refugees from a state like Cuba. You pretty much get to selectively import the right-wing elements of their population.
Similar effect happens with Venezuelans. The ones who can afford to uproot their lives are also more likely to align ideologically with US politics.
I used to work with a lot of Cubans. My favorites were the old ones. They would tell me stories about living in Cuba under Castro back in the day. One thing that I always found interesting is how they said they were happier. It might just be nostalgia but I've heard from older people from Soviet areas too.
Life was slower and as long as you did your job certain things were guaranteed to you. In a capitalist system you have infinitely more purchasing power but they would make the analogy of addiction. In the US you are addicted to money so you need to work a lot more to pay the bills.
Whereas in Cuba you spend a lot more time idle and just living life, even if you're not able to purchase common items we consider essential. (Some days you go to store and there's no shoes, next day there's no bread, etc)
My least favorite were the 2nd generation ones. Like Marco Rubio. They don't understand the struggle but feel intensely like they do. Very strong opinions with very little nuance. I've met my fair share.