timewarp

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[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 30 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I heard him say she's more beautiful than Melania.

[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 13 points 16 hours ago

Accuse? They need to fucking sue them into oblivion and arrest some of these corrupt immoral assholes. They better have an antitrust & RICO lawsuit ready to go.

[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 44 points 16 hours ago (6 children)

She's still married to him. If he loses the election and the Republican party turns against him, and if he ends up having to pay half a billion in damages from his court cases, she'll run to the media with some sob story about how she felt she couldn't leave him sooner.

[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 74 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (3 children)

He's mad cause the Democrats are absolutely crushing it. They went from being over 3 points behind in most polls with Biden, to now being almost 4 points ahead on average. He's ignored the advice of all his campaign advisors... he really couldn't help himself. Now he's relying on Elon to help him "win" the election and it isn't working as expected. All they have left it is perpetuate conspiracies & lies and hope that Twitter (X) has enough reach to change the outcome of the election. Musk isn't even hiding that he's manipulating the algorithms and allowing bots to run rampant anymore. THAT is their strategy to try to win. If he loses then Musk will immediately try to sell if he can, but X is now worth a small fraction of what he paid for it. I'd be surprised if he could get 2 billion for it. This was in 2023:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/according-elon-musk-own-math-204413573.html

Musk will have literally thrown away $40+ billion if Kamala wins.

[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Biden obviously wouldn't send them more money after this would he?

[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

They wheeled Feinstein around in a wheel chair to "vote" till her dying breath. RBG stayed until Republicans could appoint a Republican justice. They didn't do shit stop gaslighting people.

[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Would love it if Rockstar created some modding tools themselves. There are third party tools, but not the same as what CD Projekt Red does.

[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I agree... however, that is an issue with the content creators relying on using content promotions. I have noticed when skipping ahead in videos that it usually indicates in the progress bar where the promotion ends. If the content producers utilized other ways to contribute and I liked them enough, then I'd do that. YouTube now has a subscriber only feature that should help with this. There are also extensions that are supposed to block sponsors too. I don't think YouTube has implemented any functions to make blocking sponsored ads more difficult, especially for paying users... who knows though.

[–] timewarp@lemmy.world -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

All of those things you quoted Biden as saying can be (and are) true while still requiring improvement, which is also true.

I agree with most of what you're saying... there are plenty of other statements though that is kind of like a slap in the face, basically making people feel like Democrats haven't been honest about the job market & inflation. It is not a simple issue though and there are a lot of contributing factors. Kamala Harris suggesting going after price gouging is actually a significant cause of the issue that corporate shills on both sides are attacking her for. It actually does work to help solve some of the issues though, but thus far is merely a statement. The FTC actually has legal authority to go after companies for this already... it seems like we've seen a shortage of government attorneys tackling these issues and utilizing PR for the cases to reassure Americans that the administration isn't just loyal to corporate donors. They should be hiring attorneys in droves to sue the fuck out of these companies engaging in this.

That is also completely ignoring the fact that with a Republican Congress a Democratic president is severely hampered from having any actual impact on the economy.

The FTC has authority to go after these companies already. There could be new laws and improvements in regulations, but laws already exist to tackle the issue.

There is also the issue of companies inflating the appearance of available work. Which would, again, make all of Biden’s statements appear to be technically true while simultaneously being more complicated in reality.

Exactly. Job number and statistic on the economy can be completely manipulated. That is why Democrats shouldn't use economic numbers constantly to make it seem like everything is great and they should know better.

 

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