Like on the ticket as a Democrat and everything? I thought it was too late, and an independent doesn’t have the time to build name recognition
If there’s a better way to salvage this I’m all for it… I’m just so sick of how politicians can shit into the fan and just slink off without consequences
He’s probably going to anyways, but there’s not time for a replacement… Why does he get to just slink off and leave the seat to a Republican by default?
He fucked it up for everyone… The least he could do is own up and open a slim path for someone else
What he should do is vow to resign if he wins so Maine can choose someone else
Do individuals have platforms?
Yes? Of course they do. It’s a collection of beliefs, goals, and promised actions presented when you’re rallying support from the people
Our government has certainly been chosen by a teams sports mentality, but that’s absolutely not the norm. They used to have long public debates and publish essays… What we’re going through is a heavily degraded democracy, none of this is normal
The first scandal was basically that he’s a CHUD dumbass and an edge lord when he was younger… But who cares? That much was obvious, and his platform is on point. The media just presented it as more than it was, because the billionaires own the media and are terrified of progressives
This is the first serious scandal. Unfortunately it’s too late to replace him, and supposedly there’s something much worse that hasn’t been released yet…a depressing day of news all around
Exactly. We don’t need “socialism”. It’s just a word, one that has been deeply tainted through generations of propoganda. We can discard the label if it doesn’t help good outcomes… Material conditions are what matter, no matter what you call them
I love to fight someone forced to directly defend unaffordable housing and medical care. Please, tell me more about how you hate the common people and want us all to die. Speak up for the camera
It’s how llms work… The points in vector space are basically tokens. The distance is correlated to aspects of things/concepts
So you can use geometry to search the vector space and get very good results, it’s mainly used to store/index information for later retrieval
He’s the avatar of their interests. He doesn’t matter, and yet he’s the linchpin holding it all together
I think there’s two distinct concepts at play, thin skin and thick skin. I do not consider them interchangeable concepts, even if they sound like it
I think a good church is great for hobby projects ready to be taken out of the basement
You do have to belong to such a church already though
In fairness, neither do Democrats. Or at least they’re not releasing the report
Apartment buildings have multiple circuits that connect to the grid. Sometimes my power partially goes out, so like these outlets work but those don’t, because there’s three circuits and one tends to break first
Because the world Bank and IMF fucked them when they resisted selling off their country through outside investments, leading to their currency being debased and ultimately giving them weak footing for international trade
They’ve never really recovered from that, and they’ve also flitted back and forth between wildly different economic interventions desperately trying to fix things
They’re house members. They’re generally not all that rich and powerful, they’re protected because they’re useful
They’ll be thrown in front of the mob the second a billionaire feels tight under the collar
I think it’s more that they see the writing on the wall… The people want consequences. There’s likely to be trials
If they wrapped that in the right spin it might just give Putin enough wiggle room to back down without losing his head
Yes?
They’ve already pitched the idea of a 10% toll
Nah, like a couple weeks. They ship in a team along with the equipment and then they go to town
Something like deep water rigs can take years to build, but actually tapping a well is pretty quick. But then you can’t just seal it back up - or at least humanity has never bothered to learn how to do so. So companies will sit on them for years to keep production steady, if the cost of oil falls they might move it to a sacrificial shell company and leave it leaking for tax payers to eventually clean up
Nice! First bit of good news I’ve heard this week