halfpipe

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[โ€“] halfpipe@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago

"Turn out our own base"

what fucking turn out? They didn't even offer their own voters anything.

[โ€“] halfpipe@hexbear.net 27 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The margins are narrow enough that it will be a 2016 style coin flip that's decided by which way the independent voters break, and the normies are too pissed off at abortion bans and too annoyed by Trump to break for him again.

Unless Genocide Joe managed to completely alienate every Muslim voter in Michigan, and the Pennsylvania margin is narrow enough that the Supreme Court can do another judicial coup.

[โ€“] halfpipe@hexbear.net 85 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

The plan for the war makes less sense every year.

The US navy doesn't have the capacity to close the Taiwan straight anymore, so the idea now is to blockade the Singapore straight, 3000 kilometers to the south, and cut off Chinese shipping from the world markets... that is to say, the nation that doesn't produce anything but excel spreadsheets thinks it can win a war by blocking the source of all the cheap goods that keep their consumer economies running.

[โ€“] halfpipe@hexbear.net 87 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

This feels like a serious fuck up for the western media. They handwave the existence of their billionaire owners by saying that they don't determine what gets printed , even though that's an obvious lie , but now they're on record with the billionaire owner putting his foot down for Trump.

[โ€“] halfpipe@hexbear.net 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Society is 12 hours of internet outage away from chaos.

[โ€“] halfpipe@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago

It's so funny to me that the centrist liberals can see the ground collapsing beneath them, but instead of spending any money on higher wages or building more housing, or doing anything at all to improve material conditions, they're going with this pointless bullshit.

Liberalism hasn't been a fighting religion for nearly a century now. No one is ever going to be inspired to fight for the collapsing status quo and the "common defense of the Constitution" (whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean) when half the country thinks the Feds are building FEMA death camps, and the other half recognizes the supreme court as an active threat that needs to be dismantled.

[โ€“] halfpipe@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

Robotaxi? Does Tesla do anything at this point except copy stuff that Chinese companies have been doing for years?

Well, I'm sure the Tesla version will cost 10x as much and have a triple digit bodycount in the first month.

[โ€“] halfpipe@hexbear.net 52 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's driven by the massive spike in the cost of living, especially the cost of food / housing / energy, which no party is interested in addressing, so yeah, it's a fucking problem that isn't going away.

[โ€“] halfpipe@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago

They can't get him off the ballot at this point, the election is 45 days away.

[โ€“] halfpipe@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's a twitter brained NAFO guy. Funnily enough, the libs own this one.

Although it's still kind of funny that political violence is just becoming a thing now.

[โ€“] halfpipe@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Is everyone just gambling that Trump will be as incoherent as Biden? Cause with her promising nothing to voters, and the polls falling back towards Trump, it seems like the Democrats need to her to fucking slaughter Trump tonight, and I don't think she has it in her.

On the other hand, she did once call Biden a racist segregationist to his face, right up on the Democratic primary stage. That was cool.

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