Comrade Soda-Machine, is that you?

https://theinfosphere.org/Soda-machine_Robot

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00649.htm

Here’s the roll call. Mostly a bunch of moderates doing performances about how open minded they are.

Can’t wait to find out why the Supreme Court thinks congressional oversight is supposed to be at the pleasure of the executive.

Two years with a shaky supermajority. And most of that time wasn’t hearty congressional debate, it was just trying to convince Lieberman. That’s not a situation where you simply can’t do anything else.

Not countering your opponent’s gains is also part of running a bad campaign. The same people who ran his campaign were running Harris’s and making all those dumb mistakes you highlight. Only she didn’t have the “change” label and Trump’s failures at the front of people’s minds to edge her over the line. Biden was heading toward a loss in 2024.

Presidential elections keep going down to the wire and it’s not because Donald Trump is just that talented. These things shouldn’t be being won or lost on the margins. All of the last three candidates have been a lot closer to John Kerry than Barrack Obama.

It should have been a cakewalk because Trump was currently the guy screwing everything up and not improving people’s lives. Incumbency isn’t an advantage for President anymore and Trump (with help from COVID) was doing particularly badly. He had sub-40 approval polls and, before the general election campaign, polls were putting most of the main Democratic options up by 6-8. It wasn’t a cakewalk in the actual election because Biden didn’t run a good campaign.

Biden in 2024 was then the guy to blame for everything going wrong (inflation in this case), with sub-40 approval polls, and was on course to lose before being kicked off the ticket. And Harris made the baffling decision to frame herself as just being a younger Biden.

And notice how that was irrelevant to his election and then later opinion polls? Tankies are a tiny sliver of the progressive left. Like my entire real life social circle leans strongly progressive and not a single one even filters through the shadow of a tankie position. People who would literally like Communism to be on the political table still aren’t tankies.

That doesn’t mean progressives are irrelevant, just that ‘tankies’ are used as a Boogeyman by conservative online Democrats to simultaneously explain all their failures while also saying we should keep listening to them when they counsel doing exactly the same thing one more time.

You don’t win elections by appealing to your opponents. Triangulation is a tragic lie.

And Biden did poorly. It should have been a cakewalk and he barely won. “It got us Biden” isn’t an argument to the utility of timidity.

My opinion on someone and hopes for their future would change quite a lot while they’re in the process of murdering me.

This lady seems too smart to make these “unguarded” statements as an accident. Is this image rehabilitation before jumping ship or trying to enforce the end of the “revenge tour” by sabotaging the cases?

Charges were dropped and then dismissed with prejudice against Brianna Taylor’s boyfriend for firing at police officers who broke down his door. His defense was that he didn’t know they were police though.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/03/08/kenneth-walker-charges-dropped-against-breonna-taylor-boyfriend/4629371001/

I hate when people intentionally make me look bad by sharing the pictures of me doing bad things.

That sure is the company line.

This feels like rage bait. From the decision itself, to praising the executives rather than the techies, to putting them up on the girder like they were the common man doing a tough and dangerous job to build our modern city. You don’t just choose the worst thing at every possible decision point by accident.

Another story said he wiped it “using a code”, so it sounds like that.

https://atlpresscollective.com/2025/12/05/samuel-tunick-atlanta-activist-arrest/

They have broad latitude to initiate searches, but if there isn’t a specific crime they’re going after you for, you’re not destroying evidence. If they’re just fishing to see what you have in there, then there isn’t evidence being destroyed because they have no way to know whether you erased stuff because you were doing crimes or just didn’t want them to see your nudes.

He dismissed criticism from some researchers that the rules were too restrictive and could stymie academic excellence and openness. “You cannot imagine that you work in isolation. You’re not living on an island and doing pure research for the good of humanity,” he said.

Get fucked guy. Universities are not component organizations of the national security state. It’s not anywhere in their motivation to keep certain countries from learning things. If you want to do research that should be kept secret, hire a private company or stand up your own research institution designed for that purposes, don’t try to coopt universities into being an arm of the security state.

God damn that’s blatant. Hey journalist, what about MLK Day is not “America-first”?

They didn’t even have the ability to make a SOS. That was part of the admirals original flimsy justification and a senator asked him directly if there was any evidence they had access to a radio and he said no.