HarkMahlberg

He might be popular here on left-wing Internet forums, but his voters don’t turn out.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/sanders-banked-on-young-voters-heres-how-the-numbers-have-played-out

Bernie and Warren are great at pushing progressive policies into the public consciousness, don’t get me wrong.

I think you got the wrong takeaway from that story… The character of God rebukes the dead man for not accepting the practical help of other people. It’s just framed as though God sent the rescuers to convince the “believes in miracles” crowd that no such things exist.

Consider a simple rewording: instead of “I sent you two boats and a helicopter” you read “Two boats and a helicopter came to save you.” This solves your only hangup and doesn’t even change the story. Your beef is with the aesthetic component, not the meaning of the story.

Not even remotely.

Thanks for the headsup.

Neato, ty ty

Do you have further reading about this?

Yeah there goes verdantbanana, right on schedule.

These aren’t facts. You’re laundering a broken dog whistle through a couple Wikipedia links. Crawl back into your cave you troglodyte.

Incorporated in February 2021, Trump Media & Technology Group intended to use a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) to facilitate its becoming a publicly traded company. On October 20, 2021, TMTG and Digital World Acquisition Corp. (DWAC), a publicly traded SPAC founded in September 2021 by Miami-based, former Deutsche Bank and Wall Street banker Patrick Orlando, announced that they had entered into a merger agreement that would combine the two entities, allowing TMTG to become a publicly traded company. DWAC was created with the help of ARC Capital, a Shanghai-based firm specializing in listing Chinese companies on American stock markets that had been a target of SEC investigations for misrepresenting shell corporations. In 2021, the DWAC Trump venture was linked with another company, China Yunhong Holdings based in Wuhan, Hubei, until its lead banker who was running the merger promised to sever ties with China in December 2021, stating Yunhong was to “dissolve and liquidate”. In February 2022, Reuters reported that the connection between Shanghai-based ARC Capital and Digital World was more extensive than thought, with ARC having offered money to get the SPAC off the ground.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Media_%26_Technology_Group

TLDR: Despite all his rhetoric, Trump is heavily in bed with China, and Truth Social is big part of that relationship. Becoming publicly traded was always the plan, and it’s now coming to fruition.

the Dems vote to keep him in office as long as he stops obstructing the most critical stuff, specifically Ukraine aid.

He’ll agree, then backstab the Democrats the moment they try to get anything done. You can’t trust that filthy fuck.

they need only find three moderate / retiring Republicans willing to pick a more reasonable speaker.

I think this is both a better strategy for Democrats and a more likely outcome than Johnson keeping his word.

@mapache I don’t recognize the orange square…

Gonna shill for kbin’s UI just a bit. I like how it handles cross-posted threads.

Put simply, yeah. lemm.ee can communicate with lemmy.world, and kbin.social, and mastodon.social, as they’re all “federated” with each other (like a federation of nation-states).

In the future you might see bsky.social and bsky.io and bsky.jp etc etc, and they’ll be able to talk amongst themselves, but they won’t be able to talk Lemmy or kbin or Mastodon.

Gonna have to dust off the ole Herman Cain Award in short order. I for one am excited for a second round of schadenfreude.

Locked out of hotel rooms

How does that happen? Concierge assumes you’re not the person on the booking?

Days after Wilkinson was killed, Johnston’s lawyer told reporters that “obviously, no one expected this to happen”.

This fucking nonce’s very existence is an insult to all mankind.

Well at least one of us thinks.

When’s your next psych eval? I would see if they have any earlier openings.

If we give them money, they’ll ask again later, if they don’t they’ll send peasants to “liberate” stuff from blue states.

Like how they “liberated” Fort Sumter.

Or how they “liberated” free blacks from free states, abducting them, and selling them as slaves.

That’s the thing about secessionists: they think they’re the only ones who can claim “rightful ownership” of… anything. Women? Minorities? Taxes? Land? They’re all just property, and as such, ought to be theirs.

“not a bug but a feature”