Bigger thing here "testing nuclear weapons on an equal basis"...
equal basis to what? nobodys fucking testing them because digital simulations are pretty damn accurate, and nukes are so powerful no matter where we drop it, it's going to wreck the hell out of the wildlife and usually some group of poor people.
Unless he's just talking about launching empty ICBM's like north korea does etc...
Only the media made the mistake of thinking that was negative in his mind.
So hilarious and so apt... I will absolutely laugh at the idea of, well what's effectively been a socialist utopia for the vast majority of contexts in it, and the show that broke the interracial kiss barrier. (on top of inter species/galaxy ones... but obviously far more shocking at the time that a white guy kissed a black woman, than a white guy sleeping with a bunch of green aliens.
Yeah there's a lot of benefits to multiverse with regards to sci-fi and fantasy. Most obvious is allowing multiple writers to work on the same series yet take it in multiple directions and not need to be perfectly synced or needing to care about contradictions.
Also allowing a 3rd author to basically do a best of taking elements from both incompatible universes (either via universal travel, or just make a different universe where things happened in a way to allow the events/characters they wanted from both other plots), and lastly a "what if things went wrong". IE the common plot point of the characters getting to see a universe where, they did things differently or didn't exist, and allow them to compare their world with that world. Which admitted is a fantasy we all have in our own rights, both on small level (What if I didn't break up with my first crush) or global level ("what if japan didn't bomb the US in WW2").
Just imagining future ads once data collection gets to more insane points. Just imagining AI scanning your facebook page, then pushing clothing ads with pictures of you in the outfits, or the new TV with pictures of it in your house etc...
Honestly maybe we should get ahead of it... like intentionally make our facebook accounts showing some cave man living in a cave, and in 2 years when the advertisers start going stupid crazy... watch ads show up on it depicting a flat screen TV in a cave.
It’s scary for the Democrats, though, as they don’t have really good role models for what it means to be left wing populist
I mean didn't we? I mean FDR was basically that IMO. In fact I gotta admit he had some of the flaws of left wing populism... hence the internment camps etc... But on the whole his new deal politics drove the country so far, and doing them was so successful they had to invent term limits.
You know what to top it off... we'll build a wall on their citizenship paperwork. and we'll build a fabulous ballroom in their houses!
Sorry my buds and I made a bet to take trumps already terrible ideas, and use them in contexts that don't even give an air of making sense.
Worse, if you are a trump supporter, with a large platform, or a lot of money. Trump sure as hell ain't pulling strings for the people that attend his rallys. Hell didn't biden call the family of the firefighter that took the bullet meant for trump, before trump did, and didn't trump basically spend 10 seconds talking about the guy and made a really tasteless joke during his comment on him.
Right but not relevant here... RBG not stepping down under obama is indeed a miscalculation. Honestly I think she may have been intending to do it right after garland got his hearing... before learning that wasn't on the table.
But anyway, ignoring that... with regards to a senator I don't get the concept. While not perfect I'd still have to call warren in the top 5 senators (yeah I know, stupidly low bar because most the senators suck, but there's a lot more reason to fear her successor being worse than expecting her to be better. and unless the main fear is elections will not happen again, but sitting senators will keep their positions until they die. There's no reason to think there's a difference in her retiring now, or in 10 years from now.
I suppose the question is, did she shed a tear while chopping it up?
lol yeah one of those things that is attempted to be fanfic to make him seem stronger... but in the end it does the exact opposite. If most the people on your side rebel, you either made or recruited very evil people that thought you looked weak. Or you were doing things that they found horendous enough they'd rather make a futile attempt and accept the cost of failure then take part in whatever you are doing.
I mean it's a trippple doom for her. She's a woman, she's half way shedding maga siding with dem's on the epstein files, and on protecting healthcare, and she has a history of being outright crazy in multiple directions.
In short, I don't think her recent forays into sanity are going to erase the stain the R party has on it now, nor erase her claims of weather controlling machines and space lasers to earn any support from the left.
Then to court maga... obviously they'd need to be less sexist, and she'd need to seem more... on trumps side.
I think AOC's comment is probably right, she got snubbed for senate seat by trump... and now she's pissed and wanting to break that glass ceiling.