Couple of things. What's the new Twitter? I can't support the platform any longer and will basically be treating it like I did anything Sheldon Adelson had his hands in when he targeted online gambling, specifically poker, during 2010's, a straight up boycott of anything related to the guy with absolute fervor. It is very good for "breaking news" type things or just having short reddit like conversations with people, so something similar would be great. Secondly, does anyone on this board have experience with the realities of giving up your US citizenship? My wife is Australian and we are just about to finish closing on our house and packing up and moving back there. If we were staying here, I wanted to try and become more politically active and start running for some government offices. I would like to try doing that in Australia, but you have to become a citizen to hold public office and can't have dual citizenship, so it would be a full renouncing of my US citizenship. I've read a few things about it and I don't know if it's just the extreme stories, but what I've read says they basically treat you like a terrorist if you ever want to step foot in the US again. Not sure if I'm just coming across the horror stories, or if someone has actual experience with it.
I do know that if you renounce your citizenship, you can NEVER get it back. That's about it. The Straight Dope covered it years ago.
Truth Social. Happenin' stuff. The Democrats are in shambles. Barack is hyping up Michelle for a 2028 run. Nancy Pelosi is buying some Nvidia stock to heal.
The Dems need to do a better job in the information sphere. When they look at 45% of Gen Z men voting for Trump, and then look at where they are getting their basic media and info/entertainment from, they are seriously behind the curve. Between Rogan, Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, TikTok, Nick Fuentes, and Tim Pool, the Dems don’t really compete in that medium. The disinformation and lying from all those grifters is well coordinated. Why is this whole trad wife thing becoming popular? A few podcasts from some smug former Obama admin people don’t cut it. I still think that Dems sitting around and calling Trump and the GOP fascist(while true) doesn’t resonate. And I fear very little will change.
Honestly, yes. Mainstream media has a ton of flaws, but alternative media has all of those flaws and more. Correctly identifying a problem is not the same thing as identifying a good solution, and "alternative media" is a terrible solution.
Here’s an interesting conundrum. My friend, who voted for Trump and is all on board with his immigration policies, is of course also a massive hypocrite and employs an illegal immigrant, and makes a good amount of money from this guys labor. Any particular reason I shouldn’t call ICE once Trump is president again and starts rounding people up? After all, the immigrant in question has had years to actually become a legal citizen, and this is what my friend wants, right?
You should 100% do that. The immigration aspect is one thing I agreed with Trump on; at the very least Biden/ Kamala fucked up royally.
Abbott was already backtracking all that bullshit just a little while ago. Talking about the massive undertaking it would be actually “round up” all these people. It’s always been bullshit red meat for the base. I hope they enjoy $5/lb tomatoes. With all these promised tariffs and all the Americans clearly clamoring for cheap labor jobs.
Not really, no. They've destroyed their own credibility at the alter of ideology. No one else did that to them. Then they staffed their newsrooms with a generation of people that expect their organization to push a narrative. Pretty hard to un-ring that bell. Maybe Bezos can just throw money at WaPo to see if he can figure that out. Otherwise, I'm sure the major outlets will have declarations in the coming weeks about their recommitment to journalism and holding elected officials accountable, yadda yadda. But it won't actually happen by-and-large. Do they pivot to try to win back subscribers/viewers that moved on or will that only chase way the remaining ones that need their opinions spoon-fed back to them?
He's not selling the immigrant to you as a sex slave. No matter how many harnesses hang in your basement.