TheFogan

I mean effectively he's making the same mistake as biden did on messaging, IE Biden basically went publicly patting himself on the back of how the US had a lower inflation than most other countries durring the covid spree. but he phrased it in a way that was regularly interpreted as "I solved inflation... you feeling like everything is falling apart is on you."

Bottom line, things have been circling the drain for decades.. which is why almost universally the candidate that wins is the one at least offering the image of change. It's why hillary basically promising to keep going in the same direction as obama, and harris's lack of ability to admit biden may have made some mistakes... gave us 2 terms of trump.

Or just on twitter, or parts of reddit, or the internet in general etc.. I mean there certainly was no shortage of outrage... with say the little mermaid etc...

Now I will admit a good portion of it is that producers have really gotten shitty on writing in general, and often try and compensate it by throwing in a less represented in media character. IE say the last 2 doctors, girl ghostbusters etc... IE things aren't terrible because of diverse casting, but if it is terrible, diverse casting isn't going to fix it.

same reason why every black person in all positions is considered DEI even when they have decades of relevant experience pages, graduated top of their class in ivy league schools, and some white guy with middling experience, possibly even in the wrong field... gets put in and nobody questions it.

Very 100% agreed it's in the no shit sherlock category. The american people want you to at the very least pay lip service to the idea that you are going to try to make their lives better. Rather than just calling the republicans bad.

A podium... across the room from the actual podium... that's clearly a random box he had lying around.

I mean I want to switch because I want the minimal evil. I've normally defaulted to using things that meet my ethics over convenience. Most things for my family I set up and work around the evils. Music is a harder one for me to work with becasue I don't understand it, so it's harder for me to find a good alternative. So for me on the surface all will be equal... for my son and wife, I can't predict that because I don't really know enough to see "oh she'll hate this" or "none of her music will be in it", because I don't understand anyone elses tastes in music.

Yeah looking at it, it looks like tidal does... question I do have is what's overall good for 2 people, who seem to like music a lot, My son probably more indie type things on youtube... my girlfriend probably more I guess generic music, plus techno I think. challenge I have is I probably need to set everything up and get it all ready for them to try out in order to get the switch...

but... I have no taste for music... or really understanding of most of it. So it's hard for me to pre-judge anything because... not really a service I can use or comprehend enough to tell what's actually useful or not.

So, I'm not a music guy at all, but my wife and son do like music and use spotify, and I've paid for spotify premium. I hear of a lot of alternatives, most comonly tidal.

what would be a good option to switch them to, prefferably something likely to have almost all their existing songs, and is there anything that can transfer their playlists etc... before switching?

Exactly why dem's struggle so much. Go on every damn tv station that will let you... get on every damn podcast you can... scream from the rooftops "HEY WE WANT TO PUNISH THIS ILLEGAL SHIT and they don't want us to. Force them on the defensive.... their base is already turning on them. We're watching districts flip in real time, show the american people what you are trying to do, so we can actually help you do it.

I mean I guess the concept is that they are using a system that may not be so well trusted. On the surface there is some potential good, but it boils down to the government buying stocks. The fact that they are index funds make it a little less daunting, but at the end of the day it's kind of a door to stupid corruption. IE company bribes politicians, government chooses index funds to drive up the stock prices they want. Stocks they want go up... politicians and croneys dump their stock in them at a high price, those stocks go down.

You'll find them here https://president.ir/en/president/cabinet

Always good to know a strong political movement being lead, when the creators, don't mention a single policy stance, state their past sides were based on which party hired them first... and formerly helped the tea party. So in short, their goal is to find districts of low turnout where voters aren't arsed to show up... giving an independent candidate a shot, with no indication of what that candidate will stand for.

If I had to be a betting man, I'm going to assume, it's going to be just like the tea party with a new strategy. IE it's stances will be determined by the same money that dominates the existing 2 parties, given the false air of being "independent", just like the tea party did.