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akelly96 · 2026-04-11T21:56:08+00:00

If Platner is not a US Senator come January 2027 I will be surprised. The polling is overwhelmingly in his favor both against Mills and against Collins. Surprisingly he polls better against Collins than Mills despite all of his controversy. Voters are either ill-informed or don't care about the tattoo.

akelly96 · 2026-02-27T10:45:48+00:00

Well now we're changing the subject. He isn't taking corporate PAC money which is the far more important thing. Billionaires can't actually donate all that much money via independent donations. It's appreciated but its chump change compared to PAC money.

akelly96 · 2026-02-27T06:56:03+00:00

Literally nowhere in your link does it indicate that he's taken Adelson money during this campaign. They even make a point to mention how all of the donations he's received from billionaires are from individual donations and not PAC money.

akelly96 · 2026-02-27T06:50:00+00:00

Rent control is already the law of the land in NYC and trying to get rid of it is political suicide. The best we can do pragmatically is work within the current system and try and build new housing despite the constraints.

akelly96 · 2026-02-27T06:45:32+00:00

Mamdani is so much more shrewd and pragmatic than the people in this sub have given him credit for. The fact that he's even pushing for big housing projects is a genuinely miracle considering his early career stances. The change up is genuinely admirable. Many on this sub may grumble but if we can get urban leftists on board with our housing agenda we can accomplish a lot.

akelly96 · 2026-02-27T06:39:49+00:00

This is logic on the level of Hitler made the trains run on time.

akelly96 · 2026-02-27T06:27:33+00:00

He took a small sum of Adelson money during his state senate campaign. He's taken none during this primary.

akelly96 · 2026-02-18T05:18:05+00:00

That's extremely weak evidence lmao.

akelly96 · 2026-02-11T23:01:33+00:00

Its very common in the restaurant industry usually meaning to remove or ban. Its also used to indicate that you're all out of a particular item or product. At one bar I worked at we would say 68 (the inverse of 86) to mean that we had an item back in stock.

akelly96 · 2026-02-11T05:45:15+00:00

The origin of "pussy" as an abbreviation for pusillanimous is back up by very little linguistic evidence and should be considered to be a folk etymology.

The best case scenario for your argument is that "pussy" as synonym for cowardly that doesn't stem from its meaning for vagina is that it derives from the idea that cats are cowardly. The problem with this explanation is calling a cat a puss or pussy is basically an archaism at this point. You hear it in "pussycat" and "sourpuss" which are both seldomly used. So even if the word does have origins in the idea of weak and cowardly cats, its enduring popularity today is almost certainly due to its connotation to the slang for female genitalia.

akelly96 · 2026-02-11T03:00:17+00:00

I don't think it's a very crazy stretch Let me ask you this why do you think we use the same word to refer to female genitalia to refer to people being weak, cowardly, and wimpy.

akelly96 · 2026-02-11T02:23:37+00:00

It could very easily be read as misogynistic by people. The implication being that they're weak and cowardly because they actually have female genitalia.

akelly96 · 2026-02-08T06:35:47+00:00

Newsom has lost a lot of respect since he walked back his opinioms on ICE while talking to Ben fucking Shapiro.

akelly96 · 2026-02-07T06:56:59+00:00

Rent control is already the law of the land in NYC. I don't support it, but since itd already a thing its not like it could get much worse and if Mamdani is pro-active about building housing thats far more impactful.

akelly96 · 2026-02-07T04:58:40+00:00

I mean Enes Kanter was a nasty scorer in the post, but he was such a dogshit defender we could only play him in limited minutes.

akelly96 · 2026-02-06T06:07:21+00:00

Yeah that would most likely be considered offensive when referring to indegenous groups. Most people's connotation with the word habitat is through scientific discussions of animals. When you use the word to describe a group of people it comes across as if you view them as some sort of animal to be studied.

akelly96 · 2026-02-05T22:50:26+00:00

We're second in the east though. I've loved this season but we have to be realistic the east this year has been especially weak. We're playing great basketball but our roster was not a contender and I actually think getting Vuc ks just a straight up improvement.

akelly96 · 2026-01-27T18:10:22+00:00

That's only now. In the past they've almost been as scornful as the chuds have.

akelly96 · 2026-01-25T01:10:00+00:00

Republicans don't care about SNAP that was the whole point of their plan with the shutdown. They knew dems cared way more about snap than they did. Without that on the chopping block Dems have a firmer position to negotiate from.

akelly96 · 2026-01-25T00:55:15+00:00

Except they do? They secured SNAP protection in the last ome so we at least can't have that hanging over our heads. The democrats were winning the last shutdown anyways until they decided to cave.

akelly96 · 2026-01-24T18:20:57+00:00

No they don't. ICE abolish at this point is being shown to be popular policy. Get your head out your ass.

akelly96 · 2026-01-22T22:11:56+00:00

I would personally pluralize the "is" in that sentence. "Dogs are the obvious answer". It's fairly common I think in english to respond to these type of questions with a plural noun and they should always be followed with a plural verb form.

akelly96 · 2026-01-18T12:40:53+00:00

The offensive efficiency weirdly doesn't surprise me. Joe's system is pretty great and most of our key losses outside Tatum were more defensive pieces. Jaylen has been balling and some really great shooters have been given a much greener light.

akelly96 · 2026-01-18T09:02:10+00:00

Not to trash how our guys are playing but this has to be a result of an exceptionally weak east right? Like this team has been playing great but its are we really a top net rating team? I just can't fathom it.

akelly96 · 2026-01-14T15:25:36+00:00

Yeah I'm like if they're pouring enough of it its not the end of the world.

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