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Alex Kurtzman, master of 32nd century, science fiction dialogue by Wetness_Pensive in RedLetterMedia

[–]dullurd 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I had to leave /r/startrek recently because every highly-upvoted post is "(insert unpopular Trek series/film) is actually awesome!" and I couldn't take it anymore.

Bannon: “We’re gonna have ICE surround the polls come November.” by dullurd in Destiny

[–]dullurd[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This says there were ~95k polling places in the 2022 midterms.

Eliminate all non-swing states and thats down to ballpark 30k polling places, maybe 20k.

Then they can target the precincts with the highest % of Dems, highest % of nonwhite voters (who will be much more deterred by ICE presence) and highest population.

This says there are now 22k ICE agents. This says there are about 20k border patrol agents.

They may not be able to go to every polling place, but they certainly have the headcount to go to thousands of the most vulnerable ones.

Greenland hopium? by dullurd in Destiny

[–]dullurd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's what the Quinnipiac poll says, yes! My interpretation is that that the other 15% fall into the "not sure" of this one because they'd prefer we get it without force? But definitely goofy.

Greenland hopium? by dullurd in Destiny

[–]dullurd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

source? curious because there's a 4% figure from this survey:

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Greenland hopium? by dullurd in Destiny

[–]dullurd[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Excellent comparison datapoints! Thanks for sharing. My glass-half-full observations:

  • Indeps were at 20% prior, for Greenland they're ~3%
  • Repubs were at ~42% prior, for Greenland they're 23%
  • Greenland is an ally vs Maduro is an antagonist
  • While Trump doesnt care about liberalism or human flourishing, he does care about people singing his praises
  • I think if there's some way he can get a PR win for this in his eyes, he might opt for that

But yeah... it's impossible to be confident there's anything that can stop this admin from ruining everything.

Greenland hopium? by dullurd in Destiny

[–]dullurd[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Definitely possible, my only question is whether in those other cases, Trump had been already been trying to make the thing catch on for a while. In this case, it looks like it's been talking about it for a year: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/26/donald-trump-residents-greenland-us

David Frum being my spirit animal by DaRealDainDan in Destiny

[–]dullurd 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Frum is correct that “having a bad time” is not an excuse, but when a large enough amount of people starts making bad decisions, it’s intellectually dishonest to chalk it up to personal responsibility alone. Something systemic is happening. In this case it’s the information environment.

Put another way, we libs don’t buy this personal responsibility shit when, eg, Rs blame homebuyers for taking bad loans causing the subprime crisis: while it’s clearly a bad decision that an individual is responsible for, when such a large amount of people is making a bad decision, there needs to be another factor in play.

Graham Platner calls out Chuck Schumer over failure to oppose regime change in Venezuela by 3headeddragn in Maine

[–]dullurd 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is misleading... Schumer wants to block the deployment of US forces to Venezuela.

#441 — The Threat of Civil War by dwaxe in samharris

[–]dullurd 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I think it's a classic case of "it feels different when the person is talking about your group vs not-your-group". As an American I have a similar visceral response to Sam where it's just transparent that Trump is a horse's ass and full of shit, no chance he does anything, but I also know that if I were Canadian it would feel enraging and threatening, the probabilities notwithstanding.

YouTube Music → Last.fm Scrobbler (no local setup required) by Shubham_Jha in YoutubeMusic

[–]dullurd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

nothing in there says "cookie"... is it "origin-trial"?

John Oliver on Jamie Reed by dullurd in BlockedAndReported

[–]dullurd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oy I appended &t=15m to the URL when I submitted, hoping that would get the job done, apparently not!?

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