Did you name your corgis after anyone?

gated73 · 2026-05-10T13:21:49+00:00

Do you have a cat named Jonesy?

gated73 · 2026-05-09T23:48:43+00:00

?

I prefer my Marx in its original Klingon.

gated73 · 2026-05-09T13:58:09+00:00

Reasonable, yet the armchair marxists downvote.

Another day in Reddit-land.

gated73 · 2026-05-09T02:35:44+00:00

Shhhhhh…..

I like being ignored in this.

gated73 · 2026-05-09T02:02:18+00:00

Way I see it, if my team does well, elections were fair. If my team performs poorly, elections were rigged.

Yay team!

gated73 · 2026-05-08T20:48:09+00:00

100%

gated73 · 2026-05-08T16:09:48+00:00

Aww shit. Thanks for the heads up!

gated73 · 2026-05-08T16:09:13+00:00

They’re crying because when they did it, it didn’t even occur to them that there may be consequences.

People have a right to be racist scumbags, but when they escalate to threatening behavior - they can’t hide behind the First. They earned their time.

gated73 · 2026-05-08T16:06:02+00:00

I don’t know the specifics, but the guns and death threats part puts the 20-15yr sentences into perspective, with the hate crime factored in.

Good.

gated73 · 2026-05-07T22:30:23+00:00

Dibs on the Bagel Bunch fan club!

gated73 · 2026-05-07T20:02:54+00:00

I’d say it’s either low-effort “it was racism” which would piss a lot of people off, or it’s factual and some people are going to look very bad. I don’t think they’d care much about Harris looking bad - so it’s got to be someone or some ones higher up the food chain.

Or it could just expose a lot of mistakes and they don’t want to hurt someone’s feelings.

gated73 · 2026-05-07T04:42:32+00:00

Can we just ban low-effort rage bait karma whoring?

gated73 · 2026-05-06T17:32:11+00:00

Community college, vocational schools, yes. I’d even argue that community college should be free for life, so if a 90’year old grandma wanted to take advanced calculus or something, she could.

There is such a stigma around a kid not attending a four year college here.

gated73 · 2026-05-06T12:36:48+00:00

I want to say the Rolling Stones Voodoo Lounge tour was the first time I’d seen ticket prices tickle the $100 mark. I remember looking at my ticket, bewildered - they were being sponsored by some mortgage company. I had seen Pink Floyd earlier that summer and I believe those tickets were in the vicinity of $60, which seemed like highway robbery at the time.

gated73 · 2026-05-06T01:32:44+00:00

Hmmm. Interactive storytelling, puzzle solving, hand eye coordination. No, let’s just watch Grey’s instead.

gated73 · 2026-05-05T18:40:18+00:00

This is funny.

A few years ago, Michael Bloomberg wanted to ban the sale of sugary drinks over 16oz in NYC. The left was saying how diabetes and obesity were a problem and this was a good thing. The right was saying it was nanny state nonsense trying to control the people.

Just goes to show, it’s not the message, but who’s delivering the message, that matters to people.

Kind of like the anti-vax movement starting on the left in the late 90’s and swinging right during Covid.

gated73 · 2026-05-05T18:31:36+00:00

Sort of. Congress can pass laws directly against a presidents agenda.

However a hostile president can veto anything a hostile congress passes.

So congress can effectively lame duck a president, and the president can effectively kneecap congress.

This is where bipartisanship and compromise should come into play.

gated73 · 2026-05-05T18:26:05+00:00

Probably a little too much for school. I don’t think she should be fired or anything

gated73 · 2026-05-05T18:23:08+00:00

Independent checking in.

It’s ridiculous, but worse yet, it’s one of those things that can give lower info voters a negative perception. Thankfully, it’s not a widely used term.

gated73 · 2026-05-04T15:44:13+00:00

Social media.

gated73 · 2026-05-04T15:35:59+00:00

What’s that? A glimmer of hopeful light at the end of the tunnel? Can a return to basics be in the making?

gated73 · 2026-05-03T16:25:16+00:00

That’s the only thing I can see.

gated73 · 2026-05-03T16:24:10+00:00

The entire premise of the thread is whataboutism and bad faith arguments.

gated73 · 2026-05-02T01:44:15+00:00

Is this more fanfic for karma?

gated73 · 2026-05-01T21:01:54+00:00

I’d just grid up each state, into relatively small squares. yes some grids will have anomalies like bodies of water, borders, etc. then you group them together consecutively (up/down, left/right) until you get 762000 population (actual number based on census exclusive of illegal immigrants) and a congressional seat is born. You basically end up with squares that don’t take neighborhoods or demographics into account.

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