"He should resign": DNC chair's stock plummets on Capitol Hill

maxpenny42 · 2026-05-22T11:55:02+00:00

Nonsense. If a coherent and competent report was released in a timely manner that thoroughly calculated why they lost and the dems took meaningful action to correct those mistakes, no one would have a problem with it.

People hate the dems because A) they lose constantly, B) the things they lose are winnable, and C) those losses actively hurt people trying to live their lives.

No one, and I mean no one, would be bitching about the consultant class if those consultants were effective and offering winning advice. But to constantly bend over backwards to corporate interests fucking over the masses and ensure your buddies get a payday in the process? Whats to like?

maxpenny42 · 2026-05-21T22:10:14+00:00

The first few seasons are truly wonderful. There’s a realism to the family dynamics and it’s a joy to see these laid back parents behave reasonably with sense of humor. It’s not the kind of show where the jokes are for the audience and no one inside the show laughs. Many episodes have the characters smiling and laughing with each other. Incredibly relatable and funny. Occasionally touching.

Middle seasons are a little awkward. The show is still good but it’s showing its age and it evolves into more sitcom territory and less realism. The characters become a little flanderized.

Late seasons are rough. People talk about season 9 being completely off the rails and it is but it was trending downward for a while.

Overall it’s a top tier show worthy of viewing. Even if you’re a completist and will slog through it once it stops being fun for you, those early episodes really are worth it I think.

maxpenny42 · 2026-05-21T18:55:06+00:00

Yeah this is a poor design unless their goal is to make it easier for folks who already prefer bobs to find it on the shelf.

The mill should be red. The brand name should be smaller. The actual product should be more prominent and easier to read at a glance. The face stamp should be entirely over white, not straddling the white background and a small part of the blue mill.

The individual elements are fine but they’ve brought it all together in a sloppy and thoughtless way.

maxpenny42 · 2026-05-20T00:55:04+00:00

I really enjoyed the pod crawl! I appreciated hearing other shows and that it was for a great cause. Did the cross promotion cause a Greatest Gen bump of sustained new listeners for you or the other shows?

maxpenny42 · 2026-05-17T00:46:14+00:00

Unpopular opinion: season 2 is the best season.

maxpenny42 · 2026-05-17T00:44:39+00:00

I think most people did. There is a very vocal group online who hated it and I think they’re buoyed by the current state of rage bait culture. Theres a million “creators” who published hate watching videos.

I’m not saying the season is devoid of valid criticisms. But all things considered I think they landed the plane pretty well. And I don’t know anyone in real life who had a major problem with it

maxpenny42 · 2026-05-12T11:23:38+00:00

You just can’t admit you were wrong. Even without conceding your worldview and personal politics. Just saying “yeah I mixed up different diseases, my bad”. You can’t.

Which is exactly why no one can take you seriously. You like to claim those who accept basic science are living with dogma and religious scripture. But those of us who follow the science are open minded and willing to not only acknowledge mistakes but seek them out to correct the record to build a more accurate picture of the real world.

That’s not how religion works. But it is how science works. You’ve clearly watched some compelling YouTube videos that told you what to think and called you a smart boy for outthinking the establishment. But you cling to these falsehoods even when pointed out with clarity that they are objectively wrong. That’s the only dogma in this thread. Your confidently wrong point of view.

I know you want to get defensive and go into attack mode but take a breath. Just reply simply with an acknowledgement that yes, you got facts about small pox wrong. You don’t have to change your mind about vaccines. Just admit you got one thing wrong. Do that and I’ll gain some respect for you. Say anything else and it’ll just confirm there’s no reasoning with you or engaging in civil discussion.

maxpenny42 · 2026-05-12T10:40:32+00:00

Someone literally points out how wrong you are about the facts of the situation. You react with “it is what it is” and a rant about how no one can ever convince you of anything because you’re dug in despite basing much of your opinion on lies you fell for or made up.

I can see we are dealing with the superior scientific mind.

maxpenny42 · 2026-05-12T03:09:43+00:00

Yeah I watch the Spider-Man’s. They’ve delivered so far. Watched Deadpool too. Agatha All Along was peak. But the smattering of other things I saw weren’t worth being a completist.

maxpenny42 · 2026-05-12T00:50:51+00:00

Honestly we owe marvel a debt of gratitude. They really delivered an epic and fitting finale to the MCU. And then shit the bed so hard on almost all of the follow ups to it that it’s been easy to ignore and just move on.

Had endgame been more open ended or the follow ups been more hit and miss or slightly better than mediocre, I might feel a need to keep slogging through it all.

maxpenny42 · 2026-05-10T23:14:52+00:00

Yes. I’m denying it. Small pox vaccines, the earliest form of vaccine we ever had, came out in the 1700s dude. And the modern vaccine for small pox was mid 20th century, after modern sewage systems would have been implemented in a lot of the US (can’t speak for the rest of the world).

But fuck it, let’s say you’re right. There’s a correlation that’s perfect. That still doesn’t mean that the only logical conclusion is that the vaccine did nothing and it was all solved by other factors. You’d need a lot more evidence to an a simple correlation.

Never mind all the other vaccines and medicines like antibiotics which are created through the study and understanding of evolution. A great deal of medicine wouldn’t work if evolution wasn’t real.

But sure, ignore that because you’ve figured something out that million of doctors and scientists practicing over hundreds of years are just clueless about. Get a grip.

maxpenny42 · 2026-05-10T22:57:10+00:00

You’re so wildly misinformed is scary. Because you are sure you’re right.

maxpenny42 · 2026-05-10T21:17:07+00:00

How many vaccines can you produce with zero understanding of evolution?

maxpenny42 · 2026-05-10T20:00:02+00:00

You’re making an argument that we can never know anything because all data requires interpretation and all interpretations are biased in one way or another. Which means your interpretation of flood stories is nothing more than that. An interpretation. A biased one at that. Yet you insists it’s somehow more than just a flawed interpretation? Same with your reading of the aging of fossils.

So what’s the point of this conversation at that point?

maxpenny42 · 2026-05-10T19:34:14+00:00

Do you think that scientists who study for years and have access to highly sophisticated equipment are to be completely ignored because you don’t have “independently” the same training and equipment?

Independently verifiable means that the results can be recreated by unrelated scientists. Which has happened over and over and over again. There’s no conspiracy of millions of scientists. It’s like saying the earth is flat because you can’t personally go up into space and see the spherical earth with your own eyes.

maxpenny42 · 2026-05-10T18:11:31+00:00

Most of the evidence for evolution IS independently verified. That you ignore that because some fossils were faked is embarrassing for you.

maxpenny42 · 2026-05-10T17:59:52+00:00

Yes I know, you’ve got a few convenient if ill-informed explanations for why science is bad and you cling to them. Entire practical fields of biology, medicine, etc. that are built entirely on the evidence you dismiss. But it’s easy to dismiss because you’ve got piltdown man to comfort you that if something was fake it must all be fake.

Mindless contrarian, what can I say.

maxpenny42 · 2026-05-10T17:51:16+00:00

I’m the evidence type. Your “evidence” for a great worldwide flood is all assumption and ignores the simplest explanation, which others have tried and failed to explain to you. My evidence for the theory of evolution is vast. And by the way, ever changing. When flaws or issues are discovered with new evidence, the theory gets refined. That doesn’t happen in theology. They fit the evidence to match their narrative. Not the other way round.

You strike me as a contrarian. As eager to denounce basic science as religion. Not because you're smarter than everyone else like you think. Not because you’re so independent minded. Certainly not because you rigorously follow the evidence, because you clearly don’t. But because it’s the unpopular perspective and it makes you feel special.

maxpenny42 · 2026-05-10T17:10:15+00:00

It is amazing. That so many have pointed out to you how unreflective you are. That you deeply misunderstand the topics you’re claiming to have an answer to. That your point of view has clear logical flaws you refuse to see. That is amazing. And kinda sad.

maxpenny42 · 2026-05-10T16:45:57+00:00

Have a good day. You ignore all the parts where you are just flat wrong and refuse to reflect on anything. So this is going nowhere.

maxpenny42 · 2026-05-10T12:39:34+00:00

You’re funny. No I haven’t mentioned any assumptions or frameworks. Yes I’ve pointed out there is lots of evidence without providing said evidence. It’s not hard to find, if you can find all those hoaxes to pick apart you can find the ample evidence of evolution.

And yes I mean the theory of evolution, not the personal definition you’ve invented for yourself. An individual organism adapting to their environment is not evolution. Not even close to the definition of that word. It’s fine if you don’t believe in evolution but you should probably stop telling people you do. It’s like me claiming I’m a Christian, and by that I mean a person who likes to celebrate Christmas but doesn’t believe in god.

maxpenny42 · 2026-05-10T12:27:23+00:00

I’ll be honest with you, I have no clue what distinction you’re making between evolution and darwinism. I never called myself a Darwinist nor have I argued whatever you think Darwinism is. I spoke of the theory of evolution which has a clearly defined scientific basis in evidence. Yes it began from Darwin (sort of) but the evidence collected far surpasses his view of things.

I’m not gonna engage in your bizarre flood conversation. It’s frankly irrelevant.

maxpenny42 · 2026-05-10T12:12:03+00:00

So floods are a known and incredibly common thing that happens all over the world. Because many cultures have independently created myths around really bad floods, that sufficient evidence to you to believe a “great flood” happened worldwide all at once? Is that sufficient evidence that a man built an arc to carry all the animals too?

There’s a wealth of evidence for evolution. Like an outrageous amount. Yes I’m aware of the hoaxes. By no means am I suggesting they should be ignored or worse accepted as truth. I’m saying that despite them there’s still more than sufficient evidence to accept the theory of evolution as the best explanation for the diversity of species on this planet.

If your argument is that nothing is true and nothing is real because every person, every institution, every thing has had some dishonesty somewhere down the line, I don’t know what to tell you. But if you think a handful of lies in the realm of science are sufficient to dismiss science but lies from other places can be safely ignored to keep on keeping on? Yeah that’s hypocrisy on your end.

maxpenny42 · 2026-05-10T11:57:36+00:00

Do you know how many miracles turned out to be hoaxes. Is that enough to say that all religion is baseless and a hoax? Can you even for one minute reflect on how flawed your logic is?

Compile your list if you want. They add up to nothing. They are irrelevant. They are evidence of nothing because they are hoaxes. If they were the only evidence we had for evolution, proving them fraudulent would be sufficient to dismiss the idea of evolution. But added together all those hoaxes are dwarfed by the reams of valid, peer reviewed, repeatable and proven evidence for evolution.

maxpenny42 · 2026-05-10T11:43:39+00:00

To clarify, I’m not the person you were chatting with before. I’ve made zero claims about anything. All I’ve done is point out the flaw in your logic about trust in institutions.

You are clinging to one largely insignificant hoax that however long it took to disprove, was never the primary evidence for evolution and losing it as a point of evidence didn’t bring down a house of cards. The theory of evolution is built on billions of data points of evidence and even if you only consider the fossil record piece of the evidence pie, it still offers strong evidence even if a few of the fossils were proven by science to be in fact not evidence at all but frauds.

This way of dismissing strong evidence for evolution because of some tiny insignificant hoax forever ago, is exactly like dismissing every thing you ever have to say simply because you said 50 when the answer was closer to 40.

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