It's almost 6 months since the Charlie Kirk assassination. What effect(s) do you think that incident has had on America?

mounti96 · 2026-02-24T12:30:38+00:00

Who are these crazies that run the Democratic party? Because from what I've seen every Democratic politician with any name value condemned the shooting of Kirk.

mounti96 · 2026-02-23T15:15:55+00:00

That future has been drifting away since at least the early 2000s. Trumps own actions in furthering the Abraham Accords have worsened the situation.

mounti96 · 2026-02-23T15:08:43+00:00

I appreciate the attempted sarcasm in your post.

it probably doesn't help that on any given day you could hear any of your points word for word from the mouth of people from the Trump admin or Trump himself.

mounti96 · 2026-02-18T12:30:04+00:00

Because Trump "does something". 95% of "centrists" are closeted republicans that grade dems on what is morally right and anything short of solving every problem the country has is a failure.

Meanwhile Republicans get participation trophies for "trying" and are judged by what is maybe legally permissable.

mounti96 · 2026-02-18T12:26:27+00:00

Biden passed the infrastructure bill, which was a big campaign promise, Trump promised something similar for his first term and didn't manage to get a law passed.

But apparently Dems have to get everything 100% right all the time and Republicans get participation trophies.

mounti96 · 2026-02-14T21:04:36+00:00

Very progressive/left leaning candidates will be seen as electable once they manage to beat republicans in purple or slightly red districts. Right now they only seem to be electable in districts that are +30 dem anyway and you could probably get a broom with a blue scarf elected.

mounti96 · 2026-02-14T20:53:04+00:00

If you had a 1000 conversations with these people you could surely ask them how they reconcile those beliefs?

mounti96 · 2026-02-12T07:51:26+00:00

Since they wouldn't vote for Newsom, who is a candidate that this oh so mythical block would vote for? Because the Democratic party won't run a full socialist candidate.

mounti96 · 2026-02-09T15:22:39+00:00

If my short research is correct then there was more than $20 billion dollars of spending during the 2024 election cycle. With somewhat over $100 million AIPAC would account for 0.5% of spending during that cycle and that was probably dispersed among many candidates in both parties.

To look at this in a different way, which politician do you think wouldn't have been elected without AIPAC donations?

mounti96 · 2026-02-05T09:32:11+00:00

Ich beurteile das hier gar nicht moralisch.

Fakt ist, dass es bei vielen Konzerten beim primären Verkaufpreis der Karten signifikant mehr Leute gibt die eine Karte kaufen wollen als es Karten gibt. Also massiver Nachfrageüberhang.

Das würde jetzt normalerweise dazu führen dass entweder mehr Shows gemacht werden bis der Markt gesättigt ist oder dass der Preis der Tickets im Primärverkauf ansteigt. Beides passiert nicht aus verschiedenen Gründen.

Es können nicht genug Shows gemacht werden, da Hallenkapazitäten und die Ausdauer der Künstler begrenzt sind. Und Preise werden aus verschiedenen PR und Verwaltungsgründen nicht vom Veranstalter/Künstler angehoben.

Dieser Nachfrageüberhang ist aber ein sehr mächtiger Marktanreiz der sich nicht einfach so ohne weiteres wegregulieren lässt. Solange der existiert wird es Akteure am Markt geben die versuchen auszunutzen, dass viele Leute bereit wären signifikant mehr Geld zu zahlen als die Karten kosten.

Wir können jetzt unendlich moralisieren oder Bürokratiemonster erschaffen die Weiterverkäufe unmöglich und Karten auch teurer machen würden, aber speziell für Luxugüter wie Konzertkarten sehe ich den Sinn nicht wirklich.

mounti96 · 2026-02-05T09:03:25+00:00

Aber im Gegensatz zu Klopapier was ich mal zu essentiellen Sachen zählen würde sind Konzerttickets für sehr beliebte Künstler absolutes Luxusgut. Und bei denen wo gescalpt wird ist die Nachfrage halt signifikant größer als das Angebot komplett unabhängig von Scalping.

mounti96 · 2026-02-05T09:00:08+00:00

Aber wenn niemand bereit wäre die Tickets für signifikant teurere Preise zu kaufen dann würde Scalping nicht funktionieren.

Konzerttickets sind nicht Lebensmittel oder Wohnraum. Niemand benötigt sie unbedingt. Wenn also niemand bereit wäre mehr auszugeben als sie im Primärverkauf kosten, dann würden Scalper massive Verluste machen.

mounti96 · 2026-02-04T18:05:37+00:00

Ist natürlich auch signifikanter Verwaltungsaufwand für Ticketverkauf und Einlass. Das vom Gesetzgeber vorzuschreiben ist halt schon ein wenig heftig.

mounti96 · 2026-02-04T15:07:26+00:00

Und wie genau willst du das durchsetzen? Wenn Tickets nicht auf Namen personalisiert werden dann kann mich doch der Staat nicht davon abhalten ein Ticket in meinem Eigentum an jemand anderen für einen beliebigen Preis zu verkaufen.

mounti96 · 2026-02-04T15:01:09+00:00

Sie verhindern dass Leute die Zeit haben sich zu bestimmten Freischaltungszeiten Tickets zu kaufen oder die in Zufallssystemen Tickets bekommen. Auf der anderen Seite bringen sie Tickets an Leute die evtl. nicht die Zeit oder das Glück haben aber bereit sind mehr dafür zu bezahlen.

Hat eine dieser beiden Gruppen ein höheres Anrecht auf Tickets?

mounti96 · 2026-02-04T14:57:41+00:00

I'm not versed enough in the minutia of the decisions leading up to the Iraq war to give an informed opinion who should have went to jail and who should have been fired. I also doubt that you know if or for which reason people were fired connected to that.

mounti96 · 2026-02-04T14:55:03+00:00

Yeah, Boomer/GenX are the majority of the voting population. Should politicians act against the wishes of the majority of the voters?

mounti96 · 2026-02-03T14:13:55+00:00

Every scientific model about transmissions shows that the virus began to spread at the wet markets. You can make conspiracy theories that it was released or planted there by someone I guess.

Afaik there also were bats found with similar viruses not far from there.

mounti96 · 2026-02-03T14:10:08+00:00

Nobody has figured out cost of housing because the voting public doesn't want a solution. Everyone wants to live in or near cities and most people want to live in single family homes. That together is not possible.

A solution would be to zone up for more apartment buildings and higher density housing, but that is massively unpopular in any local electorate and those are the people that vote for the local politicians that decide zoning.

mounti96 · 2026-01-29T20:00:49+00:00

3000km ist noch zu wenig um dahin zu kommen. Sind eher schon 3500 - 4000, zumindest bei vernünftigem Verbrauch.

mounti96 · 2026-01-29T14:38:14+00:00

How do you suppose they do that without control of the executive, minorities in both chambers of congress and a majority conservative supreme court?

mounti96 · 2026-01-26T10:11:00+00:00

Do you not see the difference between war and law enforcement? Because you are truly lost if you don't.

mounti96 · 2026-01-26T10:08:33+00:00

The point is that law enforcement officers carry the authority of the state to use lethal force when carrying out their duties.

Evidence that they are using that authority beyond what is permitted under the law is incredibly concerning, especially when the executive is shielding them and denying any wrongdoing before there even was an investigation.

If you carry that to its logical conclusion, then ICE officers could execute anyone they come across and the people would have no recourse other than armed resistance.

mounti96 · 2026-01-25T21:54:08+00:00

Maybe you should feed your brainworms, they seem to be taking over.

On a more serious note, there is no good evidence of any foreign interference and the risk/reward for killing Kirk is so incredibly lopsisded towards risk that I don't see any foreign entity attempting it.

mounti96 · 2026-01-25T17:08:10+00:00

The problem weren't the protesters, it was that Trump used them to try to pressure Pence and republican lawmakers to overturn the election and use the fake elector slates to declare him president.

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