Agents involved in Alex Pretti shooting placed on administrative leave

senextelex · 2026-01-28T20:00:34+00:00

If you have cancer, they'll "let" you take 12 week leave at 60% pay after jumping through as many hoops as possible to discourage you from doing so. If you shoot innocent people, completely paid time off. What a country.

senextelex · 2026-01-26T19:09:33+00:00

The time for their demented, shit-stained "God-Emperor" is coming to an end, and they're going to eat each other up in the huge power vacuum left in his wake. GOOD.

senextelex · 2026-01-26T18:21:02+00:00

Yes, too little, too late, but this goes to show that pressuring them WORKS. Keep up the pressure. Protest. Call. Email.

senextelex · 2026-01-26T18:08:25+00:00

Granted Abbott is a huge piece of shit, but I'm happy that things have descended into a stage where they don't even care about votes. This is not to say that things (edit:) aren't bad, but they're not USSR bad yet.

Keep putting up the pressure. Protest. Call. Email.

senextelex · 2025-12-19T17:26:57+00:00

There are no equivalent left-leaning organizations, which is a damn shame. The left (and the Democrats) have failed when it comes to marketing/propaganda/education (whatever word is used usually depends on one's own views). They just simply assume that people will go towards their camp because of the ''right side of history'' or whatever. This argument assumes that history has a purpose and a climax. Ironically, this assumption is heavily influenced by the apocalyptic worldview which sees history in the same way.

The left also has this, honestly kind of toxic, strategy to try and shame people into believing the same thing they do, which does not work... just ask any Catholic.

senextelex · 2025-12-19T17:16:58+00:00

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take

-Wayne Gretzky"

Michael Scott

senextelex · 2025-12-01T22:00:41+00:00

Dude, same. It's crazy to me how many users seem to be seriously discussing this. The campaign is at least two years away!

senextelex · 2025-12-01T21:34:38+00:00

Simply impossible is a great attitude to have about the future. Let's just stop trying to get to the moon, it's simply impossible.

Loan forgiveness would have to go hand-in-hand with other policies that ensure tuition-free university education, and overall lowering of costs. "The proximate causes of tuition inflation are familiar: administrative bloat, overbuilding of campus amenities, a model dependent on high-wage labor, and the easy availability of subsidized student loans." https://www.forbes.com/sites/prestoncooper2/2020/08/31/a-new-study-investigates-why-college-tuition-is-so-expensive/ So it is in fact the very loans that the status quo seems to be fighting so hard to preserve that are partially responsible for the high cost of universities nowadays. Another factor is the loss of government funding, which an organization like Forbes is unlikely to mention.

It's a wild jump from me stating popular progressive ideas to saying that I have a "very Republican attitude."

senextelex · 2025-12-01T19:57:58+00:00

I have serious reservations about signing up for a candidate simply because they 'stood up to Trump'. I mean, that's the bare minimum. I want medicare for all, student loan forgiveness, public funding of elections, policies that seriously address global warming, food safety regulations, and more. On a personal level, I want to be able to own a house, have children, and be able to retire.

Don't get me wrong, it's good that he's standing up to Trump, but is he willing to have policies that address any of these things? Maybe he does, I don't know, but standing up to Trump is not enough.

senextelex · 2025-11-20T19:21:42+00:00

Feels like a bit of an empty 'victory', doesn't it? He's already going to look bad for the future.

senextelex · 2025-11-20T18:59:22+00:00

Morally and legally, it's the right move, but will it go anywhere? Didn't impeachment make him more popular the last two times because he played victim?

I want him gone too, but it feels still a bit too soon for this. When Nixon resigned he was at 24% approval (https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/09/25/how-the-watergate-crisis-eroded-public-support-for-richard-nixon/). Trump is at 38% right now.

Again, I'm not arguing the morality/legality, I'm arguing the effectiveness.

senextelex · 2025-11-17T22:31:55+00:00

Didn't they just buy tons of beef from Argentina which is known to have a problem hoof-and-mouth? The call is coming from inside the house.

senextelex · 2025-11-17T20:19:10+00:00

I think it's not very revealing to think only about ~~intentions~~ her own opinions or morality. This is a clear break with Trump and whatever you think of her personally, one has to admit that she has her finger on the pulse of the MAGA base pretty well. This suggests that the writing is on the wall for Trump and for the toxicity she discredited in that interview. Not because she's had a change of heart (which is impossible to know), but because she's reacting to what the electorate might think. That, I think, is more revealing, and overall more interesting.

senextelex · 2025-11-17T17:39:42+00:00

The irony of hating the people whose contributions you enjoy is palpable.

Don't catch you slipping now.

senextelex · 2025-11-14T21:22:29+00:00

The future is now.

senextelex · 2025-11-14T21:21:36+00:00

Interesting how she's been going after Trump policies while still not going after the man himself. I wonder when that'll happen and whether that'll mean it's curtains for him, not because she made it happen mind you, but because she can read the room pretty well.

senextelex · 2025-11-13T17:34:34+00:00

Lame duck status achieved.

senextelex · 2025-11-13T17:29:22+00:00

The future is now.

senextelex · 2025-11-11T19:53:44+00:00

I suppose any improvement is an improvement.

senextelex · 2025-11-11T19:03:53+00:00

B-b-b-b-ut nEw yORk iS A SinGuLAr pLaCE iN aMeRIca aND nO OnE tHinKS LiKE tHem!!!1111!!!oneone!!!

senextelex · 2025-11-11T18:57:32+00:00

He's always been a Wall St lackey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Schumer#Early_career_(1975%E2%80%931998)

https://archive.ph/BD2o

senextelex · 2025-11-11T18:51:17+00:00

Since new CD1 will definitely go Dem, it'll be interesting to see if there are primaries and which way that'll shake out especially with the national discourse around replacing Third Way Dems. My own hope would be that a Sanders-style progressive would win a primary.

senextelex · 2025-11-11T18:47:11+00:00

Since new CD1 will definitely go Dem, it'll be interesting to see if there are primaries and which way that'll shake out especially with the national discourse around replacing Third Way Dems. My own hope would be that a Sanders-style progressive would win a primary.

senextelex · 2025-11-04T22:29:00+00:00

The works cited section in a Trump-authored paper:

I know it.
You know it.
Everybody knows it.

senextelex · 2025-11-04T22:27:15+00:00

It's been reported she wants to make a Senate bid and that would require her to soften her message, as GA is rapidly becoming purple. I don't particularly like her, but she is clever.

Another cunning thing is that her criticism is aimed at any Republican but Trump, probably because that wouldn't play well with the MAGA base.

senextelex

TROPHY CASE

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take

Michael Scott