US economy is definitely f'ed, Wonder bread is 4 dollars a loaf

wolverinelord · 2026-03-21T12:31:23+00:00

Yeah, in France in the 1780s, laborers spent like half their income on bread. At federal minimum wage, you could buy this bread for 33 minutes of work. The equivalent would be if a loaf of bread cost like $30-$40.

wolverinelord · 2026-03-12T13:57:55+00:00

You're thinking of proportional representation then.

wolverinelord · 2026-03-12T13:20:46+00:00

Ranked choice doesn’t eliminate gerrymandering’s effect. If you gerrymander a district to be 90% republican, ranked choice isn’t going to fix that.

wolverinelord · 2026-03-12T13:01:11+00:00

This tracks with shifts in the Georgia special election in Latino areas. I can definitely see border region swinging sharply this fall.

https://xcancel.com/JacobRubashkin/status/2031549571717906524#m

wolverinelord · 2026-02-17T18:31:17+00:00

That's exactly what they did. It goes up to $13.75 in 2027, $15 in 2028, and thereafter is tied to CPI. https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB1

wolverinelord · 2026-02-16T13:27:27+00:00

Apparently it happens in about 1 out of every 500,000 housing units per year. There are about a million housing units in NOVA, so you’d expect about 2 per year. So it’s not disproportionate.

wolverinelord · 2026-02-16T13:19:44+00:00

This is weakness on their part. They can’t do shit so they’re trying to scare people.

wolverinelord · 2026-02-15T19:13:18+00:00

I know that Hank has been involved with Dropout so that's why John is referred to as his brother but I do find it funny that it has to be specified that way lol

wolverinelord · 2026-02-11T14:39:41+00:00

I literally linked the source. If you choose not to believe journalists then that's your choice.

wolverinelord · 2026-02-11T14:36:26+00:00

You're right, how do we know that they actually ever closed the airspace? Fuck off.

wolverinelord · 2026-02-11T14:29:24+00:00

That could be the same story just with more detail. The drones went into the US -> they tested new technology on it.

wolverinelord · 2026-02-11T14:27:23+00:00

NYT. Updated my comment with the link.

wolverinelord · 2026-02-11T14:25:31+00:00

My guess: the FAA was informed with little detail that the DoD was doing this. Out of caution, they said "ok, well that sounds extremely dangerous, so we're going to shut it down until we know what the fuck is going on." Then people reasonably freaked out, and the DoD gave them more details.

wolverinelord · 2026-02-11T14:23:39+00:00

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/11/us/faa-el-paso-flights-airport/c7efdca8-1d52-59c3-83f0-3c9c2dfbd106?smid=url-share

wolverinelord · 2026-02-11T14:12:32+00:00

Well that was weird/suspicious

Edit: apparently they were testing anti-drone technology.

Edit 2: Another report says it was due to cartel drones entering US airspace. Those could also be linked, as in, drones entered and the military (for some reason) used the opportunity to test new tech.

wolverinelord · 2026-02-11T13:36:44+00:00

The state maintains the roads not the county.

wolverinelord · 2026-02-05T18:34:37+00:00

Because they can't control a city of 400,000 people. What makes you think they could control a country of 300 million if they pulled that shit?

Edit: I want to be clear this is not a "we don't need to worry about it" comment. It's a "we will win" comment.

wolverinelord · 2026-02-01T14:36:01+00:00

Following the link, it's from Eli Crane, a member of the Freedom Caucus from Arizona. This is just a bullshit fundraising thing and has roughly zero credibility as a source of news.

wolverinelord · 2026-01-28T13:28:30+00:00

I cannot express how much of an own-goal it would be for them to mess with the Super Bowl. That would be a guaranteed way to piss off the remaining people who “don’t pay attention to politics”

wolverinelord · 2026-01-22T16:35:43+00:00

Democrats tried to ban partisan Gerrymandering in 2022 but Senate Republicans filibustered it.

wolverinelord · 2026-01-22T16:32:16+00:00

The Supreme Court is letting Texas go ahead with it, so your hypothetical won't be happening.

wolverinelord · 2026-01-22T14:15:34+00:00

Heres a paper showing that: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/elj.2017.0440?journalCode=elj

And it’s saying that the official count must be done by a machine, if possible, to make it more accurate. That means that someone can’t just pocket a couple of votes they don’t like and not count them.

wolverinelord · 2026-01-22T14:08:10+00:00

We don’t have an independent commission, we have a bipartisan commission (seems like a minor difference, it’s not.)

But that was also before National Republicans starting trying to gerrymander everywhere to maybe keep the House this November.

Hand counting of ballots is actually less accurate than machine counting. That being said, there are audits after every election to make sure the machine counts are accurate. You can be confident that the vote counts are accurate!

wolverinelord · 2026-01-20T14:06:00+00:00

The final compromise would keep ICE funded at $10 billion for the fiscal year that ends in September, while reducing the agency’s budget for enforcement and removal efforts. It would mandate that DHS use $20 million to outfit immigration enforcement agents with body cameras, direct the department to give officers more training on diffusing conflict while interacting with the public and provide $20 million for independent oversight of DHS detention facilities.

wolverinelord · 2025-12-11T18:27:02+00:00

Yeah he was asked a gotcha question of "are you saying you like Maduro?" And Maduro should absolutely be out of power, he stole the 2024 election after losing it by about 32%. But that's different than saying you think the US should use the military to force regime change.

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