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‘We will rave on Putin’s grave’: After 4 years of war, dancing has become resistance for some Ukrainians | CNN Despite a harsh winter and the brutal conflict with Russia, Ukrainians are still going to raves. For many it’s a way to forget the war, even if just for one night.

Dancing has always been resistance. Slava Ukraini!

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Every time I start to feel mystified about this, I remember that in high school I once got sucker punched for having a blue mohawk, and that Reagan/Bush 84 bumper stickers were abundant in the student parking lot.

Infinitely grateful to Jello BIafra for being there for me at an impressionable age.

Satan laughing spreads his wings, oh lord yeah.

It provides way more stimulus than her normal ways of passing the time ie burning ant mounts with a magnifying glass, rolling coal on cyclists and demanding to speak with your manager.

Scooby Doo cartoon mask reveal meme with AI in one panel, revealed to be nested if-then-else algorithm in next

It usually does the opposite.

Honestly, I think grassroots organizing in red states is some of the most important work one can engage in as a political volunteer. If anything else, it lets others in your community know that not everybody is in lock-step with the prevailing sentiment. People need to see that.

Absolutely! I'm no stranger to any of this, served as a precinct captain here from 2017-2021, knocked on many doors/sent many emails/went to many meetings. First knocked on doors for Brown in 92!

I know who my heart is with (AOC) and who I find tolerable (Pritzker), but I'm not settled on anyone.

No, but that Newsom is a contender should be very concerning to those of us who worry about our trans friends & family. We're gonna need a lot more competence, and a lot less piss & vinegar in the years to come, and if we're not careful we're gonna find ourselves accepting some shit trade-offs.

He's not wrong, and although he doesn't say this outright, it's not hard to conclude that a really smart interloper could do some performative shit that got people really invested in them, and then start to corrupt their followers' values, and with it, the party.

I finally had a moment to read through this, and he's basically saying if the current Democratic incumbents don't start taking the concerns of their base seriously, they're gonna be replaced. The subtext to be that they're also creating a rich environment for potential interlopers. It's astute TBH.

Exactly, and I believe that the high-$ consultants exploit this ignorance in their advice for leadership to ignore the demands of the base. They'll nutpick social media comments & use them to keep their clients cowering - "look how unreasonable they are! (pay no attention to the reasonable things).

I think society as a whole has become dumber & re-programmed to think in the most conflict-encouraging and aggressive way possible due to this large-scale experiment known as algorithm-driven social media that's been going on for 20 years, and that this is a political label-neutral phenomenon.

Case in point: I recently lost a friend when, after she insisted the "Democrats" cowards for not "marching over & arresting Bondi even though they could at any time". I asked her which LEO agency would make the arrest. She told me I was why Trump won, b/c I was one of those who "divided the left" ☹️

Opinions can differ among reasonable people! 😀

My take on Steele is that -whatever his mindset is- he rarely puts forth bad-faith arguments & may have a more objective view of what's happening than many of the "credentialed" voices who purport to speak for the left. We're not immune to groupthink.

This bring us back to OP's original point, which is -at least in part- that the failure of imagination is concerning, especially given the track record of unanticipated consequence.

Their goals might be specific, but the language moves us further into oppressive surveillance state territory.

Apologies, it was Priebus who commissioned the ignored report in 2013, but Steele was vocal about need for inclusivity during his tenure from 2009-2011 (which is why he wasn't re-elected as chair) Maybe he should have seen it sooner, but moderates still thought the party could change 15 years ago.

So trust the good intentions of the people who wrote the bill and don't worry about how the vagueness might be abused by bad-faith actors then.

Also, if I'm being completely honest, he's got a lot more credibility with me than all those high-dollar Democratic strategists who consistently advise the party to roll over and play dead

I'd never vote for the man, but Steele *is* the former RNC chairman who commissioned the report that said Republicans need to stop being so racist if they wanted to grow the party...he's also one of the few "Republicans" that doesn't have a bad faith impulse kicking in every time he's near a camera

Look, she and Corey have a lot of eyes on them unless they're in the air, and besides, she's got a Real Housewives-style rivalry going on with more than a few of those Mar-A-Lago plastic surgery freaks over who's had the most mile high club hookups

I'M OK WITH CHILD GENITAL MUTILATION IF THE PARENTS PUT IT IN WRITING

I wonder if its hard to find a person who is not horny yet with a track record of shooting the dog

I'm hearing he's been informally querying Mar-A-Lago regulars about which car dealership owners love to kill family pets but aren't DTF

Talarico doesn't need to win those people, he just needs them to undervote whomever the R candidate is

I'm kinda thinking its all of the above, plus an undervote for Paxton because he's shitty, or Cornyn because he went thermonuclear on his primary contender, that gets Talarico in.

is it the result of my withering confirmation bias that i can't tell which side is supposed to represent which service?

Embedded devices most certainly can download "applications" - whatever those are - the bill doesn't define them. And no-login, non-networked devices can acquire network functionality.

Is your point that the text of the bill isn't actually vague or that we shouldn't worry about the vagueness?