Caught “Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie.” Fantastic little indie comedy that while a bit slow at times had the audience in painful gut laughs at other bits.

Not like that, not really.

But in the before times when I worked in an office, there was a good half year where a big building opposite my window was being torn down. A few times a no th when something awesome was happening (like smashing the walls with an excavator) folks would hang out and just watch for chunks of time.

It’s free and using it means I don’t have to support American tech companies.

Ahhh, that makes sense.

In retrospect, I suppose I could’ve googled it but it’s always nice to have an excuse to dig out the anthology.

I like that Han’s blaster is more powerful than an ATAT

Really interesting answers like tbis, about topics on which I know nothing, are my absolute favourite part about social media.

Thank you for this! I had no idea it could be so complicated. Congrats on the blooms and enjoy the next half decade!

it’s whether or not politicians and bureaucrats have the political will.

That and the institutions, but sure. So, why on Earth would you think that the Dems threatening to hurt American citizens will somehow change the political will/calculus?

“Those Dems are holding the government hostage… I should probably reconsider my position on trump!”

That’s wild, congrats! For someone completely ignorant of botany, what does that half decade entail?

Was playing hide and go seek with my friend’s toddler, who is clearly new to the game as when she found me she said “okay, now I’ll hide here and you come find me!”

Lol, okay, now read the other parts there:

29% - Ending Israel’s violence in Gaza 24% - The economy 12% - Medicare and Social Security 11% - Immigration and border security 10% - Healthcare 9% - Abortion policy 5% - Don’t know

In other words, the overwhelming majority of the voters who changed their vote from Biden to someone else were not voting because of Gaza.

An astute reader might note that this lines up pretty closely with what I said way back at the beginning…

Harris lost running on massive inflation, in the same wave that saw almost every incumbent government thrown out by historic margins and still came within only a couple of points of trump.

I’ll also just leave this here for you.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/09/09/issues-and-the-2024-election/

Thanks so much for all this, I’m stoked to get into some Welles!

Which of your sources has this 29% figure? I read and double checked the rolling stone one albeit on archive.ie so maybe a graphic’s not coming through?

Or you meant to send a different source?

Hmm, are you sure on the dates? The March 12th 1989 is a Sunday strip without the transmogrifier, and the 3rd of December is about mailing Santa.

… BUT… The cardboard box the beanie comes in first shows on March 11 (with the action concluding on the 18th talking about all the fun they’ll have with this great cardboard box.

(Admittedly, looking at it now, the box does seem a bit too small for them to fit in but…)

Hombre, remember this was your original position:

axois’ reporting on the dnc’s attempt to suppress the last election’s post mortem investigation and the yougov polls of pro-biden/anti-harris voters have shown us that harris lost 10 million votes because of gaza.

If you actually look through the Cook political report, the big issue was men of colour moving to the Right. And if you read the sentences right above the young voters bit in the Rolling Stone article, you’ll notice their concerns are not about the perceived silence on Gaza but instead the perception “that Dems cared more about immigrants, trans people and waging war in Ukraine and Gaza than domestic priorities or their daily economic realities.” You could sort of maybe disingenuously twist that into Gaza but really, that’s clearly about the money being spent for military support instead of economic issues at home.

Again, all of this is far cry from your claim that Gaza cost ten million votes.

need I remind that those are short term pains compared to enabling fascism to take over later down the line?

These actions don’t make fascism less likely though.

Fascism thrives on emergencies and suffering, taking away food and medical from millions would do this effectively.

Even worse, if the Democrats messed with the debt ceiling it would fundamentally cripple any future non fascist government’s ability to fix problems.

Good idea, look at South Korea and Brazil. They have been able to do things because the of popular legislation and/or the judiciary, not because a minority party obstructed normal legislation. That’s the exact opposite of what you are proposing. What those examples demonstrate is the importance of winning elections, not about causing havoc as the opposition party.

Where would you recommend starting with Welles? Citizen Kane is the classic but is it the best spot to start?

Buddy, unless I’m missing something it looks like you’re must be misreading these, linking to the wrong articles, hoping no one reads them or just making the wild assumption that everyone who didn’t vote Harris did so because of Gaza.

The Cook political report deep dive literally doesn’t mention Gaza or Israel.

Not mine but one day my buddy’s 6 year old asked “what’s parking tips?” My buddy being a veteran dad gives him some generic parking advice, doesn’t think much of it until later when he hears his kid singing along to the shaboozy song but instead of “everyone at the bar getting tipsy” he’s sing about how everyone getting parking tips.

Democrats have voted against almost every significant bill so far.

What would proposing bills do?

They’ve been doing the obstruction. You’ve forgotten Hakeem Jefferies’ record setting filibuster because it doesn’t make a lick of difference; “oh yay, the bill was stalled for two days! Mighty victory!”

The reality is that the Democrats are essentially powerless until the midterms and unfortunately, reality doesn’t change because you wish it were otherwise.

They hold none of the three branches.

They can whine and protest, which they’ve been doing. Literally what else do you expect besides them to hold the country hostage via the debt ceiling or shutdown? (And, I might point out the Dems are in fact threatening a shutdown unless changes are made to ICE.)