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  • The timing of the memo is sensitive, coming before key elections in the Netherlands, Czech Republic, and possibly France. It also references recent elections in Poland and Romania.

    Critics fear the memo signals U.S. support for far-right candidates and could encourage political interference in European elections.

    They’re 100% going to meddle in elections, that’s a bipartisan issue:

    Speaking to the Jewish Press about the January 25, 2006, election for the second Palestinian Legislative Council (the legislature of the Palestinian National Authority), Clinton weighed in about the result, which was a resounding victory for Hamas (74 seats) over the U.S.-preferred Fatah (45 seats).

    “I do not think we should have pushed for an election in the Palestinian territories. I think that was a big mistake,” said Sen. Clinton. “And if we were going to push for an election, then we should have made sure that we did something to determine who was going to win.”

    https://observer.com/2016/10/2006-audio-emerges-of-hillary-clinton-proposing-rigging-palestine-election/

    Seriously, fucking up other people’s election is one of America’s favorite pass times and largest open secrets.

    It would be naive to expect trump to be the only president who didn’t do it

    Which doesn’t mean it’s ok trump is doing it.

    It means we need to be pissed anytime a president does it, not just when it’s trump




  • There’s usually one or two guys who are willing to play the “big scary” when necessary

    It’s not even willingness…

    I’m a huge dude, basically the human equivalent of a silverback.

    Especially in big events like college/pro sports or music festivals, if I was with a large coed group, random dudes approached me before hitting on any of the women around.

    It wasn’t like they came up thumping chests or asking permission.

    They’d just test the waters with me and if I seemed cool pivot to hitting on the women. Because out of everyone in the group, if I had a problem with them, I would literally and figuratively be their biggest problem.

    But size doesn’t mean shit in the modern world, so it’s super weird for big guys, especially if it starts when they’re young. Sometimes it goes to people’s heads and that’s pretty much where bullies come from. The people who tolerate that behavior and hang around reinforce it and it just feedback loops






  • The only reason their careers has lasted this long was prior iterations of the DNC protected them from primaries.

    The current DNC won’t do that.

    If primary voters want to ditch the incumbent, Martin will support the new candidate just as hard as he would have supported the incumbent

    He doesn’t really care what candidate makes it to the general, except that they were/are the ones voters chose.

    And sadly enough, that makes him the most progressive DNC chair since Carter’s election.

    It’s a level playing field, and neoliberals can’t win in that environment unless it’s against a Republican.

    They won’t all get replaced at once, but it’ll happen. And more will choose to cash out and become a lobbyist before losing office.

    We don’t need the individuals, we need the seat they’re occupying.


  • Biden and the rest of the neoliberals gave Bibi everything he wanted, but it was never going to be enough.

    Give someone like that two choices who will do whatever he wants, but one is a sadistic asshole. And they’ll go with the asshole everytime.

    There was never any gain for a Dem to defend Bibi, except for the personal gain of campaign donations from a foreign country.

    And that’s one of the big reasons Dem turnout was low enough for trump to be president.

    Neoliberals picked Israel over America and we need to get every single one of them out of office


  • Well, yeah…

    Silverbacks used to be the go-to primate “alpha” example, but we know that “the tribe” isn’t controlled by the Silverback, and it’s not the biggest or most aggressive that “leads”.

    The females select more for compassion than anything. And the only real point of the Silverback in the tribe is to scare off rogue males.

    Fights rarely happen, there just has to be a silverback already with the group to stop the rogues from hassling the group.

    Even if a rogue male started a fight, and beat the group’s silverback, there’s still like 20 other gorillas, it’s not like they only have conflict in 1v1 fights. They don’t “win” leadership thru fighting.

    The tribe just picks their own Silverback as designated chest thumper to avoid conflict.









  • I think the issue is the study treated it as a binary thing…

    Handedness isn’t binary, very few things are when talking about human anatomy.

    Like, 4 wheel drive is an equal 50/50 split. Then obviously full front/rear drive.

    But “all wheel drive” can be anything from 80/20 to 60/40, or theoretically any random ratio.

    So while people who prefer their left hand. There’s a difference between a sleight preference and someone who’s right hand is so useless it’s easier to hold a guitar upside down.

    Those people at the extreme end may be more creative when isolated out as a subgroup