Elon can't do everything. Needs to be a big cultural shift that says rich people can do cool "passion project" type stuff with their money again instead of endlessly building wells in Africa that get stripped for parts by the locals.
Paul Allen funded some passion project stuff up here (Cinerama was probably the most visible one but there were others) that his advisers almost certainly told him was a bad investment. Lo and behold, when he died the estate divested from them.
I'd be tempted to get one for a buck. That campaign's going to be memory-holed, and 30 years from now there's probably not going to be much physical evidence that it ever existed.
One of the causes that the left started to take up in the late 00s that sadly was jettisoned was the idea of letting kids play and do errands unsupervised. I forget what they called it, but there was a whole movement that was a reaction to the "helicopter parenting" that had taken hold. But that idea of giving kids space to explore and create would have been much more appealing to men than what they're doing now.
Now the right seems to have taken up that mantle, probably because the parties at this point have effectively split along gender lines. I'm not sure the left is capable of reversing that, but if they are it'd probably require a James Carville type to be given unilateral authority to throw all the fags and hags out of positions of authority in the party.
I assume the connotations were similar to those of the "Bratz" dolls from the 00s: something like "chic with attitude".
It was a running gag in American media at the time that the candidates from both parties were the same. And if Al Gore had actually managed to win and had been in office on 9/11, I have no doubt everything would have happened exactly as it did under Bush.
The modern Democratic party is a party by and for the HR department, and their candidate was the personification of that sort of scold. They suck all the fun out of everything.
Also if you're 18-24 you were either in high school or college during WuFlu, and the Dems were largely who were responsible for sucking the joy out of the most formative experiences of your young adult life. If they did that to me I'd be pissed at them too.
I swear some people are so used to losing they don't know what to do when they win.
Or they don't remember that 24 years ago the thing everyone cheered for at Rep campaign rallies was privatizing social security. Mass deportations would have been a fever dream.
Honestly if you could point to one person other than Trump who deserves credit for the win it's Elon.
Both the "Haitian migrants eating pets" and "Venezuelan gangs taking over apartment complexes" stories both came from twitter and both would be completely buried under the old Regime. And the former completely took over the news cycle from the "Kamala is Brat" narrative they were trying to push at the time. And it put the Dems on the defensive in a way they really don't like to be.
Literally this time: won the popular vote.
Same, and one of those clients was saying how voting was one of their favorite things to do.
Vibe is different than in 2016, because they didn't do the "he has a 5% chance of winning" thing like 2016. I wasn't a supporter then, but I liked what he represented; and I laughed and cheered when he won.
Watching all the worst people weep and gnash their teeth remains satisfying.
Reps seem to have a lot more lawyers and others on the ground to challenge shenanigans in swing states. Hearing a lot more stories about "they tried to kick poll watchers out, but then the lawyers swept in and now they're back".
I didn't say it was "inspiring". I look at it with some amusement as a window into a foreign culture.
- The Accent
- The Yiddish song
- The non-committal language and somewhat apathetic reasons to vote for Trump ("it shows your support and helps our future")
- Selling the idea based on the fact that voting doesn't cost much ("spend a couple minutes of your time")
I think Trump will win, but my consolation prize if he doesn't is Hillary loses the "first female President" title to some retard Willie Brown side-piece.
If she loses Biden should resign to give her the title for like 2 months just as a final "fuck you" to them all.
We'll make sure you get put into one of the nice crystals.
Funny thing is the Orthodox act the most like the caricatures. "Take a couple minutes out of your day and vote for Donald Trump. He'll improve your life maybe" is the kind of thing I'd say if someone wanted me to parody a Jewish campaign slogan, yet here this Jewish guy is on film unironically blasting it out of a loudspeaker from his car.
I forgot that "garbage" has a new (positive) meaning now. I meant "garbage" in the sense that the Reps are all Real Estate Agents or BBB "line go up" candidates who preach "unity". Not wartime candidates.
I always think of a shitlib I know whose vote I want to cancel out. It's about the only thing that can motivate me to vote for such garbage candidates as we get (as well as voting to repeal all the stupid bills the state legislature votes for).
Half the time the Dems do a better job of selling the Reps then the Reps sell themselves. "He loves Trump! He's the pro-Trump candidate!". Well shit, why didn't he tell me that?
This is one of the most Jewish videos I've ever seen. I've been enamored by it since I discovered it last night.
NBC gave him a free 90 second ad spot on Sunday Night Football for "equal time", which has 3-4x viewership.
Shows they're afraid he might win and that lawsuit might actually go someplace if he does.
This must be a very confusing time to be a "granola liberal". Though as we see time and again the "liberal" wins out over the modifier.
They never did quite figure out how to fit the vaccines into their worldview. I remember going to this brewery a couple years ago that also sold a bunch of naturopath stuff which demanded that everyone who entered either be vaccinated or wear a mask.
There's a famous photo of a Civil War veteran posing next to a fighter jet in 1955.
but allow people to redeem themselves
I'm all in favor of redemption: I need plenty of it myself.
And I could imagine someone with that sort of past being among the most critical of modernity. "When I was 18 why were all the adults in my life telling me I needed to 'find myself'? Why was one of the ways I could 'find myself' having sex with a stranger for money while other strangers filmed it? Why is that seen as a more 'respectable' path than getting married at 18 and starting a family?" And so on...
I'd guess it blew up because (as you mentioned in your original reply to me) she's been annoyingly critical of even the milquetoast "right". And based on other things she's said doesn't even seem to have "reformed" herself all that much.
The original analysis compared positioning of moles on her arms and face to the porn star's along with a comparison of other facial features like the indentation under her chin and the structure of her nose and cheek bones.
She also has photos of herself from when she was around the age she allegedly did porn posted on her twitter, which was what personally was put me over the line of "it's real" since they look like the same person.
But putting that aside, what I find objectionable is that both she and Yarvin were (allegedly) doing heterodox things in 2008, yet Yarvin remains persona non grata in "respectable" institutions while she isn't. And more people on the "right" will defend a former career in porn than would defend heterodox writings on political philosophy. Richard Hanania constantly has to repudiate his past pseudonymous writings.
The Christian school I attended forbade Harry Potter due to it glorifying witchcraft, and I had friends whose parents forbade them from watching Simpsons, Family Guy, etc... due to its vulgarity.
Whether this was a majority view or not I can't say, but the Church wasn't exactly making it hard to sell that narrative. They had a similar problem with humorless scolds as the left has today. And what they offered as an alternative to mainstream culture (eg. the Left Behind series which was a big thing around that time) was often heavy-handed and just not very good.