Whores, no contest
They have to remake it for no other reason than it shows an America that no longer exists. And they'll cast it with a bunch of mystery meat actors/actresses of the sort who didn't exist until about 5 years ago.
He still comes off a bit as a dork who's trying to be personable. Most prominently on display with his (somewhat forced) laugh.
But if they win he'll have 4 years of being in the spotlight to hone that more.
Vance has the potential to be a political avatar for men born between 1982-1990. Has first-mover advantage, if he skills up a bit more on charisma he's there.
All else being equal you're right: it's none of their business.
20 years ago the right tried to make it illegal to collect this sort of data because it was "none of their business". The left screamed bloody murder about that, so it never happened.
Now your best bet is to make the data and categories meaningless. For everything else they want you to be able to choose your own identity, so if you most identify with your African ancestors from 50,000 years ago then who are they to say otherwise?
Trump is a once in a generation political talent. No one is like Trump, and if you compare anyone to Trump you will be disappointed.
As the old joke goes, "I don't have to outrun the bear: I just have to outrun you". As things are today he has good odds against the other people he'd be running against in 2028.
A lot of people seemed to be under the impression that he needed to divorce his wife and abandon his children once he became "based". Which is frankly nonsensical.
Even granting that his marriage was a poor decision made based on faulty beliefs he held in the past, he chose to enter into that sacred union, and he has a duty to God to honor his vow. That this is probably not easy is his cross to bear.
well, that's dumb
Yes, it is. So in addition to it being dumb I'd also like to make it meaningless and useless.
He's about the same age as I am and comes from a similar background as I do, so he is the most relatable and "normal" politician I have ever seen in my life.
If he's not genuine he's an extremely skilled fake.
African would also work in the Richard Dawkins "we are all Africans" sense the New Atheists tried to push 20-ish years ago to "debunk" racism.
I'd probably just put Native American. I was born here, and my family has been here long enough I'm not eligible for birthright citizenship anywhere else.
Probably also doesn't help (and he alludes to this but not in this way) that more people are getting their news from Elon's toy (twitter) than his toy (WaPo).
And Elon's rockets are in the news lately more than his, which probably doesn't help either.
> 2019
*20 years ago
Other thing I wonder about is whether these people actually want to fortify for Kamala.
These people have their own political ambitions and may not want to wait 8 years when they can wait 4 instead.
People should still vote as though they'll fortify, though. If nothing else, take some satisfaction in canceling out the vote of that one annoying shitlib you know.
The vaccine rollout where the FDA effectively stopped doing any semblance of review of safety and efficacy and pushed an approval of a novel therapeutic injection through in less than a year.
I think Elon is someone who wants to do good work that he can take pride in who would continue to do good work if the FAA didn't exist at all. But there are also a lot of people who just want to push slop through the process to make a quick buck. Unfortunately the regulatory system we have treats people like Elon the same as the people who just want to push slop.
But if you get rid of it so people like Elon can be unleashed, that doesn't mean there doesn't still need to be a way to discourage the people who want to push slop from hurting people with their slop and punish them when they do.
Unfortunately the only political options we are presented with are egalitarian solutions: the Reps want to unleash everyone like Elon should be unleashed, and the Dems want to put everyone on the same sort of leash as should be put on a slop-pusher.
Not being an egalitarian, I think we should use judgment as to whether someone should be on a leash or not.
Agreed but if you get rid of regulations you need to replace them with something that actually punishes people and organizations who cause harm.
If you don't do that then you get the 2020 vaccine rollout.
God willing and the creek don't rise.
In 2016 they (might have been NPR?) found the guy who ghostwrote The Art of the Deal for Trump and had him disavow Trump, talk about how crazy he was and how he shouldn't be President, etc...
Do things like California Rolls and Seattle Rolls not count as "regional versions" of sushi?
In retrospect "the Internet but for 130+ IQ Anglo academics" was the ideal. We just didn't realize it. Should have made the connection when the first sign of trouble was caused by the Internet opening up to 120+ Anglo undergraduate students.
I hate to say it, but I think it was the tech nerds who did it. Also ruined Linux. Victims of our own success.
We thought this stuff was cool and wanted everyone else to agree with us, but 20 years ago you had to (eg.) modify driver .ini files to get games to work properly. So we spent billions of dollars and man-centuries of time to make it work well. But that all came at a cost which we are now paying.
See also: Eternal September. This is the story of the golem but for tech nerds. It is our failure mode: each generation of tech nerd cannot help but fall into the same pattern as his predecessors.
You should see what the modern medical establishment says about how dangerous "chickenpox parties" are.
That was my first vaccine redpill: seeing how chickenpox was hyped as some sort of "dangerous" disease for children and how vaccination was the only "safe" immunization for it.
It was by no means pleasant to have chickenpox when I was a kid, but my life was never anywhere near danger. And that was the experience of everyone I knew.
I had the computer (an 10+ year-old HP Z210 workstation with a 4-core Xeon and 8GB ECC RAM) already. Ebay says they're on the order of $100-$150. It's a workstation-grade system, so it's all server components in a tower form factor which is nice.
It's running TrueNAS Scale, which is free. ZFS has some really nice features, which is why I went with it. Downside is ZFS shits the bed performance-wise if you go above 80% capacity. You start to get alerts if you go over 70% capacity.
Drives are 5x 14TB factory refurbs in a RAIDZ2 (ZFS equivalent to a RAID-6, so 2 drives can fail) configuration. Paid about $130/ea which varies depending on supply, so ~$700 including shipping. 14TB was about the sweet spot for price/size when I built the thing.
The drives run on the warm side, especially the one at the top of the tower. It probably would have been smart to put the drives in a caddy with a big fan.
Performance-wise it's limited by my gigabit ethernet household LAN. It probably could keep up with a 2.5 gig connection.
It depends. When he got married to that Dutch woman and moved to the Netherlands to be with her he was pretty open about it. When he moved back to the States leaving his wife and kid behind in the Netherlands he was much less open about it (I think there was something about a drug dealer threatening him on the street)
I have a similar opinion of him as I had of John McAfee: "trouble somehow manages to follow him wherever he goes"
I need to know what Ja Rule thinks about it