The difference here is that there previously weren't such restrictions, and she's not even putting up a fight when Republicans actively worsen conditions relative to the previous status quo. Putting up resistance to any attempts to go backwards should be the bare minimum for anyone who claims to be fighting for the rights of a marginalized group.

According to Pew Research, the increased preference for Democrats at lower income levels and increased preference for Republicans at higher income levels only holds up until the highest income bracket, at which point there is a slight preference for Dems again.

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Party preference apparently also only changes significantly based on income in non-college grads, with college grads maintaining a preference for Dems at all income levels.

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According to their methodology, about 10% of the people they surveyed were classified as "upper income", so it can more or less be said to consist of the top 10% of earners (though the classification is adjusted by local cost of living, so it's not that clear). Given that this bracket is probably mostly made of college-educated professionals, it seems that education trumps income considerations for this specific bracket. So basically the preference for Dems/Reps based on income is only mostly true, with a spike in support for Dems amongst relatively wealthy college-educated professionals.

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https://blueprint2024.com/polling/distance-biden-ads-message-test-10-15/

So his argument is basically "it's not bribing people for votes because I never intended to actually pay the bribes"? And it worked?

The cherry on top is that the judge who made the ruling is actually a Democrat.

If this keeps up we might get a Part 3 to this meme.

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This is the same guy who was confidently claiming that dozens of American doctors were lying about Gazan children being shot in the head.

CW: X-ray scans of dead children

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I'm pretty sure some of the newer ChatGPT-like products (the consumer-facing interface, not the raw LLM) do in fact do this. They try to detect certain types of inputs (i.e. math problems or requesting the current weather) and convert it to an API request to some other service and return the result instead of a LLM output. Frankly it comes across to me as an attempt to make the "AI" seem smarter than it really is by covering up its weaknesses.

I refuse to believe anyone actually likes this. Nobody could possibly fall for this abomination just because the houses technically meet the bare minimum for being a waterfront property, right?

R-right?

25% of the people who were censored or deplatformed in Germany due to accusations of antisemitism in the past year were Jewish

https://www.dw.com/en/when-germany-targets-jewish-artists-as-antisemitic/a-70180570

Getting revenge after his mother wasted all of their savings on the Trump NFTs.

Robots with small and intricate parts, especially those working in dirty environments, famously never need cleaning or maintenance.

The article is here: https://archive.ph/tv9km (CW for death, description of horrible injuries, and suicide)

The children shot by IDF soldiers is only a part of it, there's a lot more.

I'm reminded of the Henry Cuellar situation, where the Democratic leadership decided to support the anti-abortion blue dog who was also taking bribes from Azerbaijan (so basically the original Eric Adams) against a primary challenge from a progressive candidate, and he ultimately won the primary by less than 300 votes. And they wonder why nobody believes them when they say they're "the most progressive presidency since FDR".

And he says he “wouldn’t even think about” buying again from luxury brands like “Burberry or Louis Vuitton”.

You live in the country that probably manufactured them in the first place. You can buy a knock-off which is just as good for a fraction of the cost.

Elon posting a meme about parents who mistreat their children

We've known for over 60 years now with the invention of crumple zones that making every part of the car as strong as possible is not always the safest design, but then again the Cybertruck doesn't have any of those either.

By the calculation of the Aristide administration in 2004, the French indemnity extracted between $22 and $40 billion from the national treasury.

By the late nineteenth century, 80 percent of Haiti’s wealth was devoted to serving external debts, first to France and then to financial institutions in Germany — and, most notably, the United States. By the turn of the century, the relatively independent and sovereign Haiti had become entangled in a web of debt held by American financial firms.

https://jacobin.com/2017/01/haiti-reparations-france-slavery-colonialism-debt/

Kamala calling Trump a landlord

Somehow that game is considered more woke than the game with actual gay marriage.