An article on hiring an interior decorator to decorate your dorm room:
Today, a wave of undergraduates — especially in the southern states — are hiring interior designers to completely makeover their dorm rooms at a cost of thousands of dollars per room.....Ms. Montgomery and her team to arrive on move-in day and put together the rooms from scratch. Ms. Montgomery charges $100 for the initial consultation where the young women — because it’s almost always young women — go through fabric options and chat about their goals for their dorm room. Most of the students are looking for the custom bedding and drapery, a fancy cabinet to hide the mini-fridge and microwave, wallpaper and a matching headboard. But some have bigger expectations."
I find this mainly interesting from the prospective of displays of wealth and geographic differences. I went to a college in the Northeast that was expensive even in 1998 and there were plenty of well-to do students but my memory of the place is that behavior like this would get you mocked and it was even looked down upon to wear too nice clothing.
Are they culturally marginalized? Some might be to the extent that they don't recognize the mores of Brooklyn or Los Angeles but there was that Times article about spending lots of money to decorate a dorm room. The article mention the majority of students who did this are women from the South at places like Ole Miss. How culturally marginalized are you if you appear at 18 or 19 in the style section of the Times wearing Golden Goose Sneakers (retail 500-700). They certainly know how to keep up with global trends in fashion.
There is an asymmetry that people refuse to recognize. The most reactionary radical wings of the GOP do have direct connections to powerful actors in the GOP and/or are the avenues of power themselves. People don't realize that the most strident leftist on twitter is not and does not want to be associated with the Democratic Party and probably considers AOC and Bernie to be sell-outs.
The very stable genius supported by Russian oligarchs goes on a rant calling for mass arrests: https://x.com/AntiToxicPeople/status/1832560382675972187?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1832560382675972187%7Ctwgr%5E78814eb0995e06371d646f16fa05ad934a49a852%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com%2F2024%2F09%2Ftrump-i-will-order-mass-arrests-of-my-political-enemies-if-i-win
Russia paid for Rubin and Pool even though it knew they were not likely to be financially successful:
Chen then solicited Commentator-1 — Dave Rubin — and Commentator-2 — Tim Pool— to work for the imaginary Eduard Grigoriann, drawing from a shortlist of candidates sent by one of the Russian personas. However, both Rubin and Pool demanded a lot of money. The indictment alleges Rubin wanted close to $5 million per year to create content for Tenet, and Pool wanted “100k per weekly episode to make it worth his while.” Chen warned the Russian persona that it would not be profitable to employ either of them, but the persona responded that they would love to move forward. In other words, Chen knew full well that their backers were willing to throw large sums at right-wingers with no hope of achieving a profitable return, a move that would be very odd for an actual business.
For a brief moment, it looked like Rubin might have been smart enough not to work for a completely unknown entity with cash to burn. The indictment shows that he inquired more than once about who Eduard Grigoriann was and wanted to know about the company and who he would be working with. However, he did not need much convincing, as there was no particularly robust effort to make Grigoriann’s existence believable.
The very stable geniuses at the Trump campaign on Vance's interviews and speaking tour with Tucker Carlson: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ca67ddbca2825ed4c9b1bf78efa58c2ba1420b6e55453750740206165a24be27.jpg
I disagree strongly that Trump backs Israel more than Biden and Harris. Giving the most right-wing elements of Israel a blind eye if they go carte blanche against the Palestinians is not giving support. It is showing he dislikes Muslims more.
Biden and Harris never made comments about only wanting guys with yarmulkes to count their money. Harris is also married to a Jewish man. Biden appointed Jewish-Americans like Blinken and Garland to his cabinet. They both have deep ties to the Jewish people.
Support for Israel and Israelis is different than support for the most right-wing elements of Israeli society. Right-wingers do not have a monopoly on defending Israel and Zionism.
There were massive protests in Israel today from hundreds of thousands of Israelis who want a ceasefire.
Oh that is pathetic. Trump isn't smart enough to make points like that even as a blunt instrument. He is a deeply stupid and deeply bigoted man with a history of inflammatory remarks against women, black people, Hispanics, Jews, and other groups. He has open anti-Semites like Nick Fuentes and other Proud Boys who love him.
Trying to be loveable over video games doesn't hide your trolling and Trump-curiosity.
Your sarcasm against NaNoWriMonth involved a volunteer organization for a volunteer activity using language that is over the top and too chronically online but seemed to have some points behind it.
Tucker Carlson is propping up a fake historian who is downplaying the intentional murder of millions of Jews and also other groups the N@@i's declared undesirable via execution, gas chamber, medical experimentation, work on starvation diets, torture, etc.
We also have a candidate for President of the United States that called the governor of Pennsylvania an "overrated Jewish governor" and the Democratic candidate for North Carolina's governor, a Jew lawyer.
Do you really want to play your cutesy wordgames on this one?
Tucker Carlson features a Holocaust Denier without credentials but we are concerned about NaNoWrMo: https://www.mediaite.com/news/tucker-carlson-starstruck-by-historian-who-calls-churchill-not-hitler-the-chief-villain-of-ww2-and-casts-holocaust-as-accident/
Ah tourism, the great thing of hypocrisy. Most of us simultaneously want to travel while also disliking tourists in our own neighborhoods. Tourist money is wanted and hated too.
While the language is not how I would start with, the observation that not everyone can afford a professional editor is a decent one and it acknowledges that there is no way to get people not to pay for editors if they can afford them even if it goes against the spirit of the competition.
No offense but that is what everyone said in 2016 and look where we ended up.
I'm encouraged by the polls and hope the momentum stays but they are still relatively to very close in some swing states and there is a plausible chance of Trump getting another 2016 black swan. There is also a plausible chance he loses worse than he did in 2020.
Trump was going to pretend that the Arlington event was actually public and attack Harris for not attending: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trumps-arlington-cemetery-campaign-event
The post on Nate Silver (I hate Democrats for school shut downs during COVID) praising a letter that Mark Zuckerberg sent to Jim Jordon (Wingnut-Ohio) re Biden's "censorship" tells the story of a man who wants to tell us he is voting for Trump without telling us he is voting for Trump. The fact that he describes this as "Nate Silver says what we have all been thinking" is another reveal.
Biden did not tell Facebook or any other social media company that "we will shut you down and jail your executives unless you take this down." They stated "we noticed that there is false and misleading information being spread on your site. Here are some examples. Would you please develop some protocols to counter the spread of false and misleading information on your sites so it does not add fuel to the fire of racial prejudice"
There is nothing wrong with a government combating the spread of false information especially if that information is being used to enflame prejudice and violence against minorities or immigrants.
No, I think Silver has he biases and so do you and you are both too cowardly to openly admit it and like to do pseudo-Socrates/JAGGing off.
Biden is no longer the nominee. Zuckerberg choose to write to a right-wing partisan attack dog. Asking social media to combat misinformation and the spreading of wildly unsubstantiated conspiracy theories is not censorship. Zuckerberg also looks like another billionaire going for Turmp because he loathes the idea of higher taxes and thinks conspiracy-addled Pizzagaters bring in more revenue than normal people because they can be swindled easily.
See, I can really disagree with you without the dismissive old news which you and Silver are pushing onto the Vox article.
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BS and lies
On “Open Mic for the week of 9/9/2024”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/30/realestate/college-dorm-room-interior-designer.html
An article on hiring an interior decorator to decorate your dorm room:
Today, a wave of undergraduates — especially in the southern states — are hiring interior designers to completely makeover their dorm rooms at a cost of thousands of dollars per room.....Ms. Montgomery and her team to arrive on move-in day and put together the rooms from scratch. Ms. Montgomery charges $100 for the initial consultation where the young women — because it’s almost always young women — go through fabric options and chat about their goals for their dorm room. Most of the students are looking for the custom bedding and drapery, a fancy cabinet to hide the mini-fridge and microwave, wallpaper and a matching headboard. But some have bigger expectations."
I find this mainly interesting from the prospective of displays of wealth and geographic differences. I went to a college in the Northeast that was expensive even in 1998 and there were plenty of well-to do students but my memory of the place is that behavior like this would get you mocked and it was even looked down upon to wear too nice clothing.
On “The Party of the Middle”
Are they culturally marginalized? Some might be to the extent that they don't recognize the mores of Brooklyn or Los Angeles but there was that Times article about spending lots of money to decorate a dorm room. The article mention the majority of students who did this are women from the South at places like Ole Miss. How culturally marginalized are you if you appear at 18 or 19 in the style section of the Times wearing Golden Goose Sneakers (retail 500-700). They certainly know how to keep up with global trends in fashion.
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Trump did not moderate the GOP message
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There is an asymmetry that people refuse to recognize. The most reactionary radical wings of the GOP do have direct connections to powerful actors in the GOP and/or are the avenues of power themselves. People don't realize that the most strident leftist on twitter is not and does not want to be associated with the Democratic Party and probably considers AOC and Bernie to be sell-outs.
On “Open Mic for the week of 9/2/2024”
More words from the very stable genius and the media that refuses to report on it: https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/sunday-bloody-sunday
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The very stable genius supported by Russian oligarchs goes on a rant calling for mass arrests: https://x.com/AntiToxicPeople/status/1832560382675972187?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1832560382675972187%7Ctwgr%5E78814eb0995e06371d646f16fa05ad934a49a852%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com%2F2024%2F09%2Ftrump-i-will-order-mass-arrests-of-my-political-enemies-if-i-win
On “Russian Influence Indictment: Read It For Yourself”
Russia paid for Rubin and Pool even though it knew they were not likely to be financially successful:
Chen then solicited Commentator-1 — Dave Rubin — and Commentator-2 — Tim Pool— to work for the imaginary Eduard Grigoriann, drawing from a shortlist of candidates sent by one of the Russian personas. However, both Rubin and Pool demanded a lot of money. The indictment alleges Rubin wanted close to $5 million per year to create content for Tenet, and Pool wanted “100k per weekly episode to make it worth his while.” Chen warned the Russian persona that it would not be profitable to employ either of them, but the persona responded that they would love to move forward. In other words, Chen knew full well that their backers were willing to throw large sums at right-wingers with no hope of achieving a profitable return, a move that would be very odd for an actual business.
For a brief moment, it looked like Rubin might have been smart enough not to work for a completely unknown entity with cash to burn. The indictment shows that he inquired more than once about who Eduard Grigoriann was and wanted to know about the company and who he would be working with. However, he did not need much convincing, as there was no particularly robust effort to make Grigoriann’s existence believable.
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/russia-indictment-tim-pool-benny-johnson-rubin
On “Open Mic for the week of 9/2/2024”
The very stable geniuses at the Trump campaign on Vance's interviews and speaking tour with Tucker Carlson: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ca67ddbca2825ed4c9b1bf78efa58c2ba1420b6e55453750740206165a24be27.jpg
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Glib contrarianism and the natural endpoint of Holocaust Denial: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/06/opinion/tucker-carlson-holocaust-denial.html
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On the other hand, Biden's justice department charged her and her husband, Trump's admin would not.
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I disagree strongly that Trump backs Israel more than Biden and Harris. Giving the most right-wing elements of Israel a blind eye if they go carte blanche against the Palestinians is not giving support. It is showing he dislikes Muslims more.
Biden and Harris never made comments about only wanting guys with yarmulkes to count their money. Harris is also married to a Jewish man. Biden appointed Jewish-Americans like Blinken and Garland to his cabinet. They both have deep ties to the Jewish people.
Support for Israel and Israelis is different than support for the most right-wing elements of Israeli society. Right-wingers do not have a monopoly on defending Israel and Zionism.
There were massive protests in Israel today from hundreds of thousands of Israelis who want a ceasefire.
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Oh that is pathetic. Trump isn't smart enough to make points like that even as a blunt instrument. He is a deeply stupid and deeply bigoted man with a history of inflammatory remarks against women, black people, Hispanics, Jews, and other groups. He has open anti-Semites like Nick Fuentes and other Proud Boys who love him.
Trying to be loveable over video games doesn't hide your trolling and Trump-curiosity.
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Your sarcasm against NaNoWriMonth involved a volunteer organization for a volunteer activity using language that is over the top and too chronically online but seemed to have some points behind it.
Tucker Carlson is propping up a fake historian who is downplaying the intentional murder of millions of Jews and also other groups the N@@i's declared undesirable via execution, gas chamber, medical experimentation, work on starvation diets, torture, etc.
We also have a candidate for President of the United States that called the governor of Pennsylvania an "overrated Jewish governor" and the Democratic candidate for North Carolina's governor, a Jew lawyer.
Do you really want to play your cutesy wordgames on this one?
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Jill Stein, useful idiot for Russia: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/useful-idiot-for-putin-russia-dnc-jill-stein-green-party
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Tucker Carlson features a Holocaust Denier without credentials but we are concerned about NaNoWrMo: https://www.mediaite.com/news/tucker-carlson-starstruck-by-historian-who-calls-churchill-not-hitler-the-chief-villain-of-ww2-and-casts-holocaust-as-accident/
On “Group Discussion: Banning Social Media Influencers From Small Towns”
Ah tourism, the great thing of hypocrisy. Most of us simultaneously want to travel while also disliking tourists in our own neighborhoods. Tourist money is wanted and hated too.
On “Open Mic for the week of 9/2/2024”
While the language is not how I would start with, the observation that not everyone can afford a professional editor is a decent one and it acknowledges that there is no way to get people not to pay for editors if they can afford them even if it goes against the spirit of the competition.
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This id a selective edit without giving the full quote and context but thanks for trolling.
On “Open Mic for the week of 8/26/2024”
No offense but that is what everyone said in 2016 and look where we ended up.
I'm encouraged by the polls and hope the momentum stays but they are still relatively to very close in some swing states and there is a plausible chance of Trump getting another 2016 black swan. There is also a plausible chance he loses worse than he did in 2020.
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Trump was going to pretend that the Arlington event was actually public and attack Harris for not attending: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trumps-arlington-cemetery-campaign-event
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The post on Nate Silver (I hate Democrats for school shut downs during COVID) praising a letter that Mark Zuckerberg sent to Jim Jordon (Wingnut-Ohio) re Biden's "censorship" tells the story of a man who wants to tell us he is voting for Trump without telling us he is voting for Trump. The fact that he describes this as "Nate Silver says what we have all been thinking" is another reveal.
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Are you talking about why no one finds Jaybird's arguments convincing? I agree.
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Because it isn't censorship!
Biden did not tell Facebook or any other social media company that "we will shut you down and jail your executives unless you take this down." They stated "we noticed that there is false and misleading information being spread on your site. Here are some examples. Would you please develop some protocols to counter the spread of false and misleading information on your sites so it does not add fuel to the fire of racial prejudice"
There is nothing wrong with a government combating the spread of false information especially if that information is being used to enflame prejudice and violence against minorities or immigrants.
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No, I think Silver has he biases and so do you and you are both too cowardly to openly admit it and like to do pseudo-Socrates/JAGGing off.
Biden is no longer the nominee. Zuckerberg choose to write to a right-wing partisan attack dog. Asking social media to combat misinformation and the spreading of wildly unsubstantiated conspiracy theories is not censorship. Zuckerberg also looks like another billionaire going for Turmp because he loathes the idea of higher taxes and thinks conspiracy-addled Pizzagaters bring in more revenue than normal people because they can be swindled easily.
See, I can really disagree with you without the dismissive old news which you and Silver are pushing onto the Vox article.
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