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Go back to looking like the party of working-class people of all backgrounds, because like it or not the perception isn't there right now.

If not that, I don't know. Get used to losing elections, I guess.

I would add a lack of sexual activity to reasons why some men have little to no respect for women. My wife and I engage in healthy, explosive lovemaking on a daily basis, after even the most grueling day at the office. You'll pardon me if I don't elaborate but I have no wish to share the most intimate details of my marriage with a crass and vulgar readership. If that disappoints you, so be it.

I don't want to read about the physical nature of your relationship, but I do want to read about the respect for women it fosters in you.

(Grunting) "Babe, I respect you SO much!"

I honestly doubt he’ll be alive in 2029.

Not to justify Milei's erratic and often childish behavior, but if Sánchez's own ministers are going to be the ones hurling insults at him first... can the Spanish government really claim a moral high ground here? I'm not that convinced myself.

The comments made by Óscar Puente (minister of Transport) were certainly inappropiate for a member of the Spanish government. They created a diplomatic incident the Foreign Affairs ministry tried to solve in a discreet manner.  There's a difference to be made between the outspoken Óscar Puente and Javier Milei, though.  Puente claims he wasn’t aware of the repercusssion of his comments,  that he made in a relaxed meeting with young members of his party. He made the comments in Spain,  not in Argentina. Try to imagine Pedro Sánchez visiting Argentina without meeting his president, in order to attend a big Peronist event in Buenos Aires - On stage Sánchez begins to rave about libertarianism and the effects of Milei's alleged cocaine abuse, as well as making spicy comments about his sister Karina (the tarot reader).

Characterizing Milei's behaviour as childish is an understatement, considering the level of derangement and ideological hatred in his speech, that also reveals serious emotional issues.

I'm not trying to justify Óscar Puente,  who should have made an apology and perhaps resign. However,  Milei's offences are more serious - He insulted our PM and his wife in our country. That is unprecedented and unacceptable, as our Foreign Affairs minister has pointed out.

Ironically this is the country that Vox, Ayuso and Tucker Carlson claim is descending into tyranny under the evil Perro Sánchez. Apparently Milei felt safe and free enough to attend the Steve Bannon festival in Madrid and say whatever he pleased there.

Finally watched The Matrix (dirs. The Wachowski Sisters, 1999) over three separate sittings. I gotta admit, the parts I remember watching hit different now that I'm actually trans.

Watched sequels Reloaded and Revolutions (dirs. The Wachowski Sisters, 2003). I wasn't anywhere near as disappointed as I was expecting to be, honestly. Maybe it's because I'm easily impressed. Will probably watch Resurrections (dir. Lana Wachowski, 2021) next weekend, though they changed Morpheuses (Morphei?) so I'm a little nervous even though there's a lore reason for it.

At this point I just can’t see Arizona as lean D or Tossup. It should be Lean R at minimum. Biden hasn’t led in a single poll in Arizona since July 2023!

There was a Data Orbital poll last week that had him +1

cope

The below is right!!

This puts the debate over school vouchers in a whole new light for most of us here:

You mean because if there were school vouchers, these schools would be less white?  They aren't "segregation academies" if they have non-white students, as the article admits they do.

Most “Christian” schools in the south were founded by wealthy whites to keep their kids away from black.

Wealthy whites don't have to send their kids to black schools because they can just move to places that don't have many black people. Most Christian school families aren't particularly wealthy, certainly not compared to those who go to secular private schools.

An important confounder in all this discussion is that the era of school desegregation coincided to a large degree with the era of school secularization with ending things like teacher-led prayer in school, both results of the Warren Court. So you can't look at a private Christian school that starts in the South in the 60s or 70s and assume that reaction to civil rights must have been the motivation.

The fact that he was a unifying figure

Dislike: Fanning the culture wars

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I like how you snipped out the other part of that post. After 9/11, he did unify the country, and I don’t think we would have that type of national unity, if such a tragedy happened today.

If true, Bush is largely the reason for that.

Take it from someone who was actually walking the earth when this happened: he took that "national unity" and turned it into a nightmare decade of racism, jingoism and the cynical destruction of the middle class.

[sexual relationship with Paul Pelosi]

This is actually pretty sad. Here you have a man that is very obviously mentally ill who was possibly in a sexual relationship with Paul Pelosi driven to the edge. I don't know what caused him to tick, but now being sentenced to 30 years I think is way over the edge. There are murderers who've gotten less time than that. I think this is a man who clearly needs serious psychiatric care and would be far better served in a mental health institution to remain indefinitely until he is no longer deemed a threat to public safety. That could be in a few months, or it could never happen.

I’m pretty sure that was thoroughly debunked.

By who?? Is it because it sounds preposterous? The two did know each other, it wasn't a random encounter. There was clearly a relationship. I do not know how intimate it was. But something set him off. Could've been drugs, could've been an argument.   

Did I forget anyone?