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  • Do people really think Mamdani was sucking up to trump or something?

    Dude called him a despot and a fascist, and trump laughed about it.

    Got him to hype up Bernie and FDR.

    Got him to admit how ridiculous funding Israel’s genocide was.

    And got him to finally admit that America isn’t affordable, that people don’t want ICE, and that it doesn’t solve crime.

    Mamdani didn’t compromise himself at all, but made trump his bitch pretty thoroughly and trump loved every second of it.


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    That doesn’t really make sense at the end…

    Like, it’s structured so that logically it’s a conclusion but it’s not.

    A bottom-up power structure is left wing, but in it the power lies with the voters, not those elected to office:

    The federal party, works for the state parties and the presidential nominee.

    The state parties actually do a lot here, they have a lot of primaries to organize (neutrally) and then assist all the campaigns.

    In both cases though, the politicians are beholden to the voters, and should be governing based on the wishes of the majority of their constituents.

    What would go a long way to fixing that would be an easy route to recall elections.




  • It only focuses on the culture and environment the test is geared towards.

    Correct.

    IQ is a bad way to measure intelligence

    Not correct…

    I’m hoping you meant “IQ tests” and not the fundamental concept of IQ tho…

    You don’t see how fast a fish can climb a tree, but you can time it swimming upstream.

    Some stuff like crystalized intelligence (trivial pursuit) need switched out almost constantly. But things like pattern recognition (make this shape from smaller shapes) are so generic that primates and even corvids can take the same test as us. Working memory too, a chimp absolutely demolishes us at that one btw.

    The main problem with IQ tests is people pick one specific test, and want to have everyone take it and only care about the overall score. Which is a gross oversimplification of any actual IQ exam.



  • Yeah, they’re clearly walking in and setting up a tripod, was probably an accidental zoom even.

    Just fucking ridiculous it’s in the video.

    The whole thing is crazy, they just asked Mamdani if trump was a fascist…

    Mamdani tried to give a diplomatic answer, and trump just laughs and said “just say yes, it’s easier” and moves on with a smile.

    Like, I’ve legitimately never seen trump as president happier than this video. I’m 15 minutes in, and he hasn’t dozed off and when he doesn’t know an answer he just lets Mamdani do it.

    This is exactly why people shouldn’t resign in protest, people like trump are easily steered, and it’s better than leaving him surrounded by the worst of society if you can pull him back





  • In a logical world it would be. But criminally I don’t think anywhere differentiates type of weapon other than “firearm” and “deadly”.

    They need to fully separate it from date rape too. Back in my younger days I knew 3 different dudes who got dosed out at bars. I highly doubt they were intended rape victims, but a lot of robberies start out with someone slipping something into your drink, then getting you in the parking lot.

    Drugging anyone for anyone reason should qualify as attempted manslaughter. Which, counter intuitively is a real charge.

    It makes it easier to charge rapists too because you don’t have to prove rape, and can even charge them before a rape happens. If you can prove rape, throw it on top as additional charges.