Gang rape: the rape of one person by several attackers in succession

Are you quibbling over two vs several? Or are you insinuating the title would be different if they were white? Because I’ve definitely seen the term applied to all races and any number of attackers.

Personally I don’t think we should worry that much about being politically correct when we’re talking about convicted sexual predators.

The fascists currently own that stake anyway, what’s the difference?

Nothing in the legislation reads as a bailout, the government would unilaterally take 50% stake and the associated voting power. The American public is no worse off if it doesn’t turn a profit or gets liquidated.

The bailout would happen when the conservative vultures circle. “We can’t let them fail, that would devalue the American portfolio (never mind that this bailout is 2x any value that could ever be gained back)”

Guess I don’t see it like that. To me both are serving the same function of fashion, but on the back is cheekily pretending it’s not and is therefore more disingenuous.

I also have a strong bias toward aesthetic over statement. There’s no reason my T needs to “say” anything any more than a striped or patterned shirt needs to “say” anything. I can just like how it looks or compliments my outfit.

I’m never going to wear some generic Coca-Cola or beer brand or “I speak sarcasm” shirt. If it’s an obvious legible statement (like a local band or charity) then that means it’s really important to me and I don’t mind looking like a trashy geek.

Counterpoint, wearing a graphic on the back feels shallow and self-aggrandizing. You’re never going to get to see the graphic you like in a mirror; friends and acquaintances you interface with all day won’t see it. It’s only for the benefit of anonymous observers behind you that you’ll never meet and won’t think about you twice.

It also is more antisocial. It’s natural to comment on a graphic when you’re face to face (pointing to chest, “oh you also like [Band]?”) and hard to broach a conversation from behind when they’re probably engaged with something else ("[Band]? Oh right, the shirt, yeah…").

It’s possible to pull it off, but in general I’d rather see someone confidently rocking a 3 wolf moon shirt than an incredible print drifting down the street on some anonymous back.

The reason legislation gets sticky is due to the absurd legislation riders + omnibus bills and horse trading that goes on to get them through. And that issue has gotten even worse because candidates represent far too many people.

If a representative only has to worry about ~30k people (~24k active voters) in a hyperlocal area, they can very easily manage campaigning and running themselves. That would be about 1 mi² of NYC; you could probably cover that with a poster campaign and a few town halls. That small of a voter base could skew very radically to any side of the political spectrum.

With 750k people you become reliant on big donors and national party funds. Vote against the party and you’ll be primaried. Additionally, your voter base is much more diverse which biases candidates toward lukewarm and inoffensive platforms. That stifles your ability to form coalitions and reinforces partisan milquetoast gridlock.

And yet somehow in a country of 340 million people we see these polls:

• 80% were not in favor of attacking Iran
• 80% believe abortion should be legal
• 60% thought Trump should be barred from office in 2021
  • Similar numbers want him removed now
• 65% are opposed to ICE’s reign of terror
  • > 50% want to abolish ICE completely
• 74% support universal free school lunches
• 62% support raising the federal minimum wage
• 67% want to raise teacher’s salaries
• 75% want to reverse the Citizens United ruling
• 88% support federal laws that would guarantee PTO
• > 60% support replacing the Electoral College and FPTP voting

But zero of those things are anywhere close to legislation because our congress is under the thumb of a dozen celebrity personalities and party flip floppers. The more diluted the voting power, the harder it is to make personal backroom deals and buy elections.

Inflating the House doesn’t solve similar problems with the Senate or Executive + Judicial branches, but it’s better than nothing.

In what way? It’s not like they don’t already have rules around how long people can debate, when sessions happen, what technology they use, the powers of committees, etc…

It’s not the 1700s any more, it doesn’t take a month to organize and transit 1000 people or even 10,000 people. Hell, you can fill a football stadium with 100k people on two weeks notice when the team advances in the post season.

Changing apportionment rules is not even that rare historically, we’ve just been brainwashed to think 435 is some sacrosanct number. If we scaled with the number of reps on the 1910 census we’d be well over 1400 by now.

🤡🤡🤡

Edit: “No alternative to shipping companies” but there’s somehow an alternative to reaching millions of people all on a single platform that they’re not leaving due to social inertia. Get on a bike loser, you can’t carry a package?

You need to educate yourself or keep your mouth shut. There are plenty of people who put a lot of time and effort into optimizing political engagement and weighing the pros and cons of all avenues.

400k people tuned in live to watch a one-off stream of AOC playing Among Us on twitch. 4.8 MILLION people watched the vod and that was nowhere near “all of Twitch”.

I want to see YOUR math on building a system that can do that with any consistency and then fit that into a mayor’s budget. Show me your road map to even sniff that audience size; where is your marketing spend going? Then on top of that, show me that there’s no better way to spend that money from the political war chest; explain how not generating a few pennies for Amazon is worth cutting N community outreach/charity events.

I’ll even help you out: we have a great comparison and it’s publicly traded so we know a bit about it. Truth social has about 6 million MAU, so we’re almost reaching that AOC Among Us scale (assuming they all engage with your stream). It took something like $5-$10M to stand up and costs $60M to operate every year. They ate a $31M deficit in their first year.

If you want a mayor to shell out that kind of money as a political stunt… I guess you must love millions of big-donor dollars that finance that kind of thing.

psychosis

noun

psy·​cho·​sis sī-ˈkō-səs:

serious mental illness characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions

Example:

looking at the problem we have with Big Tech and saying “yes, this is fine!”

Absolutely nobody here is doing that. Nobody in this entire comment section has said anything close to that. Car dependant infrastructure and fossil fuels are bad but you still have to get in your car and go to work if you want to not die.

You realize there are thousands of email platforms not owned by Big Tech? You could even host your own.

Gmail is 30% of global email traffic. It doesn’t matter what platform I choose, my message is still going to end up in someone’s Gmail inbox and stolen by AI.

If I was taking that problem seriously I would at least cut out Apple, Gmail and Microsoft domains and automatically lose 84% of my mailing list. Why don’t you care about that?

Sure, why not? Again, there are thousands of alternatives. You can even host it on your own hardware.

Why not should be obvious: the NYC Mayor’s office isn’t in the market of building, hosting, operating or managing social media platforms. Full stop. That takes money, time, marketing and expertise and provides zero value to his constituents beyond performative fuzzy feelings.

If you’re so smart and righteous what’s stopping you from building your own platform for these politicians? Why the fuck should Mamdani have to do it? And make sure to build up 240 million MAU while you’re at it, this has to compete with Twitch’s reach.

LOL you don’t need a “datacenter”.

Well shit somebody call up Amazon and let them know! This genius has figured out a way to host an interactive live streaming service scalable to millions of simultaneous users from his closet.

Let me tell you about this thing called email…

See my comments above, you’re sacrificing your own privacy and feeling sanctimonious about it. Snail mail has far stronger legal and physical protections than your email.

You say that like FedEx, DHL, UPS, etc. don’t exist.

Lmfao you’re here to shit on Big Tech but don’t care about these corporate vultures?

Bro try trolling a little bit harder.

Your argument is completely psychotic.

Gonna send emails? No way, 90% of people use Gmail and you shouldn’t give Google traffic.

Stand up your own website? Well it better not be in AWS, GCP or Azure. You’re still gonna need DDOS protection and the ability to scale to hundreds of thousands of users for this event so I hope you have the money to build your own datacenter. But be sure you’re making your own ethical internet backbone. Don’t want your money going to Verizon or Sprint.

Maybe thats all a little too complicated so we’ll need to go analog. But have you ever mailed a letter? USPS is run by fascists, gotta do better. Get on a bike (can’t have those emissions!) and hand deliver your 20k political zines. But don’t put it in their mailboxes, that’s reinforcing the status quo.

I’m really tired of everyone comparing the US to countries with completely different fuel consumption profiles.

In 2024, 72% of all US freight is transported by trucks. For reference, the EU average was 25% road (sea was 67% with optimal fuel efficiency). Freight is also transported over much longer distances, making gas prices a larger part of operating costs. So already, high gas prices hit much harder in the USA than most places.

Secondly, population density and existing infrastructure require personal car use. There is almost never a rail or public transport option. Despite lower prices and higher average income, fuel spending is a larger percentage of household spending in the US than the EU (especially among the poorer population).

The ml multi-paragraph response under this is 🤌

Got them going like a top. The tldr is always the same

“When [bad country] commits an atrocity it’s obviously because they’re mustache twirling villains. When my dictator commits an atrocity, it’s really due to complex material conditions and the state of geopolitics and capitalist counter-revolutionaries and probably the CIA and Mercury was in retrograde and the sun was in his eyes and …”

Bro we evolved to live in groups of a few dozen people and be hyper focused on physically present danger. How could an early human possibly conceive of billionaire; someone who personally holds more wealth that hundreds of millions of people.

There’s no neoliberal mind prison. People just focus on physical, tangible threats (a lack of healthcare, food prices) and not the vague concept of some guy with 9 zeros in a bank account who’s causing it (often indirectly with 2+ degrees of removal). We need to wake up to the fact that no shiny ideology will magically spawn cohesion among 8 billion people.

This is some low effort trolling, do better.

Perverse fuel economy legislation and optimizing for high profit luxury vehicles meant consumers were choosing between a $20-30k ICE truck/suv or a $40k stripped trim EV.

In 2024 (when automakers were finally getting off their asses), only 10 BEV models were under $40k, most with pitiful range and only 2 just under $30k.

For comparison with ICE, there were 18 compact cars under $30k and 13 trucks under $40k. You could buy TWO Ford Mavericks for the price of an Ioniq 5 or a mid-trim Ford Mach-E.

Setting aside fascism, the solution is expanded train infrastructure.

People in here are talking about battery IP but that’s not as important as simple BEV production capacity. An EV is dead simple mechanically but you’ve gotta have the raw resources and factories to keep up. Even then, the US would need to do some major infrastructure upgrades to support a bunch of heavy and plug-hungry EVs.

Trains are a big investment but getting track laid and a few hundred thousand running is much more manageable than trying to replace ~280 million ICE vehicles (97.9% of all US vehicles in 2023).

I predict China is going to feel the same car dependence pain in a few decades if they continue to ramp production and climb the cars-per-capita leader board. It’s crazy expensive to keep millions of people puttering around in multi-ton metal boxes.

Having done something similar it really fucking sucks. Even if you find a way to discreetly kill time, you can’t shake the feeling that you’re burning precious hours of your life for no reason.

I would much rather work a solid 6-7hr block at home knowing I can sign off when I’m done than spend 1 + 7 hours in cubicle hell.

Weird to see a tankie throwing shade at Stalin like this. Just another log on the incoherent jenga tower of your ideology

Of course it’s not the same:

• One has staged elections for jackboots controlled by a party with a funky cross on their flag. Any political dissent gets you sent to a work camp.

• The other has staged elections for apparatchiks controlled by a party with work tools on their flag. Any political dissent gets you sent to a re-education farm.

Couldn’t be more different.

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