Weloc

this is the best day of my life

@hoosiercommish @logangrubbss idk if it's worse per se. It's gone from a place there's nothing to do to a place where there is still nothing to do, but with buildings.

@logangrubbss have you been to downtown fishers in like the last 5 years? it’s literally just corporate slop. Carmel, Zionsville, Noblesville, and Westfield are running circles around it

As someone who grew up in Fishers, it’s gotten progressively worse over the last decade and has no business being on this list

Cheese pizza is unbalanced and disgusting, yet there's a beauty in the simplicity of a grilled cheese

Using a shoe horn. Like a complete and total clown

@CheesyBetsBANG @ShonieCarter69 @ScarfStraws @JoePostingg Trump spent all of 2016 whining about Bill Clinton's NAFTA, one of the most significant free trade agreements

@weloc_ @ShonieCarter69 @ScarfStraws @JoePostingg in the early 1900s vs. GOP protectionism, sure, but by mid-to-late 20th century, Republicans took that mantle during the postwar boom. Cry harder libtard

Everyone thinks Shane Gillis is right wing, but if you listen to him talk about politics it's really obvious he's a lib.

@CheesyBetsBANG @ShonieCarter69 @ScarfStraws @JoePostingg democrats have been the free trade party since at least 1900

@ShonieCarter69 @ScarfStraws @JoePostingg Trump was a Lib in 90s - 2000s. He’s hardly a republican today and uses lots of lib policies like Tariffs, would be a lot better if he was actually right winged. Calling Shane Gillis smarter than anybody is hilarious because his whole bit and personality is being a fat retard

@s0phistry @electionsjoe I'm from IN-5, I know a lot of Dems who vote in the republican primaries, myself included.

@electionsjoe Indiana does have open primaries, but I doubt there are that many Democrats picking the other ballot to have some fun with?

Not really sure what's going on, but Congressional Republican incumbents are doing AWFUL right now in Indiana. It's early, so it could be nothing, but this is kind of out of nowhere?

The Freedom to Vote Act. Partisan gerrymandering ban, automatic registration, Election Day holiday, 15-day early voting, voter ID requirements Others: For the People Act John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act (combined bill) Redistricting Reform Act

@weloc_ @BennyGrin @TheIowaDemocrat Show them and what exactly they were attached to. Show them all go ahead.

The long term of this redistricting war is incredibly bleak. Every state that isn't purple is gonna have rigged maps after 2030, and none of the incumbents are gonna vote themselves out of a job through a national ban. It's a race to the bottom and we're gonna lose the shovel

@Phillyvol85 @BennyGrin @TheIowaDemocrat there have been several bills that would ban partisan gerrymandering but republicans block them from passing.

@weloc_ @BennyGrin @TheIowaDemocrat Why are Illinois New York and Maryland gerrymandered so badly if this is all trumps fault.

@BennyGrin @TheIowaDemocrat nope congressional republicans were evil under obamna too

@TheIowaDemocrat I think you need to remember how uniquely toxic Trump is to American political culture. Him leaving power may change things pretty dramatically.

you think there's a club for washed up baby animals like punch and moo deng

@gorgo1149381 @SwannMarcus89 Bill Clinton believed in free trade, universal healthcare healthcare, and was strongly committed to NATO, and balanced the budget while Trump continues to recklessly spend. Their platforms are radically different

@SwannMarcus89 GOP really isnt extreme. Trump has Bi Clinton's platform from the 90s, he personally just says things in a proactive way. Mass deportations is a popular policy and not extreme.

Let me explain why I’m a doomer regarding the Democrats. I’m not depressed about this because I’ve just accepted there are things you can’t change and no longer allow politics to impact me emotionally, but the Dems have an obvious long term problem. The Democrats and Republicans have both lost tons of support recently as both parties have radicalized. Today, 45% of voters self-ID as independent with only 27% self-identifying as both Republican and Democrat. Here’s the problem: both the GOP and the Democrats have radicalized a ton and are now increasingly out of step with the median voter. What this means is that whichever party is in power alienates moderate voters by doing shit they don’t like. According to Gallup, independent voters haven’t changed at all over the last 30 years with approximately 45% of independents identifying as moderate today and the same percentage identifying as moderate in 1994. Similarly, about 30% of independents self-ID as conservative and 25% as liberal, which was also true 30 years ago. However, with independents making up a larger and larger share of the voter pool, moderate independents have actually become a more important voting bloc and are now the primary determiners of who wins elections Because whoever is in power alienates moderate independents by being too extreme, it is impossible for either the Democrats or Republicans to string together electoral wins multiple cycles in a row. The GOP and Dems are basically just trading wins because whoever is currently in charge alienates the most important voters and loses reelection. But this is a bigger problem for the Democrats than the Republicans because the GOP has a 6-3 Supreme Court majority and a structural advantage in the Senate and Electoral College. Consequently, Republican policies are less likely to be overturned in the Supreme Court and the GOP has an easier time achieving a trifecta The only way for the Dems to combat this would be to avoid hemorrhaging independent support when they’re in power, which they won’t do because they’ve been ideologically captured by progressives who are pushing them to become even more extreme and even more alienating to independent voters. The Dems and GOP will continue trading wins but because GOP policies are less likely to be overturned and the GOP will sometimes win elections they shouldn’t due to structural advantages, American policy will become more right-wing over time

@LuisCostigan1 @austinc3301 they're actually cousins

@austinc3301 this is Bernie doing a Larry David impression

couldn't stop laughing with this

@jjsreturn @bennyjohnson Show me

@weloc_ @bennyjohnson Not true

Republican voters make up 40% of New England. Democrats control the district lines. Result: 🔴 — 0 🔵 — 27

@bbinarygo @OpenAI So you don't disagree with me !

@weloc_ @OpenAI It's all about AI, and should have the real reason to compare in term of quality, not only about competition.

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@bbinarygo @OpenAI they're the competition

@weloc_ @OpenAI So why only Claude & Gemini?

@bbinarygo @OpenAI why would they compare to grok

@OpenAI Just curious. Are there any benchmark versus Grok/ other Chinese AI models so far?

@DerekPederson3 @Rationalist69 How do you think kamala's presidency would differ?

@Rationalist69 Yeah there's ample polling data to support the conclusion that he likely would have done worse than Kamala. But I don't think that was actually well-founded (as concerned as I was about four more years of Biden, I still thought he would be a better President than her).

Yeah, I stand by what I said. If he's still this lucid when he's fighting **stage four cancer** nearly two years after that terrible debate then he just wasn't actually senile two years ago, and nobody pushed back on those claims to avoid accusations of partisan hackery.

The 2020s began the first time I saw the redesigned post office trucks

@vanillaopinions But also true?

so depressing one of the former gravel teens is on the team that made this