And he hasn’t been part of 538 for a while now.

The only sane answer in this whole thread.

There’s just some endorsements you don’t want.

Trump was barely coherent throughout, but you’ll see the media clean up his word salad as ‘Trump vigorously defended his economic policies and the handling of the pandemic.’

He’s been successful so far in executing his plan. The supreme court locked in for pretty much a generation, legalised corruption, made abortion illegal in some states again, etc. And it’s basically a coin flip whether he can do more after the election because somehow it’s a close election between Trump + project 2025 and the alternative.

These guys are dangerous, and shouldn’t be dismissed as delusional.

Not in denial, I’m sure he knows exactly how much power he has. They just have to keep playing the victim to keep their base afraid enough to keep voting their way.

Only took them 10 months to start pushing back slightly on genocide.

That’s been really the biggest issue with the media, the inability to just call out liars. And not just that, people that have been consistently wrong keep getting invited back to give their opinions.

None of the people that lied about Iraq WMD’s for example should ever been given a platform again, but yet, there they are, pushing for the next conflict. Same with economics, everyone that said Obama was going to do a communism should be shunned forever.

And that was the case in 2016. It’s a known quantity.

Yeah, that’s what I was thinking. Sure, people will spin up their own instance and run it according to their own biases, but I don’t see Russia or Israel or whomever running bots specifically to push things one way or another like they do with Twitter, Facebook or Reddit.

Lol yes they are. They’re part owners of Twitter, which became a pro-Trump cesspool. That alone is orders of magnitude bigger than this Russian thing.

Do you think it’s big enough to bother with?

That policy doesn’t seem to apply to people living in Russia, or even travelling to North Korea.

He got rid of everyone else when he took over, he’s still dealing with court cases about how he handled that.

There’s no war in the West Bank, that’s Gaza. And this is part of a pattern, the US didn’t give a shit when Rachel Corrie was murdered, or Shireen Abu Akleh (during “peacetime”).

Having worked with designers in an ad agency (although not a designer myself), the male designers didn’t ever have a good thing to say about the work of any of the female designers. Consequently, none of them stuck around for long (one of them is a creative director in a big agency now, so presumably she wasn’t that bad).

Then again, they were assholes in many other respects as well, and the guys in the next companies I worked for were a lot better.

Yeah, he didn’t do anything directly in this area last time, he just appointed the judges that would. If he can appoint even more judges, they can probably ban abortion outright for a whole generation. They know this and they’ll vote for that.

Yeah, it’s not like Minecraft itself is marketed to the hardcore gamer demographic. It’s essentially a kids’ movie. I suspect it might still suck at that though.

I mean, it would be nice to see a comparison between a Chinese loan and a loan by the IMF. Maybe the sting still has to come because they haven’t been doing it for as long, but there’s got to be a good reason those countries go with China instead of the IMF.

To me it seems like IMF loans involve privatising revenue generating assets, lowering taxes on the wealthy and austerity on the masses. The biggest criticism of the Chinese way of financing is that if you default on the loan you used to build a port/highway/railway line, they keep that specific asset. And I guess instead of using local labour they use Chinese workers.

There’s definitely things to criticise there, but I know which option I’d pick if I needed a port in my country.

Yeah, Russia is funding all sorts of critics of the US government, some of them on the left too. Doesn’t necessarily mean they agree with Russia on everything. When RT was still allowed to broadcast in the US, people like Chris Hedges had a show on there.

Honestly, I don’t see how this indictment squares with the first amendment, especially after citizens united. If money is speech, what’s the difference between some American billionaire funding some guys that say things they agree with, and a foreign government/billionaire doing the same? If they’re banning Russian funding, why not ban Al Jazeera, Deutsche Welle, South China Morning Post, the BBC, etc?