Just so everyone is clear on this, the airline isn’t trying to sell to a lower market. They’re trying to normalize higher prices for standard fares. By itemizing the things that are normally included, they can pin values on all of them and then make it seem like a deal to “upgrade”.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga visual effects supervisor Andrew Jackson sums up his role in helping to make George Miller’s follow-up to Mad Max: Fury Road as “a constantly evolving three-dimensional puzzle.”...
”This helps take away votes from Joe Biden,” the activist told one person at the rally, according to a video posted to X (formerly Twitter) by a Washington Post reporter. “We’re helping the Trump team who’s trying to get him on there,” added a woman by his side.
I’m a progressive. I like it when he debates a moron. He’s good at making an argument, and he’s not wrong about a lot of progressive issues.
But he strikes me as a diva more than a leader. He seems to want to be in the spotlight, and is willing to say something mildly unpopular with the most offensive spin possible. The only reason to do that is for attention. You won’t convince people you’re right with incendiary rhetoric, and it makes it much easier for conservatives and centrists to paint socialists as cranks.
He’s like the anti-Walter Sobchak. He’s not wrong, he’s just an asshole. He’s also often wrong, but that’s not how the line goes. Would Libertarians like Walter if he ran for president? I dunno, libertarians are all cranks so maybe they would.
Anyway, I don’t mind West running now to raise issues, but I wouldn’t vote for him in this election and I don’t know anyone else who will. He’s not siphoning support from Biden, because any reasonable progressive is voting against Trump.
Ok but anybody with a zero inbox is just shunting off most of their mail to subfolders they will never open. That’s more organized, but it belies a general problem with email.
Also, your email client shouldn’t be loading all of your messages. It shouldn’t matter to your iPhone how many unread emails are in your inbox. If there’s something your company is doing that requires an iPhone to open 130,000 emails, then it is absolutely your company’s fault.
A jury convicted five Minnesota residents but acquitted two others on Friday for their roles in a scheme to steal more than $40 million that was supposed to feed children during the coronavirus pandemic. The case received widespread attention after someone tried to bribe a juror with a bag of $120,000 in cash....
Gene Folkes had just been jettisoned as a contestant on “The Apprentice” and was commiserating with a crew member at a bar inside the lobby of Trump Tower. He was indignant — and not just at having been kicked off the reality show after its star, Donald Trump, had delivered his catchphrase: “You’re fired.”...
Because conservativism is not a rational ideology, it is malignant misconception that narcissism is an ideology. All conservatives redefine their own values based on the small patch of territory where they currently stand.
Step 1: Identify the “self” and the “other.”
Step 2: Identify the positions that most benefit the self and do the most harm to the other. Those are your positions, and you don’t need to become attached to them.
To be a member of the self is to be protected financially, politically, spiritually, and in all other ways, as long as you remain loyal to the lie: You are good.
This is the most important lie. A conservative isn’t good because they say or do or believe good things. A conservative is good because they are a member of the self, and therefore anything they say or do or believe is good. Even when they knowingly do something objectively bad, it is rationalized as necessary for the good of the self.
It’s in that rationalizing that you are getting lost.
The modern Republican Party has identified Trump as their identity. You could argue that he took advantage of the flaw in their machinery to assume control, or you could argue that he is the inevitable pure-form product of the conservative machine.
Either way, he’s the current conservative avatar, the most perfect narcissist ever conceived, and his interests are the party’s interests. Anyone who challenges him or refuses him becomes a member of the other. Anything that could hurt him is evil, and anything that he says or does is good.
Each conservative finds different ways to rationalize this. Some claim that he is trolling, triggering and owning the other because it makes the other mad and sloppy. Like a jester distracting a dragon, they see Trump’s antics as frivilous taunts, intended to distract and confuse the other. He doesn’t mean it when he reveals his bigotry.
Other conservatives view him as a necessary evil, a compromise solution to a larger problem. He is their temporary ally while in office, and they are happy to watch him “hurt the right people” because they believe they will benefit on balance.
And of course there are plenty of conservatives who are just as bigoted and ignorant as he is, and they love seeing someone like them in power.
Regardless of their path to supporting Trump, they are all the same sort of sick. They all suffer from the delusion that they are good, and that because they are good, supporting Trump must be good because that’s what they want.
There are only two methods of breaking supporters away from Trump’s influence. They must either abandon conservativism and recognize that everything they ever believed was wrong, or they must believe that supporting Trump does more personal harm than good.
The former is very rare, and requires a massive amount of inteospection and personal growth.
The latter is far more common. Trump opponents like Liz Cheney, Chris Christie, Paul Ryan, Nikki Haley, these are not principled moderates with legitimate criticisms. They each saw either personal ruin or personal opportunity in attacking Trump, and the resulting retribution serves as a warning to other would-be challengers.
Unfortunately, these types of critics cannot be trusted as allies against Trump. They may hate the man, but they will fall in line at the ballot box, lamenting the sad reality that they aren’t as important as they had hoped.
But your question was, “How can Log Cabin Republicans, conservative minorities, Islamic republicans, conservative women, and other “pick me” conservative groups support a party that is built around a core of hatred and subjugation of their people?” And the answer is narcissism. They believe that they are the exception, the special self that will benefit from conservative power, despite all evidence to the contrary. They believe in themselves, that their ideas are important enough to make whatever deal with the devil required to win. They want to be on the winning team so that they can the spoils of victory. And if it means the leopards occasionally eat their faces, they may thrash about and complain, but ultimately they will accept this loss as necessary.
That’s a bingo. Any “trending” algorithm is designed to get you to click on it. It’s not a source of accurate information.
It’s the same with search results. You’re searching for X? Here’s something X-adjacent we’ve been paid to show you that you might click on while looking for X. We’re going to call it “what others buy” and hope you do, too.
ST. LOUIS — Five states have banned ranked choice voting in the last two months, bringing the total number of Republican-leaning states now prohibiting the voting method to 10....
You’re right. I’m just pointing out that even the bullshit reasons are easily dismissed.
But conservatives aren’t arguing in good faith. They don’t sincerely believe that alternative voting options are bad, they believe they are bad for conservatives.
A look at the major discrepancies in Justice Samuel Alito’s comments about controversial flags flown at his property and what he still has not fully answered.
Just so everyone is on the same page, there are two types of Americans: those that don’t believe the lies of a sitting Supreme Court justice, and those that are really happy thay they don’t believe the lies of a sitting Supreme Court justice.
More efficient manufacturing, falling battery costs and intense competition are lowering sticker prices for battery-powered models to within striking distance of gasoline cars.
You can do the math yourself by taking your price per kwh and multiplying that by the battery capacity. The Tesla models range from 60 to 100 kwh, and my electricity is about 12 cents per kwh. So it costs between $7-12 to fully charge your car.
If you can afford an EV, that’s not an amount of money that changes your spending habits.
'Give us $600 and also we hate you': WestJet's new UltraBasic fare gets roasted online (www.cbc.ca)
If there’s anything people can agree on these days, it’s that flying sucks....
‘It's like a constantly evolving three-dimensional puzzle’: The visual effects of ‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’ (beforesandafters.com)
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga visual effects supervisor Andrew Jackson sums up his role in helping to make George Miller’s follow-up to Mad Max: Fury Road as “a constantly evolving three-dimensional puzzle.”...
‘Mars,’ A Dark Comedy From Cult Sketch Group Whitest Kids U’Know, Honors Their Best Friend Who Died During Production (variety.com)
Republican Operatives Swoop in to Help Cornel West This Election (newrepublic.com)
”This helps take away votes from Joe Biden,” the activist told one person at the rally, according to a video posted to X (formerly Twitter) by a Washington Post reporter. “We’re helping the Trump team who’s trying to get him on there,” added a woman by his side.
Crowd boos Rob Schneider off the stage when he started telling anti-trans & anti-vaxx jokes (www.lgbtqnation.com)
tech support (yiffit.net)
Bag of cash doesn’t stop jurors from convicting 5 of 7 defendants in $40 million food fraud scheme (apnews.com)
A jury convicted five Minnesota residents but acquitted two others on Friday for their roles in a scheme to steal more than $40 million that was supposed to feed children during the coronavirus pandemic. The case received widespread attention after someone tried to bribe a juror with a bag of $120,000 in cash....
Guys is this real?
A new account rekindles allegations that Trump disrespected Black people on 'The Apprentice' (apnews.com)
Gene Folkes had just been jettisoned as a contestant on “The Apprentice” and was commiserating with a crew member at a bar inside the lobby of Trump Tower. He was indignant — and not just at having been kicked off the reality show after its star, Donald Trump, had delivered his catchphrase: “You’re fired.”...
Thomas has accepted $4M in gifts during career: Watchdog (thehill.com)
Everyday, as an American (midwest.social)
Who is watching this?! (lemmy.world)
Missouri joins other red states in trying to stamp out ranked choice voting (www.npr.org)
ST. LOUIS — Five states have banned ranked choice voting in the last two months, bringing the total number of Republican-leaning states now prohibiting the voting method to 10....
NYPD preparing to revoke convicted felon Donald Trump’s license to carry a gun after felony conviction in New York (www.cnn.com)
Alito’s account of the upside-down flag doesn’t fully add up. Here’s why. (www.washingtonpost.com)
A look at the major discrepancies in Justice Samuel Alito’s comments about controversial flags flown at his property and what he still has not fully answered.
Jean-Claude Van Damme's Sudden Death gets a new 4K Blu-ray from Kino (www.joblo.com)
Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Sudden Death gets a new 4K Blu-ray from Kino...
‘Head Up Their Ass!’ Marjorie Taylor Greene Melts Down Over ‘Feckless, Useless Republican Party’ (www.mediaite.com)
Electric Cars Are Suddenly Becoming Affordable (www.nytimes.com)
More efficient manufacturing, falling battery costs and intense competition are lowering sticker prices for battery-powered models to within striking distance of gasoline cars.