Why aren't the protesters calling for Hamas to release the hostages if they really want an end to the war? You have a far better chance of influencing Hamas than influencing anyone else at this point with your extreme rhetoric.
Methinks the goal isn't actually to end the violence it's to continue it indefinitely because many so-called pro-Palestinians are profiting from the suffering of Palestinians. A sickening turn for social media where human suffering has been monetized.
They currently don't have the necessary majority in Congress to pass such legislation. The legislation has been proposed, but if the Dems don't control Congress it's not going to happen.
So even if you aren't in a swing state you might want to go out and vote down ballot if you want ranked choice voting.
Also proportional representation is a whole different thing from ranked choice voting.
The economics term for this is price discrimination. Nothing to do with racial discrimination, it's discriminating based on willingness to pay.
But usually it's not done by raising the prices above normal it's done by setting the regular prices higher and then offering a discount to people who aren't willing to pay less. People tend not to get upset when it's done that way. Student discount at the movie theater is a form of price discrimination. People accept it because they're being nice to people that don't have a lot of money. Seniors discount? Also being nice, I guess. But the reality is they know everyone else is willing to pay more so they charge more.
And this has already been happening online. About a decade ago I noticed what when I searched for flights from an airline then went to facebook, I'd get an ad from that airline offering a discount. Not as sophisticated as attempting to determining the exact price I was willing to pay, but it's along the same lines.
But the problems with these schemes is that people quickly figure out the system. I just made it a habit to search for a flight, then go onto facebook to look for the discount even when I'd be willing to pay even if there was no discount. But why not trick the system into thinking I didn't really care about booking the flight and get that discount?
I don't think you quite understand how popular she is. The magazines aren't putting her on their covers because they're trying to create hype for her to make her popular. They put her on the cover because they'll sell a lot more magazines due to her already insane levels of popularity.
This isn't hype, this is basic supply and demand, and the demand for Taylor Swift is massive. She is the most popular person in the world right now, and it isn't even close.
Yeah that's how I see it too. Political strategist types can't understand that not everything is a grand strategy. They assume if they can't understand the strategy it must be 5-D chess or whatever. But maybe there is no strategy, and they're just being idiots?
For some reason they simply couldn't fathom an old man giving up power for the good of the country.
It probably only takes a staff on the order of a thousand people to make things go viral on the internet.
If it's your job to just sign up for social media accounts (fill in the the captchas, type in a name, upload a few images) you could easily create at least a hundred per day.Multiply that by a thousand and that's one hundred thousand accounts per day.
Of course you'd have to post some comments occasionally to make it look real. But that would just be re-wording the text from other comments. Of course if someone were to do this, youtube comments would look like, well... exactly like youtube comments are like right now.
So figure a a hundred thousand accounts per week with comments to make it look legit, that's millions of accounts per year. Yeah you'd want to space it out a bit so it wouldn't look suspicious. And you'd need to route the traffic through a botnet so the IPs are from the same country the account claims to be from. But within a year you'd have millions of accounts that all appear legit to any automated system checking them.
So now you've got the accounts and you want something to go viral. Have your thousand people start logging into accounts and running the video or whatever through your botnet, click like, leave a comment, maybe even check out the ad so the social media company makes a bit of money and aren't incentivized to look at it too closely. This probably only takes around 10 seconds per account. You could have anything you want have at least a million likes and engagement within a day. Which is probably way more than is needed for the algorithms to start recommending the content to legitimate users. And then it's all automatic from there.
Sure a few thousand people sounds like a lot. But not for the government of a country that wants to do disinformation.
Republicans are also always on about how the government is bad (even when they're the incumbents) and how deregulating things make everything better. Libertarians are people who drank a full jug of that particular kool-aid. Also like republicans, they tend to only care about gun rights, though they will sometimes pretend to care about other rights to make it feel like an ideological thing.
The smaller ones are called "love seats". That makes it consensual, right?
I kept getting frustrated that Harris didn’t say they were cleaning up his mess…in retrospect, I imagine that she wanted to distinguish herself from Trump’s repeated that wasn’t me that was you strategy.
That's exactly it. "You did it", "no you did it!" finger pointing doesn't accomplish anything.
Also it's not entirely truthful. This inflation is a global phenomena. Not everything about the economy is under the President's control. The US has fared better than most countries and the world and Biden has managed the aspects of the economy he could extremely competently. It's damn near impossible to come out of an economic situation like this without a recession, but he pulled it off.
But people when people feel the economy is bad telling that "the economy is good actually" just makes a candidate seem out of touch. Really what's needed is some trust-busting (which is in the works) and raising taxes on the wealthy (also in the works). But there's still a lot of people that believe the trickle down stuff (including the undecideds that Harris needs to get), so that won't do either.
Inflation is always problematic politically. Someone gets a raise that matches inflation, they feel like they gained something they earned. We actually term it a pay raise (when it really shouldn't) and employers most definitely present it as something they're generously giving the employees. So people don't see inflation as being the reason they got a pay raise, it's simply the reason their pay raise was taken away from them. Inflation is difficult to explain because there's multiple reasons for it, and trying to explain concepts around the velocity of money to someone angry about inflation isn't going to go well. People tend to just say "it's because the government is printing money" even when interests rates have been increased which is the opposite of printing money.
So yeah the economy is a complicated subject. So... "we're going after the corporations for price gouging and we're gong to bring down the cost of medicine" are the things Harris is saying because one minute is not enough time to explain the real complexities of the economy to people that believe the "trickle down" nonsense.
Yeah Vietnamese people ate dogs, cats, rats,etc. But not in the US. In Vietnam, during the war. Only because the war caused food scarcity.
An old Vietnamese man explained to me they didn't kill their pets. But if their pet died, they would give it to their neighbours to eat, and their neighbours would do the same if their pet died. Because no matter how hungry they got, they wouldn't want to eat their own dog.
Both sad and strangely heartwarming. I wonder if this is where these stories originated from.
I feel like they kinda have to stick with Vance on the ticket at this point. Past the deadline, ballots are already being printed and such.
Though maybe that's just for the top of the ticket, I don't know.
Also it would require Trump to admit he made a mistake, so it seems unlikely he'll be off the ticket.