Not really… According to Pew Research Approximately 45% of Republicans report owning a gun, compared to about 20% of Democrats. Considering the parties are often roughly equally sized when it comes to these statistical models, that’s not actually a massive difference. There are plenty of armed Democrats, they’re just not vocal about wanting to worship their tools.

Bet you Trump threatened to cancel the World Cup hosting in the US unless they gave him something. It’s essentially impossible to reschedule an event that large this close to the start.

As long as the media keeps telling them he’s not. 35%+ of the population has been very successfully brainwashed by right-wing news designed specifically in the aftermath of Watergate to gaslight the public into believing whatever agenda they want.

Nixon was going to be allowed to get away scot free until the media started actually educating the public, who then demanded their politicians do something about it. Fox News was created in the wake of that with the goal of preventing that from happening again.

And with first past the poll voting, the system is designed to inevitably allow a minority to rule. When it was created, only a handful could vote, and being kept up to date on political and economic events was essentially a requirement of their place in the country. Wealthy white land owners were already basicallt required to stay up to date on current events and politics, and the effects of various changes. The voting systems were designed with an educated electorate like that in mind. Those systems have been hijacked as voting rights have expanded and an educated and up-to-date electorate is no longer an fundamental feature of who could vote.

I mean that’s obvious. Otherwise you’re just paying $45 to ignore the security checkpoint if you’re guaranteed to get through with payment.

One could argue surveillance and tracking is about security. They’d be wrong. But they could argue that.

To be fair… that’s just Mamdani’s… it’s a lot less for the regular council members. Not sure how exactly it’s structured since Mamdani’s increase would definitely be more than 16%.

A proposal filed this week by Councilwoman Nantasha Williams, a Queens Democrat, would boost council members’ annual pay by 16% from $148,500 to $172,500, the New York Post reported.
If approved, the proposed pay hike would also apply to the new mayor, public advocate, comptroller and borough presidents. It would raise Mamdani’s pay to nearly $350,000 from the current $258,000 with benefits.

It looks to me a bit more like establishment Dems trying to lay a trap for a Democratic Socialist taking office. He approves it and seemingly immediately does the opposite of part of his election platform, improving affordability for average New Yorkers. Or he doesn’t and there’s immediate friction with basically every member of the council board that he needs to actually accomplish anything.

I’m sure they think so. Its not just an increase for Mamdani, it is for all of City Council. Their last pay increase was 2016 according to the article.

This of course is not a vacuum though, and I’m sure the rest of New York’s average workers have gotten the hard end of a stick for the last decade as well.

Most people don’t know extensions exist. Because they don’t care and have never been shown.

Pissing someone off is a strong motivator for them to start searching though.

Marijuana isn’t a truth serum.

In the lawsuit, Garza claimed he met with Bally in November 2024 to discuss his salary. During the meeting, which Garza allegedly recorded, Bally described Campbell’s as “highly process(ed) food” and said it was for “poor people.”

Garza claimed in the lawsuit that Bally made racist remarks about Indian workers, whom he called “idiots.” Garza said Bally also told him that he often went to work high after consuming marijuana edibles.

I really badly want to know how a conversation about a raise turned into whatever the fuck was going on there. Just how did that get so far off topic that he decided to spill his secrets? Shouldn’t Garza be in charge of interrogations somewhere?

For those that don’t know, even if the annual vaccination doesn’t target the dominant specific strain that year, it still provides more protection than no vaccine!

It will definitely burst, and might take out some fairly large companies with it. Potentially even one or two tech companies that have been around for decades depending on how large it gets before that burst. One or two companies will end up with the IP all of them are “building” and it will fizzle into the background of daily use just like the previous assistants like Alexa, Cortana, etc. have.