Are you confident there is a complete insignificant number of teamster members that have no racial biases at all? And that they all believe women as just as capable leaders?

I strongly suspect that a very high percentage of the members that would flip when their candidate turns out to be a woman and/or minority were already solidly in the Trump camp even when Biden was running. I really do not believe that 40% of the teamsters currently in favor of Trump preferred another option before the democratic candidate was changed to a minority woman.

Not identical, but I don’t think I’ve encountered anyone IRL who thinks more highly of Biden than of Obama without loathing Biden.

Can confirm, I know a woman in person and she definitely wouldn’t get flashlights.

I don’t think I get this joke at all but also I really like this joke and maybe it would be less amusing if I did understand it.

I don’t know how meaningful the question really is

It’s funny how my first thought is to quip that it’s meaningful in that fascists might consider rebranding as communists, then I remember that “national socialism” is an actual thing that arguably had some historical significance.

This Is Your Night is a good song.

Aramark’s three-year, $145 million contract…

The state fined Aramark $200,000

That will teach them to stop serving human beings maggot-infested food!

Can someone bypass the paywall for me and post the full power rankings I need to know how well the Miami experience holds up against the other experiences.

That’s the beauty in adding (this is not a bit post this is real) to your posts to indicate the full ninety seconds of effort you invested into fact-checking.

I am jumping straight from reading this comment to trashing op without fact-checking this claim that they’re wrong btw

I’m not really sure any single public figure warrants uncritical support

Excuse me, I am posting publicly right now.

I’m actually going to open the modlog right now because I’m not confident this is a joke, but in my defense I’m logged on to hexbear.

reporting back: it actually is in the modlog, but I’m not really any less confident that this is a joke

This is great content, I think there’s something here for everyone. See ya later dogbags.

brb researching that one guy’s arguments so I can state them in a reply and say “he wasn’t a debatebro he was right”

I missed the outdoor cats things when it happened here and ever since it’s felt like the hexbear version of the noodle incident.

I want a Cast Away remake where Wilson is a roomba pickup artist with a knife.

he paid them what their tax reports claimed it was worth, and they were pissed.

That’s somehow cooler than just seizing the assets without compensation.

Black metal is mainly prominent among neo-Nazis.

The existence of Varg Vikernes in the early scene has had disastrous consequences and there are a lot of artists to avoid, but I still think this statement is somewhat unfair to where black metal is today.

People have learned to apply the NSBM label extremely liberally as a way of isolating those artists from the rest of the scene, but just because no one talks about RABM (red/anachist bm) doesn’t mean it’s not there, just that there’s less urgency in pointing it out. To my knowledge (haven’t looked in a bit admittedly) Mgla doesn’t really have abhorrent statements or lyrics, but it’s widely labelled as NSBM because of interaction with individuals who are more clearly NS-adjacent. It’s healthy to do this because it’s extremely helpful for listeners who want to avoid supporting that stuff - we’re at the point where if there’s any sketch and the group is not unknown, you’ll probably find out pretty quickly. Going in the other direction though, there’s no urgency to label something like Obsequiae as RABM under the same logic. Knowing that they are leftist is an interesting fact and there will be people who care, but it’s very different from a dire warning that it needs to be avoided. It’s just not going to be talked about with the same emphasis.

Using the NSBM label very liberally has been increasingly effective in creating a schism between the NS groups and the artists who don’t want to associate. Neige (Alcest guy) I believe went to high school with the Peste Noire guy and they collaborated on stuff as teenagers including Alcest. Neige put out a statement a while back to apologize and condemn that. To my knowledge his own words had never been problematic, but more and more artists are explicitly picking sides.

This might be a dumb question, but what is the actual point of the government lying about something to claim reduced costs? I remember having this thought when the Biden admin held that press conference to announce that the Gaza aid pier had actually cost $200 million and not $300 million. Once numbers get unfathomly large my mind more or less equates them, and it’s not like I have any intuition that makes it so that I can read that an aid pier costs $200 million and think “wow, what a steal”. Who are the citizens that feel good when hearing this bullshit about we actually spent this inconcievably large number and not that slightly bigger inconceivably large number? Who is impressed by this press conference?

I know you’ve typed this out as a joke but writing it this way actually helps me conceptualize why someone would find Trump appealing.