I wonder which way many of these new voters lean. Willing to bet on the general direction of the group as a whole. There’s always outliers, but I’m pretty confident on this one.

The “issue” is that after receiving backlash for their public support of Trump, they publicly tried to state that it’s not an issue because they also have people that support Biden… then the official company account is responding to pro-Trump posts on social media with heart eyes emojis.

It proves the original response they made trying to reduce the backlash from their political commentary, with subsequent reduction in sales and massive negative publicity, was only a platitude. They fucked around, found out, released a half-assed response to try and reduce the damage… and now apparently think it’s been long enough that people forgot so they’re publicly posting shit supporting Trump again. They’re now being called out for the blatant lie to try to save the company.

Also, what is a “sticker mule”?

A company that sells things like custom stickers. One of many similar companies. They don’t produce a unique product, it just happened to be a company that was a decent price, fast, and reliable. No issue until they themselves decided the right thing to do was to have the company wade into politics supporting a massively controversial person… for whatever stupid reason.

For further context, I recommend reading some articles about the original email. A few quick ones pulled from Google randomly since I know most people won’t bother to search on their own, but may click a link provided.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rebekahbastian/2024/07/19/sticker-mules-political-stance-undermines-workplace-inclusion-and-customer-trust/
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/18/sticker-mule-trump-2024-email-productive-discourse-expert.html
https://slate.com/business/2024/07/sticker-mule-ceos-pro-trump-maga-email-surprised-employees.html

I assume that’s what they were referencing. Trump has mentioned Taylor several times in the past, and none resulted in a response like this.

She may not have publicly endorsed anyone if Trump had not retweeted that clearly fake shit implying that Swift was endorsing him. Not responding at all to something so egregious would be seen by many as an implicit endorsement.

NY style pizza also isn’t anything particularly amazing. New Yorkers are just louder about it, like with everything they do.

Considering tomatoes aren’t even from Europe the Italians can think whatever they want about pizza, they’re not experts, they’re just as wrong as everyone else.

Don’t mistake the infighting over something that actually matters, for an inability to bully each other into being an obstruction to anything the Democrats want. Not electing a speaker is just as effective obstruction as well. As long as they don’t actually want to pass anything on their side, it’s arguably even more effective. And that’s their purpose. The current Republican platform is to be the exact opposite of the Dems, and whatever blurts out of Trump’s mouth at the moment.

They don’t like each other, but they stand together being a wall for anything the Dems want to pass, regardless of what it is. At this point they’d probably vote against a nationwide abortion ban at conception with no exceptions if the Dems introduced the bill.

Because politics isn’t simple in reality, there are a lot of different reasons things are approved or not that may not even be relevant to the actual issue at hand.

On top of that, the parties are very different on how they handle things. The Republican party generally will fall in line as a group, they treat politics very simply. Seemingly because they all have closets overflowing with skeletons that they’re all hiding for each other and they’ll be exposed if they don’t follow the group. You’re either part of the group and they’ll defend you at all costs, or they tear will you apart.

The Democratic party on the other hand are like herding cats. They might be working towards the same general goal, maybe, but they won’t just fall in line because the group says they should.

For all we know it could have been requested years ago by developers who have apps that get pirated but there was no mechanism in place to implement it at the time, and wasn’t a priority.

Just because it’s beneficial to Google maintaining more direct control now, that doesn’t necessarily mean that’s the origin.

Not that it matters here specifically, fuck Walmart. But don’t assume that just because a feed on a public screen is blank, that it isn’t being recorded or actively viewed elsewhere.

More likely because it has nothing to do with the topic of discussion.

Some people seem to forget that younger generations get older too.

It’s complicated, and Congress is taking advantage of that to keep him there. The nine-member United States Postal Service Board of Governors has sole authority to fire, and hire, the Postmaster General. At the moment there are only 7 members, 3 Dems, 3 Reps, 1 Ind. 6 members are required for a quorum.

Biden has 2 pending nominations and a pending reappointment of an existing governor. There are still 2 governors remaining from Trump’s administration at this point. The Senate confirmed 3 seats in July 2021 and 2 seats in May 2022, and nothing since. They seem to be doing the absolute bare minimum to intentionally delay any possible changes.

Note that these are not full time government positions like the Postmaster. They only meet once a month usually.

This has almost nothing to do with Google, it’s a feature that has to be enabled by the app developer. Meaning they want to exclude users getting the APK for their app from elsewhere.

Surprised they haven’t implemented the body lottery from Cyberpunk in real life somewhere.

Those systemic issues are there by design. And it’s a design they want.

Because evidence doesn’t matter to his base. They don’t believe anything negative about him, all of it is lies. Likewise they believe everything bad about his enemies.

Their beliefs are not rational. They are based entirely on emotion, not facts or reason. And they hold those beliefs so strongly that they identify as part of themselves. That belief cannot be shaken, because it means that part of them was wrong as well, and that couldn’t possibly be right. They would have to actually self-reflect, and they’re incapable of that.

Imgur actually started their blatant enshittification before reddit did. They started first by gaslighting that imgur wasn’t originally made to just be an image for reddit. Despite the original reddit posts getting people to try it, which were still up last I checked, literally saying that.

As soon as I hear any politician mention faith, I know for a fact whatever they’re trying to do is bullshit and likely immoral. They default to faith when there is no real justification for whatever they’re trying to push. They always try to claim that because of their faith, that it is inherently moral. As if everything is black and white and grey doesn’t exist at all.

But not everything in their chosen book of faith actually applies to every situation, and some can just be ignored now. But never these sections and those ones aren’t important. So this is black and white, but not other things they decide are related to their faith, those can be a grey area when they want them to be.

Yes it was.

Riot, noun
1 a: a violent public disorder
specifically : a tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by three or more persons assembled together and acting with a common intent
1 b: public violence, tumult, or disorder
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/riot

It was also an insurrection:

Insurrection, noun
1: an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/insurrection

Sounds like pretty clear voter intimidation to me. I bet if we follow it back far enough we get directly to DeSantis’ office.

I went through an entire training for collecting signatures in AZ this year. I’ve never heard of a state sending police to verify signatures in any way shape or form. The various state laws around signatures on petitions are usually pretty clear. If there is a question at all about whether it follows the requirements, it’s not counted.

This is why those petitions usually need 3-4x the minimum number of signatures to make sure it’s actually on the ballot. States love invalidating signatures for the simplest things.