Always good to live in a Stand Your Ground state.

Is this policy “Stand Your Ground” or “Gay Panic Defense”? The state claims she was the aggressor because she was heckled while crossing the street. Then the “victim” was allowed to shove her, continue until he was on top of her, and only retreat when he was presented with deadly force. At no point does the DA admit she feared for her life.

If the state rules in favor of Durham, “Stand Your Ground” doesn’t mean shit. It remains within the domain of the prosecutor’s office to choose to prosecute one class of people and abide another, entirely based on their personal prejudices.

The state characterizes the physical contact as Durham using mild force to create distance after Kelver entered his personal space.

Cop-ass Copypasta response.

Baby boomers are collecting 265% of what they paid into Social Security

A median-wage worker retiring in 2027 can expect about $730,000 in lifetime Social Security benefits, compared with less than $200,000 paid in taxes by that worker and their employer combined

Adjusting the $200k for inflation, that’s around $800k.

If anything, SS recipients should be getting back more than $730k. That’s deferred consumption which was recycled through public spending into increased domestic growth. Growth that the vast majority of these workers never got to see, as their salaries fell behind the inflation rate.

But ask the editors of Fortune Magazine what they think of uncapping the Social Security tax, so it applies to people making more than $180k/year. Ask them how they feel about paying for SS directly out of the General Fund, rather than getting a special Poor Tax that can’t be exempted through deductions and credits. Ask them how they feel about paying for SS out of an Equities Transaction Tax, such that trillionaires issuing the next round of IPOs take responsibility for the millions of senior citizens who they are brain-fucking with AI slop on a daily basis.

Social Security is the promise this country (kinda-sorta) makes to its elderly. If you worked your whole life, you won’t be impoverished the day your employer doesn’t consider you a value-add anymore. The taxation scheme for SS is fucked, but only because it taxes labor income rather than labor value. We’ve seen the gross wealth in this country rise from $2.2T to $167T between 1960 and 2027. And you’re telling me we’re running out of money to pay our retirees?

Fuck off. Anyone should be able to see through this bullshit.

People compare the two and Trump looks bad in comparison and he hates that.

I’ve seen more the opposite. Trump sees Mamdani as popular and keeps trying to hitch a wagon to his star. He did a congratulatory call, gave Mamdani a few concessions coming into office, and even invited him to the WH for a photo op.

Zohran Mamdani is one of the most popular politicians in the country, atm.

He was a parody of Rupert Murdoch.

Ironic, given that even Donald Trump approves of Zohran Mamdani.

I get a headline in the NYPost every day about how Zohran Mamdani is doing White Genocide

The popularity surge is not for want of trying from the Post, which publishes multiple pieces on the mayor every day. From Monday to Wednesday this week the Post has published 29 pieces that were tagged “Zohran Mamdani”, stories which ranged from criticizing the mayor over his stance on Israel, for his plans for public supermarkets, for his plans to invest more in public schools, over the spelling of a police officer’s name, for “ignoring Little Italy” on a map of New York’s immigrant neighborhoods, and for his wife going on holiday.

Could have gone with “13,000 unsolved missing child reports” and been more effective, because the number would have been credible

you cannot see past your perceived victimhood just as bad as any MAGA extremist

This seems like the go-to any time you get into any kind of policy dispute.

“Everyone I disagree with is MAGA”

Thank god non-internet progressives actually have sense

I gotta wonder if you know any. They must have a lot of patience to listen to a guy like you heckling them constantly.

I’ll just say she was dog shit at politics

Sure. She should have backed genocide in Gaza and data centers squatting on your front lawn. Then she’d have won against the guy who got back in the race because a bird told him to do it in a dream.

People want the policies

Not the people profiting off the status quo

Prohibiting nudity is a step off from the the “three-article rule”.

Even after defeating a objectively bad progressive

:-/

I love “objectively bad” on a subjective scale.

But I love “these Far-Leftist candidates who advocate for everything I agree with are totally unelectable, unlike the corporate empty-suite dweebs I despise” even more.

Why do you think Crowley (and the rest of his corporate media allies) campaigned on frivolous bullshit and made the election about Hong being Too Woke? Where do you think he got all his money to run attack ads?

Fucking morons.

Excited for the Supreme Court to decide states have the power to impose dress codes on the entire population.

Okay, but consider how this will lower beef prices

The other 2 should’ve never entered.

Zohran Mamdani and Abdul El-Sayed? They did win

She’s polling within margin of error against a guy with near-zero name recognition, after Dems were forced to choose between the country’s least popular governor and a Nazi rapist.

Honestly have no idea what you’re complaining about. Troy Jackson has better odds of winning than either Platner or Mills ever did.

Am I mistaken? Or did she vote for every SCOTUS judge that overturned RvW?

More recently, the AIPAC strategy on Israel is to splinter where it sends money and attack candidates on grounds fully independent of Israel.

Maine was a great example of this in action (for better or worse). Platner was taken down (belatedly) based on his history of infidelity and misogynist violence. Francesca Hong lost to David Crowley largely because of the endless harping on her excessively-Woke views on Thanksgiving. El-Sayed is facing a deluge of TERFism going into the general, paid for by a constellation of Zionist-backed media. Mamdani getting an endless hate-parade from the NYPost on anything tangentially related to cops.

I suspect the AIPAC playbook is going to look very similar to the New Labour playbook in the UK. You’ll get smeared from every angle except support for Palestine.