Recent content by Sommerswerd

I was listening to CNN radio yesterday and they were going on about how voters could possibly have voted for both Trump and then for Mamdani, and how they would be interviewing voters on the subject in the next segment. I never heard the segment, because I got where I was going before it aired...

Found a clip with an angle showing the crowd in the upper gallery joining in the haka in NZ Parliament

MAGA will get over it just like they get over everything else. The MAGA media has already started spinning and pushing a "lets move on from Epstein, stop talking about it" narrative.

another angle... I can't get enough of this... this one shows a little more of what happened immediately before

Same video from another angle... it shows the Speaker/Chair being all stuffy and super annoyed, which makes the whole display even more satisfying... it also shows other MPs present joining in, just staying in their spots rather than taking the floor

As an aside... I wish our Democratic members of Congress would do stuff like this...

This is hands down the most awesome, incredible, inspiring thing I have ever seen happen in a Parliamentary body. Youngest member of New Zealand Parliament leading a Haka (ancestral, traditional native Maori dance) in protest of proposed legislation by New Zealand (AFAICT) Conservative party...

Moving this discussion here because I don't want to derail the other thread:

Trump's 'Big, Beautiful Bill' Sparks Gun Group Lawsuit Within Hours https://www.newsweek.com/trump-bill-sparks-gun-group-lawsuit-2094946 TL;DR - Trump's newly passed One Big Beautiful Bill eliminates a tax provision of a major gun-control law, which as a fully intended side effect, arguably...

I disagree, especially if the Democrats choose folks like Mamdani and AOC to be the standard bearers. Some of the pillars of Trump's brand are anti-diversity, anti-immigrant, anti-foreigner, white-nationalist, Christian-evangelical... Having someone like Mamdani become transcendent in the...

One of the blind spots in this narrative is that you are assuming... inexplicably, that Donna Brazile (or her progeny) is going to be running Vance's campaign... I'm willing to consider the possibility that Mamdani is the answer, or a sign that some kind of turning point is near... but that's...

So the US population went up and the NYC population went up, just not as quickly, relatively. This just seems to show that the growth of NYC can't keep up with population growth of the US overall, which makes sense, since the space in NYC is finite and already pretty densely populated, whereas...

Yes it is. You also intentionally left out the "over time" to add to the humor, which I'd say, was successful, so 2 pts to Greyfindor ;)

This is unavoidably circular... people want/need to be where there are other people... for various reasons. So the more people there are in a location, the more people there will tend to be in that location over time. I'll offer you another, somewhat related bit of reasoning... China has...

I remain skeptical of this. Even assuming that Trump steps down after the current term, which... we'll see, but I'm not even convinced that happens, at some point Trump will inevitably not be in office, aside from some bizzaro, Sci-Fi scenario where he is replaced by an AI consciousness...