UnderpantsWeevil

It's an entirely captured medium. The best you'll ever be is the Alan Colmes to CatTurd's Sean Hannity.

Okay hear me out.

He was a White Hat Pedophile. Working the system from the inside.

Convicted (civilly) on that, too.

Still hasn't spent a hot minute in prison, though. Sentencing keeps getting delayed and prosecutions dropped by a bureaucracy that loathes punishing the wealthy and connected.

a cowardly weak rapist con man traitor loser

That's simply the norm for social media personalities in the modern era. Donald Trump's presidency is a product of half a century of misogyny in marketing, advertising, and influencing.

He won't be the last rapist, con artist, or kleptocrat to run. He won't be the last to win. Not so long as economic conditions for Americans continue to degrade, while fascist policy is championed as a panacea.

Depends on what kind of judges "society" will elect. I'm generally more fine with a judge selected by an equitable and well-informed set of voters out of, say, Houston or LA or Chicago than I would be with a judge selected by The Amish Society, the Federalist Society, or one informed entirely by cable news breaking headlines.

Right now, the Mexican court is a legacy of the outgoing PRI party, which has held power in Mexico for over 70 years. The incoming Morena Party - which has significantly more left-leaning and popular politics than the old business-friendly PRI - has had its reformed blocked by the courts on a number of occasions. The legislative/executive branch are imposing these term-limits and recall elections to force out the old PRI judges with the expectation that they'll be replaced by more friendly Morena judges.

So... do you support PRI policy or Morena policy? That's all that really matters here. "Society" chooses the judges in both instances. Its just a question of which society (the outgoing older generation or the incoming younger one) that adjudicates into the future.

Don't forget to kick a few bucks to the Isle of Lesbos

A shit one is even cheaper

A game with maps that were assembled at random from what some lead/executive thought was the best submissions out of a random assortment of amateur designs sounds like it is going to be crap.

In fact I’m not sure where the Republicans could fall back to ideologically.

At the heart of every Republican is a British Tory who desperately wants an American King.

Ever since the Dixie Flip they’ve pretty much built their entire party around racism and religious extremism.

Republicanism, even back to Lincoln, was a theory of Industrial expansion. Modern Republicans simply have nowhere else to expand into.

Racism and religious extremism are about re-colonizing the interior a second time, with a smaller and more "pure" cohort of settlers.

But without the large locus of dense population like the party had when it was dominant in the metropoles, that's increasingly difficult to accomplish.

What the GOP needs is a new Mecca (or, perhaps, a New New York). A large, population dense center of power to expand out of again. Maybe they've found that in Salt Lake City. Maybe they've found it in the increasingly right wing Texas capital of Austin. Or in Silicon Valley. Or in Tel Aviv. Maybe they'll rediscover New York (Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo certainly suggest fascism still plays well in the Big Apple).

But Settler Colonialism 2 is the dream.

Facebook set the bar high, but Google is rising to the challenge.

The date can matter a lot.

The original algorithm rewarded engagement absent dates, but this resulted in old classic hits mopping up revenue while newer stuff struggled to grab anyone's attention. You'll never make a music video more popular than Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up, so why bother trying?

Then the algorithm shifted to fresh-first bias, which incentivized streamers to constantly churn out new content. But it still contended with users who stubbornly wanted to see the old content. So you got a bunch of content that tried to imitate historical hits or play on trends. This ended up producing 10,000 videos named some variation of "Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up, Explained" with a digitally edited picture of the singer with big eyes and a soy face.

Now we've got this deluge of AI generated crap that nobody wants to look at or search for, piling up in YouTube's back catalog. The only way to justify hosting it is to jam it into someone's feed. So every user is being A/B Tested once again, with a new procedurally generated wall of garbage that will eventually narrow down what any given individual is most likely to click on and watch. Then we can solve both of the problems above. Always have new content, but its technically "fresh" rather than a rehash of some prior release.

We are doing Monkeys On Typewriters because someone at YouTube HQ decided it was better than letting anyone watch the Rick Astley video one more time.

I desperately with YouTube had real competition.

There are other places to host video, but they tend to be very boutique or with an abundance of very low quality content. That, plus YouTube leveraging economies of scale and the networking effect means there's nowhere else you'd ever want to try and host a video, unless you were looking to reach a very boutique audience or you were putting out material you didn't really expect anyone to watch.

He's been on ozymbic, which is why he looks so deflated of late. May still have another ten years in him on that alone.

But also, you've got a guy like Dick Cheney whose heart hasn't beat in over a decade. Modern medicine can do some crazy shit.