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Remember when Elon said he'd "open source the algorithm"? Then he released a selection of arbitrary source code files mostly consisting of enums that tell us basically nothing about ranking, cut off access to APIs that researchers could use to study the site, and suddenly Republicans and alt-right content started showing up in everyone's timeline...

I know Vader choked the life out of the last person who questioned him, but I haven't seen Leia do enough challenging media interviews.

True but if Tesla keeps acting like they're on the verge of an unsupervised, steering wheel-free system...this is more evidence that they're not. I doubt we'll see a cybercab with no controls for the next 10 years if the current tech is still ignoring large, highly predictable objects in the road.

Because of slavery, basically. The US couldn't have a directly-elected president at founding because that would mean slaveholding states would get less power per person actually living there, unless they wanted to let slaves vote which of course they wouldn't. So 3/5ths compromise, electoral college, yadda yadda yadda, and 250 years later power still is filtered through the states. So now that that's the case, giving any new people voting rights would change the power balance between the ~~slaveholders~~ right and ~~abolitionists~~ left. So as a result, places like PR that have an abnormal amount of ~~minorities~~ Democratic voters tend to be unable to get Congress to grant them voting rights.

Asked if they viewed Republican candidates’ use of anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric in their campaigns as “sad and shameful,” 41% of Republicans and 58% of independent voters agreed. That compares to 38% of Republicans and 25% of independents who do not think it’s “shameful.”

What happened to sad? What did you do with sad???

Ok I know you have a lot of reasons for not voting Kamala, but I just gotta push back every time you say I'm eating up false stories, because most of what you said just doesn't support that at all.

I think you should consider that maybe I have good reason for my beliefs. Let me spell it out:

1. The claim is that 2 anonymous people in the room, plus notes taken at the time, include the outburst.
2. This claim is made by Jeffrey Goldberg, a reporter with a decades long career unblemished by journalistic fraud.
3. No one - not the family, not Meadows or anyone else associated with Trump - denies that the bill was sent to the white house, but not paid by Trump.
4. No one has offered an alternative explanation as to why Trump did not pay the bill.

I think those are some good reasons to believe the story. I also get how people want to believe the family on an emotional level - what happened to them sucks and they have every right to feel whatever they want about Trump. As do you. But I will stand by the fact that on a rational level, it makes far more sense to believe this actually happened as reported.

You say that I'm stupid, let's assume you're correct. Explain to me like I'm Forrest Gump how the slain woman's sister would know that the President didn't call her sister a "fucking Mexican" in a private meeting.

Because from the original article, it's clear that the family did send a bill to Trump, and never received a penny in return, and this was verified with the same family lawyer who released the sister's statement. And no article I've read says the sister claims the bill was paid, a pretty damning omission. How would the reporter even know about that bill if the story was made up?

I doubt it's any more than a social media rumor like the kinds that frequently spread on X.

Why would they tease it and not release it? Where does this claim even come from? The article just says the sources are "Several social media users, including commentators and reporters". Then it seems like all the people tweeting about it are right wingers. I'm suspicious. Could be a distraction from the more credible stories about Trump loving Hitler and shitting on a slain soldier for having an expensive funeral for a Mexican.

What would the family member even know about it? No one was saying Trump said it to the family's face, although I can see why you'd assume he did.

It encourages self-reliance and fosters a sense of control. Sure everything in our lives is increasingly forced on us by corporations run by out of touch narcissists, but there's at least one way we still can have control of our own.

Because most people don't follow politics that closely and are simply unaware of stories like this, but are vulnerable to the forces of nostalgia and false memories of the first Trump administration, plus lingering fondness from the character he played on the Apprentice.