Especially because they all thought he’d pardon them. Instead, Trump let them rot in prison.

There will always be a subset of the population that will vote a straight R ticket for various (bad) reasons. Some people, like your sister and her husband, that will be radicalized, certainly. It’s really just probabilities.

I’m about to become a dad to a girl (our first child!) and the entire Conway saga is mortifying to me.

Abbott’s pizza in Santa Monica has been doing this for at least 10 years. It’s delicious.

Sadly, probably moreso than in her own  home.

The genesis of the question was to establish your WSB credentials. You write as if you’ve been there since the beginning and know, intimately, the motivations of the WSB hive mind.

The game seems to be that, for House managers, the goal isn’t to secure a conviction, it’s to make public a tight package of evidence that will dislodge moderate Republican voters. We already know that Republicans will vote to acquit, the goal is to make that vote such a black eye that a Trump run in 2024 is doomed…

Bannon is telling him to testify...

Bannon is out there in the media saying that Trump should testify because “he’s the only one who can sell it (his defence)“. He’s listened to Bannon’s scheming before, so it’s not totally insane that Trump might testify.

I’d rather he go before the Senate in his trial and the trial managers just turn him loose. No guardrails, whatsoever. Just let him babble up there. He’ll either incriminate himself, perjure himself, or straight up commit new crimes, right then and there.

So how much did you make in the GME trade?

This is a criminally underrated comment.

Faith Popcorn? You’re just fucking with us, right? Also, how stupid do you have to be to reasonably think that, within 5 years, one full quarter of all marriages will be between humans and bots, while currently, exactly zero marriages are between humans and bots?

If you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying. But for real, how on Earth did they think that cheating by that much wouldn’t raise any red flags? Even a basic data anomaly test would show that data point being so far outside the normal distribution that it would spur further scrutiny.

I think it was more about not alienating potential advertisers with by allowing stories with an overtly political slant, but that sort of “enlightened” centrism is what got us into the current mess we’re in. Everything is political and to close your eyes and try to people to avoid discussing political, especially for…

The trading halt is actually way less nefarious than it seems. Robinhood’s clearing house, Apex, changed the ratio of shares it required RH to hold for executing those trades from 30% to 100% and RH simply could not hold that many shares because of the insane spike in volume. It was either limit trading in GME/AMC or…

All of those things cost money. Melvin, as of yesterday, had lost something like 53% of their value this year.

Everything that humans perceive is interacted with by the perceiver. There is no objectivity and everything is static until it is interpreted by the perceiver. Due to the intentional fallacy, the work remains static until the perceiver applies the breadth of their experiences to consuming that work, which gives it…

I’m curious: what is it about a game being a game that makes it absolutely not art?

DFV has definitely taken some money off the table, but I think it’s most likely buying/selling options contracts. He started buying back in 2019 (I believe) and his cost basis has got to be somewhere between $5-$20, so even right now, he’s on the right side of that particular trade. Meanwhile, while he’s long shares,…