I do count incumbents as primary candidates. The DNC funds the winner of the primary, whomever that may be.

Feel free to browse through https://www.opensecrets.org/political-parties/DNC/2024/expenditures and show us.

The US messed up most of Latin America. USAID makes things better. Removing USAID makes things worse. It doesn’t matter whether it is out of benevolence (the real reason is that making Latin America better means the US doesn’t have to deal with a migrant crisis). What matters is that it’s better than the alternative.

I am both brown and from a third world (both in the original unaligned sense and in the newer impoverished sense) country. You fucked us over with Trump.

The slaves didn’t care that Lincoln said in his debates with Douglas that whites were superior to blacks and that he supported an Illinois law against miscegenation. They cared that he removed them from bondage. Smart people take whatever progress they can get.

Section 702 isn’t a mass surveillance program. It has its problems (the main sticking point being that the surveilled non-Americans living outside the US communicating with other non-Americans outside the US might discuss Americans or forward communications from Americans, and now Americans’ data is collected), but let’s at least accurately describe the law being discussed.

The legislative branch will write the laws that their voters want. The voters that won the elections voted for Republicans, so that’s what we get.

The superdelegates vote for whoever the primary voters vote for. https://www.politico.com/story/2008/06/superdelegates-surge-to-obama-010792

The DNC doesn’t give money to any primary candidates.

Superdelegates existed in 2008 as well. They were mostly in Clinton’s camp, but when Obama got ahead in the primary voting, not even anywhere close to as big a margin as Clinton had over Sanders, they switched. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/feb/23/uselections2008.barackobama

When she ultimately lost the primary, she threw her support behind Obama in the general election. https://www.c-span.org/program/american-history-tv/senator-hillary-clinton-2008-convention-speech/194032

You’re confusing the DNC with the primary voters, who gave Clinton a landslide victory over Sanders. You can’t get any closer to the will of the people than that.

79% of Americans say they want age caps for elected officials, but they keep voting for people older than those age caps, and that is the result that counts in the end.

You’ll find that a lot of people here don’t care how old Sanders is (older than McConnell). It’s his turn.

I think a reasonable game could be played with those rules, given how quickly goals are scored and how hard it is supposed to be to catch the snitch. It’s just that it didn’t make sense at all that Krum was celebrated. Catching the snitch was worse than scoring an own goal in soccer because it directly and immediately caused his team to lose the match. The rioting of the death eaters after the match is understandable, but the way everyone else behaved towards this obvious fraud is not. The Ministry should have started a match fixing investigation.

You might enjoy Vinge’s Zones of Thought series.

In The Goblet of Fire, Ireland beat Bulgaria despite Bulgaria getting the snitch. The problem with the snitch isn’t that the team that gets it automatically wins but that this particular match didn’t make sense because Bulgaria knew that getting the snitch would cause them to lose, so they would have instead focused on preventing Ireland from getting the snitch while they tried to get within 150 points.

The American Immigration Council is a better source than Al Jazeera for describing what ICE might be doing that is wrong, so I don’t consider that a valid criticism of this summary.

Calm down. You’re tired, so I’ll keep it short. I quoted Greenwald. Does Greenwald’s quote make sense after what I explained and after reading the articles I linked? Yes or no. That’s all the work you should do.

You think I’m a conspiracy theorist because you’ve read conspiracy theories in forums online. Most people get their news from sources like The NYT and The Week instead of those forums, so what I’m telling you is mainstream belief. It just happens to match the beliefs of people in the tech industry at the time like me.

Yes, they could. As soon as he landed in Russia, he was under Russian jurisdiction. There is a legal fiction that he doesn’t have to go through immigration, so he doesn’t need a visa, but Russian law still applies to him, and he can be detained for questioning without charge indefinitely under Russian law. This happens so frequently that it happened just yesterday. https://www.jpost.com/international/article-893628

His passport was revoked while he was still in Hong Kong. You don’t need a passport to be deported. He’s in Russia because Putin wants him there, not because of passport issues.

That dude was never a good investigative journalist. https://reddthat.com/comment/26181758