Yeah, the AP hasn’t called this yet. Talarico may be heavily favored to win, but there’s still a slim chance this doesn’t go his way.
Just hold on until we get some better reporting.
(Also wtf is decision desk hq, and why are they wanting me to pay for “pro”?)
Edit: NBC called it for Talarico as others have mentioned, I’m still waiting for AP, but it’s looking good for Texas! (Also Texas legislative is looking up for grabs too - at least their house).
I hear you, but there’s a material difference between
There’s also a matter of critical mass. We’ve had it drilled in our head that unions are bad precisely to discourage group action. If I protest our use of AI at work, or if I want to raise a complaint against the local government, and I’m alone? That will 100% end with severe personal repercussions. If my team of 5 walk out, that’s harder to fire all of us, but absolutely doable.
If the entire division walks out, then we have some change leverage.
Now scale this out to the ~340M Americans, and you can see the problem.
Also, critical mass affects the area of effect - if utah loses their shit over something, how does that impact New York? Missouri? Answer, not really at all.
So you need something that will get a critical mass of 340M people, across 3.1M sq miles (8M square kilometers). Can that happen? Sure.
Sure it can.
I wish I could upvote this more than once. Without social safety nets, the average American cannot do anything to jeopardize their job without losing health benefits or income - and most folks are living paycheck to paycheck.
If mass firings happen, and people realize they will literally be fucked unless they can force the government to listen, then maybe we’ll see wider scale protests.
Here’s the thing - if the stroke doesn’t kill you, you can have a super shitty quality of life afterwards. Entire side of your body is paralyzed and suddenly you can’t drive/walk anywhere without significant assistance (like my gram), or incontinence + mental degradation (like my other grandma).
I don’t know if they keep all of the money. Look at the recent news of ICE paying something like $350M for a private prison that was up for sale for $45M.
They still “paid” asking, they just added in nearly $300M extra.
If you know anything, it’s probably Thrift Shop.
Probably soliciting “donations” from people and companies with business before this administration.
Here’s the thing to understand about their mindset:
They don’t realize that the folks swept up in immigration raids are all someone’s father, brother, mother, sister or friend - they’re all “good ones” to someone, even if they’re the “bad ones” to you.
I feel like this is then just trying to “prove” how easy it is to do a voter fraud.
Oh no! Sorry work, I can’t use Claude anymore! Oh shucks.
I loved Spike in both Buffy and Angel. What a delight.
Like this scene where he blacked out all his windows in his car windows so he can drive it the day time.