If Trump keeps acting this way, he could lose handily to Biden.
Or lose narrowly to Biden.
Or win narrowly against Biden.
Or win handily against Biden.
No one knows.

I went and got an antibody test. It’s neat going out because everyone is wearing masks. It’s like we’re all in Red Dead Redemption Online.

I don’t see how absolutely everyone doesn’t realize what a terrible idea it is to suddenly single out a Trump tweet for fact checking on Twitter. It’s like having to explain not to lick a hot stove.
“But I see some melted sugar on it. I can’t imagine anything bad could happen.”
And to clarify — which again is another thing I think should be obvious — what makes this a terrible idea has nothing to do with whether Trump is impotent or not to retaliate.

American used to have a uniting value — “Snitches get stitches” — but people have forgotten this and now we have Karens.

I don’t like it when my code doesn’t work, but I love debugging.
The duality of man.

The ultimate goal of every Karen is to head an HOA.

You can’t check facts because you’re a partisan moron, and acting like you’re above it and some arbiter of truth when you’re a myopic idiot only makes things worse.

Everyone wants to get celebrated for the intensity of their hatred because they think they have the good kind of hate.

Since Twitter is a publisher according to Section 230, that means it can have a RICO conviction under the Logan Act.

Were the 1992 Los Angeles riots considered successful?

I didn’t watch the George Floyd video. I assumed it was pretty bad because the cops were immediately fired, and I’ve seen the videos where no one was fired.

My assumption is that by far most of the protestors are not violent, but those making excuses in support of rioting are actively trying to undermine that view.

A private company has every right to censor even the President of the United States on its platform, I could just do without them pretending it’s all objective when they’re simply other awful people with awful views making decisions for partisan reasons.
Every time they censor, they simply highlight what they never even considered censoring. You’re bad people too; you don’t know what’s right and what’s wrong.

I’m libertarian(ish). And a Christian. That means I view lots of things as really really bad but also don’t think they should be illegal.

I take all the “Rioting is good actually!” from people who aren’t rioting with a grain of salt. So much of everything these days are a performative “Look how righteously angry I am! Don’t I just care so much?”

Bright Side: Things can’t be that bad if we still spend most of our time arguing about really dumb things.

If Biden was president, 100,000 wouldn’t have died from COVID-19 and 40 million wouldn’t have lost their jobs because he would have pulled the “Stop Pandemic” lever in the Oval Office that is right next to the “Economy Do Well” lever.

Wow, they make it hard to know how much things cost in the Minecraft economy. My 6yo son spent $9.99 to buy 1720 coins and then bought a DuckTales world for 1170 coins. Try to do the math in your head on how much dollar-wise that world was.

Winchester is playing with a toy I had when I was a baby. How do I explain a rotary phone dial to him?

It’s funny how with phones “dial” now means “push buttons,” though I do see how we got there.

What is the solution to what happened to George Floyd? I don’t think a few more seminars for police officers are going to do it; there needs to be some big law change about police and use of force.

The left-wingers who hate Elon Musk are just as big as a-holes as him, but they aspire to nothing more than making people mad on Twitter while he aspires to making people mad on Twitter and putting people into space.
Do something useful, and I’ll give you a little leeway on being an annoying person. But everyone here as no more aspirations beyond being a pest.

I’ve seen a bunch of tweets today from people supporting rioting, but none from anyone participating in rioting. It’s a bit of a mixed message. Riot for thee, but not for me.
In economics, you call this a “revealed preference.”

Between the coronavirus infections and rioting, this year really reinforcing how smart not living in a city is.

We have a fire raging, and thanks to our democratic system, you have a choice of two very different types of gasoline to pour on it.

“I’m so concerned about injustice that I’m going to be a complete sociopath about those harmed by rioting.” -common sentiment

Say a prayer. For everyone.
It still doesn’t seem any of us are on a good path, but there is one.

I’ll tell you what won’t fix these problem: Carefully making a selection between Trump and Biden.
I’m get frustrated with how many people respond to this with “You just got to get out and vote!” That has been the refrain for decades. That ain’t it, chief. We’re also talking about cities that have been under one party rule for decades. Maybe new strategies are needed.
But I’ll tell you what will make all this worse: Getting really into partisan politics. Our elections are basically the opposite of trying to get people to come together. They’re designed to make a wedge.

You have white liberals sitting in comfort and safety encouraging poor neighborhoods to be burnt down for “justice.” They’re morally no better than the most ardent racists.
We have huge injustice, and so many think they can fix it by stacking more injustice on top of it. They don’t actually want to fix things; they want that brief flash of feeling righteous and will sacrifice anything for it.

Don’t conflate the rioters with the protestors.
That’s aimed at the left who thing they’re “helping” as much as the right.

White supremacists are dumb. If riots were some sort of conspiracy by them, there would be lots of hard evidence.
The hear hoof beats, think horses answer for out of towners stirring things up is it’s a bunch of SJWs who think they’re “helping.”

It might help if a prominent politician offered some sort of solution to excessive police force other than “We’re going to try to be more concerned about this sort of thing.”
Whatever it is, probably not going to be popular with police unions.

You know how everyone with two brain cells to rub together said encouraging the violence of antifa was a bad idea…

Don’t even need the KKK with all the left-wing whites encouraging burning down black neighborhoods.

Time for space! Things aren’t as bad now as they were in 1969 when we landed on the moon. My dad watched that from Vietnam.

Maybe instead of donating to people burning down black-owned businesses you should donate to those people who lost their businesses. Seem crazy, celebrities, but give it a thought.

This whole thing has really exposed left-wing racism. So many really think basically all black people are reacting to injustice by burning down their neighbors’ businesses. The only difference between the left and the KKK is their reaction to this extremely racist idea.

So what sort of people do you think riots are going to most motivate to vote?

It’s incumbent on people who aren’t out there rioting but think what happened to George Floyd is horrible—which I believe is a supermajority of Americans—to finally come up with something substantial to do, such as taking on qualified immunity.

“Krab” is closer to real crab meat than antifa is to people who actually oppose fascism.

I have to applaud everyone on the left and right for lots of great ideas on how to make things worse, but let’s keep brainstorming.

A bunch of people tearing down and burning Democrat controlled cities is sure going to teach Republicans and the right… what exactly?

Probably not a good idea to trust the people who think burning down your business is a good thing to provide you health care.

Though no one has actually seen one, scientists have theorized what a single A battery looks like.

The protestors deserve justice — more than “we feel bad” with no substantive measures taken. The rioters and other people just trying to make things worse deserve justice against them. More importantly, the people hurt by this need help. We can manage all of this if we want to.

They’re called “antifa” because none of them could figure out how to spell “fascist.”

I double-dog dare the Democrats to propose some gun control measures right now.

“There is no reason anyone needs an AR-15!”
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“There is no reason anyone needs more than five AR-15s, per household member.”

If you downplay people getting their livelihood burned down, you don’t look like you really care about black people. You just look like a sociopath.

All I know about the 1619 Project is that the main architect on Twitter is of the type of left-wing troll I regularly mute because they never appear in my timeline retweeted by the left but only by the right in the context of, “Look at this idiocy!” and why do I need that?

The problem with condemning awful things Trump has done is you can’t be sure how many you’ll find out the day was completely made up by journalists. You really need to stick to statements you saw him say on unedited video.

It’s important to get out and vote in 2020 for the least harmful incompetent.

If you can’t bring yourself to say burning down random business is bad and should stop, then stop pretending you care about injustice.

Man, this sucks for Hong Kong. They need a lot of support right now, and the main country they’re looking to is all “We have plenty of our own problems to deal with right now.”

Good news: Joel Richards, who narrated the first Superego, will be narrating Superego: Fathom. It will be a while until it’s ready, but the audiobook is coming.

It feels like all the attention gathered by the protests will be wasted if people don’t coalesce around a few actionable demands.
I’ve seen some such as ending qualified immunity and reducing the power of police unions. These would change how police operate—and there would be many trade offs for that—but it seems like that needs to be done. The perception is the rule of law doesn’t apply to the police.

I’m hopeful we can come out of all of this stronger.
America has been through worse.