Not sure what instances your chosen communities live on, but lemmy is very much alive for me

“Ben Shapiro, the pussy dry” made me choke on my coffee

And there’s a solid 50% chance that I will not answer that call

It is, but you’d need a substantial portion of Republicans to break ranks and vote to expel a member of their own party (reducing their vote margin) in order to expel him, since the Republicans are the majority

I hope to see it but certainly not holding my breath.

I mean, that’s just running on name recognition, not nepotism.

Dude is crazy and unqualified, but he’s not benefiting from nepotism. He’d need to actually be benefiting from some kind of family connections for that, and the entire Kennedy clan is running away from him.

Joe Kennedy III is a good example of a current day Kennedy nepo baby, even if he failed in his Senate bid.

Is it nepotism when his family is like “please Bobby, don’t do this” and “please guys, don’t listen to Bobby, he’s got some screws loose not ‘good points’”?

The context is that the mods of r/politics have long had a reputation for being inconsistent and erratic in various ways.

Obviously I don’t actually know the full context, but it strikes me as utterly plausible given the likelihood of a report by someone who disagreed with them and a mod team prone to shooting from the hip

I mean, sometimes my wife has thrown something extra smelly in the garbage while cooking and wants me to take the quarter-full bag out so the house doesn’t reek.

I should absolutely be asked to take the trash out in that case, and she shouldn’t need a whole story for said request. She frequently does because that’s just her communication style. Lots of extras. Mucho frustrating for me.

But it’s probably just an example for illustration.

Well the challenge with that is avoiding making the articles stale for the wider public, given that the news typically focuses on current events. An article about, say, the negotiations to avoid the impending US government shutdown would be stale by the time it gets to the general public under such a model, so then we’re effectively back to the hated paywall to get the information in a useful timeframe.