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I've seen a couple of posts laying out what a Senator/Rep actually does during a natural disaster: take calls from their constituents and make sure that individual needs are covered, and put pressure on actors on the ground. Like, when your Senator calls and says "Why is downtown Houston lit up while neighborhoods have no power?" it gets a lot more attention. Have a look at Beto O'Rourke's Twitter right now. Sure, it's self-aggrandizing, but things like calling seniors and making sure they're okay is actually useful. Beto's name gets attention and extra volunteers. https://twitter.com/betoorourke
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:People expect their representatives to serve a cultural and moral function that requires some kind of solidarity. You can call it a performance in that it does very little good, but generally people expect their politicians to help sandbag flooding rivers or give blood if there’s a disaster. Also if it becomes acceptable for politicians to jet off with their wealth and pass natural disasters in tropical luxury, then they have even less reason to care about making sure our infrastructure is prepared to handle them than they already do. Even if Cruz doesn't give a poo poo about you, at least if he's shivering in his office too he might give a poo poo about using the incredible power of his office over federal funding to prevent himself from having to shiver in his office again.
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Feb 18, 2021 17:56
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And he shouldn't be jetting off to another country during a pandemic.
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you can't tell me the people voting Cruz didn't elect him specifically to gently caress off to the south of France or whatever with the contents of the treasury like the saddest Duvalier
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Jollity Farm posted:And he shouldn't be jetting off to another country during a pandemic. https://mobile.twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1362443093371482114
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VitalSigns posted:Also if it becomes acceptable for politicians to jet off with their wealth and pass natural disasters in tropical luxury, then they have even less reason to care about making sure our infrastructure is prepared to handle them than they already do. could he even do this if he wanted to, considering Texas' insistence on maintaining a separate grid?
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Feb 18, 2021 20:35
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thinking about all the brave firefighters who stayed far, far, away from the collapsed twin towers, making sure not to deplete any oxygen from the already smoke-filled air
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"texas" doesn't insist on this, it's something petrochem relentlessly lobbied for and got back in 2000, lmao some people immediately realized where this was going even then: https://consumerwatchdog.org/feature/history-deregulation-debacle quote:Further: "During some periods, it is in the generator's interest to withhold some power because in so doing it can drive prices up, according to Severin Borenstein, a professor of business at UC Berkeley and PX Boardmember. According to Borenstein, restructured electricity markets may have attributes where 'if firms of noticeable size are not exercising market power, they are doing so out of the goodness of their heart, and against the interest of their shareholders.'" (p.28).
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aside from all that he blamed his own loving kids lmao https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1362465393001041930 Flesh Forge has issued a correction as of 21:14 on Feb 18, 2021 |
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Feb 18, 2021 21:02
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We were cold also you see, but I must be a good dad and look after my young by taking them on a tropical vacation. In both of these ways I am the same as you poors,
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Really can't stop laughing over this incredible pants-on-head backwards take from the TX goobernor https://twitter.com/AdamWeinstein/status/1362046740145258500 the situation in Texas is pretty much the capitalist dream of zero oversight or government involvement, private companies running everything answerable to nobody, and OH NO SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCIALISM 
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Capitalism cannot fail, it can only be failed.
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VitalSigns posted:Also if it becomes acceptable for politicians to jet off with their wealth and pass natural disasters in tropical luxury, then they have even less reason to care about making sure our infrastructure is prepared to handle them than they already do. We had this happen in Australia with our prime minister who went on a holiday to loving Hawaii during one of the worst bush fire seasons in living memory. He's the prick in the blue shirt:  He tried to pull out the "there's nothing I can do on the ground over there that I can't do from here" and he was rightfully dragged over the coals for it, with everyone telling him it's called leadership. When he finally came back (five whole days after being caught out) and visited the bushfire zones, every single person he met told him to gently caress off.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:People expect their representatives to serve a cultural and moral function that requires some kind of solidarity. You can call it a performance in that it does very little good, but generally people expect their politicians to help sandbag flooding rivers or give blood if there’s a disaster. Yeah I don’t expect my representatives to actually get much done. I do expect them to have the good sense to act like they care. In a job interview, we all know that the applicant wants money because money can be exchanged for goods and services. All the interviewer wants to hear is that they came prepared with a more interesting narrative. If they can’t lie to the gatekeeper, how can their boss expect them to lie to clients, suppliers, and anyone else it’s in their interests to lie to?
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Megillah Gorilla posted:We had this happen in Australia with our prime minister who went on a holiday to loving Hawaii during one of the worst bush fire seasons in living memory. I saw clips of people telling him to gently caress off at the time and I was like gently caress yeah give it to him that's so rad, but I never knew the context lol
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Flesh Forge posted:Really can't stop laughing over this incredible pants-on-head backwards take from the TX goobernor the entire project was the brainchild of a harvard econ professor. he still has a job of course even though he's directly killed people.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:We had this happen in Australia with our prime minister who went on a holiday to loving Hawaii during one of the worst bush fire seasons in living memory. Shouldn't Australia want PMs they don't like to go swimming in the ocean?
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surprised nobody’s bringing up the incest angle
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spicy motherfucking tweet right here lmao https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1362814218710441985
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indigi posted:surprised nobody’s bringing up the incest angle they’re how many generations removed though? poo poo, we’re probably more closely related than that.
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Well he's a direct descendent of her uncle so I don't know how you chart that on the incest graph. Also he was basically the foster son of her father, and I think he was basically a teenager when he met her.
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Zedhe Khoja posted:Well he's a direct descendent of her uncle so I don't know how you chart that on the incest graph. Also he was basically the foster son of her father, and I think he was basically a teenager when he met her. Sure, and I bet you're going to say, "it's actually called elfophilia"
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christmas boots posted:they’re how many generations removed though? poo poo, we’re probably more closely related than that. yeah but they know. like it’s written down in a book somewhere. if you and me hosed we’d each need an ancestry.com account and a few months of research before we could determine anything
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sullat posted:Sure, and I bet you're going to say, "it's actually called elfophilia" It's called ataniphilia and there's nothing unnatural about it, dad! :arwensay:
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indigi posted:yeah but they know. like it’s written down in a book somewhere. if you and me hosed we’d each need an ancestry.com account and a few months of research before we could determine anything Huge self-own imo
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Zedhe Khoja posted:Well he's a direct descendent of her uncle so I don't know how you chart that on the incest graph. Also he was basically the foster son of her father, and I think he was basically a teenager when he met her.  Add the generations between them, and it’s more like 8th cousins. The incest angle is a dead end, the groomer part is the real issue.
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is loving an elf bestiality y/n
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Elves are basically like dogs and just sort of do things arbitrarily.
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Flesh Forge posted:spicy motherfucking tweet right here lmao ahahahahahahaha
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christmas boots posted:Elves are basically like dogs and just sort of do things arbitrarily. what kind of elves we talkin here 
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:is loving an elf bestiality y/n ArmZ posted:what kind of elves we talkin here y
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:is loving an elf bestiality y/n Elves in Tolken's mind were basically humans that didn't fall in the garden of eden so in actuality elves should be asking that of humans
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Feldegast42 posted:Elves in Tolken's mind were basically humans that didn't fall in the garden of eden so in actuality elves should be asking that of humans weren't they angels or some poo poo I'm pretty sure loving an angel at least is no-go
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:weren't they angels or some poo poo Nah, the wizards were the angels
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:weren't they angels or some poo poo No Gandalf is an angel. Or at least in a class of one.
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:weren't they angels or some poo poo If any angels are reading, this guy doesnt speak for all of us
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I forget, was Sauron supposed to be the same class of being as Gandalf and Saruman and all that?
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