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selec posted:No, my plan is for universal payments and higher tax rates at the high end. I guess you could beanplate that out to means testing but honestly it doesn’t seem meaningful to me. in fairness your original post was extremely weirdly phrased, but who among us Strictly speaking we don't really need higher tax rates at the higher end FOR THIS SPECIFIC PURPOSE; the two actual purposes of higher tax rates (in a mega-economy like the US) are to deflate the currency, and to make rich people have less money. The first one is useful sometimes, and the second is useful always. I just get grumpy when people talk about balancing the budget as an end in itself, it's missing the point and playing directly into capital's claws.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:in fairness your original post was extremely weirdly phrased, but who among us lol my b. Yeah, flattening wealth inequality is a good in and of itself. Beat rich people with a moral stick if you have to: “Sounds like you don’t know the meaning of enough!” Call them money perverts, whatever it takes. Also, NO!!! https://twitter.com/teddyschleifer/status/1491212896684023808?s=21 Dynasties suck
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selec posted:lol my b. Yeah, flattening wealth inequality is a good in and of itself. Beat rich people with a moral stick if you have to: “Sounds like you don’t know the meaning of enough!” Call them money perverts, whatever it takes. QFT. Has there ever been a major, federal level political dynasty in the US that wasn't terrible?
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Shooting Blanks posted:QFT. Has there ever been a major, federal level political dynasty in the US that wasn't terrible? Roosevelt, I guess?
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Shooting Blanks posted:QFT. Has there ever been a major, federal level political dynasty in the US that wasn't terrible? Ugh. I have a friend who is a DNC member and has done stuff with Christine Pelosi. Nothing I've seen or heard gives an indication she'd do anything but be more of the same.
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christmas boots posted:Roosevelt, I guess? I would say both Roosevelts were solid progressives, I'd much rather have a dynasty of Roosevelts than the Kennedys, anyway.
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Shooting Blanks posted:QFT. Has there ever been a major, federal level political dynasty in the US that wasn't terrible?
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SubG posted:Well, John and John Quincy Adams are the only two of the first twelve US Presidents that weren't slaveowners, so there's that. Fair enough, I didn't think pre-20th century. christmas boots posted:Roosevelt, I guess? This was the only one I could come up with and I don't know much about them beyond Teddy and FDR.
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https://twitter.com/AP/status/1491520544566648837?s=20&t=V4Chs81VntEVlHBCXrcfLw Shame that the administration buckled to fake right wing outrage
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Why would any Republican senator vote to ban day trading by members of Congress?
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Jaxyon posted:Lets talk about reality instead of thought experiments, because that seems to be the critical leap you're unable to make here. Do you consider something like Social Security to be a program that is promoting inequity? Or further, do you consider it to be a program that is ultimately positive for the black community? Or does it harm the black community?
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FLIPADELPHIA posted:Why would any Republican senator vote to ban day trading by members of Congress? Probably the same reason why a Republican house member would vote for it  Granted, I’m skeptical of it passing. If it does, it’ll probably be either not enforced or easily skirted around
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FLIPADELPHIA posted:Why would any Republican senator vote to ban day trading by members of Congress? I think the hope is some Republicans want to stick it to Democrat senators just enough to vote for this out of spite? Knowing full well they can simply bypass this through friends/family as there will be 0 enforcement of this on the GOP side.
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Not that long ago there were some rumblings about a likely GOP Senate passing this bill next year to make the Dems look bad, but I just doubt that when most of the worst offenders are Republicans
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FLIPADELPHIA posted:Why would any Republican senator vote to ban day trading by members of Congress? There's no culture war to win by opposing it, and I'd imagine that it's probably a liability when you have dumb motherfuckers like Tuberville who can't stop doing crimes.
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The Orange County Sheriff's Office released Bob Saget's autopsy results. He died from head trauma. He fell, hit his head, went to sleep, and died in his sleep. quote:Bob Saget, who was found dead in his Orlando, Florida hotel room last month, died from the result of a head trauma, according to a statement from his family. quote:The Orange County Sheriff's Office released a death investigation report, obtained by CNN, which stated they found no signs of foul play in the "orderly" hotel room. https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/09/entertainment/bob-saget-cause-of-death/index.html
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The Orange County Sheriff's Office released Bob Saget's autopsy results. That was the same thing that almost killed Michael Hogan from Battlestar Galactica two years ago now. He was at a convention, fell and hit his head and suffered traumatic brain injury and is now paralyzed on the entire his left side of his body. It's kind of scary how this kind of stuff can take you right out. I think he also just tried to sleep it off instead of going to the hospital immediately and by the time he woke up the next day it was too late. nine-gear crow fucked around with this message at 05:20 on Feb 10, 2022 |
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Then there's Heather McDonald cracking a joke about jesus loving her right before she planks it in front of an audience & suffers a skull fracture.
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nine-gear crow posted:That was the same thing that almost killed Michael Hogan from Battlestar Galactica two years ago now. He was at a convention, fell and hit his head and suffered traumatic brain injury and is now paralyzed on the entire his left side of his body. It's kind of scary how this kind of stuff can take you right out. I think he also just tried to sleep it off instead of going to the hospital immediately and by the time he woke up the next day it was too late. Isn't this why they say you're supposed to keep concussed people awake after they hit their head?
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GoutPatrol posted:Isn't this why they say you're supposed to keep concussed people awake after they hit their head? Apparently that's counterproductive and you shouldn't do it.
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It is the reason, but it's meant to be "Don't go to sleep without being checked out" after a head injury and that incorrectly transformed into warnings to stay awake
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Shooting Blanks posted:Fair enough, I didn't think pre-20th century. There have been a LOT of big-time oosevelts and they're kind of a mixed bag. Like there was Brigadier Gen.eral Theodore Roosevelt III who's a legitimate war hero and then there's Kermit Roosevelt Jr who orchestrated the Iranian coup. Politically they've been mostly progressive. James Roosevelt Jr, who currently co-chairs the Rules Committee for the DNC, wrote a piece in The Nation this week hitting Biden for not renewing the child tax credit https://www.thenation.com/article/society/child-tax-payments-biden/
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It's also how we lost the legend Billy Mays.
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GoutPatrol posted:Isn't this why they say you're supposed to keep concussed people awake after they hit their head? The main thing that people say that for is that it's much easier to notice mental acuity changes in perception or cognition when someone is awake than it is to monitor someone else who is asleep. Like, if you notice you start slurring or your vision goes blurry or you get one-sided weakness or the like, those are things you can react to immediately that wouldn't appear if you were sleeping. It's not that sleeping is bad for a concussion, it's just that most people parrot the advice without understanding it and it sounds weird. Kinda like that thing where people laugh about hiding under a table during a bombing not realizing it's not to protect you from the bombs, but from loose objects falling on you from above.
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GoutPatrol posted:Isn't this why they say you're supposed to keep concussed people awake after they hit their head? No. That’s a holdover from when you needed to do hourly neuro checks. This is also why every head injury in the er gets a one way ticket to the CT scanner.
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theCalamity posted:https://twitter.com/AP/status/1491520544566648837?s=20&t=V4Chs81VntEVlHBCXrcfLw The democrats refuse to help people because they are terrified of how the Republicans will react. They'll stop this program, people will not get the help, and Republicans will just carry on with the attack, because they know nobody who supports them will hear this news.
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Meatball posted:The democrats refuse to help people because they are terrified of how the Republicans will react. And they'll make hay forever off their "victory" and how they're the lone bastion standing guard against the Democrats' perfidious attacks on the very fabric of American life. What would you do if we hadn't been here to stop them???
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HonorableTB posted:I would say both Roosevelts were solid progressives, I'd much rather have a dynasty of Roosevelts than the Kennedys, anyway.
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https://twitter.com/axios/status/1491729076452827139 turns out Trump had his reasons for wanting hi powered toilets
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Kulkasha posted:I wouldn't consider the Roosevelts a dynasty per say since they were cousins in different branches and they correspondingly had different political parties. Also both had charismatic sons that died too soon They were a political elite dynasty, though, even if they didn’t have more at the highest levels. Hell, Kermit was running the CIA op that overthrew Mossadegh.
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ILL Machina posted:It's also how we lost the legend Billy Mays. Great. Now, in addition to every symptom I ever WebMD listing "cancer" as a possible cause, I now have to think that today might be my last if I bump my head and seem fine.
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Meatball posted:The democrats refuse to help people because they are terrified of how the Republicans will react. They appear to be keeping the program to allow people to shoot up or smoke in safe spaces and provide clean needles. They just won't provide clean crack/meth pipes. Which is both better than I assumed it would be, but also a very weird place to draw the line. It would make much more sense to fold the whole thing or just not change anything. Helping people shoot up heroin is apparently fine, but helping people smoke meth is bad? There's no logical public policy reason for that.
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theCalamity posted:https://twitter.com/AP/status/1491520544566648837?s=20&t=V4Chs81VntEVlHBCXrcfLw It’s really great having an administration that will cave instantly to ginned up right wing bullshit instead of what their (ostensible) base wants and needs.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:They appear to be keeping the program to allow people to shoot up or smoke in safe spaces and provide clean needles. I think it's more common knowledge that needle sharing leads to spread of HIV and other scary bloodborne diseases. The crack/meth pipe problem is something where it's easier for people to say users are harming themselves and only themselves.
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According to the actual AP article, there never were pipes as part of the grant. The grants do allow for safe smoking kits, which sometimes come with safe pipes, but whatever was bought with the kit had to comply with state and federal laws, which would prohibit the kits that come with pipes. Looking at the original grant application, that seems right. But, a "social media firestorm" saying they were "giving out free government crack pipes during Black History Month" is what prompted them to speak out that it wasn't accurate. https://www.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/grants/pdf/fy22-harm-reduction-nofo.pdf quote:Eligible products include: quote:FUNDING LIMITATIONS/RESTRICTIONS https://apnews.com/article/business..._source=Twitter quote:Dousing a social media firestorm, the Biden administration said Wednesday that a grant program to counter harm from illicit drugs will not pay for safer pipes to smoke crack or meth. quote:The original request for funding proposals from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration had listed “safe smoking kits/supplies” among the items that could be purchased with taxpayer money. They were among a dozen categories that included overdose prevention drugs, medication lockboxes, test kits for infectious diseases, and syringe disposal containers. The grant solicitation did not specifically mention pipes, although they can be a part of safe smoking kits. quote:Nonetheless reports that the Biden administration was using federal dollars to pay for “crack pipes” took off. Some Republican senators piled on, castigating the administration. quote:But administration officials Becerra and Gupta said they continue to stand by “proven harm reduction strategies like providing naloxone, fentanyl test strips, and clean syringes.” HHS also pointed out that the harm reduction grants are required to conform to federal, state and local laws, and crack pipes are illegal in many jurisdictions. https://apnews.com/article/business..._source=Twitter Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Feb 10, 2022 |
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Great. Now, in addition to every symptom I ever WebMD listing "cancer" as a possible cause, I now have to think that today might be my last if I bump my head and seem fine. I cracked my skull on my kid's bunk bed this morning. I don't wanna go out like Bob Saget!
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mdemone posted:I don't wanna go out like Bob Saget! Guaranteed Bobby Hill line in the KotH revival.
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https://twitter.com/byHeatherLong/status/1491776296581480456 This isn't going to help anything substantive get passed. When faced with this kind of supply-side inflation, Nixon went on the offensive to attack price-gougers. Biden and the Democrats seem too tame to go on that front and are just letting big business and the GOP set them up as the fall guys. No bravery to make long term productive investments in our economy and population and all the willingness to just stick their thumbs up their asses and pretend there's nothing they can do. No one has learned their lessons from post-WWII economic or political history and I'm getting really sick of it.
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