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Nebrilos posted:This is what I don't get. They know they are about to be murdered, so why don't they cancel student loan debt, raise the minimum wage, and/or legalize weed? I imagine they would be more popular with voters if they passed policies that are popular and/or that they promised they would do. They've gotten real used to the threat of Republicans getting power being the reason to vote for them and keep expecting that to work. And if it doesn't, they won't suffer so they have no reason to really care. Nebrilos posted:Maybe the prison industrial complex doesn't like weed legalization. Plus police have one less excuse to harass and arrest people.
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Nebrilos posted:Maybe the prison industrial complex doesn't like weed legalization. Tobacco companies too for obvious reasons.
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Nebrilos posted:This is what I don't get. They know they are about to be murdered, so why don't they cancel student loan debt, raise the minimum wage, and/or legalize weed? I imagine they would be more popular with voters if they passed policies that are popular and/or that they promised they would do. Politics is really just a process of validating the feelings of politicians about how the world should work, and everything else is a side effect.
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Fister Roboto posted:Tobacco companies too for obvious reasons. Tobacco and beverage companies can't loving wait for weed, they've already started investing massively in other companies
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Brawnfire posted:There are vanishingly few people who think spontaneous doubling in size of celestial bodies is an acceptable Occam's Razor alternative to "an observed force, called gravity" the gently caress does this even mean. does he think that the earth just inflates it self in size and this is gravity???? e: oopps qouted and commented on something from 4 pages ago. but lol at the page 1605 top post/snipe "We'll disprove evolution in your lifetime. Time isn't linear because of the double slit experiment, and specifically non-linear in such a way as to affect your daily life" Lol dilbert buritto, or dilburrito inventor Adams is stupid as gently caress. PhazonLink has a new favorite as of 04:54 on Apr 20, 2022 |
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As a vegan all I can say is I'm not a woman.
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Where do these idiots hear this stuff?
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TontoCorazon posted:Tobacco and beverage companies can't loving wait for weed, they've already started investing massively in other companies  They'll just switch their farms over to that and shift to synthetic nicotine or produce it with bacteria or some poo poo I think mostly it's social conservatism, the prison-industrial complex and dickbags like Biden who at least partially are just too narcissistic to admit their bullshit did more harm than goid
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Where do these idiots hear this stuff? Probably from someone who invented a product to clean the plaque off your vagina walls for the low low price of $39.99
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PhazonLink posted:the gently caress does this even mean. does he think that the earth just inflates it self in size and this is gravity???? Basically yes, he heard the argument that “evolution is just a theory, that’s not the same as a fact,” the counter “well gravity is also just a theory but you’ll happily accept that as fact” and decided that he could out-stupid everyone and developed his own “theory” of gravity; that objects are rapidly expanding and things falling down is just them and the earth expanding and bonking together. He proudly proclaimed that this was as valid as actual science and no one could refute it, and when people pointed out the many faults he argued that he didn’t understand the explanation and therefore it didn’t count, or that things like orbits were obviously some unrelated undiscovered phenomenon and he didn’t have to account for those. Because of course he did because the alternative would be admitting that there are people smarter than Scott Dilbertman, which is the one physical impossibility.
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Skwirl posted:Probably from someone who invented a product to clean the plaque off your vagina walls for the low low price of $39.99 ah the ol' vag toothbrush
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credburn posted:Talking about 50s pedo scifi, John Varley was one of my favorite writers as a teenager when I'd read one or two of his books... I later read a collection of short stories, all of which I think were fine but for the last one, that was about a normal human dude walking into a tribe of people who had no sense of sight or sound. And lo a prepubescent naked girl teaches him the ways of their tribe, mostly through touching. Lots of touching. And later a full blown orgy. John Varley also wrote this wonderful Hugo award winning story:    Plot twist: He is going on a trip at relativistic speeds, so time dilation will make the girl age-appropriate when he returns. Haha, you thought he was a pedophile, but it's actually heart-warming!
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Where do these idiots hear this stuff? Ironically, I'm listening to an old F Plus about something similar to that right now. Dude's name is Dr Sebi, aka Alfredo Bowman and he has this entire thing about how pigs are made of worms and acid is killing you and rice is plastic and eating certain foods causes menopause by clogging your tubes.
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SimonChris posted:John Varley also wrote this wonderful Hugo award winning story: Why were so many sci-fi dudes so weird and gross.
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Kenning posted:Why were so many dudes so weird and gross. ftfy
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The proportion of all dudes in general who have publicly professed a desire to gently caress tweens vs. the proportion of sci-fi authors who have publicly professed same isn't even close though.
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SimonChris posted:John Varley also wrote this wonderful Hugo award winning story: What the gently caress
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Kenning posted:The proportion of all dudes in general who have publicly professed a desire to gently caress tweens vs. the proportion of sci-fi authors who have publicly professed same isn't even close though. Or at least it seems to be weirdly universal among "well regarded" authors? Is there a scifi review body made out of nonces or something?
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Kenning posted:The proportion of all dudes in general who have publicly professed a desire to gently caress neonates vs. the proportion of sci-fi authors who have publicly professed same isn't even close though. I think that's just either most dudes not having the same platform, or the vagaries of western culture make it such that sci-fi writers who write about loving tweens and teenagers are able to find larger platforms than the sci-fi writers who don't. "Sci-fi writers famous enough for most sci-fi fans to know who they are" is an insanely small sample size.
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SimonChris posted:John Varley also wrote this wonderful Hugo award winning story: people in the sff thread are constantly talking about how great he is lmao
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SimonChris posted:John Varley also wrote this wonderful Hugo award winning story: This is not helping!
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SimonChris posted:John Varley also wrote this wonderful Hugo award winning story:  Skwirl posted:ftfy
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Skwirl posted:The Democrats are about to get absolutely murdered in the mid terms, so not really. The party in power often loses seats in midterms after their candidate takes the white house because the voting public are a bunch of callow dumb dumbs
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i don't think heinlein has ever been described as a normal guy
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Kenning posted:Why were so many sci-fi dudes so weird and gross. Sci-fi (and fantasy) allows you for several venues/contrivancies to make weird sex stuff "totally ok, you guys"
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Yes but you could go for the iain m banks approach and have your weird sex stuff be "everyone can have whatever kind of sex they want because you can have whatever kind of body you like but you should still be consenting adults"
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Scratch Monkey posted:The party in power often loses seats in midterms after their candidate takes the white house because the voting public are a bunch of callow dumb dumbs Bush Jr and Trump didn't lose both houses in their first terms, and historically it hasn't been that common for control to switch so loving often, that's a recent development. From 1933 to 1995 Democrats had control of both houses of Congress except for the 47-49 and 53-55 sessions.
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moonmazed posted:i don't think heinlein has ever been described as a normal guy 
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"I've worked for some of the most powerful humans alive" like yeah mate so has everyone at amazon or in the army.
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OwlFancier posted:Yes but you could go for the iain m banks approach and have your weird sex stuff be "everyone can have whatever kind of sex they want because you can have whatever kind of body you like but you should still be consenting adults" He was too good for this hellworld
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OwlFancier posted:"I've worked for some of the most powerful humans alive" like yeah mate so has everyone at amazon or in the army. I work at the post office, so don't I technically work for the President? I did have to swear to uphold the constitution.
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Skwirl posted:Bush Jr and Trump didn't lose both houses in their first terms, and historically it hasn't been that common for control to switch so loving often, that's a recent development. From 1933 to 1995 Democrats had control of both houses of Congress except for the 47-49 and 53-55 sessions. Bush Jr and Trump are exceptional cases, the former had 9/11 only 14 months before and was riding that high still. Trump is always a weird case because a decent chunk of his followers do not act like typical republican voters, but dems still picked up 41 house seats and 7 governorships, and many of the senate seats up for election were in deep red areas. It wasn't a total washout but it was still a decisive turn. I acknowledge that this midterm might not be a massacre. Ukraine and the pandemic are mixing things up a little, particularly with trump's continued existence and his extremely unpopular attitude regarding the former. I think unless something wild happens 4-6 months from now it's going to be really bad though.
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Skwirl posted:I work at the post office, so don't I technically work for the President? I did have to swear to uphold the constitution. 
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Nebrilos posted:This is what I don't get. They know they are about to be murdered, so why don't they cancel student loan debt, raise the minimum wage, and/or legalize weed? I imagine they would be more popular with voters if they passed policies that are popular and/or that they promised they would do. They'd prefer to all keep their jobs, even if that means being reduced to a controlled opposition in a one party state, rather than actually being in power.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:defend it from enemies foreign and domestic I don't think defending it was part of the oath, which is good because I don't particularly like the constitution. Like the Senate is a dumb as poo poo idea.
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It means the physical document. You are legally obligated to steal it if you think it's under threat.
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