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Google Jeb Bush posted:we can be reasonably certain that he has had sex with men Is there even a real identity with someone like this? What would that even entail? If he spends X% of his life lying, what makes the time he's "really himself" more real than the lie?
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FlamingLiberal posted:Is Santos actually gay or not? I thought it previously came up that he was gay, but like with everything else that may not be accurate. Yes, he's gay or bi. George Santos is really not all that baffling if you just keep in mind that he's a gay republican. Being a gay republican incentivizes you to be in the closet. Being in the closet incentivizes you to lie about yourself. Getting people to question whether he's actually gay or not may even be one of his primary motivations. I don't want to stigmatize closeted gay people or even gay republicans as potential sociopathic con artists but looking at his situation it's what makes the most sense.
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# ? Jan 19, 2023 02:46 |
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Dapper_Swindler posted:is it because they are realizing their leadership screwed them in the midterms? Unfortunately, no. Like so much NYS state politics, it is partially about turf wars between different political groups, partially because a bunch of more liberal state senators replaced the members of the "Independent Democratic Caucus" of conservative Dems, and partly because a lot of major Democratic interest groups want a different candidate (the left-wing caucus and Working Families Party endorsed 3 of the 7 people on the list the independent committee sent to Hochul) and this is the first big fight of Hochul's new term, so it is higher profile. Some of these Senators have their eye on the Governorship as well and they don't want to look bad for the interest groups they will need in the primary and also want their own person as court administrator and not a Hochul loyalist holdover that LaSalle has promised to appoint.
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Amazon just cancled their Amazon Smile program, where you donated .5% of the items price to a charity of your choice. The reason given was that the "donations were spread too thin, so the program had less of an impact than they hoped." So instead of a small amount of money, the charities will get zero money. Makes sense.
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:Yes, he's gay or bi. George Santos is really not all that baffling if you just keep in mind that he's a gay republican. Being a gay republican incentivizes you to be in the closet. Being in the closet incentivizes you to lie about yourself. Getting people to question whether he's actually gay or not may even be one of his primary motivations. Nobody becomes a career conman because they became confused by living a seeming political contradiction. Generally they had extremely negative/no role models growing up and/or are just sociopaths who navigate the world by these interactions that are strange to us. Even this is speculation and it's impossible to "diagnose" this guy. No need to round up the log cabin Republicans and other closeted conservatives.
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Twincityhacker posted:Amazon just cancled their Amazon Smile program, where you donated .5% of the items price to a charity of your choice. probably the cost of admin exceeded the tax savings they were getting from charitable donations? i don't know.
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Twincityhacker posted:Amazon just cancled their Amazon Smile program, where you donated .5% of the items price to a charity of your choice. Billionaires don't just want some of the money, they want ALL of the money.
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# ? Jan 19, 2023 03:26 |
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I remember reading that there was research that said it's likely that programs like Amazon Smile did more harm than good in that they made people feel "I've done my part already," which resulted in typically much less donations than if they were to actually donate.
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Amazon smile was always remarkably badly integrated into the platform, operating as a quasi-parallel storefront. This may have been partially motivated by a preview of the cost of proper integration and/or upkeep, when the company's certainly got other ways to maximize its charitable deductions.
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quote:Your chosen charity, Democratic Socialists of America Fund Inc, recently received a quarterly donation of $1,270.50 from AmazonSmile. To date, Amazon has donated a total of:
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Well this should be interesting, some Dem states seemed to have formed a little cabal to go after the rich. Looks like they're announcing it tomorrow morning. Not sure how well it's going to work, but either way someone needs to do something soon. That billionaire hedge fund manager who caused a budget shortfall in New Jersey just because he decided to pack up and move to the sunny capital of Chudlandia does not bode well for the future given current wealth distribution trends. https://twitter.com/commondreams/status/1615781808485842961 quote:Frustrated with federal inaction in the face of soaring inequality, Democratic lawmakers in seven states across the U.S. are teaming up this week to simultaneously introduce wealth tax bills targeting the fortunes of billionaires and other rich individuals who have seen their net worth explode in recent years. -Blackadder- fucked around with this message at 04:53 on Jan 19, 2023 |
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FlamingLiberal posted:Is Santos actually gay or not? I thought it previously came up that he was gay, but like with everything else that may not be accurate. Whether or not he's actually gay isn't really something we can judge. The thing that was doubtful that he claimed to have long been openly gay, out and proud for a decade and completely confident in his sexual identity the entire time.
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Ok Andy Kaufman u got us
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-Blackadder- posted:Well this should be interesting, some Dem states seemed to have formed a little cabal to go after the rich. To be fair to the Feds, it is pretty much established outside of a small academic dissent that a wealth tax is unconstitutional on the Federal level, but it actually might work at the state level. I hadn't ever heard whether the ban on direct taxes (with some well-known exceptions) also applied to the states. I think they probably can, since the Feds similarly can't impose property taxes while states routinely do.
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# ? Jan 19, 2023 05:29 |
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Twincityhacker posted:Amazon just cancled their Amazon Smile program, where you donated .5% of the items price to a charity of your choice. Same day they announced they’re cutting 18k jobs. Must really be struggling over there, hope they make it.
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Amazon is spending a billion dollars a year to have Thursday night football on Prime. Just the license to air it.
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Trump's deposition in his rape defamation has been released and it is the usual combination of hilarious, horrifying, sad, monstrous, and borderline parody that seems to be Trump's signature brand. https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1616012353929154562 Some other highlights: quote:·7· · · · Q.· · I want to focus on the very last quote:Q: And as of today, you have approximately four million followers on Truth Social? quote:14· ·The woman -- there's something wrong with her in my quote:Q.· · So you wrote the statement and someone in your office gave you the picture? quote:Q.· · Okay.· You say in this post -- you use a quote:Q.· · Okay.· I was curious when I read this. quote:Q.· · So, sir, I just want to confirm:· It's quote:Q.· · And so the question I'm asking you is did quote:Q.· · The point of saying she's not my type is quote:Q.· · Do you know what "sexual harassment" quote:Q.· · Have you ever touched a woman on her
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Great. Trump is going to be able to evade trial due to people finally recognizing his onset of dementia.
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That's unfair... TO TRUMP! You really expect him to remember every woman he's assaulted or raped?! Impossible and unfair, and it should be stricken from the record!
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She wanted me to sexually assault her, so what I did was wanted. Except that I didn't do it.
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Also, the part where he thought Carroll... the person who is suing him... was his ex-wife, Marla Maples. https://twitter.com/TEARIS_Hall/status/1616047943026343938?s=20 quote:"That's Marla, yeah. That's my wife," Trump said, referring to Maples."
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# ? Jan 19, 2023 15:44 |
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So is this what prion disease sounds like?
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# ? Jan 19, 2023 15:53 |
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my You Gotta Hand It To Trump is that he was such a skilled and practiced conman / salesman orator that he has been able to carry on his persuasive personality techniques and general "functionalities" and charismatic appeal even through an extended process of cognitive decline, keeping him relevant if insane to watch Like it hinders him and causes problems but he's able to keep on with the grift, it's so hardcoded into him
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Not even "ex-wife" just "wife".
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Alec Baldwin to be charged with manslaughter over the shooting incident on set from late last year. The production's armorer will also face manslaughter charges. https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/1616105946182258689
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BDawg posted:Also, the part where he thought Carroll... the person who is suing him... was his ex-wife, Marla Maples. So this just means that Trump, at some point in their marriage, raped Marla Maples like he raped Ivana, and this is just him accidentally confessing to it because his goo brain has become unstuck in time, right?
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Alec Baldwin to be charged with manslaughter over the shooting incident on set from late last year. That seems crazy because the news lawyer this morning said manslaughter requires criminal intent and there most likely isn't that for Baldwin.
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BDawg posted:That seems crazy because the news lawyer this morning said manslaughter requires criminal intent and there most likely isn't that for Baldwin. Involuntary manslaughter does not require intent to kill. It just requires them to prove that he acted in a criminally negligent way that resulted in a death. As the producer and person who fired the gun, they are alleging that the safety protocols were knowingly disregarded to save time.
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BDawg posted:That seems crazy because the news lawyer this morning said manslaughter requires criminal intent and there most likely isn't that for Baldwin.
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BDawg posted:That seems crazy because the news lawyer this morning said manslaughter requires criminal intent and there most likely isn't that for Baldwin. Involuntary doesn't require criminal intent but rather "you drat well should have known and done better than you did."
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BDawg posted:That seems crazy because the news lawyer this morning said manslaughter requires criminal intent and there most likely isn't that for Baldwin. Purposefully disregarding safety rules for speed / look reasons is, I argue, a form of criminal intent.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Involuntary manslaughter does not require intent to kill. It just requires them to prove that he acted in a criminally negligent way that resulted in a death. Sorry, negligence, not intent. Baldwin had every reason to believe the gun was a prop and not capable of firing a live round. Guess the prosecution thinks they can prove that.
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BDawg posted:Sorry, negligence, not intent. Baldwin had every reason to believe the gun was a prop and not capable of firing a live round. The alleged sequence of events that resulted in them charging Baldwin (and the director and armorer) were this: - This was a small low-budget movie that Baldwin was producing and funding. - The original armorer and team had a day rate, but kept complaining that Baldwin was asking them to prepare too quickly between takes. Baldwin said that they needed to finish this specific scene today and the armorer can stay late to finish (but, not get paid more because it was a day rate). - The armorer said no and left. - A person from the props department was promoted to armorer. They were technically qualified to do it, but they were also 24, this was their first time ever doing it, and they were also working their other job in props. - Things seem to go fine for a while. - According to the safety rules, the armorer is supposed to check the gun and make sure it is only loaded with blanks before handing it to the director. - The armorer did not and said it was good to go. - The armorer is also supposed to verify and hand the gun to the director, but instead she had three guns laying on her table (at least one of which was loaded with dummy rounds instead of blanks) and asked someone else to pick up the gun and take it to the director instead of doing it herself. It's not clear if the gun that person took was supposed to be the one taken or not. - According to the safety rules, the director is supposed to verify that the gun is empty or has blanks before handing it to the actor. - The director did not. Instead, he just took the crew member's word for it that it was good to go and did not ask for the armorer to be the one to hand it to him. - The gun actually had "dummy" bullets that are not "real" metal bullets, but are dense rubber bullets used for shooting things from a distance safely. - The dummy bullets are "safe" bullets, but only supposed to be used for shooting objects at longer range. Shooting a person with them point blank in the face or chest can still cause serious injuries (and death, as was the case here). - A week earlier, they had another incident with a gun where two live rounds were fired after someone told Baldwin that it just had blanks. But, nobody was harmed and nobody changed anything in response because they chalked it up to a one-time mistake. - The director already entered a guilty plea in a plea deal admitting that he took the crewmember's word for it and was negligent in both not checking the gun himself and accepting the gun from someone who wasn't the armorer. - Baldwin and the armorer are being charged with manslaughter because the armorer was supposed to verify the safety of the gun, but failed to do so and told the director (who told Baldwin) that it was good to go. - Baldwin, as the producer of the movie, was responsible for the staffing and was negligent in disregarding safety rules, letting the original armorer leave, putting the novice armorer (who also had other full-time duties to do in addition to the armorer position), and not ensuring that his director and armorer were following the safety rules. In addition, Baldwin pulled the trigger that eventually killed the cinematographer.
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BDawg posted:Also, the part where he thought Carroll... the person who is suing him... was his ex-wife, Marla Maples. Yes that's my wife, a person I do not find attractive and am not attracted to.
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Staluigi posted:my You Gotta Hand It To Trump is that he was such a skilled and practiced conman / salesman orator that he has been able to carry on his persuasive personality techniques and general "functionalities" and charismatic appeal even through an extended process of cognitive decline, keeping him relevant if insane to watch A longstanding question in the Fallout community has been settled - we finally know what high Charisma/low Speech sounds like.
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Byzantine posted:A longstanding question in the Fallout community has been settled - we finally know what high Charisma/low Speech sounds like. There are a few varieties of this: -The Sex Idiot -Adults who have the personality and mind of golden retrievers -Kamala Harris
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selec posted:-Adults who have the personality and mind of golden retrievers You repeat yourself (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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selec posted:-Adults who have the personality and mind of golden retrievers Could you elaborate a bit on what this is supposed to mean?
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Judgy Fucker posted:Could you elaborate a bit on what this is supposed to mean? What it says on the tin, no elaboration necessary.
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Failed Imagineer posted:You repeat yourself Golden Retrievers have far more energy
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