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https://twitter.com/byKateSmith/status/1618625671500296195 Voting for Democrats in state/local elections really matters.
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Seph posted:Well, it seems like we'll get to see which is a stronger force in the justice system: incarcerating black people, or letting cops go free: The current DA was my criminal and constitutional law professor and I expect him to handle this really well. It's the first time in a while that Memphis has had a good one
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Jan 26, 2023 23:08
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Knew this was coming but still, smh. Looks like Carter gets to keep his classified docs because the PRA didn't go into effect until after he left office. https://twitter.com/jeremyherb/status/1618659455750782977 quote:The letter, which was reviewed by CNN, requests that they check their files to ensure that material thought to be personal does not “inadvertently” contain presidential records that are required by law to be turned over to the Archives. -Blackadder- fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Jan 26, 2023 |
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Jan 26, 2023 23:14
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You can probably find a way to de-incentivice keeping people as slave labor or as holding them hostage for reimbursment. I can't see away out of people just being evil and not letting people out when their time is done.
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Jan 26, 2023 23:17
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cat botherer posted:Turns out the Biden administration granted more oil and gas drilling permits on BLM land in their first two years than the Trump administration: I honestly and truly think its politically impossible to do anything serious about GW in our political system. People were screaming when gas was over $4. Last time I ran the calculations it had to be over $10 to account for recapturing the greenhouse gases. Any politician that proposes taxing gas so that it costs that much is gonna be out on their rear end ASAP. Public transit and electrification seem to be losing issues too. The American public wants tech magic to save us, and are unwilling to accept any lifestyle changes.
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Jan 26, 2023 23:22
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-Blackadder- posted:Knew this was coming but still, smh. They also sent it to the very dead Bush Sr. Presumeably it's to get people to go though family properties and make sure that everything is actually gone.
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Jan 26, 2023 23:22
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VorpalBunny posted:The problem with modern politics is we all have goldfish brains. Remember how Biden was DONE when his classified docs thing was happening, and we were talking about his 2024 replacement? Then both Carter and Pence admitted they had docs as well? Thank goodness the adults are in charge and some actual good things are happening, slowly but surely. Hey, now, that wasn't "we all", that was just me, and everybody else said I was full of poo poo. 
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Jan 26, 2023 23:24
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ryde posted:I honestly and truly think its politically impossible to do anything serious about GW in our political system. People were screaming when gas was over $4. Last time I ran the calculations it had to be over $10 to account for recapturing the greenhouse gases. Any politician that proposes taxing gas so that it costs that much is gonna be out on their rear end ASAP. It's not like they're getting the option even if lifestyle changes were remotely sufficient. There's no political will to build infrastructure or cut down on military hardware.
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Jan 26, 2023 23:27
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Twincityhacker posted:They also sent it to the very dead Bush Sr. Presumeably it's to get people to go though family properties and make sure that everything is actually gone.
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Jan 26, 2023 23:34
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ryde posted:I honestly and truly think its politically impossible to do anything serious about GW in our political system. People were screaming when gas was over $4. Last time I ran the calculations it had to be over $10 to account for recapturing the greenhouse gases. Any politician that proposes taxing gas so that it costs that much is gonna be out on their rear end ASAP. How did you figure that calculation? The EPA recently floated evaluation the social cost of carbon at $190/ton, which should be about a $2.80 additional tax per gallon. I don't know what carbon recapture cost you would use since there isn't any functional system at scale.
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Jan 26, 2023 23:40
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Youth Decay posted:https://twitter.com/byKateSmith/status/1618625671500296195 VA Dems also killed an anti-trans bill yesterday https://twitter.com/ACLUVA/status/1618270096077774848
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-Blackadder- posted:Ronald Reagan?! The actor?!
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Flappy Bert posted:How did you figure that calculation? The EPA recently floated evaluation the social cost of carbon at $190/ton, which should be about a $2.80 additional tax per gallon. I don't know what carbon recapture cost you would use since there isn't any functional system at scale. I looked up how much carbon dioxide one gallon of gas emitted, and then looked up how much it cost to sequester that amount of carbon dioxide, and added the two together. Maybe my sources are math were incorrect, going off of memory here. Edit: Decided to redo the calculation. Looks like whatever calculation I made back in the day is dramatically off. Sources are giving about $150/ton for direct air capture, and 1 gallon of gas produces about 8887 grams, so that comes out to $1.47 to sequester it via direct air capture. That's a lot more politically feasible, although Americans still lose their minds over gas prices so who knows. ryde fucked around with this message at 02:03 on Jan 27, 2023 |
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Jan 27, 2023 01:55
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Moterheads would probably demand any gas tax went to maintaining roads wrecked by our massive over reliance on trucked goods anyway.-Blackadder- posted:Knew this was coming but still, smh. presumably to his estate.
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nine-gear crow posted:The actor?! No, the other one
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haveblue posted:No, the other one Rappin' Ronnie Reagan?
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-Blackadder- posted:Knew this was coming but still, smh. It says "representatives of..." right there in the quote
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Normy posted:It says "representatives of..." right there in the quote The representative: 
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Youth Decay posted:https://twitter.com/byKateSmith/status/1618625671500296195 Youth Decay posted:VA Dems also killed an anti-trans bill yesterday good, least some folks are keeping up the good fight. Seph posted:Well, it seems like we'll get to see which is a stronger force in the justice system: incarcerating black people, or letting cops go free: apperently the video is really loving horrible and bad like bad enough that the cop union didnt even want to defend it. it gets released tomarrow so thats gonna be loving awful.
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Jan 27, 2023 04:02
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Dapper_Swindler posted:good, least some folks are keeping up the good fight. Yeah, all 5 of the cops were fired within 2 weeks. It's almost certainly indefensibly bad.
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Delaying the video to Friday at like 5PM tells you everything you need to know.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:apperently the video is really loving horrible and bad like bad enough that the cop union didnt even want to defend it. it gets released tomarrow so thats gonna be loving awful. At this point so many of the usual masters of apologetics are coming out on the record as "Fuuuuuuuuck", that I'm kind of scared about how loving bad this is going to be. Just on a pure I did not need to ever have that information in my brain level.
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Gyges posted:At this point so many of the usual masters of apologetics are coming out on the record as "Fuuuuuuuuck", that I'm kind of scared about how loving bad this is going to be. Just on a pure I did not need to ever have that information in my brain level. Don't worry, we'll be back to the usual refrain of "just a few bad apples" and "See? They've already been fired! Law enforcement can police itself!"
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Jan 27, 2023 05:01
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Dapper_Swindler posted:good, least some folks are keeping up the good fight. https://twitter.com/vaplan2018/status/1618686606063599616 https://twitter.com/vaplan2018/status/1618694561089613824 https://twitter.com/vaplan2018/status/1618712956531015681 Even more anti-trans bills and voting rights-limiting bills tomorrow. Senate Dems are working extra long days because the bill patrons won't even be bothered to show up on time for the subcommittee meetings. Shooting Blanks posted:Yeah, all 5 of the cops were fired within 2 weeks. It's almost certainly indefensibly bad.
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cat botherer posted:Turns out the Biden administration granted more oil and gas drilling permits on BLM land in their first two years than the Trump administration: Trump's administration was trying to shrink BLM land, Biden's administration is doing things like this quote:The U.S. Interior Department on Thursday blocked mining in part of northeast Minnesota for 20 years, the latest blow to Antofagasta Plc's (ANTO.L) Twin Metals copper and nickel mining project but a step officials said is needed to protect the state's vast network of interconnected waterways. While it's not a 100% comparable since it's not oil/gas, It's pretty obvious who has done more damage with regards to environmentalism. Kalit fucked around with this message at 05:19 on Jan 27, 2023 |
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Jan 27, 2023 05:08
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Youth Decay posted:I'm a cynic so I have to wonder if the skin color of these cops also might be contributing to the local authorities' willingness to prosecute them quickly rather than defend them. That's tough to guess - Memphis is a majority Black city. I don't know if that makes the city more or less likely to pursue charges in this situation.
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I would assume them being police would outweigh them being Black, but them being Black would definitely mean they're first on the chopping block when it's time to make sacrifices?
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Jan 27, 2023 05:35
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Youth Decay posted:https://twitter.com/byKateSmith/status/1618625671500296195 Dapper_Swindler posted:good, least some folks are keeping up the good fight. So this led me to take a stroll down memory lane and revisit just how we got here... Both compliments of Trotsky: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3983623&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=62#post519090851 https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3986569&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=14#post519685317 It's worth going back and reading through them, including the subsequent posts, to get a feel for how bad it was. So I'm curious about what others' thoughts are about this? Those focus groups had some seriously frustrating responses. Did the Dems make any changes, and how does this all fit in with the Dems doing well in the midterms? Is it all just down to Abortion?
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I mean the thing I get from most of those focus results is that it doesn't feel like the Dems stand for anything and nobody believe them or remembers what they did or even understands what they vote for. The Democrats don't have a brand. Their brand is, 'whatever sounds good enough to progressive-ish middle and upper class folks' which is an ever changing wheel of things because Dems love their optics and nobody believe them. If you look at that first one you see Dems getting hammered on gas prices, inflation, and CRT because the Republicans know how to wage a brand war - they state what their position is, or more frequently, what they oppose, and they say whatever is necessary to get there, and they keep saying it, for years and years if they have to. The Dems could have run on, "Republicans are bible thumping whackos that think they own your womb" but that's too radical so they won't say that, they'll try to imply it. The Dems could have, 6 years ago, run on, "The Republicans want police to shoot your son", but they can't say that, because they don't want to bad mouth the police. They never say anything directly because there are too many toes to step on - police, capitalists, specific businesses, religion - and people sense that, everything is couched in half-statements with no conviction. That's what I see what I read these things.
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Mendrian posted:The Dems could have run on, "Republicans are bible thumping whackos that think they own your womb" but that's too radical so they won't say that, they'll try to imply it. They did? Unless you live in a district with Henry Cuellar or that guy who tweeted 24 hours a day about how he supported the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I have no idea how you could follow politics at all and think "Republicans are Bible thumping wackos who want to own your womb" was not the main campaign message for 2022 Democrats.
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Youremother posted:I would assume them being police would outweigh them being Black, but them being Black would definitely mean they're first on the chopping block when it's time to make sacrifices? Without knowing their specifics, my guess would be that they didn't have the right connections and/or made rookie mistakes in covering it up.
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Mendrian posted:I mean the thing I get from most of those focus results is that it doesn't feel like the Dems stand for anything and nobody believe them or remembers what they did or even understands what they vote for. This comic is what, 20 years old? Same as it’s ever been 
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Certainly part of the issue was that Youngkin was able to sneak in by successfully playing Bush's classic "Compassionate Conservative" card. This is from an interview with the guy who ran the focus group, keep in mind these are usually Democratic voters who went Youngkin this time.... quote:One of the things you also said in the memo was that McAuliffe’s strategy of linking Mr. Youngkin to former President Donald Trump was ineffective. What in the conversations with your groups made that clear? Also missed this earlier... nine-gear crow posted:The actor?! 
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Seems like that has to be it. The white boomer Buddhists are residual Alan Watts movement folks, probably.
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Shooting Blanks posted:Yeah, all 5 of the cops were fired within 2 weeks. It's almost certainly indefensibly bad. Also all five of the officers were black so the cops can assuage their guilt of throwing other cops under the bus by believing that they weren't REAL cops.
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Mendrian posted:I mean the thing I get from most of those focus results is that it doesn't feel like the Dems stand for anything and nobody believe them or remembers what they did or even understands what they vote for. The thing is, establishment Democrats have a weak-rear end message, but they have everything else a political party needs to sustain itself due to the legacy of having less weak-rear end messages decades or centuries ago. They have state and county-level institutional ties, patronage networks, local machines, religious connections... Republicans have those too, but numerically less so. They make do with a strong-rear end message to complement it. The spheres of influence are sort of like anti-matter and matter due to increasing political polarization, so they only have to worry about someone actually coming up with a stronger message that applies to their spheres. Republicans try to counteract this by a race to the right. Democrats don't have to race to the left because the left's message is ultimately near as anemic as theirs, only nicer, so they can counteract it using all of the other poo poo you need to survive in politics.
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DarkCrawler posted:The thing is, establishment Democrats have a weak-rear end message, but they have everything else a political party needs to sustain itself due to the legacy of having less weak-rear end messages decades or centuries ago. They have state and county-level institutional ties, patronage networks, local machines, religious connections... Don't forget their massive GOTV and fundraising database that just got gutted by private equity lmfao
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Memphis is releasing the video of the officers that were arrested and charged with murder today at 6 pm Central Time. I don't know anything about the woman who runs the Memphis Police Department, but whether she is some kind of genuine reformer or a hardcore Back the Blue type, I don't think the person in charge of the police would be saying this unless it was extremely bad. https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1618953989113913345 quote:It’s been almost three weeks since a traffic stop in Memphis led to a violent arrest and, three days later, the death of the 29-year-old Black driver.
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I'm interested in more detail on them firing the fire paramedics who showed up. Did they help hold him down? Take shots? Never heard of them getting fired in something like this. loving horrible. It's gonna get worse over the next couple of weeks between this and the escalations at Cop City
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