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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Yes, but the guy in the FT article is just measuring the difference between Millennials and the general population. It's not specifically measuring the transition of Millennials as they age. Millennials can still be getting more conservative as they age AND simultaneously be less conservative than previous generations (which is also what the NYT article says). Show where this is done in the United States studies.
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cat botherer posted:Bad things only need a simple majority. It's just good things that need 60 votes. Why did this get a probe? Isn't this just lamenting an ongoing issue? (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Kavros posted:their 'show up whenever spoken about even slightly and attempt to criminally harass people into silence' years are mostly behind them. they were actually such zealous harassers and suppressors that they were instrumental in helping establish protections for the earlier internet against assault The whole Chanology thing actually was pretty successful by all measures, Scientology really couldn't handle the open mockery and attention because they simply don't have any other mode of interaction with outsiders that isn't harassment or recruitment. Mormons at least have a thing about presenting as wholesome and friendly, even if they do as much horrible religious poo poo on personal and political levels. bobua posted:I feel like only a few years ago my friends who always had weed on them were super cautious when driving, scared to death of being pulled over. I'm curious if that's still the case these days even here where its still illegal but I think a small ticket at most. Still absolutely the smart thing to do because there's a good chance they're in the categories of people more likely to be pulled over, and more likely to be executed for it. Ghost Leviathan fucked around with this message at 07:12 on Jun 2, 2023 |
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marshmonkey posted:Debt ceiling raised until 2025. we did it, everyone really goddamn intensely interested in the implementation of the snap/tnaf thing, that's the one part of the deal I'm worried about even with the (massive) expansion of sub-50 support everything else is either Fine or Whatever (looking at you, 12% cutback to the IRS "maybe we should audit the rich sometimes" program)
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Apparently Jamie Foxx had a stroke because of the Covid vaccine? So says The Internet.  https://www.thedailybeast.com/dr-drew-airs-wild-anti-vax-conspiracy-about-jamie-foxxs-medical-emergency Honestly, that fool who started the anti-vax movement back in the 90s, that fake link to autism, needs to be held accountable for the damage he has done.
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VorpalBunny posted:Apparently Jamie Foxx had a stroke because of the Covid vaccine? So says The Internet. Andrew Wakefield, let's not forget his name. He's up there in the pantheon of greats along with Thomas Midgeley. Best not to think of him as a fool though because he personally profited from that bullshit. E: apparently he also recently dated Elle MacPherson 
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VorpalBunny posted:Apparently Jamie Foxx had a stroke because of the Covid vaccine? So says The Internet. Failed Imagineer posted:Andrew Wakefield, let's not forget his name. He's up there in the pantheon of greats along with Thomas Midgeley. Best not to think of him as a fool though because he personally profited from that bullshit. Wakefield revitalized the antivax movement, but it's been as old as vaccines themselves- and has always centered around the financial incentives of people who were offering alternative treatments, or had some other profit motive.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Andrew Wakefield, let's not forget his name. He's up there in the pantheon of greats along with Thomas Midgeley. Best not to think of him as a fool though because he personally profited from that bullshit. wakefield is much worse than midgeley, because I'm reasonably confident that Midgeley was well-intentioned and just either bad at downstream side effects, or cursed by an actual literal witch the man wound up dying when his elderly-person-mobility-assistance contraption strangled him to death, i'm fairly certain he really believed in his inventions
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Hbomb's vaccine video is very good and goes into just how much Wakefield is a massive piece of poo poo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BIcAZxFfrc
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Google Jeb Bush posted:wakefield is much worse than midgeley, because I'm reasonably confident that Midgeley was well-intentioned and just either bad at downstream side effects, or cursed by an actual literal witch I'd maybe give Midgeley a pass on freon, but not leaded gasoline. Lead had been known for centuries to cause all sorts of problems - it wasn't some newfound discovery. He was an early case of  with the training of an engineer, and the ethics education of a toddler.
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HiroProtagonist posted:Why did this get a probe? Isn't this just lamenting an ongoing issue? As a USCE lurker the worst thing is when someone asks a genuine question about rules or procedures and then immediately after there’s a flood of posters tripping over themselves to reply with a “lol because only bad things happen” snark response. It adds nothing to the conversation, gets posted over and over again and I know I’ve had questions I want to ask the thread but never go because I know Its rare to get an actual honest answer.
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HiroProtagonist posted:Why did this get a probe? Isn't this just lamenting an ongoing issue? Contrast their answer with Main Paineframe and haveblue, who not only identified it as a weird quirk of the Congressional Review Act but then provided some detail into the unintended consequences of said act (that it's really only effective when you're rolling back regulation from the last administration) that actually provide some citations as to why the system is broken.
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FizFashizzle posted:Well he doesn't have osteoperosis. It’s so funny how the entire leadership of the Democratic Party seems to be aware of how frail and decrepit this senile old bag of bones is, but there’s just nothing that can be done about it.
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Nucleic Acids posted:It’s so funny how the entire leadership of the Democratic Party seems to be aware of how frail and decrepit this senile old bag of bones is, but there’s just nothing that can be done about it. Wouldn't him tripping over a sandbag and not getting injured mean he's not frail and decrepit? Although, his observation skills could probably use some work...
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Main Paineframe posted:As haveblue said, it was a resolution using the Congressional Review Act, a 1996 law that created a special filibuster-proof fast-track process for Congress to overturn any agency regulation by simple majority within a certain time period. I remember being frustrated that it seemingly wasn't being used nearly as much under Biden for Trumps many odious new rules as Trump did in his first few weeks. There was so much bad poo poo issued towards the last few weeks of Trumps admin.
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Nucleic Acids posted:It’s so funny how the entire leadership of the Democratic Party seems to be aware of how frail and decrepit this senile old bag of bones is, but there’s just nothing that can be done about it. He immediately recovered after tripping on something which is sort of the opposite of frail and decrepit?
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Bwee posted:He immediately recovered after tripping on something which is sort of the opposite of frail and decrepit? Did we watch the same video? He fell, his hip immediately shattered, his femur snapped in half and penetrated his leg, and his pants ripped off showing him wearing a Depends that he was uncontrollably making GBS threads and pissing in, all while he sobbed and sincerely asked if we had defeated Hitler yet. Absolutely a walking corpse.
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Biden's hustling around is probably dangerous at his age all the same since even if he's taking spills all right there's a matter of luck involved and any injury can spiral as you get older. We should have younger presidents. As always though, the biggest reason why his age never hurt him in the past election, and probably won't hurt him in the next, is because the attacks came overwhelmingly from vocal backers of "even older guy" or "nearly as old guy but in visibly worse shape." Even people who aren't deep into politics to know much about policies or past histories picked that up, and it totally defanged criticisms about his age.
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Thinking back to the debt ceiling deal moving the requirements on SNAP around https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/medicaid-unwinding-state-data-coverage-loss/ quote:More than 600,000 Americans have lost Medicaid coverage since pandemic protections ended on April 1. And a KFF Health News analysis of state data shows the vast majority were removed from state rolls for not completing paperwork. Quite a bit more and a bunch of graphs at the link showing specific state breakdowns and some more about how ugly it's getting.
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Morrow posted:As Biden has gotten older he's also gotten more open to progressive ideas. A fairly common phenomenon among politicians. You never really hear an interview with retired senators saying, “Yeah, I wish I were more right wing back then on segregation/Vietnam/take your pick.”
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Progressives are the only ones who want to govern. Centrists just want to conduct business and the right wants to burn it all down.
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Kalli posted:Thinking back to the debt ceiling deal moving the requirements on SNAP around
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Imagine being termed out of student-loan forbearance at the same time you're dropped from the Medicaid rolls for not filling out the paperwork properly.
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Main Paineframe posted:
Dunno why "we" should care I'm married and kids to a russian, got friends dead in ukrainian earth, that we is me, gently caress Reade for being Putin's lapdog, gently caress Biden too, this is why I care gently caress you for asking why éwe" should care Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Jun 2, 2023 |
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edit this was a lovely post and I apologize
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I get email from my old congressional district, and the Republuican was touting "biggest spending cut ever!!!" and... uh, I dodn't think they got that much cut. EDIT: I think this is "one werid trick" by counting not increasing the buget next year?
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Twincityhacker posted:I get email from my old congressional district, and the Republuican was touting "biggest spending cut ever!!!" and... uh, I dodn't think they got that much cut. One weird trick of unprecedented pandemic spending the last two years stopping, so yeah basically.
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Willa Rogers posted:This week in "Obama gave everyone healthcare" as the focus-group-tested trope goes: This Nonprofit Health System Cuts Off Patients With Medical Debt gently caress the US healthcare system. If I had the wealth to spend my time freely I would make it my mission to not stop until poo poo like this was destroyed. This is an example of US profit model twisting the exemptions carved out originally for Catholic Hospitals that tended to provide charity care to the infirm. Hospitals as they exist now are non-profit in name only. It all needs to burn down.
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The fact that anything in healthcare is even allowed to be for profit outside of elective non-medical plastic surgery is completely insane and antithetical to the entire point of healthcare. Like why do we even allow for profit insurers to exist? Their profit motive is literally in direct conflict with their ostensible purpose. In a just world, the people responsible for those algorithmic denials would be marched into the public square and set on fire.
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BlueBlazer posted:gently caress the US healthcare system. If I had the wealth to spend my time freely I would make it my mission to not stop until poo poo like this was destroyed. I was at a BernieCare* clinic today & some guy had to pony up payment for his last exam before they'd see him again. He owed $35. * federally funded health center
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Professor Beetus posted:The fact that anything in healthcare is even allowed to be for profit outside of elective non-medical plastic surgery is completely insane and antithetical to the entire point of healthcare. Like why do we even allow for profit insurers to exist? Their profit motive is literally in direct conflict with their ostensible purpose. In a just world, the people responsible for those algorithmic denials would be marched into the public square and set on fire. When you make tens of billions a year you can afford a lot of lobbyists.
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Professor Beetus posted:The fact that anything in healthcare is even allowed to be for profit outside of elective non-medical plastic surgery is completely insane and antithetical to the entire point of healthcare. Like why do we even allow for profit insurers to exist? Their profit motive is literally in direct conflict with their ostensible purpose. In a just world, the people responsible for those algorithmic denials would be marched into the public square and set on fire. If not for the medical debt absolutely crushing your finances, what incentive would people have not to jump leg-first into a wood chipper?
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cat botherer posted:Scientology is becoming a smaller, but more intensive cult. It’s a natural progression with this kind of thing. David Miscavige is still doing great and they’re pulling in more money than ever. It’ll die eventually, but it will be much longer than you think. It'll just be a quick Jaunt.
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Tim Alberta, from the Atlantic, spent a year with CNN's CEO Chris Licht. It's a long article, but it perfectly encapsulates the Elon Musk school of thought. Dunning-Kruegering so hard that your idiocy and naivete convince you that you are "above the fray". Your lack of self-reflection and curiosity allow you to fall into every trap right-wing operatives lay out for you. And your unearned self-confidence making you think you know more than seasoned professionals while, at the same time, not realizing you're a puppet for your conservative boss. The article is behind a paywall and it's too long to post, so I snipped my favorite parts because it highlights just what a moron this guy is. You can still read the article if you open it in a private browser window. Inside the Meltdown at CNN The Atlantic posted:But anxieties grew as the town hall approached. Employees found it strange that none of the CNN anchors who’d interviewed Trump—Anderson Cooper, Jake Tapper, Erin Burnett, Wolf Blitzer, Chris Wallace—was invited to play a role in preparing for the event, whether by shaping questions, suggesting best practices, or simply advising Collins. Trump speculated on social media about the town hall turning into a disaster, prompting fears among executives that he might stage a stunt by walking off the set, which in turn prompted fears among staffers about what, exactly, the network would do to keep Trump on the set. In the final days before the event, concerns about the audience makeup spiked as Licht’s description of the crowd—“extra Trumpy”—wound its way through Slack channels and text-message threads. They gave Donald Trump a stage, with an unprepared host, an audience full of loyal "ride-or-die" fans, replaced on-air commentators with pro-Trump Republican shills, AND THE RIGHT STILL poo poo ALL OVER HIM! Licht and his lackeys gave Trump exactly what he wanted because he stupidly thought that throwing facts at Trump would be both entertaining and informative. It didn't. It showed Trump's audience that he was able to withstand the nasty attacks, vanquish the "fake news" network, be applauded for it, and be validated by the panelists. And everybody told him exactly what would happen and, surprise surprise, it happened. The Atlantic posted:Right on cue, one of Luntz’s students asked Licht about the trap of false equivalency. She seemed less interested in litigating the respective crimes of Fox News and MSNBC—though that played into her question—and more concerned with Licht’s overall attitude toward the news. There is, she reminded him, “one truth” on some fundamental questions facing the country. Trump had lost the 2020 election; Barack Obama had been born in the United States; we know how many deaths have been caused by COVID. The dumbass doesn't realize that deciding which truths deserve questions and which don't is already picking sides! He's so dumb that he doesn't know that entertaining questions on certain truths is the very definition of "both-sides" journalism.
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