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Ms Adequate posted:I have had mental health issues my entire life, including suicidal ideation. How do you think my actual attempt would have gone if I had access to a gun? I didn't, so I just ended up in the hospital for a few days and was lucky enough to get away with no permanent effects. That's not what would have happened if I had been able to use a firearm. It's pretty widely studied that access to firearms plays a major role in individuals successfully committing suicide, since it's so quick (No time to reconsider or for someone to find them and stop them), relatively easy, and highly fatal. I've never thought that straight-up banning guns is a ideal policy option as opposed to regulating the poo poo out of them and simply making them much more difficult/expensive to acquire,* but there's no question that even something as simple as increased waiting periods could save a lot of lives. *Add pretty much everything that's not a bolt-action/lever-action rifle to the NFA, index the tax stamp to inflation from 1934. I have solved guns in America, you're welcome.
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Randalor posted:Other than being a massive attention-whore, why is Tuberville doing this again? He is compromised by Russia, just like most Republicans are
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Mid-Life Crisis posted:Jesus Christ. You literally describe a mental health crisis then blame guns. Unreal cognitive dissonance. You all wish death on depressed folks with this attitude. It’s disgusting. One of my best friends from high school, pulled over on the side of the road, put a gun in his mouth and killed himself last year. We should repeal the second amendment and follow Australia’s example. Suicidal impulses are generally something that pass. Other methods are slower or require planning. Men and women are suicidal at about the same rate (with a bit more women trying). But men die at about four times the rate to suicide than women do. A single thing explains that. Men use guns to commit suicide. You are playing games with language and seem to actually know very little about suicide and depression.
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mannerup posted:do you have any actual evidence to support this claim? He doesn't disclose his finances because he's on the take The GOP all had their emails hacked by Russia and kept as blackmail material The Republican party is thoroughly compromised, why should Johnson be an exception?
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Nov 3, 2023 01:45
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mannerup posted:are you mixing up Senator Tuberville and Speaker Johnson? Tuberville is up to date as any other Senator for his 2022 financial disclosures. Wait yeah I did Well whatever, they're both compromised stooges anyway
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Didn't the Tuber have a big mad about navy sailors being exposed to... poetry... as well, or am I conflating things?
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Bar Ran Dun posted:One of my best friends from high school, pulled over on the side of the road, put a gun in his mouth and killed himself last year. Condolences 
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Randalor posted:Other than being a massive attention-whore, why is Tuberville doing this again? Ultimately what thwarted their Jan 6 coup was when all of the senior brass in the military came out and said "we are loyal to the Constitution not the President" This part of the prepping for insurrection 2. Remember how McConnel blocked judicial nominations for 2 solid years so that a Republican president could stack the court with a bunch Federalist hacks, it's the military version of that.
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Skex posted:Ultimately what thwarted their Jan 6 coup was when all of the senior brass in the military came out and said "we are loyal to the Constitution not the President" Except Congress doesn't generally pick and choose who the military promotes. Only a few top named positions. Holding back current confirmations for every flag position does nothing but piss off anyone looking to tack on a star someday which does them zero favors. This is not comparable to McConnel's judiciary rigamarole at all.
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This type of dipshitery reminds me of a manager at my first over the counter paying job. She would loose her mind if she caught us talking to each other while doing our work. Anything other than mindless dronery is unconscionable at work. Unless it's them, then it's super reasonable.
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Vahakyla posted:I see that Graham made some good points in the Senate against Tuberville and that’s the loving worst. If it's any consolation, Graham usually talks a good game, it's when it comes time to actually back it with action that he folds like a t-shirt, at least in terms of anything that requires any sort of principles
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Skex posted:Ultimately what thwarted their Jan 6 coup was when all of the senior brass in the military came out and said "we are loyal to the Constitution not the President" you think a football coach is smart enough to do that? logic razor says that this is his sludge hammer to the culture war vs Mcconel's masterful stealth chess
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AlternateNu posted:Except Congress doesn't generally pick and choose who the military promotes. Only a few top named positions. Holding back current confirmations for every flag position does nothing but piss off anyone looking to tack on a star someday which does them zero favors. If there's one thing guaranteed to help you succeed in your coup, it's loudly and publicly demonstrating your comtempt for the military. Making sure that you have pissed off an officer corps who have already shown that they are extremely serious about the oaths they have taken is great preparation for your next effort to tear it up!
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Tuberville is legitimately incredibly dumb. He's "less intelligent than Louie Gohmert" dumb. This is not a part of a long-game political plan to stack the military or anything. Congress doesn't even select military promotions and 99% of these promotions he is holding up are for people who are junior officers that aren't ever going to be in contention to be a Joint Chief of Staff. He's just very dumb, thinks the abortion angle plays well/genuinely believes it, and this is an area where he can issue a hold that directly hurts people (which means there will be pressure to act quickly on it and not ignore it) and nobody else would try it, so he gets to be the lone man sticking up for unborn life.
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Tuberville has basically discredited his whole profession. People went around thinking college football coaches were smart because they draw a bunch of X's and O's but now we know for sure they just throw shady off-the-books money at the biggest, fastest poor kids and then yell at them until they win a championship. I'm sure there are smart college football coaches, it's just totally incidental to their jobs. edit: Discredited his former profession, I should say. "U.S. Senator" was already discredited. Misunderstood fucked around with this message at 14:38 on Nov 3, 2023 |
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Not an american here, could someone explain how someone like Tuberville can hold up all the military nominations? Even against his own party?
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Technomancer posted:Not an american here, could someone explain how someone like Tuberville can hold up all the military nominations? Even against his own party? The Senate is supposed to be for fancy lads to slow down and "debate" the merits of bills passed by the hot-headed rabble in the House. Because of that, there are many ways to force debate or discussion of things that can be triggered by a single Senator. Tuberville isn't technically blocking the nominations. What he is doing is basically demanding the maximum 3 days of debate time for each nominee (there are roughly 700 nominees), which means it would take roughly 2,100 days to finish nominating everyone. So, they just aren't bothering to nominate or approve the promotions because they want Tuberville to back down instead of spending 3 days getting nothing done for each nominee. Usually, the Senate just agrees by unanimous consent to waive debate for all nominees that are just grunts getting promotions and just hold hearings/debates for the few top promotions (Chief of Staff of the Army/Navy/Air Force, Joint Chief, etc.) Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 15:21 on Nov 3, 2023 |
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The Senate has to agree to start considering motions, like accepting military promotion suggestions. Usually this is done by unanimous consent, but anyone can say "no, I don't consent to that" which means that there needs to be a cloture motion, and that's a huge pain in the rear end when you need to consider each motion individually instead of just doing a "yes, we all agree on all these motions." So a hold can easily kill a bill or whatever unless everyone else in the Senate, including your own party, thinks you suck.
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Still another three years until Toob's seat is up but it will be interesting to see how things shake out for him. What he is doing is not all that popular with anybody except maybe some fundie ministers advisors or something. In August 58% of Alabamas opposed his maneuver, and that is only going to get worse for him now that the GOP is openly attacking him for it. But at the same time, it's hard to imagine him losing a primary when he checks all the boxes the right wing media demands, and stays on the good side of the Trumpists, for the most part. Like... if 58% of Alabamas oppose his policy, consider that that likely includes basically all of the 40% who voted for Doug Jones in 2020, perhaps minus a small handful of pacifists, leaving Tuberville's own voters roughly 72% in favor... he would probably have success in a primary propping himself up as the guy who was willing to pull out all the stop to protect the fetuses when the big mean rich men north of Richmond wouldn't.
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2023: The year that Super Gonorrhea became a real thing. Gonorrhea has developed resistance to all known methods of treatment currently used in medicine. There is one new drug that is still being tested that seems to be the last known antibiotic that is still effective against gonorrhea, but it is not available yet and initial results show it is only effective against certain kinds of gonorrhea. If this new drug proves successful, they aren't sure how to dispense it in an effective way that doesn't lead to gonorrhea becoming resistant to this new drug and therefore become completely uncurable in some people and require intensive treatment that would stretch resources and require huge time investments to cure in others. quote:The ultimate fear is that eventually, gonorrhea could prove wholly untreatable, in at least some people. https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1720403047082336578 quote:A new antibiotic has proven as effective as the last remaining recommended treatment for gonorrhea, helping to assuage mounting fears among public health experts about the emergence of drug-resistant strains of the sexually transmitted infection.
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Misunderstood posted:Still another three years until Toob's seat is up but it will be interesting to see how things shake out for him. What he is doing is not all that popular with anybody except maybe some fundie ministers advisors or something. In August 58% of Alabamas opposed his maneuver, and that is only going to get worse for him now that the GOP is openly attacking him for it. By the time he's up for reelection Alabama will have forgotten this issue even happened. Only thing getting an idiot like Tuberville out of the seat is someone even Trumpier.
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Retro42 posted:By the time he's up for reelection Alabama will have forgotten this issue even happened. Only thing getting an idiot like Tuberville out of the seat is someone even Trumpier. Unless he's still doing it
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Dubar posted:Just because they oppose him on one thing doesn't mean they won't vote for him The good thing for Tubby is that what Republicans usually lose primaries for is not being fanatically, destructively committed to social conservative goals, and he’s doing the exact opposite of that.
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Why do grunt level military promotions even need senate oversight to begin with
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Why do grunt level military promotions even need senate oversight to begin with They're not grunt-level military promotions
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Why do grunt level military promotions even need senate oversight to begin with Because the constitution was written in the mother of all drunken benders by people who could not conceive of the United States becoming anything other than a regional power.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:2023: The year that Super Gonorrhea became a real thing. Is there any analysis of how common the resistant strains are? Obviously this is bad news but the way the article is framed kind of feels like a combo of marketing for the company making the new drug and capitalizing on reader interest in infectious disease that could be a MAJOR CRISIS in the wake of COVID. Adaptations that block mechanisms of action for antibiotics aren't likely to be favored in a vacuum - there were thousands of years for bacteria to find the most efficient processes before antibiotics and only like 100 years since then, so it's not necessarily a given that this mutation will beat wild type unless there's some indication of it actually competing rather than a handful of isolated cases
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The Lone Badger posted:Didn't the Tuber have a big mad about navy sailors being exposed to... poetry... as well, or am I conflating things? Yeah, and he's completely misunderstanding the militaries relation with colleges. I was forced to take an online college course when I was in because it was free and not doing it was considered lazy. I took an American Poetry class out of spite, but it was a great class and the government paid for me to read poetry. Edit: I also seriously doubt they were reading any poetry over the 2MC (engineering circuit) or 1MC (ship wide circuit) during any kind of real situation. Pretty much only the XO would do that for serious announcements or general quarters practice. gurragadon fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Nov 3, 2023 |
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Why do grunt level military promotions even need senate oversight to begin with It's officers, not enlisted. The officers being held up here are "officers by commission" or "commissioned officers", meaning they are commissioned by the president and signed off on by the senate.
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Why do grunt level military promotions even need senate oversight to begin with I'm curious where you got the idea they were grunt level positions?
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Blue Footed Booby posted:I'm curious where you got the idea they were grunt level positions? Because someone else upthread said exactly that The expected thing is that the military promotes whoever they like x10000000 and the congress is like « k seems good » with the only real hearing that might happen is for the top of the top E: again at the officer level obvs, not promoting private dipshit to Lance corporal dipshit Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Nov 3, 2023 |
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Because someone else upthread said exactly that Could you quote this post, please? I'm trying to figure out what jargon needs to be explained because I definitely did not see someone literally use "grunt level."
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Tiny Timbs posted:They're not grunt-level military promotions Frankly there’s just also an enormous number of posts across a military and government that have grown to a previously unimaginable size. The nature of the rule of unanimous consent in 21st century government really does give any one of the hundred members of the Senate effective veto power over a Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Whatever Bureau in the Name that Department across all of government. Tuberville’s stunt does reveal just how much power the Senate, and a single Senator, has over the civil and military service. The rise of Flat Out Insane Suicidal political forces during the Obama years that refused to approve routine nominations to these posts by Democrats flushed out and deterred many people from government leadership who might draw the ire of a single Senator and it’ll do it again. And it’s worthy to recall that the Senate, as an especially minoritarian body, is also likely to be opposed to and have the voting numbers to deny posts to those who might disrupt the status quo (most recently Gigi Sohn at the FCC). Of course, the alternative is to remove a vital check on executive power over the civil and military service. But it’s interesting to consider just how much the Senate and its rules have shaped our notion of what’s normal and possible in government, and contributed to a fundamentally conservative culture in government at supposedly apolitical levels.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Usually, the Senate just agrees by unanimous consent to waive debate for all nominees that are just grunts getting promotions and just hold hearings/debates for the few top promotions (Chief of Staff of the Army/Navy/Air Force, Joint Chief, etc.) Whoops whatever I get the Pres is CiC and all, but the military promoting someone from major general grade 3 to major general grade 2 does not seems like something oversight is required for
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OPAONI posted:Because the constitution was written in the mother of all drunken benders by people who could not conceive of the United States becoming anything other than a regional power. It's kind of this and kind of "modern militaries* are much more logistically complicated and just straight-up larger, so they need a lot more officers to function properly." *and governments! This all stems from the Constitution's vague instruction that the President appoints, by and with the consent of the Senate, "Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for". What exactly counts as an "officer of the United States" isn't really clear and it's changed over time-- clearly it doesn't make sense for it to apply to, say, the fee clerk at the front desk of the National Park visitor center, but it would make sense that the Secretary of the Interior counts. The modern courts basically evaluate how important your job is and how much discretion you have in doing it. In the military, it's officers above a certain rank (I think O-4 and up, so Major and above in the Army). Fun fact, one of the quiet lines of attack for Federalist Society fuckwads has been trying to push for "Officer of the United States" to apply to literally almost every federal employee, in order to better demolish the civil service. See this law review article from an Antonin Scalia Law School professor, for example.
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