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facialimpediment posted:Idiots, Birchers, and Know-Nothings have been a thing in America since forever. I think what's new is information access - we now have access to nearly unlimited information for researching political positions that are the most factually correct. Not only do we have information access which allows people to find what is factually correct, but we have access to information which allows people to search until they find that their position is correct.
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Yeah. While it's good to note that facts are at our fingertips, it's important to not forget that there are entire industries set up around explicitly burying all of that in garbage and misinformation, too. Even before the internet, propaganda was very much real.
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golden bubble posted:It won't stop the corruption elementals, of which there are too many in our system already. But Singapore is an extremely strong argument that high salaries for legislators and high ministers will prevent many young politicians from transforming into corruption elementals, as well as preventing much of the minor graft from "normal" politicians. wait isn't singapore a hypercapitalist dystopian hellscape
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https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1707491910133166206 It's pretty obvious at this point why  wants the shutdown at this point, right?
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shame on an IGA posted:wait isn't singapore a hypercapitalist dystopian hellscape Subsidized housing, UHC, high GDP? They definitely have issues but the ruling party contract is provide for citizens. I think they got below 60% or lost one seat in an election or something and it was seen as a big loss for them and they made some big changes to try and regain it. Also work to hobble the opposition but its hard to say they don't focus on their people. This is vague cause I haven't paid attention to Singapore recently so feel free to correct. That said, pay absolutely matters in terms of competency. The Economist had a piece on it at one point looking at full time and well paid legislatures, finding they wrote better laws.
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Mustang posted:The fact that this a very competitive political party in this country is just utterly stupefying. Jesus loving christ. In a section titled "Factors Leading Up To".
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bird food bathtub posted:So, practically guaranteed a shutdown now. House Republicans are just poo poo-flinging chimpanzees wordlessly screeching at each other. They're putting more effort in to impeachment sound bites for Fox to broadcast than they are keeping the lights on. I'm putting 30 days in the betting pool. They have no plan and a large portion of the house Republicans want there to be no plan. Dismantling the government is their goal, not something to be avoided. The majority is so slim that I feel the true MAGA believers will never accept a deal and are just totally OK letting the mother fucker burn, and that there's enough of them to ensure there is never a Republican plan. The way I see things shaking out is the hardcore fundamentalists will never agree to a deal and McCarthy is going to have to work with dems, which will be signing his and more than a few other representatives political death warrants. They'll do everything possible to never, ever do that. Until poo poo gets bad, and the money starts to hurt, nothing happens. The money is going to have to start yanking leashes so hard there's no choice left and it's going to take a good, long while to get to that point. As an Australian this is all loving wild. Dems have 46 votes (controlling for Sanders+1, Manchin-1 and Sinema-1, and assuming Harris is a -1 because Decorum), R 49, I 4 (Sanders -1, Manchin & Sinema +2). So the Dems need to peel 4 votes to pass simple majority things. But that can't happen because the entire other half of the room never got past temper tantrums. And they were elected by people who wanted this?
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IPCRESS posted:As an Australian this is all loving wild. well you see dems bad vote red no matter how crazy they talk okay
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ded posted:well you see dems bad vote red no matter how crazy they talk okay I agree  red is the centre-left party here
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IPCRESS posted:As an Australian this is all loving wild. The Senate has actually passed a couple temporary funding bills to try and keep the lights on, the real roadblock here is the House of Representatives which has 435 voting seats. You need 218 seats for a majority, and currently the Republicans hold 221 seats while the Democrats have 212 (plus 2 vacancies in Rhode Island and Utah, which will likely end up being +1 R and +1 D when filled). So if the Republicans want to pass something out of the House with no Democrats supporting, they need 218 out of 221 Republican members to vote in favor, which means that it only takes 4 Republican holdouts to lock everything up. The Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy holds his position by majority vote, so while he might decide to try and pass a budget with some Democratic votes he would immediately be branded as a traitor by the party and likely voted out as Speaker. The only way right now he keeps his position is if he somehow reaches a compromise position with enough Republican and Democratic votes for passing a budget *as well as* keeping him as Speaker, which is likely impossible with the current state of the House GOP and Republican Party in general. Honestly have no idea why he even wants the position at this point, this whole exercise demonstrates that he's got no actual power to do anything besides keep the seat cushion warm. edit - oh and in comparison to the Australian Parliament, all House seats are up for election every two years (next is Nov 2024) and there is no way to dissolve the House or have elections early if it is unable to function Terrifying Effigies fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Sep 29, 2023 |
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CBJSprague24 posted:https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1707491910133166206 My dude, he explicitly said this is why he wants a shutdown lol He's not just saying the quiet part loud, he's renting ad space to make sure everyone knows what the quiet part is
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shame on an IGA posted:wait isn't singapore a hypercapitalist dystopian hellscape Singapore shows that you can actively suppress free expression, squash non-mainstream existence, and strangle the existence of any kind of subculture, and the result works (for differing values of "works" of course) but there's infrastructure, big buildings, clean streets, money flowing, etc.
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https://twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/1707514713590857742 https://twitter.com/KatiePhang/status/1707509513853521961 McNally posted:My dude, he explicitly said this is why he wants a shutdown lol I missed that part.
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lightpole posted:Subsidized housing, UHC, high GDP? They definitely have issues but the ruling party contract is provide for citizens. Citizens being the operative word here.
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FrozenVent posted:Citizens being the operative word here. Singapore is a pretty tough exception to handle because its got huge contrasts between socialism/capitalism and liberalism/totalitarianism. The bureaucracy is well paid and competent, and works to balance everything out to an extent for their citizens, which is mostly the point of government. The people in charge have to have some pretty good ethics to maintain the balance they have while having the level of control they do. I would say they are slightly better than the gulf states when it comes to slave labor and a kept citizenry. I dunno though, I haven't lived there for an extended period and don't have a nuanced understanding.
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It's a lovely five minute video, but what may be my favorite moment of Congressional speech this year occurs starting at the 4 minute mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HifK8lzx09c
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Sen. Feinstein dead https://abc7news.com/senator-dianne-feinstein-dead-obituary-san-francisco-mayor-cable-car/13635510/
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pmchem posted:Sen. Feinstein dead I thought she died years ago
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Someone caught onto their weekend at Bernie's act?
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pmchem posted:Sen. Feinstein dead So when will her final vote before leaving office be scheduled?
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Stultus Maximus posted:It's a lovely five minute video, but what may be my favorite moment of Congressional speech this year occurs starting at the 4 minute mark: God drat don’t sleep on this. “secret documents…on the shitter”.
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pmchem posted:Sen. Feinstein dead RIP. Hope she got what she wanted out of spending her twilight years as a national side show
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Stultus Maximus posted:It's a lovely five minute video, but what may be my favorite moment of Congressional speech this year occurs starting at the 4 minute mark: I know it's in poor taste but I laughed. Jesus christ, 90 lol
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Rust in piss, you confederate flag flying gerontocrat.
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AND WE SAY BYE BYE, VERY NASTY WOMAN, WASNT SHE NASTY FOLKS
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RIP you dumb ladder kicking piece of poo poo, 2023 so far owes me one more. Yertle?
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goatsestretchgoals posted:RIP you dumb ladder kicking piece of poo poo, 2023 so far owes me one more. Would not at all be surprised, there's months to go in 2023 and he's been reeeeeeal quiet since he started blue-screening in public.
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At the gym and this is the top of the hour stories FNC: Musk at the board CNN: Govt shutdown MSNBC: Feinstein dead The impeachment inquiry has no juice or Fox would've been wall to wall coverage from yesterday
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She should have retired 30 loving years ago but decided to be a barnacle. Enjoy heaven or whatever.
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Last I looked yesterday, Fox wasn’t mentioning it at all. Like, zero. They may have been covering it earlier but if so, I imagine they got off it quickly, as soon as it became a festival of total public humiliation for their chosen ones.
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MrMojok posted:Last I looked yesterday, Fox wasn’t mentioning it at all. Like, zero. Fox themselves have largely panned the impeachment hearings anyways, so even they are sick of it.
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Nick Soapdish posted:The impeachment inquiry has no juice or Fox would've been wall to wall coverage from yesterday The hearings were basically exposing the Fox News Cinematic Universe to the greater public. Their own witnesses were basically "wtf I don't get it, should I have seen the previous movies" as Democrats were unified in saying gently caress THIS, MARVEL IS BETTER I think of it like some rando in a congressional hearing testifying "Senator, Hail SS-18 Satan." We're going to laugh like hell, but everyone else is going to look puzzled and move on instead of trying to decode the puzzle. Edit: what in the gently caress https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/1707794608963440744?t=bx_7lTadxMlZPsaN1W97tw&s=19 facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 17:30 on Sep 29, 2023 |
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American police want to be the military so goddamn bad. "Y'all spent 20 years in Afghanistan with nothing to show for it? Well, hold my beer, cause we're gonna wait 27 years to show off that we've accomplished exactly gently caress-all. Checkmate."
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facialimpediment posted:The hearings were basically exposing the Fox News Cinematic Universe to the greater public. Their own witnesses were basically "wtf I don't get it, should I have seen the previous movies" as Democrats were unified in saying gently caress THIS, MARVEL IS BETTER I thought they said that guy was dead or something.
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