Radical 90s Wizard posted:

I know I shouldn't ask, because the answer is probably just "American Cops + poor people" but what is their problem with homeless people getting hotel rooms??

Fallom posted:

This is some stupid fake poo poo I thought we would have moved past after seeing four years of an administration deciding that inconvenient laws aren’t real.

UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:

gently caress Amazon, vote union
https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1356680745146793984?s=19

That Works posted:

That Works posted:

Fixed for the current system.

hobbesmaster posted:

Organic doesn’t mean not processed, it’s just standards for farming. I doubt it’d be any serious change, that nutriloaf garbage could be made organic for example.

Kazinsal posted:

There is no way to fix America.

Stultus Maximus posted:

Next week, my best friend who is a 40 year old fat guy who ate himself into type 2 diabetes and works either from home or in an individual office (his choice), is getting his vaccine.

Meanwhile I, an "essential worker" who has been crammed into a classroom full of students since August, whose workplace has over a 25% adult infection rate, have been told that it'll be late March/early April before they get to us.

stackofflapjacks posted:

*400,000 dead Americans*
*Abject failure of public health unseen in modern history
*Through admittedly political meddling in public health*
"Well, actually, the CDC isn't doing half bad and their PR just needs to be trusted even by laypeople"

shame on an IGA posted:

olds vote, olds get sloppy oral from the organs of the state. The circle of life continues, truncated

facialimpediment posted:

It's fine in context.

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1360749346111815681

Her message was basically: McConnell sucks, every non-convicting Republican sucks, and America can't survive with a Republican party that lovely and bad tethered to Trump. Pull out "America can't survive with a Republican party that lovely and bad" and she looks worse. It's not a bad move to keep prodding for a Trumplican-Institutionalist crackup.

(she should still shut up, just saying it's not that bad)

Soylent Pudding posted:

I thought Mr. Nice! was the only one posting here from Tally:

The FBI warned about far-right attacks. Agents arrested a leftist ex-soldier

UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:

For those that post in here that aren't in finance, what's special about Delaware?

Raerlynn posted:

Corporate laws are super lax there. Lots of fly by night corporations incorporate there to reap those benefits.

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

Perseverance rover lands today. About 90 minutes out.

Eason the Fifth posted:

I'm halfsies on this.

On one hand: he was great at being a right-wing foil in the early 2000s, and provided a forum for folks to laugh at right-wing nonsense.

On the other hand, the next generation of right-wing motherfuckers internalized his insults and decided to make that a basis of their victimization, which indirectly led to Donald Trump's election and the rise of right-wing fascism. He isn't directly responsible, but his take did lead to where we are now.

It isn't his fault any more than it's the fault of Jesus Christ for being the symbol of American Gods n' Guns, but it's certainly worth noticing in the greater context.

boop the snoot posted:

Are you telling me that the same right wingers who think there are space lasers causing fires and antifa causing power outages and pizza shops hiding email servers saw Colbert’s character and knew it was satire?

I don’t think so.

Mr. Nice! posted:

Is it enough to overcome this, though?

wins32767 posted:

So many fellow citizens are suffering. They need to be aided and I'm disappointed at the level of the federal response.

That said, I'm not sure how a democratic system of government can function without engaged citizens that are responsible for their own governance, regardless of outcome. The mode where some other (the elites, the government, the rich) are blamed for problems (even when partially or substantially true) doesn't end up in a place where citizens are actually empowered. A substantial majority of the citizens of Texas have been able to participate in their own governance over the time period where the decisions leading up to the current crisis were made and as soon as the crisis is over it will be within their power to fix the problem. Denying the former results in the failure of the latter.

wins32767 posted:

It's on the voters to select appropriate representatives and ensure they are doing their jobs. Engagement in governance by most citizens is too low to support that. There was a commission a decade ago that highlighted many of the underlying causes of the current crisis that was digestible enough if the citizens chose to engage.

I'm casting this stone at myself here too. I just hate the excuse making that disempowers us. We need to be holding ourselves more accountable to engage with governing so that we don't end up with this sort of crisis in our localities.

Mr. Nice! posted:

NY AG settled its fraud investigation into Bitfinex and their bullshit tethers. They're paying a slap on the wrist fine ($18.5m) and cannot do business with anyone inside NY state.

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

How does an employer knowingly pay a non-legal resident in the first place? Without breaking the law themselves, that is.

$10 is laughable either way.

Best Friends posted:

https://twitter.com/nothxdeel/status/1365128259533484038?s=21

I knew this was going to happen and that liberals would respond this way but it still kills me

UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:

Okay. Let's do it. Surely there's the support in place for such a massive endeavor.