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universal pre-k feels like it would be such a sea change moment. my mother in part chose her career path based on which employers provided low cost daycare, because it was the only way she would be able to work. and that was decades ago, i have to imagine the situation for parents is even worse now on a separate note, it is very disappointing to see the white house pushing for a four year extension of the child tax credits rather than making them permanent. seems like they want to use it as a cudgel during the election, but that's playing with fire. we need to lock in as much as possible for as long as possible right now, it's a major risk to assume they'll be any window for governance after this session of congress
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cr0y posted:*This time* we will hold someone who committed murder in broad day light in high definition video accountable. well van dyke was found guilty of 2nd degree murder, so it's not completely unprecedented
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Apr 20, 2021 20:55
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cr0y posted:This isnt directed at you but it says a lot about how hosed this country is where "one time we set the precedent of holding murderers accountable" yeah, and to sentencing being disappointing, van dyke only got 81 months, of which who knows how much he'll serve it's hard to call it justice
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Apr 20, 2021 21:10
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I didn't even realize this was under consideration, but apparently the FDA is going to reduce the amount of nicotine allowed in cigarettes and considering a ban on menthol cigarettes. this is probably great for public health in the long run, but i can't help but wonder if it's just going to force current addicts to smoke even more to get themselves right
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Apr 21, 2021 00:36
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FlamingLiberal posted:The NY Times got confirmation that Biden himself was the reason that the refugee admission promises were broken, which prompted backlash last week christ, now i'm regretting my post about wanting an insider account of this decision. it looks like it's going to be an uphill struggle to get any immigration reform passed if biden thinks it's a low priority political liability. given how squishy latino support was in 2020 general election, a dismissive attitude could be a big problem in 2022 and 2024
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Apr 22, 2021 05:14
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Grouchio posted:Unless Caitlyn Jenner gets rid of the California 529A plan I just signed up for, I don't see much a reason to be concerned as a non-Californian on the east coast. hey grouchio, i think i speak for every californian when i say we don't care what happens to you either
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Apr 24, 2021 04:14
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Bel Shazar posted:They would have to care and if they did they wouldn’t be center-right. They just fundamentally don’t really care about others, at BEST others outside their own sphere. as someone who is friends with someone who started right of center when i met them and is now a member of the socialist rifle association, this isn't always the case. sometimes people have had certain lines repeated to them their whole life and haven't seen anything in their life experience that counters it not to say that those kind of people are a majority of the center right, or that everyone who falls into that category is open to change at the end of the day, or that it's the responsibility of leftists to go out and proselytize to those folks. but to say every right of center person has their beliefs because of some fundamental and indelible aspect of who they is just something to make yourself feel better
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Apr 25, 2021 18:05
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The Sean posted:What helped them/was a catalyst for change away from their previous views? biggest factor was probably when the sources they had previously looked to started to clash with the earth science they started picking up as part of their degree. that was followed by getting reporting on current events from this forum with very different framing then sources they were used to. i also like to think my persistent yet not aggro rear end in a top hat pushback over the years counted for something
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Apr 25, 2021 18:58
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SneezeOfTheDecade posted:Larry Kudlow went on Fox either last night or the night before and invented this claim about 90% red-meat reduction and "plant-based beers". Nobody seems to have asked him what the hell kind of meat beers he was used to. i'm sorry, is this implying that the average american is eating over 500 lb of beef a year or over 1.37 lbs of beef a day? that can't be possible, i refuse to believe it edit: okay, quick googling shows that some wires getting crossed somewhere. no way does a 90% reduction leave us at 50 lbs a year, based on who you're asking it's somewhere in the range of 5-9 lbs a year GhostofJohnMuir fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Apr 26, 2021 |
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Apr 26, 2021 20:37
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while the census results are better than it could have been, is there an estimate for how many relative seats the gop will gain when retrenching outdated 2010 gerrymanders?
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Apr 26, 2021 21:39
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Kraftwerk posted:Why the gently caress does Bill get a say in any of this? He's a retired software company CEO. Why does his opinion matter? he's one of the richest men in the world. each and everyone of his personal whims and foibles probably have some kind of measurable impact on the lives of the global poor, let alone the things he actually cares about
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Apr 26, 2021 23:11
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TheOneAndOnlyT posted:This was discussed upthread, but in short: no. In 2003 Gray Davis had a reason for people on both sides to hate him. Newsom just has "he's a Democrat and he made me wear a mask!!!!!!!" tangential to the point, but i do want to remind non-californians that the reason both sides had to hate gray davis turned out after the fact to be a fraud by the local energy industry to rake in profits edit: Kraftwerk posted:Do blue stronghold states gradually turn right wing as wannabe Republicans run in Democratic primaries to achieve their policy goals? a bunch of california's most visible national representatives are ancient holdouts from the reagan/third way era, so if anything the state should trend more left in the future GhostofJohnMuir fucked around with this message at 04:22 on Apr 27, 2021 |
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Apr 27, 2021 04:19
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GreyjoyBastard posted:Senate just passed the decent-if-kinda-small Drinking Water And Wastewater Infrastructure Act: https://www.epw.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/0/0/007a33e2-9917-4969-8402-e8985d25ca6b/6648E1D261909FA95B77FF2EA8F8D7D8.maz21294.pdf some editors are having fun with this bit of news, just saw a headline "senate opens floodgates by passing water infrastructure bill" i wonder how much of the bipartisan vote is the gop hoping to undercut the larger infrastructure bill by passing smaller, non-comprehensive legislation
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Apr 29, 2021 23:06
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Fister Roboto posted:Also the warrant was for possessing a whole 3g of coke. i'm sorry, did you accidently leave a "k" out of your post?
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Apr 29, 2021 23:16
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Velocity Raptor posted:Jesus, I just looked it up. That's not a typo. i guess i'm not surprised, but it is always terrible to be remind just how stupid and racist the war on drugs is. and american policing in general. intent to sell my rear end
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Apr 29, 2021 23:52
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department of defense is preparing to cancel border wall contracts they will use some of the designated funds to stabilize bank erosion and repair levees damaged by construction under the trump admin, the remaining amount will be returned to the sources they were raided from. this seems specific to funds that trump appropriated from dod. is anyone aware of construction from non-dod funding which might not be affected by this decision?
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Apr 30, 2021 22:02
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haveblue posted:In which occupation is it the most appropriate to knee a teenager in the balls? Asking for a friend police
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May 1, 2021 21:31
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Grammarchist posted:The EPA is proposing a rule to phase down HFC emissions by 85% over the next 15 years. It's actually got some strong support in the business community, so hopefully it actually goes smoothly without a mess of lawsuits. huh, i thought most hfc's were phased out in the wake of the signing of the montreal protocols. i guess there is still some legacy usage that this rule making is going to wrap up? edit: whoops it was cfc's that were phased out, and hfc's replaced them. memory lapse on the acronyms GhostofJohnMuir fucked around with this message at 20:03 on May 3, 2021 |
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May 3, 2021 20:01
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Looks like the investigation into Rudy is over. He's got an airtight alibi. on one hand it's always tragic when someone's memory starts to go, but on the other hand he gets to relive the excitement of the fall of the berlin wall for a second time
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May 4, 2021 17:37
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zoux posted:Ladies and Gentlemen, the next governor of the great state of Texas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNTR8o5dk9s&t=21s
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Gaupo Guacho posted:Has there been any attempts to address the fact that man of the perpetrators of recent anti-Asian violence have been ethnic minorities themselves? I do not see it mentioned anywhere, particularly in liberal and leftist spaces. I was even probated in an earlier version of this thread for even suggesting it. Many of the attacks against Asian-Americans committed in the last seven days were committed by demonstrably non-white assailants. I don't have an agenda I'm attempting to push here other than the fact that this feels like a form of outright "erasure" as people often put it. maybe, just maybe, the systemic racism that pervades every part of the super structure of america has some role in fomenting racial tensions between minority groups i know my family's history, and i know that white supremacy has done more to threaten our lives and livelihoods than whatever mealy mouthed whataboutism you're trying to push
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May 6, 2021 05:15
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steve scalise had one of his balls blown off and he still plays up getting a gun in every pot meanwhile gabby giffords makes anti-gun speeches whenever and wherever she can, and barely anyone in congress listens despite her being a living warning of what a rogue constituent can do to any of them it's hard to imagine what would move the needle at this point
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May 10, 2021 08:29
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VitalSigns posted:I know Trump knows he was lying to the extent that he's consciously aware of his lies rather than just mentally rewriting his own reality, and I know all the dumbasses who believe everything they see on Facebook and Newsmax don't know that he's lying, but I figured there was some middle layer of ghouls who were behind this going "ok guys we need to plant the evidence so we can justify more laws against black people voting", on the other hand maybe postmodern politics doesn't require that level of effort. You can just say the swamp defeated the audit or w/e and then pass whatever laws you want. quote:“They talk about conspiracy theories,” she said, referring to reports that the review is examining ballots for evidence of bamboo fibers and watermarks baselessly said to be signs of fraud. “But I tell you what, there’s almost a reverse conspiracy theory to demean this audit.” does seem like the absence of any evidence will actually be evidence that the swamp extends even further than they thought
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May 10, 2021 22:17
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FCKGW posted:The FAILED STATE of California is issuing $600 stimulus checks as part of a newsom might be a plastic automaton that almost every voter finds a soulless husk, but i have to give him credit for managing to brand this so thoroughly as a bold move he is taking to help the vulnerable resident's of the state when in reality it's been a mechanism of state law that's almost never relevant. can't fault his political instincts with this one
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May 10, 2021 22:23
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Bishyaler posted:Wishing that the US was Australia in culture, gun or otherwise does not make it so. i agree, the united states has never shown the popular support for socialist policies on levels approaching the rest of the globe. things like medicare for all will never be a fit for american culture and it's pointless to point to other developed countries as an example
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May 12, 2021 05:25
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The Sean posted:I don't consider "don't support anti-LGBTQ establishments" smug since I feel it's an ethical decision. I don't have In'N'Out around me but I'm curious about why they're lovely and also if them being lovely is still for patronization of their locations. the only controversy around in-n-out that i can remember is they donated a decent amount of money to the republican party back during the 2018 midterms with no indication that they offset this with a donation to the democrats. i've never seen any objections over their charitable donations, but the family who owns the company are deeply religious so who knows what they do with their personal fortune it would take something monumentally and uniquely heinous about their practices for me to stop eating their burgers
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May 13, 2021 00:02
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Grondoth posted:How is it market manipulation? He's saying that bitcoin is destructive to the environment and he's not gonna take it for purchases anymore. Nobody has to accept any weird cryptocurrency. musk had previously announced tesla would accept bitcoin as payment and would buy up a significant holding of bitcoin to facilitate this, which helped spur the market to new highs the most recent tesla quarterly report showed that tesla had sold off a large chunk of its bitcoin holding during those highs. tesla's positive profits for the first quarter of the year (which are tied into huge incentive payments to musk) relied heavily on this sale now they are ending the payment program on what seems to be a flimsy pretext, information on the environmental impacts of bitcoin which was wildly known and reported on before they began the program even leaving aside musk's potential holdings in rival cryptocurrencies, this seems like a classic pump and dump scheme which was done to juice quarterly profits and get musk one step closer to unlocking a new tranche of stock options
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Elysiume posted:Bitcoin is infinitely divisible, but I'm not sure what transaction fees look like these days. i thought the satoshi was a hard floor to bitcoin divisibility. is there some sort of theoretical work around for it?
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May 13, 2021 07:22
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FlamingLiberal posted:My dumb state is actually not nearly close to the top of this list i had really hoped that the unwarranted panic over toilet paper and meat last year would have taught folks a lesson, but apparently people are going to do this poo poo every time
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May 13, 2021 18:02
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Oracle posted:'If the data says nothing's wrong and there's plenty of supply then why am I worried and hoarding?? CHECK AND MATE.' i guess i shouldn't complain, last year we did end up getting a bunch of free meat from various relatives who ran out of freezer space and needed to free up room
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May 13, 2021 18:33
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Kalit posted:Sorry if this was already posted, but it looks like Mike Parson is continuing to be a huge shitbag: man, democracy kind of seems like it's on its last legs i don't know what the gently caress things will look like in four years
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May 14, 2021 17:33
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Keyser_Soze posted:Lil' Marco can bugger off but the 60 minutes story last night about the recent UFO reports being released is pretty i'm sorry, but i can't trust the word of anyone with the level of no-neck as the first guy they interview. no way he's a trustworthy source edit: ScottyJSno posted:This is just bad journalism. The dude they are interviewing, Lue Elizondo, is lair. glad i trusted my instinctive prejudice
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ILL Machina posted:https://twitter.com/IwriteOK/status/1393672999891439621?s=19 can't believe he wasn't already canceled for the bit where he writes that the carthaginian sailors claiming that the seasons reverse if you go far enough south is proof that the carthaginians are stupid or the bit about the giant ants which hunt for gold (some people say that's a transcription error, and i call them cowards)
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May 18, 2021 06:12
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zoux posted:Hold on a new challenger for most credulous appears don't ask about what her father used the dobermans for
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May 18, 2021 20:14
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i don't know why people have to psych themselves up about the decorum of a glib joke when the joke is intended to deflect from our open support of crimes against humanity like, there's already something very worthy of righteous indignation, why do you have to work yourself up over something stupid
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May 18, 2021 20:50
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:It's not the joke people are objecting to. It's the genocide part. weird, because some of the posters in this thread are posting solely about the content of the joke rather than the genocide, which almost reads like it's the joke they care about more
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May 18, 2021 21:07
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yeah, i'm less worried about the voter suppression laws than with the states in which true believers are seizing control of the traditional ballot counting/integrity apparatus before 2020 there wasn't a strong partisan tilt in who used absentee voting and i think putting in restrictive laws after democrats won surprise victories is just as likely to motivate people to stand in line as give up that's not going to matter if a bunch of red states are going to pull the same poo poo that cyber ninja is right now with the "audit". if that happens, it seems like the only recourse is the courts which doesn't seem too promising
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May 29, 2021 19:59
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DrSunshine posted:Wouldn't it be a civil war at that point? I mean, you can't have states just declaring the election invalid. bush v gore suggests that there is a possibility for blatantly partisan overturning of an election to go through unopposed
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May 29, 2021 23:33
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:- A "Moratorium on small business fines" to encourage businesses to try new things without fear of being fined. finally my innovations in room temperature potato salad will be allowed to slip the iron grip of the man
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eviltastic posted:Gaetz apparently isn't the only dumb one in this story. i wonder if this ex-girlfriend is the sibling of nestor?
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