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James Garfield posted:Arizona banned almost all abortions under a law from 1864 Congratulations Governor Hobbs (D) of Arizona!
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Honestly it seems sensible. A huge issue with big bloated American industries like finance or Healthcare is that there's too many middlemen taking cuts.
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Sep 26, 2022 20:52
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Eric Cantonese posted:I know it's not fun to think about, but what's the least bad realistic option when it comes to Haiti? Most realistic option is it simmers as a failed state a la Somalia for twenty or thirty years. Simple truth is no one is willing to bear the cost of intervention, and it's not a financial cost I'm talking about.
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Oct 20, 2022 02:46
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davecrazy posted:Next cycle we are going to see some Republicans candidates announce that they are proudly pro-choice (with "reasonable" caveats to being against "late term abortions"). There won't be. There is a substantial minority of republican voters who are single issue anti abortion. They'll vote against them in the primaries and won't turn out for general elections. The GOP is wedded to the anti-abortion movement and has no choice but to keep pushing abortion bans in order to keep this group motivated.
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Nov 9, 2022 15:07
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skylined! posted:Can't imagine anyone who isn't a completely reddit-brained redpilled psychopath signed that dumb thing. Even the most desperate workers would probably take 3 months' severance to jettison out of the burning ship. Some folks have their visas tied to their employment.
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Nov 18, 2022 15:43
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Elon won't go bankrupt over this, and he was eventually going to lose his "world's richest man" status as Tesla is massively overvalued, but the real damage will be to his reputation as a tech genius. His rockets explode, his cars explode, and now twitter is exploding.
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Nov 18, 2022 16:39
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haveblue posted:Who’s even left at this point? I'm actually seeing a lot of ads for companies operating out of Saudi Arabia, too. A quick skim saw ads for Bayer, High Noon, and IBM. So their ad revenue hasn't completely dried up.
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Nov 19, 2022 17:26
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BiggerBoat posted:The laptop stuff is likely to be mostly true but it's still pretty irrelevant and doesn't much matter one way or the other. It's a little bit like Roger Clinton being a tremendous fuckup. This isn't going to stop the GOP from going full tilt into trying to turn it into the biggest scandal in presidential history, mind, but I still haven't been able to ascertain exactly what it is they think they can prove with it aside from things we already know about Joe Biden's troubled son. Laptop stuff isn't true. Don't accept the narrative that there is something to it: at most, dude hacked Hunter's cloud to get a sex tape. They're hoping to recreate the smoke around Benghazi and Clinton so eventually people will think "if there's smoke, there's fire". Thinking there's something to it, just blown out of proportion, is just feeding into it.
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Nov 20, 2022 16:28
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Charlz Guybon posted:Ok, but that still presents Joe as being rather poor for a politician. Biden was consistently ranked as one of the least well off members of the senate. Not poor, per se, but he was definitely not raking in cash and fortuitous stock trades. Say what you will about him he wasn't in it for personal enrichment. Edit: for maximum irony, a big chunk of his wealth came from sales and engagement for the book about his son's death https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-net-worth-lifestyle-real-estate-family-wealth-assets-2020-1 Apparently he was still worth ~1.5 million before but a lot of it was just his house. GreyjoyBastard posted:Extremely short version: if the inflation* problem is global, which it really REALLY is, there's only so much that monetary policy and, ugh, demand destruction can do. We should right now today be subsidizing the less well off to balance out any cooling efforts that, again, may be of limited value due to the global nature of the crunch. Basically. There's not much to do but wait it out until global shipping and energy prices stabilize. Morrow fucked around with this message at 04:24 on Nov 21, 2022 |
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Nov 21, 2022 04:17
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FLIPADELPHIA posted:Trump rejecting Elon's plea to come back to Twitter is so loving hilarious and awesome. It's like the one cool thing he's ever done. The thing you need to admire about Trump is that he firmly believes in kicking people when they're down, where it will hurt, without mercy. It's not cool when he does it to people you like but it's great when the eye of sauron turns on the unworthy.
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Nov 22, 2022 00:34
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Gyges posted:Hawaii should replace Iowa as perennial first. No longer would we be held hostage by phallic food at the state fair, blue jeans, and corn subsidiaries. Instead our elections will be based on luaus, Hawaiian shirts, and Haoles loving off. You'd see a lot of candidates coming just to throw their hat into the Hawaii Primary and campaign there for three months straight on their donors' dime
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Dec 6, 2022 04:25
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Mooseontheloose posted:I think you see an approval rating that starts with a 3, its not that its they approve its just that they haven't been really presented an alternative. Bush's approval rating hit its lowest at ~24%, so there is a floor and she is close to it.
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Dec 9, 2022 19:52
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Epic High Five posted:Sinema's theory of power that she is being guided by here, and likely developed in her time as an activist, is that literally nothing else matters as long as the rent seekers and chambers of commerce like you. That they'll make sure you're taken care of and do most of the legwork for you so long as do whatever they tell you. She's been right so far but this is territory where you also at least need the local political power structures to not actually viscerally despise you to the point where they'd risk losing the state entirely just to never have to deal with you again, and that's a knack she seems to lack or doesn't think is important. This isn't a terrible take: the idea is she fought for so long against the establishment she became brokebrained, and then when she started running as a Blue Dog a lot of doors opened up to her and validated that belief.
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Dec 9, 2022 20:05
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evilweasel posted:there are three choices: statehood; the status quo; and independence. for a long time there has never been a clear majority for either statehood or independence, and most votes have all three options so nothing gets a majority. they finally had a two-way vote and statehood won 53-47 To be technical, another option being bandied about was a fantasy "Commonwealth" status that doesn't exist in the constitution but would've given PR all of the benefits of statehood with none of the drawbacks (like income taxes). PR's politics have their own issues which is why there's no real consensus over it.
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Dec 15, 2022 23:08
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BiggerBoat posted:This looks like a loving Onion article An actual parody looks better: https://mobile.twitter.com/VoughtIntl/status/1603499559937642496
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Dec 16, 2022 01:56
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The majority of billionaires stay incredibly quiet and you don't see them in the news. Musk is an exception because, to a huge degree, his wealth was built off his public profile as a tech mogul: Tesla is massively overvalued because of the brand and that's where a lot of his wealth is/was.
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It's the NFT trading card thing that really did it for me. He's wounded, he's damaged, but he absolutely could still come out swinging and beat everyone out in a competitive primary again even if they all united against him. But it's clear that no one left around him is able to organize or manage such a campaign.
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