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Arguing about the distribution of small business owners without stats or a specific definition of “small” is deeply silly. You’re just comparing anecdotes based on tummy feels.
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The Palmer Report just makes poo poo up for lefty clicks. You really need to learn to check sources. Do you want help?
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Oct 15, 2023 05:00
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Why are there so many votes (i.e. any) for Zeldin, of all people??
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Piell posted:He's like the designated "I don't want to vote for the leading candidate so I'm parking my vote here for now" person, this happened last time too Just feels like weird pick. loving Zeldin.
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Sorry you presumably were in Staten Island though. That’s rough.
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some kinda jackal posted:I hope they nominate me You could probably bribe George Santos to nominate anyone you wanted.
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You haven’t heard of gopdom?
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shimmy shimmy posted:I don't know why but I'm weirdly amused by the fact that it's apparently police procedure to say 'we know you're in there!' even if you don't actually think that. I mean, shoot your shot I guess The dude hiding in the 37th house doesn’t know you’ve been shouting it at every house.
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Neurolimal posted:If you can't be held accountable for voting for someone, then Trump voters can't be held accountable for voting for Trump. They simply made the insignificant moral calculus of choosing who they perceived to be the lesser evil, probably didn't think he'd actually follow through on anything; he didn't even build the wall! I’m not going to delve deep into the everything that’s going on in this post, but your logic here is explicitly that a thing must be true (voting is a direct line for all moral responsibility) because if it wasn’t you’d be sad (Trump voters must be punished). That is a very bad argument and you should not use it.
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uninterrupted posted:People who voted for Hitler, Trump, or Biden have equal culpabilities for their actions, I doubt there are many people here who'd disagree with that Elections were for parties not people in the Weimar Republic so it’s a moot point. At no point was “Hitler Y/N?” something on a ballot. It’s really weird how people like referencing the rise of Nazism a lot more than they like knowing how it happened.
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theCalamity posted:I don’t think that will be very convincing. You’re asking people to support the person who is helping in murdering their family, an extraordinary position and this doesn’t really match what is being asked of them. In fact, I think they will become very angry with you if you tried that. And you're being particularly helpful with this? Are Palestinians going to die happier knowing that you are proudly astride your high horse holding out a small amount of help from someone else because voting would sully your moral purity? I don't see how taking umbrage with a bad situation and refusing to engage helps anyone. No one here is under the impression that this is a good or fair situation.
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Elephant Ambush posted:I know you're probed and can't respond to this but this is for the thread in general. The governor of California, a Democrat, recently vetoed a law that would protect trans kids. I know that's just one state but it's always brought up as the most progressive state that chuds hate the most. And to extend that to women, the Democrats got leaked a Supreme Court decision that was going to overturn Roe vs Wade and they did nothing. They had a majority and could have codified abortion as being legal nationwide but instead they said "hey donate a bunch of money and maybe we'll do something". They did not codify abortion as legal in this country because they did not want to. Democrat party leaders are also on record multiple times endorsing anti-choice Democrats who are running against pro-choice Democrats in certain House races You're getting mildly dog-piled for this post, but I just want to add. People are correct to point to the things like trans rights and other Democratic policies that are easily, demonstrably better than Republicans' plans, but I want to bring up a more personal point. Hi ElephantAmbush! Remember me, the guy who played Gloomhaven with you a bunch? If it wasn't for the watered-down bullshit imperceptibly better than nothing ACA I'd be dead. I almost died while between health insurances and that policy is the reason why I got to get surgery and, y'know, didn't loving die. The ACA does nowhere near enough, it's a pretty lovely implementation of any of its policy aims, but it's still the sole reason I'm alive.
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Mid-Life Crisis posted:Wrong. “the traps Obama left him”
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Foxfire_ posted:There's some cynical local politics reasons for New York. A bunch of current districts changed in 2022 have slim partisan leans, and depending on current lawsuits might get redrawn again for 2024. In as much as my local anecdotal perspective is worth anything : lol lmao good luck with that. There are a lot of people pissed at them, especially Molinaro.
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Romney lived in France for two years. No excuse.
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mannerup posted:if the question is on how left-wing they are personally, I don't think that is really a useful metric since its not really a falsifiable statement. Biden could theoretically be the most personally left-wing President the United States has ever had, but if that isn't reflected in the legislation they implemented then it's a meaningless distinction. Well that was expressly the statement under discussion. How would changing the topic to an unrelated thing help? quote:I don't disagree with this assessment, but as Hieronymous Alloy pointed out with Biden being the most left-wing President since Carter (which I think is a fair argument), that just means he wasn't as conservative in policy as Clinton or Obama during the peak of the third-way neoliberal policy implementation years. That is how comparatives work, yes.
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There are also these things called trains.
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cr0y posted:In the US? No. The entire country used to be covered with train tracks. They tore them out to build roads. There is no intrinsic reason the US can’t have a functioning railroad network, just like every other developed nation. This is the same American exceptionalism bullshit, just with transportation infrastructure instead.
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And street cars. Pedestrian-only zones with even a half decent street car system are the best.
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Sure but it’s not like the US has a magic field that makes infrastructure expensive.
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PC LOAD LETTER posted:Actually it kinda does. Lower population density and the spread out layout of American cities effectively permanently forces the prices up dramatically and means that revenues from tickets (if you're talking about trains and such) are going to be garbage nearly everywhere. So financially they'd have to be run at a loss, and on public support, for a long long time. Think a decade or more easily in the few areas where you could guarantee enough people would ride them to get enough revenue in. Many would never become financially self supporting from ticket fare and would permanently be on public support. Yes, people have stupid views and we’re stuck with bad infrastructure. No that is not a magic causative field. There’s nothing about North American geography that dictates it be used in a lovely way. This is an entirely, 100% human made problem and the exact kind of thing you can convince people over time. We can change this. We already need to replace everything because it’s falling apart and killing us.
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Where’s the urban planning thread? I have Thoughts.
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BUUNNI posted:I don’t think the virus went anywhere though A loving lot of people did though. And for some reason the anti-vax walk-off-the-plague party took the worse of it.
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Perhaps the youths on tiktok would enjoy the works of Dr. Noam Chomsky.
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I think perhaps that letting the South African emerald magnate have a monopoly on going everywhere that's not-Earth was a bad idea.
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Bucky Fullminster posted:He saw what happened when RBG held on to the job for too long, instead of passing the baton to keep it alive, right? Those positions aren’t even a little bit analogous.
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Nov 23, 2023 05:51
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Bucky Fullminster posted:By refusing to let someone else step in, he is effectively letting republicans have more power than they otherwise would. Stamping your feet even harder is not, in fact, evidence.
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Bucky Fullminster posted:We can't prove something in the future, but it's based on the fact that I don't think he will win. And the GOP will get more than just a supreme court seat as a result. That’s not how that works.
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Nov 23, 2023 06:25
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Mid-Life Crisis posted:Trump heavily campaigned on isolationism and did many isolationist acts that pissed off neocons. The whole NAFTA arguments, etc. His blurts of shows of strength were just his strongman tendencies not a policy. O I got it now. You have no idea what words mean. That’s not what “isolationism” or “neocon” mean to anyone else. Even if your definitions were internally consistent, that’s not how anyone uses them.
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“No, you see, the totalitarianism will be benign when it agrees with my ideals.” And again, you’re assuming there’s some secret cabal of Democratic leadership that would be directing this. You have provided no evidence of this.
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:In reality the futility argument indicates that you are implementing rules that people do not want to find to be unreasonable. The idea of a phone ban is absolutely both to large numbers of people. Instead of realizing that, many of you are going full IN on being over the top authoritarian on the issue. Are you going to say what this “reasonable policy” is, as distinct from the systems in the article under discussion?
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:Removing kids that use phones during class from the class would be fine after a number of warnings. Or forcing a check in check out system. I have no issue with preventing their use during class, and schools do need to be able to enforce that. So you don't have such a system. You are explicitly just saying do the same poo poo, but harder. The thing that we're talking about not working, based on a study. Do you understand why people think you're being unreasonable?
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:I've already provided my own personal examples of why this doesn't work. No, you've thrown a temper tantrum about how the rules shouldn't apply to you and your child's toy is more important than people actually learning at school. You don't provide any evidence except for the classic "well it works in my personal anecdote" line of non-argument and trying to dodge. You've argued with every person here who works in education and refuse to address basic points. This is classic FYGM-lite and people are correct to take you to task. There are a lot of serious issues that you're hand-waving away as non-existent while absolutely refusing to acknowledge that other children besides yours exist and deserve to be taught uninterrupted.
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:Man your reading comprehension is garbage. Do you have evidence for this besides just saying it over and over?
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:Yeah cool welcome to my position this entire time. Yes, that's why the people who are arguing with you are mostly teachers. The people with the least experience in a classroom. Obviously. You've barely responded to any of the actual points except stamping your feet and insisting everyone else is an old (ignoring that many of the people are actually younger than you.) How exactly are we supposed to argue with someone who has no relevant experience, qualifications or evidence, who refuses to address points of argumentation and who can only respond with personal insults. You don't even have a proposed solution! You just try to weasel and say that you want a "sensible" position ; ignoring that you don't actually have one except for doing the same poo poo on a different day.
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D-Pad posted:You can really tell which posters have kids currently going through the public school system in the US and which ones don't. Just like it's very obvious who here has ever tried to teach a class.
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Baronash posted:This is dumb and if you have points please make them. I was mocking that argument for being dumb.
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D-Pad posted:You mean how the two teachers who posted here said full bans aren't realistic? Do you have an actual argument?
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gently caress that looks like it was a nightmare to type. I don’t know how boomers do that poo poo. I can type so much faster than I can switch keyboards.
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BabyFur Denny posted:Huh, when I visited NYC I found the public transport system there pretty horrid. Everything looks like it has been running for several decades with little or no maintenance, the stations and trains are all grimy, dirty and smell like pee, the coverage is mediocre at best. I haven't been to any other city in the US but surely it can't get much worse than that? There’s a good argument that the NYC subway is the best in all of North America. You’re also not wrong in your assessment : it’s okay-ish at best, with a lot of grime and decay on top. It is a loving dire continent if you like good transportation infrastructure. Most cities have no actual infrastructure, so maybe there’s an anemic and very spotty bus service somewhere relevant, if you’re lucky. Everything is designed to favor cars, to the point of having demolished most of the (often pretty good) pre-automobile infrastructure to build more roads.
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