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facialimpediment posted:Writers Guild of America goes on strike tomorrow, so hope you like reality TV! gently caress Netflix and all the streaming services and their bullshit pay structure.
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Does anyone have some links on the whole Disney is evil thing?
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May 2, 2023 17:32
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Soylent Pudding posted:Like Tucker Carlson has ever been in a fight he fought for every dime of his chicken tendy inheritance
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May 3, 2023 03:37
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I believe all of this information has been made public due to a judicial disclosure law that was passed recently. I'm sure that there are a number of parties with cases before the court that are very interested in what's going on behind the scenes. It does appear that factions within the conservative right have been making very deliberate inroads into SCOTUS in an effort to help shape legal interpretation. Whether that is a tolerable state of affairs for the right, let alone the whole country, remains to be seen. but yeah I wouldn't wait on congress or SCOTUS if you want to see any type of progress in this country.
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May 4, 2023 14:04
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Cythereal posted:Normal country. He goes completely off the deep end in the comments. ugh everyone on twitter loving sucks
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May 4, 2023 18:16
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facialimpediment posted:I'm generally preoccupied with the concept of the "point of no return" in our political stuff. Not necessarily that things can't ever be fixed after that mythical point, but it basically becomes impossible to not fix it. The American system always yields work-arounds, or different ways to tackle problems, eg: Congress passes a law, supreme court overturns, Congress passes identical law once again with a teensy tweak, etc. But sometimes, the work-arounds just kinda run out. This country survived a literal civil war and two world wars. Things definitely suck and aren't turning around quickly, but our history is actually full of incredibly bleak and difficult moments. Things can certainly get a lot worse from where we are today, but they can also get a lot better. An important take away is that Millennials are the dominant political group at this point. Our interest and input into the political process has never been more important than it is right now. We will most likely continue to be the most influential demographic in terms of pure voting power for the foreseeable future.
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May 4, 2023 22:24
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Deteriorata posted:"Once the olds are gone and my generation takes over, things will be great" has been the rallying cry of every generation in history. So what? Society has been progressing pretty steadily since the end of the middle ages.
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May 4, 2023 23:56
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That Works posted:Yes and it still hosted multiple genocides and holocausts along the way. It's hard to be comforted by the "long arc of history bending towards justice" when the current justices are bending over for Nazi cash. They're openly bending over for Nazi cash - this is hardly the first time that some figure has done something that could have exerted inappropriate influence on the court. Stories like this one are exactly what's needed right now : a serious lapse in judicial ethics that eventually demand a response from congress or society at large. It would be so very easy for someone like Mr. Crowe to hide exactly where all the gifts and money were coming from, but they don't even bother, because there has never been any kind of consequence previously. Hopefully this kind of reckless behavior will spur on reform, and might accelerate the process of addressing some of the more glaring problems in our government.
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May 5, 2023 00:08
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Yeah Tomi T whoever seems like a loving moron - it's a civil case and certainly isn't a life or death situation. poo poo like that makes me hate pundits and the loving idiots who take them seriously.
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May 5, 2023 05:27
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/jaywillis/status/1654503982809911296?t=QQF2zb4boq77J8yfSR412A&s=19 Seems like a pretty benign thing to get up in arms about, particularly given the composition of the court. What exactly do you think the messaging should be? We are going to impeach Thomas?
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May 5, 2023 17:26
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I think the dems are probably sticking on the defensive because they realize that there is more dirt to dig and they are in an incredibly tenuous spot. Biden is old as gently caress and not a super well loved president, despite doing a pretty good job. They 100% are looking to avoid any unforced errors that could hurt his campaign, I would imagine that there may be some skeletons in the closet of the Liberal SCOTUS justices that they are concerned might get brought to the forefront.Zamujasa posted:"Stick to what's real and possible" is the kind of poo poo that was being fed to us back in 2008 shortly after Obama won on his huge Hope and Change platform and proceeded to ditch it in favor of "well, it's the best we can do" centrism. Sorry, single payer, maybe you'll enjoy this regurgitated literally-from-a-Republican version. We just don't have the votes. Please ignore the supermajority and the fact that we could have just ended the filibuster. What are you suggesting be done exactly? Grip it and rip it fucked around with this message at 02:45 on May 6, 2023 |
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Fivemarks posted:Voting doesn't matter when votes won't change thigns on the state and local level, where things are set up to ensure that no matter how many votes dems get, the republicans still win. Wherep eople are having voting rights stripped away and districts gerrymandered to gently caress. Sure it will. Up until the Trump presidency there was a federal right to abortion in red states. Now there isn't. There are likely other rights that Republicans will seek to peel back if they get into the majority in congress/presidency that could continue to harm people that live in Red States. Voting also matters because it signals to politicians how strongly people feel about certain policy positions. The idea that voting doesn't matter is a bullshit copout. There are millions of people who are denied that right every single year as part of an intentional effort to stymie progress in this country. Republican strategists wouldn't continue to spend millions of dollars to continue that process if it wasn't effective and useful to them.
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May 6, 2023 05:22
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So you're proposing what exactly? What is the better proposal other than buying more time at this juncture? Also just a note but Presidential elections are held every 4 years so there would presumably be a 4 year window for other organizing efforts to take place to try and address these issues.
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May 6, 2023 18:03
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Good loving lord, all of this is beyond belief If somebody is .26 and they're not a regular alcoholic they're basically on another planet as far as processing cause and effect goes. Whoever posted this stuff is a genuine piece of poo poo. Edit: Just to be clear: Just because someone can respond to questions doesn't mean their brain is actually working. The officer in that video states again and again that she's not getting it because she isn't. She's too drunk to drive, too drunk to consent to anything, and too drunk to contextualize why her responses to these questions are so callous and horrible. Grip it and rip it fucked around with this message at 06:34 on May 7, 2023 |
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May 7, 2023 06:20
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Keep your wife away from your investments
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May 8, 2023 15:19
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facialimpediment posted:It happened again! That case sounds pretty flimsy. Depending on the context of "My wife is trying to poison me" there could be a huge number of reasonable explanations. Ditto for how the Husband could have gotten and ingested fentanyl. The whole public has been told that poo poo is lethal to the touch and can be found in lethal quantities on dollar bills in circulation.
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May 9, 2023 16:22
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Imagine thinking like Elon Musk posts and not feeling immense, deeply seeded shame.
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May 9, 2023 18:43
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Wow, of they can get Trump, they could get any of us. Makes you think.
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May 9, 2023 20:23
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facialimpediment posted:Platinum coin, 14th amendment lawsuit, and federal reserve premium bonds are all floated as options for evading Congress on the debt ceiling, you're right. All are poo poo options. Hey they could just default and wipe out the entire country's savings!
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May 9, 2023 23:01
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On the other hand, letting him talk gets them money, so whose to day what's right?
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May 11, 2023 15:27
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Is that really regressive? FAA sounds like it really wants to be a zero defect institution, and while anybody might accept the call of the void, somebody that has a history of mental health treatment would probably lead to all kinds of horrific investigations and framing by political interests. Don't they cut people for eye problems and a host of other issues as well?
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May 13, 2023 15:05
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bulletsponge13 posted:The amount of stories that involve a suicide by plane backs that. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_by_pilot It looks like that averages out to be one every couple of years, which I would imagine is low for any kind of position in the United States. Wouldn't that suggest that their selection criteria are effective, or at the very least not damaging?
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May 13, 2023 15:27
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The press? You mean the social media intern who transcribes the Press release?
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CommieGIR posted:The Media types really are the worst morons alive. This boycott is great for our channel! Let me tell you why: I'm going to work for the trump campaign! Grip it and rip it fucked around with this message at 16:19 on May 16, 2023 |
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May 16, 2023 16:03
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The world's second richest man sucks!?!? What???
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May 16, 2023 16:19
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Crab Dad posted:He was educated at an evangelical seminary. I'm not familiar with Evangelicalism outside the USA but I wouldn't be surprised if it's just uniquely terrible here.
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May 17, 2023 14:52
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Sucks to be her but she's been a career politician all her life and this is the baggage that comes with that. Better keep that ticker pumping as long as there are federal judges to appoint.
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May 18, 2023 23:17
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War Boi posted:We can all look at this and collectively come to the conclusion that she should have retired a while ago. Actually Senators are just people, and being wheeled around by employees while you poo poo yourself at work isn't a particularly rare impulse for someone to have. Generally they're just told no , rather than being puppeteer about.
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May 19, 2023 14:43
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:What leverage does China have other than not lending again? They have been way less invasive of other countries in the last few decades than the US and other western lenders. Like the US openly did a regime change in Panama for economic reasons, is there a recent equivalent from China? Not yet, but I would imagine that's the next step in their process for demonstrating that they're a world superpower contender! They aspire to do the things we disparage the USA for, so strap in.
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May 20, 2023 15:54
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Mustang posted:It loving kills me that those degenerates have such an outsized influence and power over the course of our country. Jesus Christ. It's uh, not just our country.
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May 23, 2023 18:54
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facialimpediment posted:Also, have a hearty lol at a lawyer that decided to use ChatGPT for his legal research, cited the cases ChatGPT found, then got dumpstered when the court went "uh, those don't exist". His main defense is essentially WELL I ASKED CHATGPT IF THOSE CASES WERE FAKE AND IT SAID NO lol this is so loving sweet.
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May 27, 2023 03:44
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Midjack posted:You can buy off a state judge for a few thousand bucks and the people who own racetracks are generally loaded. They'll take the chevy owner to the cleaners. I can't imagine telling all your fans to gently caress off from attending your events in person would really be the business move a racetrack owner would engage in. I'd bet the car owner is gonna be made whole without much of a fuss.
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May 29, 2023 00:37
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Kazinsal posted:Getting busted for desecration of war graves because you anchored without permission sounds the illegitimate salvage equivalent of getting busted with a kilo of uncut in the trunk because you didn't bother fixing a broken tail light. Something that only happens to people who look different than the authorities?
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