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CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Praise the lord. He shidded.

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CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Aramis posted:

Not quite, at least to my knowledge. They've (reasonably, on paper) argued that investigating and acting on suspected election fraud is an official act, and there's no reason for them to expand beyond that. That's why the prosecution is putting such a big emphasis on "he knew he had lost".

Kind of - they went to great lengths to argue that the superficial fraud Trump made up somehow counted as 'real investigations' despite the fact that its been openly shown that it in and of itself was attempted fraud.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Edit: Someone already found the context.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Oh my god what did they do to TV's Frank!

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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....and just what are you training for, murderer?

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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thunderspanks posted:

if only there were a way to purchase your items that didn't require learning tricks and performing unpaid labor

There's two sides to this - Automation is coming and there really is no argument that being a cashier is a good job. Its an awful job. Its miserable. Its a job not worth saving. Its like saying we should save the horse and buggy industry because 'jobs' despite them being outdated and antiquated.

The loss of these jobs is a key argument why we need Universal Basic Income. We should not save jobs because they are jobs, especially jobs that are just unending misery and repetition. We should be fighting for better means to provide resources to people. Yes, doing your own checkout is unpaid labor. But to be blunt - a lot of people prefer self-checkouts.

This issues that needs to be solved is better social systems to help people survive without saving lovely, awful jobs, and make these companies pay into such systems that they themselves benefit from.

CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 15:10 on Jan 11, 2024

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Data Graham posted:

As well try to convince America that you deserve to live if you can't "pay your way".

Yes, exactly. Part of this is pretending 'earning a living' in the age of rampant automation and consolidation of jobs makes no sense anymore - fewer people are doing more, often with less. The issue is that instead we're focused on saving absolutely lovely and awful jobs versus actually focusing on combating the idea that maybe we should just enable people to live just for existing rather than 'earning' it.

Social programs like UBI and stimulus packages directly benefit companies because people spend that money, unlike when we bail out companies and they just sit on the cash or payout executive bonuses and do stock buybacks that benefit only themselves.

CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 15:08 on Jan 11, 2024

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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WHY BONER NOW posted:

So who won last night's The debat.

Whoever won, we lost.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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FuturePastNow posted:

UBI will never exist in the United States. If it does it will be 1) below a livable amount 2) used as an excuse to eliminate other systems like food stamps and 3) opt-out so states like Florida can refuse

Maybe, maybe not. But it's what we need.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Stoatbringer posted:

This handy graphic from Fox explains the clear difference between the criminal money for Hunter and the ethical payment for Trump.



Concerning.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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This isn't really suprising too - It'd be extremely hard to get a grand jury to indict on something this awful. Shockingly, abortion and miscarriages are not the judicial selling points the GOP think they are.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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John Yossarian posted:

I guess Biden is currently polling even worse now for some reason, but it doesn't make any sense. What exactly do Americans want? I guess I don't understand their thought process when in comes to politics.

Stop trusting polls.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Doonesbury continues to be the actual political comic we need.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Well, she'd have to because she's never getting a client after this regardless if Trump wins or loses the election.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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rotinaj posted:

a single woman with moderate cleavage would be absolutely unstoppable by colossal man, huh

Evangelicals do not understand how to write escapism superhero stories, and that is pretty drat basic

When your entire idea of a hero is subservience to a guy who's been dead for 2,000 years....yeah, hard to write.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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WHY BONER NOW posted:

So porn is that guy's kryptonite, huh? Like he tries to stop a bank robbery but the villain pulls out a penthouse and collosal man can't help but to beat off immediately?

Turns out his Kryptonite is actually gay porn. because Colossal Man is actually a closeted gay guy. Suppressed by a jack booted Christian group who use it as a way to control him.

CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 17:21 on Jan 17, 2024

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Yeah I'm gonna love when they enforce that and get sued into the ground.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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John Wick of Dogs posted:

To be clear Trump has already been found guilty here and the jury is just hearing arguments on how much damages he owes

And Habba seriously thinks she can re-litigate the case here, its hilariously delusional.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Apollodorus posted:

If God exists and has any say in it, they’re gonna suffer a lot longer than that

That's some of the most ironic thing about these fuckers - They claim to believe that sin will lead to hell, yet are usually sinning themselves but believe God is both all knowing and all powerful, yet they can trick him just by praying for forgiveness for themselves.


Again - Judge Judy is a noted piece of poo poo and is an absolute rear end in a top hat.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Nocheez posted:

She dealt with the worst kind of people for 30 years in family law in NYC. I honestly can't blame her for having a poo poo view of her fellow man.

No, she was noted for being an absolute piece of poo poo during her time there too. She has always been an absolute trash person.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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weg posted:

Even if Trump wins he's too much of a lazy poo poo to get around to passing any legislation to put anyone in a camp. There's a fairly good chance he dies on a toilet regardless of the election outcome. I hope this in some way helps with your anxiety.

Yeah, this is the problem - Trump wanted to be a dictator first time around too, but he keeps forgetting he'd actually have to have the military and the judiciary fully on his side or be willing to purge them.

He's too lazy to do that. Not to hand it to Hitler, but Hitler also recognized that he was going to be unable to hold maintain power without forcing the powers that be to either align with him or violently get them out of his way. That's not something Trump nor his yes men cronies appear capable of doing.

Trump is fascism but without the willpower to actually fully commit to the bad things in order to go full mask off. That was part of the concern about someone like Desantis, who might actually be willing to do that poo poo until Desantis' mask slipped and it turns out he's just as much of a muppet as Trump is.

CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Jan 21, 2024

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Escape From Noise posted:

He will come back from the dead to hold rallies as he loses body parts.

He's gonna be resurrected as an AI that just goes full hallucination and spews garbage

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Agents are GO! posted:

Triumph Of The Won't

'Triumph of the "That sounds like work"'

I cannot be emphasized enough how loving lazy Trump and the people he picks are.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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kw0134 posted:

It does raise the question of who DeSantis supporters go to, because if they're Trumpists they'd not have supported DeSantis in the first place. But supporting Haley may be unpalatable to them too.

They want Desantis to continue to govern (read: gently caress up) Florida, but the Presidency can only be given to King Trump in their mind.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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But I thought Jared solved the Middle East?! Jared, why did you fail us?!

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Buce posted:

yet despite all that, our rickety loving institutions barely, barely, kept him in check last time.

But they actually, really, didn't do anything to keep him in check - his lack of will to do anything largely kept him in check and the fact that 3/4 of his court cases resulted him even Conservative judges going "LMAO you are out of your god damned mind".

There's so much more damage he could've freely done and none of our institutions would've stopped him but he was absolutely too lazy to do because he, personally, would have to put in effort versus his cronies.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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He's in there browsing Hunter Biden's laptop.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Ringo Star Get posted:

Also love that he’s “President Trump” and it’s “Crooked Biden”.

Because the loving moron fully bought into his own story about the election being stolen because his brains starting to leak out of his ears.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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MrQwerty posted:

remember when Donald "TRUMP" went on TV and said "kung flu" when people had to start wearing masks

I do because I worked in a factory with a bunch of chuds

I too remember our President recommending Bleach and Horse Paste as a miracle cure.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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"All that money spent on taller heels and for nothing!"

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Catastrophe posted:

I was just thinking that it would be a laugh riot to see Donald Trump attempt to play even a simple video game like Pac Man. I guarantee 30 seconds before he'd rage quit and state it's unfair.

"Game is Rigged, concerning."

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Its telling that again, their projection is so real - they openly fantasize about genocid'ing people on the left, but are terrified the left is planning the exact same thing, despite no evidence that being true.

"We gotta kill them before they kill us!"

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Nessus posted:

Just a little more crime!!

"Fake neeeewwwwwwwwwwssssss"

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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vaginite posted:

Yeah same in business stuff, every office has the MAGA guy everyone hates/ignores. Any tech guys? I've been under the assumption tech places are more MAGA but I realized typing it out that it was maybe a faulty assumption based on twitter-brain, those guys are always the loudest so are probably overrepresented in my head.

LMAO most Tech guys are not MAGA, at least not the good ones from what I've seen.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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vaginite posted:

Yeah I suspected I was wrong, the constant blast of tech-bro maga poo poo that been on X since Musk took it over distorted my perception of the field that I don't personally ever interact with.

Also I've had a bad run of IT guys that were chuds, but I don't know if I'd call them "tech" as they've been shittier at computers than I am, and their skills often involve "installing our software package, distributing VPN logins". Maybe they're just the dumb ones and I got a couple in a row.

Techbros are poo poo for other reasons, but they are often Conservative, but rarely outright MAGA. That's usually more Investment Bro assholes.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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mobby_6kl posted:

Six million is almost certainly bullshit but lol 40k isn't even the same order of magnitude


Again, its important to keep in context - while a large portion may be seeking citizenship, another large portion just makes up seasonal workers who used to come up on migrant visas.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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mobby_6kl posted:

Would probably need some sort of net migration number for that here but I doubt everyone is just going to walk back to Honduras or Venezuela after harvest.



A lot of them end up resettling in Mexico, and Mexico remains a large portion of that flux based on your own chart.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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This is just him masturbating. That's all it is.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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AreWeDrunkYet posted:

Why isn't exile a thing anymore? The US apparently owns 9 uninhabited islands and atolls.

A lot of those are used by the Department of Defense for things.

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CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Data Graham posted:

They never tested an H-bomb on Pitcairn, weird

Pitcairn is British.

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