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DarkHorse posted:"Oh, that's a comparable number I guess it's not... Yeah, I had to read that a couple times to realize the magnitude of the difference. I don't think it's just because people are donating directly to Trump.
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Kagrenak posted:So a lot of moderate voters are literal national(ist) socialists. Ime some are, but most just don't have the kind of grounding in history, political theory, etc to choose a more appropriate label for themselves. They just know they object to parts of both parties' platforms and figure that puts them in between, and therefore moderate. It's really more an identity than an ideology.
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Bellmaker posted:I can’t say I’m enthusiastic about voting in November either but I’ll crawl through broken covid glass to vote against trump Big same. Ditto for the next Virginia governor election. Angry_Ed posted:Your mistake is thinking Florida has no problem defining a fetus as a natural person but a child is not. That's the chaos option. I expect them to just play fuckfuck games with what is and isn't a right, and what a right to life means. But even that has potential for chaos. All it'd take is one of the conservative justices besides Gorsuch or Roberts getting hit by a bus or catching COVID to produce a court that won't try to square that circle and will just rule along the lines of that Gorsuch opinion that discrimination against gay people is sex discrimination.
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:the fact that the longest running manga tend to be limited to a few decades at the most, with the majority much more contained, is one reason among many that they are superior to western comics I love when Americans act like super hero comics are the only kind the West makes.
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:if you took the average american and asked them about the american comic series saga, versus the justice league, what do you think the response rate would be like? Who cares?
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Failed Imagineer posted:Yeah, when anyone does some poo poo that is completely inexplicable the answer is often stupidity and/or hella drugs And/or personality disorder.
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Aztec Galactus posted:So is it legal to keep children frozen in stasis indefinitely MixMasterMalaria posted:So if the embryos are children, will the parents face charges for leaving them in a freezer? In vitro is absolutely one of the targets teed up by Dobbs, along with same-sex marriage, sodomy, both control, and the abstract concept of privacy.
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FlamingLiberal posted:While I think those Biden proposals are all good, they need to run on Trump being a criminal. You don’t win elections on policy or Bernie would currently be in the WH. You also don't win on just not being Trump. Otherwise, Trump never would have been president. Biden needs to do both.
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volts5000 posted:Yeah, that's when administration/school system has to get involved. The biggest hurdle. This is the part I expect to take legislation. Something like "schools must require phones to stay put away in class, confiscation on sight, three violations means you don't get to have one in your bag and get searched daily for a week, then [something else]." There HAS to be an escalation path because just taking them away for the day won't be sustainable. But I can't think of anything I'm at all confident could pass and stand up to challenge.
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Oracle posted:My kid got dinged on a homework assignment in health class for not having a smart phone. The assignment: tell me how much time you spend on your phone, how you can keep yourself from being on your phone all the time, and whether or not it’s healthy. ... Oh man, if I'd been given this and didn't get full points for "I don't have a smart phone" my parents would have lost their poo poo. What the actual gently caress.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Polls show the majority of voters are poorly educated about public policy, but they aren't necessarily irrational. If you genuinely believe that life begins at conception or hate Mexicans to such a degree that it impacts your life, then it is totally rational to vote for the party that will do that and also cut your Medicaid if you value those things more. If Christ is lord and we need to get right with Jesus or we are going to hell, then obviously it is way more important and rational to focus on that than to give a poo poo about Medicare prescription drug reimbursement rates. If hating minorities more than liking security is rational, then the word rational doesn't mean anything. If what you're trying to say is they rationally pursue irrational goals, then sure.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:It's Johns all the way down to replace McConnell. Anyone want to do a breakdown of which of the Johns sucks the most? Obviously they all suck, but wikipedia and my memory don't have a good apples to apples comparison, and I apparently have work to do.
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Bel Shazar posted:USCE 2024: drat, way too many lawsuits at once
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burnishedfume posted:Wouldn't the doctors having immunity not matter if the operators or administrators of the IVF clinic or hospital don't? Like if someone left the embryo fridge open at a clinic, wouldn't the clinic operators still be in danger of being charged with negligent manslaughter? Also, what about non-doctor lab techs, transport people, janitors? Immunity doesn't make what the doctors do not a crime, so it doesn't make everyone else involved not an accomplice. This is like shooting a dozen holes in a boat hull then patching two.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:yeah. there is alot of weird 40k level "if aliens exist, they are monster goetic demons from hell" poo poo from evangelical right, its really really weird. I have a few UFO believer publications from the early 90s, and there are a number of, uh, accounts that talk about there being good and evil aliens. As in, the person says they were in the process of being abducted by shadow people when essentially a classic gray alien (but tall and shining with golden light) brandished a flaming sword and drove away the evil ones. Then the good alien took him up to the starship and showed him the world, and said good is destined to triumph over evil so have faith and courage and do good where you can. I'm at work so I can't check the details, but this is the general idea. As far as I can tell, it's basically C S Lewis logic: Jesus died for everyone's sins everywhere, so of course there are Christians and anti-Christians on other planets. The rest is a reflection of the individual, whether they're bigoted and insane or just insane, etc. As you said really, really weird. There's also the branch of white supremacists who believe Aryans came from another planet, while brown people are from earth. Yes, they explicitly frame themselves as the colonizer.
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Jesus III posted:There is as much likelihood that UFOs are aliens or angels, probably zero. UFO believers are as self deluding as Christians. Thank you for your insight. Space Cadet Omoly posted:Why would anyone who believed that WANT to find aliens? Same as if you thought they were angels. If you truly, honestly thought they were messengers sent from either Heaven or Hell then the objectively correct move would be "leave them alone" not "spend thousands of dollars of tax payer money trying to harass them." Well, if monsters exist and they're dangerous, you want to know about them so you can fight them. If angels exist, you want to know about them to make sure you're on their side. That part seems pretty consistent. I guess. Ultimately, though, most of this stuff is just people using magical thinking to apply pareidolia to a nebulous body of fears and emotional hangups. The shapes they see in their inner shadows are a reflection of the media and culture they were exposed to in their formative years, and/or what kind of environment they were in when the screws came loose. Even the psychopath grifters ime do a weird kind of free association to actually come up with the content. It's like speaking in tongues, but in pictures that are then put in words. They aren't consciously aware of why they came up with the original foundation. Introspecting on that question is an ego threat.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:... and everyones some stripe of furry. I was confused by this until I scrolled back up and saw the avatar lol. Jesus III posted:Your welcome. I wish these fuckers would just fund SETI or something. Randalor posted:Huh, neat! Not quite what I was picturing for a horror film, but close enough on intent. Was it any good? I might check it out if it's not horrible. Good is not the word I'd use, but I was entertained
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Acebuckeye13 posted:I watched it with a few friends back when I was in high school in an empty theater (except for my poor mother who had volunteered to let us see an R-rated movie) and we were constantly riffing on how awful it was. This is the only way I would recommend watching this film. Oh, yeah, I should have mentioned I watched it with friends and we were all drunk and high. Pretty much any movie recommendation I give should be taken with this caveat.
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Morrow posted:The ancient Egyptians worked out the curvature of the Earth, Columbus was just an idiot which is why no one respectable would fund him. It's a quote from Men in Black.
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Raenir Salazar posted:That could be one such "Great Filter" yeah. Or there's the opposite of a great filter, where FTL tech or generation ships inherently enable races to either solve all their problems in their home system or with one or two neighbors, or they get access to, like, other galaxies and poo poo. Or all the hot races already found each other and are busy loving, but earth is cordoned off because its inhabitants are considered unfuckable.
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Nervous posted:Can confirm. At my worst I'd get an 18 pack of rolling Rock and it'd last me a day and a half. I'm down to zero a week now thankfully. Grats. I peaked at a couple liters of liquor a week. Quitting sucked. Then the pandemic hit and I had to raw dog reality lol.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:... I think this is the crux of it. They vote based on vibes and make justifying noises to the interviewer, and do that deliberately-not-figuring-things-out learned helplessness routine boomers do with computers any time they're faced with details. Some of them probably are stupid or have some undiagnosed brain injury, but I really think it's mostly the result of deliberately not thinking about stuff. Blue Footed Booby fucked around with this message at 02:18 on Mar 6, 2024 |
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Nucleic Acids posted:He is older and at the very least looks and behaves more frail, is actively supporting a genocide, and has embraced a border policy that Donald Trump could not have gotten passed at the height of his popularity and Republican control of Congress. I haven't gotten the impression the public really cares that much about the border poo poo. Like, it sucks, but the average Dem voter seems to also suck on this one. The people who don't like it don't consider it a priority.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Which is gobsmacking because "the border" is just racism rebranded. Every actual study or analysis of immigration ever shows a massive net benefit to society from immigrants and a massive problem from cutting off Immigration. It's even true of the goddam Roman Empire. (https://acoup.blog/2021/07/16/collections-the-queens-latin-or-who-were-the-romans-part-iii-bigotry-and-diversity-at-rome/ ) This is what I was getting at. The comment I was replying to was implying being right wing on border stuff could cost Biden the election. Everything I've seen says that most people who strongly object to what he's doing aren't doing so from the left. I wish they were, but the public really sucks on this issue. Blue Footed Booby fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Mar 6, 2024 |
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koolkal posted:https://prospect.org/power/2024-03-07-conflicts-of-interest-doj-antitrust-budget-cut/ To save y'all a click: quote:On Tuesday, 31 members of Congress in two different letters registered strong opposition to the appropriations package provision that cuts $45 million in funding to the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division and undermines a law increasing premerger filing fees that overwhelmingly passed Congress in 2022. And the anger boiled over onto the Senate floor. I don't have time to read as closely as I'd like, but could you elaborate on how this is "Dems weakening"?
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bagrada posted:He's going to choose himself as his VP so if he gets impeached he'll just take right back over as president again. It's foolproof. His VP will be him talking with his butt like Ace Ventura. Is there anything stopping him from delaying the announcement until, like, September?
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selec posted:Planned Parenthood also engages in union busting. It turns out if your politics aren’t class-intersectional they can easily suck the moment you get outside your lane. Gaaaaah  Do you have an article or something handy? I'd settle for a partially remembered anecdote; I'm just curious.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:I want to visit mongolia someday. just to at least see some sights. There's also the other band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1UhoGJ2PwA Edit: gently caress I thought I was in gbs Blue Footed Booby fucked around with this message at 23:53 on Mar 12, 2024 |
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tractor fanatic posted:Pretty funny to watch the Dems intentionally trash the youth vote ngl Didn't it pass with bipartisan support?
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Potato Salad posted:Oh lord, what did I butterfinger? I'm just ribbing you for all the double and combo broken triple posting. 
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dweepus posted:... How do I fight against that? ... Don't own a tablet, model good behavior (don't veg out on your phone in front of them), limit computer time, and if they ask for a tablet you say "no" then ground them if they whine about it.
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Thaddius the Large posted:I mean my assumption was Texas LEOs would just start marching people across the desert toward Mexico at gunpoint until they decided to head back home and let the sun sort them out, but hopefully that’s just being melodramatic Is there precedent for that in modern times?
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Jesus III posted:Most of those European countries have incredibly generous health, mental health, rape and incest exceptions. I don't think I've ever considered what the actual rate would be, besides more common than murder, less than shoplifting. That seems like a lot??
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PhazonLink posted:any reason for the confidence for Kim to win the primary? hear theres some minor primary drama with the supposed shadow of the governor's wife also vying for the seat. Is there a reason you think Kim's in trouble?
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