DFHippie

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by DFHippie 2y ago
> a department within his purview That's not how it works in the U.S. If an executive branch department was created by the legislature, it is up to the legislature whether or not it exists, not the executive. If the legislature has
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by DFHippie 2y ago
> The rest of us also had to put up with decisions under previous administrations that we didn't appreciate despite only a similar number of people actually voting for the administration. That's actually a little rich in this c
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I sometimes think the US exists as a cautionary tale. We suck so you don't have to!
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> All require a united front. Which requires Republicans to honor their oath to uphold the Constitution. So it's a non-starter.
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> Theatrics is really all the Dems ever do these days. They have no power. They can't set the agenda; they can't get legislation to the floor; they can't call investigations. They certainly can't arrest lawbreakers. A
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I was a TA years ago, before there were LLMs one could use to cheat effectively. The professor and I still detected a lot of cheating. The problem was what to do once you've caught it? If you can't prove that it's cheatin
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They're okay the way a patient in a coma is okay with whatever the doctor does.
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Damn. It must be nice. Here in the US we struggle to hold police officers accountable for not shooting civilians. I have hope that the culture around policing will change if people finally realize that the crime rates have dropped. But with
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Homer: "Marge, a gun is just a tool! Like a harpoon, or a butcher knife or ... an alligator."
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by DFHippie 2y ago
> The ACA was more or less Romneycare, a Republican idea, but ironically passed with zero Republican votes... I agree with much of what you say, but the ACA is popular. Its popularity is growing. Passing the ACA was a matter of getting h
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by DFHippie 2y ago
"Accomplice" means a confederate in a crime. If the executive violates a law and the legislature, among whose duties is to catch and prosecute such acts, allows him to do so, they are accomplices. If they work together to achieve
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> I simply don't see aligned incentives. For instance, the more homeless are on the street, the more funding an NGO gets. Then how will the NGO have any incentive at all to truly help the homeless? That assumes the NGOs, like for-pr
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I think it's time you provided some examples.
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> You appear to be ignoring how both Democrats and Republicans have consistently, completely failed to function for the public they're supposed to serve, for many decades. False equivalence or just false. By many measures the Democr
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What things do you think the Democrats should do but aren't doing? Your "anything" suggests you think there are many such things. A list would be helpful.
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Refusing to execute laws passed by Congress is not an ordinary power.
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How quickly did any of the Trump trials conclude?
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A stick of dynamite can't keep secrets either but it does its job.
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We hired someone to manage our obligations who was famous for signing contracts and then stiffing his contractors. It makes perfect sense that, once freed from underlings who were loyal to anyone or anything but him, he would continue this
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If you read the article, it appears they've only been keeping records in Kansas since the 50's. And I think the headline is wrong: it's the biggest in Kansas's records. I could be mistaken about that.
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The version I recall has "upon their knees to bite 'em". Maybe my juvenile brain made up that internal rhyme the better to remember it.
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If there were any tax implications, they were incidental. The show was parody, so the opinions he espoused in character were necessarily ones he didn't actually hold.
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Didn't you hear? Those weren't crosshairs. Those were surveyor's marks. /s
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> It reminds me of the whole fuss over using "homeless" vs "unhoused" - while actual policies to help homeless people get ignored or defunded. More than one thing happens at a time. I'm fairly certain the people
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> people who truly don't care The problem with the old "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" quote of uncertain provenance is that it leaves out most of the population: the people
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Mysterious fish that live for a century and don't decline with age(bbc.com)
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I think you're overlooking the word "explicitly".
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Recent events (many events in many places) show "users" don't think too hard before acting. And sometimes they act with inadequate or inaccurate information. If we want better outcomes, it behooves us to hire people to do the
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> Human babies physically cannot walk. It’s not merely a knowledge check. They physically cannot walk, but they also don't know how to. We know this because they need to practice and acquire skill. If they are deprived of opportunit
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by DFHippie 2y ago
Trump talked continuously about weaponizing the government, how it was done to him ("They are investigating/prosecuting my crimes and I am a politician now ! Disgraceful!"), and how he was going to do it good and hard to tho

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