aaronbaugher

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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
True. Maybe the worst act of Trump's first term was commuting the sentence of a kosher meatpacking company executive. He was in prison for bank fraud, but he should have been there because he got busted for having hundreds of illegals
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
Yeah, maybe there are different types of procrastination, but there's nothing good about my type. If I hadn't procrastinated through my 20s and 30s, I could be retired and spending my 50s fishing instead of working to make a livin
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
I know people who were fired for refusing the Covid shots. I even know one who was fired for refusing a "voluntary" daily testing program. No, these were not caused by a federally mandated vaccination requirement for the general p
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
Seems like it would be their job not to leave. If they just leave when people and property are being threatened, why do we pay them?
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
Reagan's amnesty, like the others, was a bait and switch. The DC/corporate establishment said, "Let us amnesty the ones that are here, and we'll get control of the border and stop the flow." After getting their amne
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
We could survive without cheap strawberries if we had to, but we won't have to. Plenty of Americans used to do farm labor and other difficult work before mass migration pushed the wages for those jobs below sustainable levels for citiz
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
Read the Time article[1] on how the US bureaucratic and corporate establishment teamed up to "fortify" the election to make sure Trump wouldn't win, which uses words like "conspiracy" and "shadow election"
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
People have short memories. In the early months of 2020, the CDC and WHO both recommended not wearing masks, for good reason. Decades of research had shown cloth masks were completely ineffective, and N95 masks were only effective if fitted
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
No, the US does not have a database of citizens or a national ID. There's been long-standing resistance to such a thing, as part of the general American distrust of centralized government and what a tyrannical government could do with
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
I doubt the rioters want to be slaughtered to undermine the president. But the people egging them on and providing them with riot masks seem to like the idea.
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
Project 2025 = Qanon. It's fun.
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
Heard a rumor this morning that organizers have realized the bad optics in that, and have put out word to wave US flags today. It'll be interesting to see if they're obeyed.
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
You could try to convince Democrats (and their establishment GOP pals) to stop flooding the country with illegals and taking their side against Americans even when they riot under foreign flags. That would suck the air right out of the Repu
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
It takes a lot of words to convince people not to believe what they can see for themselves in video.
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
The irony is that, if they hadn't fortified (to use Time's winking term) the election in 2020 and let Trump stay in office, his second term would have been much like the first, bogged down by Pence and the rest of the establishmen
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
We've been hearing "11 million" for decades. No one really knows what the number is because no one in charge of finding out has wanted to know, but it's far higher.
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
Yes, we need much higher penalties on employers who break the law by hiring illegal aliens, and make it harder for them to pretend they didn't know, in addition to deporting illegals. It's not either/or; it's both&#x2F
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
It's incoherent, just like the corporate claim that we need moar immigration and moar imports to keep prices down at Walmart, even if that means none of us make enough to buy anything. Both sides have to dress up their real motives, on
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
One 17-year-old in Kenosha put a stop to these "protests" going to places where Americans are allowed to defend themselves.
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
Yes, there's long been a revolving door between Big Pharma and the FDA, Monsanto and the USDA, etc. They revolve into government to set policy and reap graft and back into the corporate world to implement and profit from it. Glad peopl
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
When you've lived in the country most of your life, it's weird when you hear people discover basic things like windbreaks or the fact that tree shade is cooler than other shade. My great-grandparents would have said, "Well, d
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
It's very dumb. It's also the default assumption today in government, media, academia, and most of the corporate world, especially HR. If you like your job, or just like being able to post your thoughts on social media, you ignore
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
Yeah, that's just how developing new technologies works. Home PCs, VCRs, CD players, cell phones: every one was hundreds or thousands of dollars at first, a plaything for wealthy people. Then as volume increased, prices came down to wh
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
My anecdote is that I was diagnosed with stage 3 kidney disease, likely as a result of years of very high blood pressure. Four years later, using medication to get the blood pressure down to near-normal, and following a high-fat/keto d
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
You can see it if you watch any US documentary filmed before the late 70s that shows ordinary people in the street. They're much fitter, and exercise for weight loss wasn't really a thing yet; people didn't jog. That's n
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
I started with Z-80 assembly, then BASIC, then 6502 assembly, then higher-level languages like C and perl, and I think the assembly gave me a useful foundation for what was going on under the hood. I'm not sure I'd even call assem
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
I've spent 6 months building a software program and then been told we wouldn't be using it. Sometimes work is just a paycheck. But yeah, it's nasty when you look in the big recycle dumpsters we have here and see the things pe
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
Yeah, you can find plenty of examples of them sitting right out in the open. They're protected by two oceans, not by bunkers. A similar attack with trucks full of drones would make short work of them just as well.
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
"Display" being the operative word. Good for PR, and maybe good for NATO in some small way in the future, but it won't change the war or how many Ukrainians are getting killed. A lot of the Ukrainian "wins" in this
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
They think they're far too clever to let that ever happen, so the tyranny (not that they'd call it that) of technocratic managerialism that they're pushing will never let other tyrants rise again. They also tend to buy into a

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