radiofreeeuropa

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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
Capturing the Supreme Court so completely was the turning point, in terms of ability to enact their agenda quickly. It's been conservative my entire not short any more life, but it's strongly packed with disingenuous, ideologica
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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
My "holy shit, we're in for... interesting times, and like, soon " moment was when Trump suggested his supporters might shoot Hillary if she won ("If she wins, I can't do anything about it. But the 'Second Ame
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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
This has been a project under way since the friggin' John Birchers and the postwar "think-tank" boom. They've (this specific set of interests, not conservatism in general) been successfully ratcheting things toward autho
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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
Most of NPR's news programming has been terrible for many years. Pay attention to how many segments—even that are sort-of connected to an actual news event, which, many aren't —revolve around political strategy, poll numbers, and
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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
Sorry, I was contributing the painfully-well-backed scientific perspective. If we're doing public-politics kayfabe here, too, then yes that was a faux pas. I'm not trying to campaign though, I'm trying to inform. If one mista
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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
They're usually better for the deficit (yes, really, if you just looked at the data and not rhetoric Republicans are who you'd vote for if you wanted to make the deficit worse ) and sometimes do stuff like effective consumer prot
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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
I'm convinced a bunch of things like this, which create expense and nickel-and-diming and wasted time for tons and tons of ordinary people, are why the US feels a lot poorer than it is on paper. Like, Intuit and Turbotax contribute t
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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
The history of the last ~100 years of the study of democracy by basically pro-broad-franchise-democracy academics has been a journey from: "Well, the masses must not be stupid, as restricted-franchise and anti-democratic folks have sug
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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
> I do well in interviews, but I detest having people look over my shoulder while I code, and it absolutely tanks my performance. Yeah, I basically forget how to use all the basic tools I use all the time and my mistake rate shoots up 10
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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
Not while performing in front of an audience, no, very, very little of that. You know the trope of almost all students dreading going up in front of the class to solve a problem on the blackboard/whiteboard? A thing that I think I pers