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by sympil 2y ago
In 2004 John Kerry lost the election due to two things. One of them was his support for gay marriage being legal. Stupid commericals like this one were made: https://youtu.be/4AzLrn5JVIo?si=bYtAbriIbp0AVrxP Obama was adam
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by sympil 2y ago
How is DEI discriminatory? Do you know of studies that have statistics to back up the claim?
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If you agree with the first quoted statement of mine then I gather you retract this statement: it’s people with means who can’t afford healthcare
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by sympil 2y ago
You are wrong; it’s a local, state, and federal issue. And even if you are right it is still the case that Republicans criticised Michelle Obama for advocating for healthier school lunches. Are you incapable of admitting that it’s stupid
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by sympil 2y ago
Democracy is a means for empirical truth finding that’s resistant to manipulation. This is obviously not true. …educational and healthcare overheads have exploded while outcomes have gotten worse. Ther topic is medical research. What i
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by sympil 2y ago
….getting better while costs are being controlled? This is a vague enough notion so that every proposed counterexample can be denied. Of course research costs are going to increase over time as there are no more low hanging fruit. … Gove
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by sympil 2y ago
If that worked then drunk toddlers wouldn’t win elections promising the baseball bat. Thus is a claim that you will be unable to justify. There are lots of examples of good governance. The current actions by the administration are a ver
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by sympil 2y ago
Every society regulates speech. There is no society that allows everyone free speech in the absolute sense of the word. If another society regulates speech differently than yours then you can always accuse it of violating free speech. The
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by sympil 2y ago
I don’t believe this qualifies as an ad hominem. The person was not attacking the individual but rather making an observation about the dynamics of ideological thinking.
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We likely aren’t going to be able to find a local or global optimum. But whatever it is one thing is for sure; a bunch of ill informed decision makers with no experience or expertise on the matter who come in and make sweeping changes are
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by sympil 2y ago
I’m not a lawyer. NIL may be a murky area of this law based off of case law. Maybe this action is appropriate in the sense of being legal and within the norms of Presidential power.
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by sympil 2y ago
By definition, when talking about access to healthcare a person of means is someone who can afford it. What is true is that there are lots of people who think they are “middle class” who can’t afford access to the system. 13% of the people
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by sympil 2y ago
Universal care is the moral option. Hong Kong was great for you because you had means. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6235271/
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by sympil 2y ago
I think Title IX needs to be updated. It’s a fact that men’s sports, in general, generate more interest and money. As such, if athletes are going to be paid then male athletes on average deserve more pay.
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by sympil 2y ago
You think this is normal and within the established political norms? It’s so far outside what is considered normal that people are no longer talking about the $30 billion Trump made off his crypto coin. Trump has been found by a jury to ha
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by sympil 2y ago
? I begin to suspect you are being deliberately obtuse. I gave an example of something that is legal and Constitutional that Congress could do (remove all Supreme Court justices) that would totally upend the political norms of the country.
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by sympil 2y ago
Of course they do have such power. Each department/agency has legislation that spells out its scope. An underling in Department A doesn’t have the authority to act outside the scope of its Department A’s power/purview.
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by sympil 2y ago
Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments. Congress has not vested the President to appoint someone the power to
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by sympil 2y ago
I did link to a lawyer who was an ethics counsel to a former a former President who disagress with you. You can nitpick however you want and construe whatever meaning you want from the language of existing laws and justify in your mind you
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by sympil 2y ago
Very helpful.
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by sympil 2y ago
…"this is a gathering of superb intellects?”… I havent come to HN and thought this either.
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by sympil 2y ago
From lawyers I’ve talked to the Supreme Court has give the House wide lattitude on what it considers impeachable behavior. From Wikipedia: Defendants challenged the use of these committees, claiming them to be a violation of their fair tr
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by sympil 2y ago
I said you should reread it becuase you said “this is how the executive branch works” and the link shows that it is indeed not how it works since Elon does not have the consent of the Senate and his position was not established by Congress
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by sympil 2y ago
The most striking thing to me is that Elon was in the oval office answering questions. It’s hard to understand a President emasculating himself in such a public way. Elon’s kid was there too. It’s truly bizarre to see the lack of decorum
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by sympil 2y ago
I like how Asimov put it: There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the
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by sympil 2y ago
You should carefully reread the link. What Elon is doing does not have precedence in the U.S. Elon does not have the consent of the Senate. His position is not authorized by Congress or the Constituion. Much of our system relies on peopl
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by sympil 2y ago
Had to look tht up. Nice reference!
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by sympil 2y ago
Obviously there are people who don’t believe in god who use that word in phrases to convey a certain sense or meaning.
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by sympil 2y ago
Threatening Canada, Panama, Greenland, and Gaza are things the world is not fine with. Its a losing strategy to threaten allies. Normally one doesnt want to do things that your enemies are happy to see.
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by sympil 2y ago
Acknowledging what governments do makes me a communist? All societies impose rules on its citizens. Some socieities have imposed a publicly funded healthcare solution. Some of them have done so successfully. Leave the country if you don

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