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by vkou 9mo ago
They have no words to defend his behavior, so they flip the table, and accuse anyone criticizing it of mental illness.
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by vkou 9mo ago
This president will also veto your congressional seat if you cross him. See what happened to the people who voted to impeach him, they got primaried out.
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by vkou 9mo ago
The funny thing is that both Trump or Biden handled the COVID shock reasonably well, but now that there isn't a global crisis, the former is hard at work creating a local one.
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by vkou 9mo ago
> executive orders are toothless against the states and they all know it. And judicial orders are toothless against the federal government... And the states can't lift a finger against any deployment of federal power against them,
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by vkou 9mo ago
Half the states are actively engaging in voter suppression, and the ones that aren't are under attack on all fronts by the federal government.
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by vkou 9mo ago
There's generally a better venue for a lot of messaging, but I don't get a vote in it.
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by vkou 9mo ago
Who is we, who will pay for it, and how will such informational inoculation benefit the rich? The current media status quo, and its consequences does, which is why we get to enjoy it.
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by vkou 9mo ago
Is there any way that people can work to re-introduce it into society? I know some folks are making a lot of progress with MMR.
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by vkou 9mo ago
Gun control (for minorities), speech policing (for liberals), deficit spending (when they are in charge), and a plenary executive (when Obama isn't president) are core conservative beliefs. They say that they don't like those th
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by vkou 9mo ago
> . This reminds me of the chemical swipes done on your bags to detect explosives. Those swipes can only detect a narrow set of explosive chemistries and everyone knows it. Meanwhile, you get swabbed, the machine produces a false positiv
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by vkou 9mo ago
Automating away shareholders can't come soon enough.
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by vkou 9mo ago
It in itself does nothing, but it is necessary to embolden anyone who can do something. If nobody protests, people who have the choice to do something will see that nobody gives a shit... And why should they stick their necks out for a ca
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by vkou 9mo ago
Oh, and, of course, a deficit is a tax increase that's deferred to the future. It's one thing to spend a deficit on something long-term useful, it's another thing to piss it away.
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by vkou 9mo ago
Removing identity politics? The American right can't shut up about the 'woke agenda', about how the gays/immigrants/foreigners/whomever are destroying the country. How exactly do you propose to remove identity
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by vkou 9mo ago
In business, your customers aren't the people who buy your product, they are the people who fund your company.
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by vkou 9mo ago
> It was exciting to finally see the first real pushback in the last administration under Lina Khan. So many upset businessmen on TV! Unfortunately, elections have consequences, and the work did not continue. Perhaps one of the consequen
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by vkou 9mo ago
The same Congress that failed to convict him, twice, and the same Clarence Thomas that has ruled him to be above the law? If you're waiting for Republicans to save you from his madness, you'll be waiting for a long time.
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by vkou 9mo ago
> From what I have heard, a lot of people who voted for Trump don't like the extend of ICE's actions. Even Joe Rogan spoke out. So maybe there's hope. The opposition is milquetoast and purely performative. They'll fal
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by vkou 9mo ago
He can mull all he wants and half the time, that mulling turns into reality. In practice, he has the authority to do anything he wants. Who is going to stop him? You? His pets in Congress? JPow's private hit squad? Clarence Thomas? The
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by vkou 9mo ago
This president has publicly mulled not paying its debts. It's time to stop magical, wishful thinking about how you want the world to be, and deal with the world as it is.
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by vkou 9mo ago
Canada is more internally stable, but is less externally stable, given that invasion and occupation is on the table. Canada needs to pursue further armament (Carney is pursuing a doubling of its defense budget) and training in asymmetrical
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by vkou 9mo ago
As soon as they get their new marching orders from the Fox & Friends mothership, it's going to be 44%.
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by vkou 9mo ago
Because they voted a Republican congress due to egg price anxieties.
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by vkou 9mo ago
Quite a few wars also happened because people kept appeasing belligerent behaviour.
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by vkou 9mo ago
> The flip side is that simple disobedience has far less effect in states less concerned with optics and values they claimed to live up to than the tail end of the British Empire or the US federal government at the height of the the Civi
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by vkou 9mo ago
Except that the 'radical left' part of the electorate holds ~0 sway over the people who actually get elected. The 'radical right', on the other hand, has fully purged the GOP of anyone who isn't with their program t
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by vkou 9mo ago
> The politics of fear stoked by two sets of extremists egging eachother on is the core reason we're in this mess, How could you possibly think that the establishment dems that have formed government are 'a set of extremists&#x
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by vkou 9mo ago
As the saying goes, the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of the weak and the marginalized.
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by vkou 9mo ago
Why not flip the argument, and say that the index fund is propping up stock B because of it's buy-at-any-price nature? What makes you think that valuing it at 10% of A isn't higher than what the market will actually bear? The sens
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by vkou 9mo ago
> That's all China needs to destroy american car manufacturing. I don't think China can be held responsible for America voting for Donald Trump, one of whose main goals in life has been the destruction of every trading and soft

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