GoofSchmoofer

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[–] GoofSchmoofer 2 points 6 months ago

Glad I could help. Another avenue maybe through dental hygienist schools. They won't be able to fix your tooth but they may have contact information that can point you in the right direction.

I hope the best for you.

[–] GoofSchmoofer 60 points 6 months ago (10 children)

Person who has spent 20+ years studying viruses and how they effect the human body: "Vaccines are effective and safe."

Random politician with very little science or medical education: "Vaccines are bad because say they are."

Republican voter: "I agree with the idiot politician."

[–] GoofSchmoofer 1 points 6 months ago

Well yes that don't want "Government Death Panels!!" /s

[–] GoofSchmoofer 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I don't know if this will help but depending on where you live there maybe a local-ish dental school where you can get discounted dental work. You just have to be willing to let students do the work. It takes longer because they are still learning but it's a hell of a lot cheaper.

[–] GoofSchmoofer 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Well maybe not other examples, but my comment was more along the lines that I think that we (modern humans) idealize hunter-gathers. When what was probably more reality was that they had difficult times as well. That is wasn't a utopia by any means. I would say that agriculture and animal domestication came out of a need to reduce the task of having to hunt down your food.

If you get to just walk out of your hut and harvest plants or you don't have to run down a wild pig, instead just butcher one in the pen you're going to do that. But the downside then is you need to spend more time tending to the animals and plants to make sure they survive. So you give up some downtime.

[–] GoofSchmoofer 49 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

...And yet they are all still billionaires.

Remember this in the future when you hear these people complain about higher taxes, they weathered this "loss" quite easily. So they can weather the "loss" of some of their wealth to actually support the country that allowed them to make billions in the first place.

[–] GoofSchmoofer 9 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I'm sure they also had community infighting, gossiping, feelings of unfairness, jealousy etc. You know like all humans in all parts of history.

They also had a short lifespan where a broken leg, bad tooth or infected cut could kill you. Not to take away from what you wrote but to add that it probably wasn't as ideal of a life as we may think.

[–] GoofSchmoofer 2 points 6 months ago

Kinda shows what kind of person she is.

[–] GoofSchmoofer 87 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Speaker Johnson will refuse to swear into Congress on January 3rd a handful of those Democrats, claiming there are “irregularities” in their elections that must be first investigated.

There’s nothing Democrats can legally do to stop Speaker Johnson from pulling this off: he can postpone swearing a member in for as long as he wants.

Then, regardless of how many votes Biden won by, electoral or popular, the House simply refuses to certify the electoral college votes of enough states that the minimum of 270 isn’t reached. Under the 12th Amendment, like with the election of 1876, that throws the election to the House, where each state has one vote.

While a majority of Americans live in a state run by Democrats, a majority of the states themselves are run by Republicans. Each state gets one vote for president in the House, and right now 26 state delegations are GOP-controlled, meaning that a majority of the House would simply vote to put Trump back into the White House, 26-23 (Pennsylvania’s delegation is 50/50). All totally legal.

[–] GoofSchmoofer 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think people get too tied up with this idea of the "perfect" candidate

No candidate was, is, or shall be perfect.

Every politician that you have the opportunity to vote for will have some aspect of their past or their platform that you (or other voters) will disagree with in some capacity. And I fear that this need for perfection in their candidate is fertile ground for others to manipulate people's attitudes towards not voting for an imperfect but otherwise good candidate.

[–] GoofSchmoofer 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What is the purpose of this comment?

Are you saying that because she uses a teleprompter too much she isn't going to be a good president?

Are you saying this because you are equating her use of a teleprompter to her intelligence?

Are you saying this with the intention of getting people to not vote for her because she isn't perfect ?

Or are you just making a random statement about her?

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