SCB

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[–] SCB 4 points 11 months ago

This current melt is also due to localized factors, like the El Nino event we are going through, making the climate-change-induced ice reduction greatly exacerbated. Ice on the Great Lakes has been declining for 50 years.

Just as no Congressperson should be bringing in snow alls to refute climate change, we should also keep in mind that weather and climate are vastly different things.

Remember to bring this up in a couple years when Republicans are talking about how the ice is back so climate change isn't real.

[–] SCB 2 points 11 months ago

This is "gold fringe on the American flag" level of nonsense

[–] SCB 1 points 11 months ago

The irony is, the Trumpers want to be able to deploy this style of harsh and unjust justice at will.

So do people here arguing for harsh sentences because they don't like them.

Mob Justice isn't justice regardless of who the mob is

[–] SCB 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

No, I don’t think it’s a good thing that traitors got less than they deserved

The vast majority of people on J6 were idiots in a mob situation, not traitors.

As OP said, fuck all of them, but aggressive prosecution here is not the way you want the law to work, the same way there's no gain for imprisoning everyone who acted out of pocket during the Floyd protests.

You throw the book at the worst offenders, and you let people caught up in mob mentality off with a lesser sentence. That is justice working.

[–] SCB 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It's because the vast majority of offenders are first time offenders, and are unlikely to repeat their actions.

This is a good thing, and should happen a lot. Our criminal justice system is fucked up.

[–] SCB 2 points 11 months ago

I absolutely love that someone put in this kind of effort for this. This speaks to me.

Thank you for sharing.

[–] SCB 9 points 11 months ago

Kind of crazy the funding issues (I don't want to call them problems because, honestly this is great news) are so widespread between states.

Really weird situation I hope gets investigated more. I would read an entire book on this.

[–] SCB 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You'd really benefit from reading this article.

[–] SCB 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Mr. Biden is articulating a simple, strong contrast: Republicans believe that collecting less money in taxes will catalyze economic growth; Bidenomics “is rooted in what’s always worked best for the country: investing in America and investing in Americans,” as the president put it in a November speech in Northfield, Minn.

It is an overdue end to an era in which the difference between the parties could be summarized as a debate about how large tax cuts should be.

Someone in this thread will inevitably talk about voting for Biden "even if he sucks" while he's doing exactly the things they want.

[–] SCB 10 points 11 months ago

The FBI literally prosecuted him and won a conviction, after which he was pardoned.

[–] SCB -5 points 11 months ago

He is a leftist, criticising liberal* identity reductionism and its inability to recall that class is part of the intersectional framework it has co-opted and abused beyond all meaning.

Thanks for saving me the click on an article not worth reading.

[–] SCB 36 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (8 children)

In Arizona and Michigan, two states where the GOP presidential candidate will likely have to win a majority of suburban voters to get back in the White House, the state Republican parties are running critically short on money. In Arizona, the state GOP has just $14,800 left in the bank at the end of August, as reported by the Arizona Mirror.

$14,800 is an insanely low amount of money.

You can't win a contested small-time county election with $15k.

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