Thunderbird4

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[–] Thunderbird4 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Even if it’s not overturned, who’s supposed to enforce it? The EPA? They’ve already had their authority gutted by the SC, and they’re about to have a pro-oil sycophant installed as chair.

[–] Thunderbird4 50 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I wonder what these numbskulls thought of Tim Walz. He seemed to do the real, down-to-earth thing pretty well also.

[–] Thunderbird4 5 points 2 weeks ago

Worse than that, millions don’t even rely on media. They just hear about it from some barely-informed coworker, friend, or family member. Everyone is blaming the democrats’ messaging and policies, when huge numbers of people are just going by vibes, tribalism, and whatever they hear at church.

The uphill battle here was to fight the pervasive lie that it’s Biden’s fault that everything is expensive and trump knows how to fix it, but you can’t use explanations longer than five words and you can only reach the information-seeking population who mostly already agree with you.

Republicans spent the last 50 years or more pushing religious participation and conflating their ideologies with religious beliefs. They can’t be defeated without a similarly insidious strategy. We are truly post-information, and the merits of the candidate are virtually irrelevant.

[–] Thunderbird4 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

Absolutely. See also: increasingly conservative Mexicans in US border states who support building a wall.

[–] Thunderbird4 9 points 2 weeks ago

And if they force the applicants to fill out the salary requirements portion of the application, they get data they can use to argue against raises as well.

[–] Thunderbird4 7 points 3 weeks ago

It’s already out of date because it’s missing the 2011 border between Sudan and South Sudan.

The map is also kind of a blobby mess in the Middle East, with a few countries missing, and they forgot the border between Algeria and Mauritania.

[–] Thunderbird4 95 points 3 weeks ago (18 children)
[–] Thunderbird4 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

He could have, yes.

Instead, he doubled down on it and continued his campaign essentially with the message “Yes, I really do want to take away certain guns. Vote for me, Texans!”

[–] Thunderbird4 1 points 1 month ago

They’ll take any excuse to kick it up to the Supreme Court, who are more than ready to hand it to them like in 2000. All they need is enough chaos, doubt, and “irregularities.”

[–] Thunderbird4 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Thunderbird4 5 points 1 month ago

It’s almost difficult to believe Kant wasn’t just pulling a Schrödinger and proposing a ridiculous thought experiment to illustrate the absurdity of genuinely holding those views.

The idea that morality exists only as an intrinsic quality of an action, regardless of context or consequence, is more theology than philosophy. It’s useless to the point of harm to anyone faced with a world beyond a university or a monastery.

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