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[–] arensb 29 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You assume that the originalists on the court care what the framers of the amendment thought, when it goes against the decision they want to render.

[–] arensb 3 points 6 months ago

And yet, somehow this article does nothing to dispel my opinion that a lot of people like Trump because he says the fascist part out loud.

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

Or we can just implement a wealth tax like any reasonable nation.

Yeah, the problem here is the implementation: you and I and most people here would benefit a little from a higher tax on billionaires, enough to motivate us to send a letter to our Congressional representatives and send a few bucks to whichever campaigning politicians promise to do it.

Billionaires, in the meantime, stand to lose millions, or even tens of millions of dollars. Enough that it makes sense for them to start PACs, schmooze, and even bribe the Congressional representatives who'd be in charge of raising taxes. So even though there are hundreds of them and millions of us, they have greater means and motivation.

[–] arensb 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Unless I'm mistaken, a regent is someone appointed to rule temporarily, e.g., if the rightful king or queen is still a child, a regent can be appointed to rule until they grow up.

Maybe a non-binary ruler can be "Emperox"?

[–] arensb 1 points 7 months ago

I believe that's the tl;dr summary of the article in the OP.

[–] arensb 14 points 7 months ago

From the article, I get the impression that the number in the headline is a severe undercount, because a lot of people in charge of running anti-domestic-terrorism programs in the military don't see the value in them, so they either don't see the problem in their ranks, or turn a blind eye to it.

[–] arensb 31 points 7 months ago (3 children)

"When somebody tells you who they are, believe them."

No. Donald Trump told us he was a brilliant deal-maker, a stable genius, and a gifted billionaire.

A better idea is to do as Maya Angelou said: when somebody shows you what they are, over and over, believe them.

[–] arensb 8 points 7 months ago

The nafety for safety.

[–] arensb 2 points 8 months ago

That's what Republicans do. The platform is what they run on. And the Republican platform is "whatever Lord Trump wants."

[–] arensb 51 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I’m pretty sure I saw that headline, with X = Obama or Elizabeth Warren or someone. Then it got shot down because… Idunno, they probably would have blown it all on rent and food and car repairs instead of Job Creation.

[–] arensb 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

We're not the kind of authoritarian follower that propaganda machines like Fox work best with. We have our flaws; just not that particular one.

[–] arensb 26 points 9 months ago (9 children)

This.

McCarthy did the right thing for once, and came up with a solution to the looming shutdown that managed to pass by getting both Republican and Democratic votes. And he got shitcanned for it.

The message here is that as far as MAGA Republicans are concerned, bipartisanship is a firing offense.

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submitted 9 months ago by arensb to c/80smusic
 

A sadly underrated song.

 

At some point, I ran across an argument along the lines of: "We hunger, and food exists. We thirst, and water exists. We feel horny, and sex is real. We yearn for God, and so I conclude that God exists."

Now, I can easily pick this apart a bunch of different ways, the easiest one being that just because you want some to exist doesn't mean that it really exists. But what I'm really hoping for is a couple of counterexamples: something like "Yes, well, we all want a unicorn, too, but unicorns don't exist."

This particular one doesn't work because wanting a unicorn isn't a universal desire the way food or sex are (even counting asexual people, we can still say that the vast majority of people want sex). But maybe some of you can think of something.

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