zeke5123a
9hr ago
Cost of doing business. Maybe the 50k payments in Y2 and Y3 are paid by a subsequent employer if employee leaves initial employer.
zeke5123a
12hr ago
But if in exchange you make the fee be 150k paid then first employer over three years (and renewals cost 75k for every additional three years), then you would probably severely limit the people coming over to be only truly good people.
zeke5123a
12hr ago
But isn’t the opposite true? That is, for years there was a huge demand for vaccine friendly studies. Are you sure you aren’t falling to an isolated demand for rigor?
zeke5123a
13hr ago
I’ve thought this for a long time. But you need to at the same time create strict rules precluding them from speaking fees / going to industry for a significant time thereafter.
zeke5123a
13hr ago
I think you misidentified the source of bribes. Money given to campaigns are subject to FEC rules attempting to preclude the person running from using the funds privately. It’s why the lawfare against Trump was dumb (ie mixed expenses are not campaign expenses).
In contrast, the real way to bribe someone is doing things like “speaking fees” or “board seats after they leave Congress.” Maybe a good job for the spouse or kid. And industry is careful never to fuck over loyal congresscritters because it is a trust business.
zeke5123a
13hr ago
I think their biggest issue was was letting any details out. If they could’ve kept things under wraps for 3 months, validated the data, and not get the lawfare against them, then I think there could’ve been a difference.
Also, I think Vivek should’ve helmed a separate team that took aim at the regulatory issue.
zeke5123a
1d ago
Except apparently in high school he was also left wing. And he wasn’t living as a moderate left winger — dude was dating a dude trying to trans himself.
Sure and if the mom swallowed, the killer wouldn’t have killed. We can always argue over causation. But saying “the mom is responsible because she likes vaginal sex” actually misses the real proximate cause.
zeke5123a
2d ago
That’s even worse. It’s like saying “he wasn’t blue because he was bad. If bad, then MAGA. Bad therefore MAGA.”
zeke5123a
2d ago
I’m sorry but if your position is that a blue tribe person thinks operating a gun is some kind of magic, then I don’t think we can move the conversation forward
zeke5123a
2d ago
Except the left cheered on (or tried to downplay) the siege and was worried about “police violence” vis-à-vis the attackers. I would’ve shot the lot.
zeke5123a
2d ago
I don’t think that argument coheres. There is just a step difference between permitting Holocaust denialism and permitting massive multibillion dollar mayhem.
One could make the argument about protest if there was maybe a car or two turned on fire. Still despicable but within the pale to say “but all of the peaceful protest is worth not shutting down the very small rioting.”
But when you get to night after night attempted to siege a federal courthouse it’s just too far removed from a concern about protest.
zeke5123a
2d ago
I’ve m this argument being promulgated by the left. It’s nonsense. Despite the asshole being the opposite of MAGA in pretty much every conceivable way you are saying because he grew up in a red space he is basically forever red.
But nobody but nobody would make the claim if the roles were reversed (ie kid who was super maga but grew up in a left wing household). It’s also far from obvious why the things he was acting on (eg dating a trans dude) influenced him significantly less than growing up red. He clearly had turned his back on that upbringing.
zeke5123a
3d ago
Isn’t this just another way of saying “blue tribe supports the riots because it thinks without the riots other what they view as good things won’t come to fruition?”
Maybe you think that’s unfair, but I really struggle to understand the above thinking as it’s divorced from reality.
zeke5123a
3d ago
That assumes the people are aware of the facts. Maybe they just hears Jimmy Kimmel.
zeke5123a
3d ago
And that number only counts insurance payouts. There were certainly places that were not insured or were underinsured.
zeke5123a
3d ago
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Bullet casings suggested he was deeply left wing.
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Romantic entanglement with trans suggest deeply left wing.
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Text message suggests he is left wing.
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People near him say he is left wing.
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Left wing Discord kept saying “something would happen to Kirk on the day of the assassination.
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The target was MAGA.
If put to a jury, that would be beyond reasonable doubt. And right now MAGA is grieving. One of their prominent own was murdered publicly for speaking by a leftist. Then, we have Kimmel go on the air and say “hey MAGa grievers, your own murdered Kirk so it’s really a ‘you’ problem” despite zero evidence to support that and significant evidence to support that the killer was left wing.
zeke5123a
3d ago
There were people here desperately trying to spin it away from the obvious (prioritizing indeterminate evidence while ignoring damning evidence). I hope they reflect on their failures.
zeke5123a
3d ago
More than a few blocks were destroyed in Kenosha alone. This is just retconning recent history. There was billions in damage.
So would Bonhoeffer who famously was not Catholic.
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