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2d ago
getting a mediator, and when he presents his relatively unbiased, fair compromise
Specifically in the case of the war in Ukraine? Russia keeps invade and taking territory. A "compromise" in which Russia gets part of Ukraine and Ukraine keeps part of Ukraine is merely the starting point for the next invasion in a few years.
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6d ago
Trying to determine what liberal white women are thinking about Trump and modern America, I found some fun subreddits.
/r/twoxpreppers is for women prepping for the worst. And supporting each other in their decisions not to arm themselves. Sure, they think we are entering the Republic of Gilead and they will be cattle in a living hell. But, that doesn't justify such extreme actions as buying a gun or in any way preparing for violence. Accusations of LARPing are too common, but these people are actually LARP resistance. Not even trying.
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6d ago
Trump is very comfortable with gay men. What little evidence I am aware of shows he doesn't care about trans people.
A journalist asked Trump what bathroom a transwoman would need to use in Trump Tower. He said he doesn't care.
Trump's mentor was Roy Cohn. An interesting guy worth a googling.
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7d ago
I have no reason to think this is real. In fact I suspect it is entirely imaginary.
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8d ago
I don't think this was miscommunication. Mike Johnsons was referring to a recent executive order, Biden denied signing such an order. News articles phrase it correctly as a ban on new export permits. But there is no transcript of the actual conversion
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9d ago
Am I supposed to be holding the fact that he followed through on that against him?
I see this a lot. Trump campaigns on doing something. Then he does it. People are blindsided and demand that Trump supporters be equally shocked and regretful of voting for him.
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9d ago
To add to this: Mike Johnson claimed he had a meeting with Biden in which Biden denied recently signing an executive order to block natural gas exports. So Biden either signed it and forgot, or staffers signed it for him without his knowledge. Either an unelected cabal was the real president and/or his brain didn't work.
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11d ago
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11d ago
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I don't feel very bound by this meme format. If there is a strained analogy about leopards and eaten faces, then I would like to point out the predatory behavior of the Biden administration aimed at tech companies. To follow the format anyways: "When Biden said he would break up monopolies and trusts, I didn't think he was going to target my tech monopoly!"
These tech companies and their owners are historically big supporters of Democrats. They were extra big financial supporters of Biden in 2020. Their reward was the Biden administration attacking them. Saying they are monopolies to be broken up, blocking acquisitions so they don't grow bigger, threatening regulations intended to choke their businesses. It's a real scorpion and frog or "I didn't think the face eating leopard would regulate my industry" situation. And then of course Democrats acting betrayed when major tech companies and their owners donate a million dollars to the Trump inauguration. I listened to Pod Save America for a while, "how could they do this to us?" was a theme for a bit.
There was recently a face eating leopard unleashed upon the tech industry. Her name is Lena Khan and she was the FTC commissioner under Biden. Using novel legal theories she went after tech companies. Mostly trying to stop acquisitions. Rhetoric about breaking up monopolies before they start. She ultimately did not have a great track record in court battling major tech companies, but she sure tried to eat their faces.
There are other recent examples of Democrats unleashing the leopards on tech companies. And then of course the predictable horror and shock that "techbros" would (at the last moment before the election) be mildly hesitantly Trump-curious as an alternative to the outright predation of the Biden-Harris administration.
I would frame this as tech leaders being between a rock and a hard place. On one side Democrats pathologically opposed to big business to the point that they attack the largest American tech companies. Not seeming to care if they are breaking something important. Or realizing they are making enemies.
On the other hand: Donald Trump.
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13d ago
Henry Kissinger: "It's a pity both sides can't lose"
(commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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18d ago
For this one person, their job is to work on a laptop. Could be done remotely. Everyone had to show up in person.
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18d ago
The larger point being they could at any time pass a law removing or modifying this particular presidential power. Every day they chose not to.
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19d ago
Buy a Vanguard index fund. Don't worry about dips or peaks. The stock market was lower last September. People are making a very big deal about a small bump.
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19d ago
The "experts" in health had a collective point in the era of COVID lockdowns. Very long lockdowns good, enormous riots better. It reached the point of comedy with "racism is the real epidemic".
I'm sure the great majority of cancer and HIV researchers didn't sign some pro-lockdown (but not for riots) statement. They kept quiet while the loud ideologically motivated few spoke collectively for them and advocated for the most ruinous policies of the modern era.
And now, who could have forseen there would be a backlash against all of them collectively? Having so thoroughly burned their credibility and made such bitter enemies out of mainstream Americans.
I think medical research in particular and scientific research in general is valuable and important. That's one reason why it is so horrible that they almost all kept quiet while the experts speaking for them called for schools to be closed for years. They choose a controversial partisan side. And now the other side holds a Federal trifecta.
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19d ago
George Floyd was murdered and his murderer is currently in prison. The system worked, to the degree it does for handling murderers after the fact.
I would rather point to Michael Brown of "hands up, don't shoot" fame. He severely beat a cop with his bare hands. Fractured skull while in a car wearing a seat belt level beating. But Mr. Brown failed to take the cop's gun despite trying. Many cops have retention holsters and merely grabbing the grip of their gun and pulling won't get it out. Michael Brown then briefly ran away, but stopped, turned and charged the cop. It was then this cop defensively and justifiably shot an unarmed man to death.
Despite attempted railroading by the Obama administration, this cop escaped criminal punishment for his entirely justified defensive shooting of an unarmed man. Good thing Yudkowsky doesn't have some special veto power to punish this cop regardless. There's a reason we don't just cut knots. We need unruined un-carved-apart basic government institutions.
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19d ago
Yudkowsky who had a list of possible police reforms in the wake of the Death of George Floyd that included immediate and permanent removal of any police officer who is involved in the death of an unarmed person during an interaction
I remember seeing this from Yudkowsky and thinking it was ridiculous and yet another example of how unserious a person he is. Many ""unarmed"" people killed by the police attack a cop and try to take their gun. You cannot "unarmed" fight a cop. That's a fight with a gun involved.
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20d ago
Here's where the YIMBYs lecture us about how we have no right to veto ruinous forms of construction and zoning. Such as homeless shelters and safe injection sites anywhere near where I live.
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21d ago
what evidence is there that it rises to the severity of "an issue?"
None at all, obviously. Was this a serious request for "evidence" of common speech terms being applicable?
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21d ago
Google says some serious people claim that was real.
https://web.archive.org/web/20120511191600/http://www.cdi.org/blair/permissive-action-links.cfm
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22d ago
There's an issue with HBCUs not getting higher performing black students. Those people go to regular colleges. The ones who can't settle for HBCUs.
Many American government forms needlessly ask you for your race. Some have two categories of "white and Hispanic" and "white (not Hispanic)". Other forms have a yes or no Hispanic portion and a separate racial section. That is strictly speaking more correct since Hispanic is not a race. A Mexican whose ancestors immigrated from Japan are Hispanic and Asian.
From The Onion, oddly enough.
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