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Ohai
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Yeah, "bike lanes don't suffer congestion" is somehow a huge PR problem for bike lanes :/
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I wonder how well this will age
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Ohai
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Yeah, "bike lanes don't suffer congestion" is somehow a huge PR problem for bike lanes :/
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Ohai
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"He let her grow to become sixteen because he believed that older children were easier to deal with than younger children, and this shows that you can be an immortal anthropomorphic personification and still get things, as it were, dead wrong" ~ Soul Music
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Ohai
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No, per the 20th amendment the new Congress is sworn in January 3rd
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Ohai
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You understand that this person will be selected by the *next* Senate, yes? Not the current one? You're advocating for a situation where the Dems can only win the presidency if they win the Senate in a cycle with a *really* bad map for that.
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Ohai
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If there is no democratic VP, who exactly do you imagine certifies the election results if Harris wins?
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Ohai
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Depends, is my business small enough to be buffeted by chaotic and shifting regulations, or big enough to pay legal "gratuities" to the judges creating the regulatory environment?
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Sarah Posner
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I sure hope all the Dems calling for Biden to step aside have gamed out the fuckery that the Heritage Foundation is planning
www.notus.org/2024-electio...
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Ohai
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Yes, because she's already on the ticket. This is not true of any other alternative candidate, which is why anyone else replacing Biden as the nominee is a pipe dream.
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Popehat
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There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence. /1
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Ohai
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According to Snyder from a couple days ago this was already fine as long as they were going to collect payment after the pardon
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Ohai
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He passed the largest climate bill in history. It took a lot of time, effort, and political capital. And if the response from the most environmentally conscious constituency to this is, "meh", then the Dems will learn climate action is a politically losing strategy - and they'll be right
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Will Stancil
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basically it feels like the commentariat is composed of children who never seem to consider that politics is made up of many hard decisions and now, confronting the fact that maybe they made the wrong one, are throwing a tantrum and insisting the world instantly manifest their whims.
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Ohai
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We almost had this with the reconstruction era. John Wilkes Booth really fucked things up.
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Ohai
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Well, all of them except for that one manifesto guy from 2018 who was REALLY into sortition of all things
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Ohai
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As with things like public pools in the 60s, white America has decided that if keeping it means minorities get to use it too, then no one should have it.
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Ohai
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It doesn't apply here, but "Because [SCOTUS] simply cannot believe that Congress meant what it said" is a great description of the contemporary "major questions" doctrine.
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Ohai
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georgists in shambles
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Ohai
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The chyron makes it look like their ties are lying on a counter
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Ohai
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"and another thing: im mad. please put in the newspaper that i got mad"
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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Time after time in every era, we find that the wealthy oligarchs *oppose* policies that would lead to faster economic growth and they welcome destructive reactionary economic measures because they'd always rather protect their power than grow their wealth.
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Ohai
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Heck, the last state to mandate secret ballots didn't do so until like 1910! The first several elections involved publicly declaring your vote in order for it to be recorded. But sure, originalism means it's illegitimate for your family to possibly know your vote /s
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Ohai
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But... Helldivers are designed to look like... oh nevermind
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Ohai
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The liberals didn't hang Trump over our heads, they're just pointing out, correctly, that he is there! Our fptp system sucks, we should fix it, until we do "lesser evil" is literally the only way it is built to work
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Ohai
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Ohai
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As long as it isn't their decision
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Ohai
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Your daughter is the perfect age for the Tiffany Aching discworld books
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Ohai
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This is one thing the book The Bezzle does really well, is conveying the evil banality of the whole system
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Ohai
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My hottest take is that "generation alpha" is a dumb name and they should be called "Baby Busters" to bookend the boomers
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Ohai
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Ohai
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Banks and the PE firms that borrow from them aren't the only parties affected by these practices. If you have a better way to internalize the negative externalities of the PE industry feel free to share.
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Ohai
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Make it illegal for PE firms to transfer the liability for the loans they took out to buy a company, to that company. They need to be fully on the hook to pay those loans back even if they run the company into bankruptcy.
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Existential Comics
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What's cool about looking back at the history of college protests is that 19 year old students have been right about every single American war, and the esteemed Harvard educated opinion writers at the New York Times have been wrong about every single American war.
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Ohai
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Unless I'm reading this wrong, the penalty for violating the non-compete would be limited to that 1 special share even if the courts did uphold this?
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Ohai
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When arguing about the *current* state of politics, it might be helpful to reference more experience and events from this century
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Ohai
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It takes 18 years of intense, constant effort to train one functioning adult human, and that process still regularly fails!
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Micah
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one of the coolest parent experiences is realizing your child has made a mental leap you get used to who they are at their current developmental level and then one day they say something and you realize, wait, they’re a new and more complicated person now and I get to find out who that is
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Micah
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we put together little Easter baskets for the kids and man it’s fun to come downstairs in the morning to bouncing excited children who can’t wait to show off what they got also: “the Easter bunny gave us the same things so we won’t fight!” yeah, buddy yeah he did
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Drake Ghostwriters' Union Local 616
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There is nothing more American than being an immigrant. Full stop.
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Jen Gentleman
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“Do you want to hop on a quick call about this?” N O O o o o o 。 。 . . .
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Ohai
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Splendors Dual
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Ohai
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Careful, the last person who treated him that badly he... Uh... Well, he campaigned on their behalf to help them become president
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Ohai
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It was a peaceful transfer of power. But it wasn't a *democratic* transfer of power.
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Ohai
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This man's brain needs to be studied for science
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Twitter's Bobby Big Wheel
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Midwestern states ranked by how good they look: 1. Michigan 2. Wisconsin 3. Minnesota 4. Pennsylvania 5. Illinois 6. Iowa 7. Ohio 8. Indiana
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Ohai
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I read this as a command
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Ohai
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The common response is, "if you do it then it'll just change hands every time the WH/Senate does!" And?? It's fully compromised right now! Why would I want it to stay that way for the next 30 years instead of being on-and-off horseshit during that time instead?
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Ohai
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What exactly is the expectation here when a journalist is asking for an interview? To add a disclaimer like, "oh by the way someone you might know thinks I'm a terrible person"? It's a weird criticism to include! It doesn't inspire my confidence in her characterization of the misquotes
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Ohai
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the poster mentions the misquotes also, but I'm talking about the part of this post that says "She then INTENTIONALLY AND DELIBERATELY targeted an associate who used to host the rooms with me for an interview" like just asking someone else for an interview for the story was inherently bad?
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Ohai
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there's no examples though, just assertions? which I'd be inclined to take on faith, but the poster also treats "I said no to an interview, so she went and asked someone else for an interview" as some huge journalistic transgression
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Ohai
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...this thread is the story of how "one of the most powerful women in MUSIC INDUSTRY HISTORY" sicced her lawyers on a news outlet because she didn't like how a journalist presented her in a story and got that journalist fired
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