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@whiteflame
Here is how each senator voted for confirmations. https://ballotpedia.org/How_senators_voted_on_Biden_Cabinet_nominees,_2021
I guess the point is if we are looking at who puts part first and who puts country first, the best way to determine that is who crosses party lines most often.
It's especially suspicious when we have former and current Democrats being nominated.
Particularly unsettling is that the opposition to Tulsi who opposes things like FISA courts just being a rubber stamp. I think the biggest reason I was a Democrat was the opposition to the expanding national security state under Bush and a good way to keep them in check is appointing those antagonistic to them.
I know there was some support for example for her support of Snowden but the guy literally just exposed the government for doing evil shit. The proper way to avoid being accused of being evil is to refrain from doing evil things and instead the focus is on if he followed procedure by reporting the government to the government so they would punish themselves I guess.
This is just shit I go excited about as a Democrat. Things like Snowden or Assange sticking it to the national security apparatus.
Or talks by politicians about concerns for the military industrial complex.
What happened to that portion of the party that was distrustful of the expanding national security state and poison in food like RFK is focused on?
Did we all literally just become Republican?
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I am looking through various Biden confirmations and am struggling to find any dissenting Democrats while all of them get some Republican support
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@whiteflame
Here is the roll call for Antony blinken in comparison. It seemed like no Democrats opposed the confirmation and a good chunk of Republicans supported it . https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1171/vote_117_1_00007.htm
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@whiteflame
Well he is for the childhood vaccine schedule as it currently is so what's left?
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@ILikePie5
I just figured out characters. Fine I will give you one tonight
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@Greyparrot
Their big issue with Tulsi was that she thinks Snowden should be Pardoned and she is critical of America's involvement in Ukraine.
She doesn't have pardon power and wouldn't create foreign policy. She also is objectively correct on those facts but neither are relevant to the job and whatever happened to the old democratic party I was a part of?
We were critical and distrustful of the military industrial complex and would have been thrilled to have somebody in who is so obviously concerned with stuff like how FISA warrants go too far.
Last I tlchecked FISA warrants have zero refusals from secret courts. Proving they are just rubber stamps and their is also just something very unamerican about the concept of a secret court anyhow.
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@JoeBob
We really miss playing with you bro. The games suck without you in them lately
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@Greyparrot
I honestly think it's disgusting the vote came down to party lines. We already know RFK isn't touching vaccines with a 10 foot poll. So there isn't that excuse, besides his views are more nuanced then the media gives him credit for and the media lies and says he is opposed to all vaccines which is anyone who has read his books knows is bullshit.
They are really just anti trump for the sake of being anti trump and we are going to see the left shill for actual useless and addictive additives for food for the next 4 years. The fact Bernie Sanders literally agrees with every single measure RFK would take and still voted against him just shows the evil inside of these people to put party over country
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Check out the poison in America for the same brands as the UK
https://foodbabe.com/food-in-america-compared-to-the-u-k-why-is-it-so-different/
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@whiteflame
The same problem exists with limiting access to ultraprocessed foods. The regulations he is proposing tackle a symptom of the problem - that these foods are cheap and available and therefore easy to get - by removing them, but doesn’t replace them with a viable alternative.
So if he helps ban red dye 40 I think that would reduce costs to manufacture food. A lot of this stuff is to make food look prettier at the cost of our health and if we are using less ingredients than say the UK, is their food significantly more expensive?
I was looking at some of the ingredient list comparisons between the United States and other countries and it's sick to say the least.
For example it had to be a sick fuck to even have the ideal of ever putting aspartame in food.
This is an area where I would support more regulations, especially considering that 5 food companies control 80% of our food supply and these thousands of brands are really just smaller brands owned for example by conagra .
Granted we basically had the majority of our food from mom and pops prior to the existence of the FDA but seeing as how they caused this issue the least they can do is start banning products that have 75 ingredients in America but just 3 or 4 in the UK.
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It probably has more to do with the spammy and retarded nature of your posts than your point of view.
I personally only make high effort posts with certain people cause I already gave up on you guys and a lot of that is in PMs. For example me and whiteflame were recently debating healthcare rationing in a PM.
We also had a nuanced conversation me him and an honest to God Hamas sympathizer about what is going on in Gaza and all 3 of us disagreed with each other and had a decent conversation.
It's just conversations impossible to have on the site.
I personally only make high effort posts with certain people cause I already gave up on you guys and a lot of that is in PMs. For example me and whiteflame were recently debating healthcare rationing in a PM.
We also had a nuanced conversation me him and an honest to God Hamas sympathizer about what is going on in Gaza and all 3 of us disagreed with each other and had a decent conversation.
It's just conversations impossible to have on the site.
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Cause I never say anything that contradicts him.
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Join and show you aren't some loner who is too busy crying about politics you have no influence over rather than being a social creature
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@Double_R
your support for Trump makes you complicit in J6 (which it absolutely does), and you telling me that my left wing ideology makes me complicit in the BLM riots (because it doesn't).
You are literally brainwashed. I guess don't bother engaging with me then.
I guess this is what happens when you get people descended from slaves. They just fall for whatever evil people are pandering to them.
Democrats literally support abortion which kills 50% of black children before they are born. They support welfare which incentives single mother households as several studies support. They support increases in minimum wage which statistically have a bigger impact on black unemployment than white unemployment. They support immigration which honestly harms jobs that would normally go to blacks.
Hell you are so brainwashed by liberals. They tell you Michael Brown is an innocent victim and no imminent threat despite beating the shit out of a cop and going for his gun but you are a bit h who loves being a victim so you are like "yes daddy Obama, or Bernie I am a victim. I need you daddy"
Hell these people literally tell you that you are too stupid to get a job on merit so have reduced standards to get more blacks in academia and you are like "yes daddy we are weak and pathetic please lower standards for me".
You descended from slaves and you are weak and pathetic so you still decide that yes you will just be a free vote for these Democrats who secretly hate you as determined by studies that show things like Democrats tending to use smaller words when talking to blacks than with whites.
I am just glad your kind is dying out and you will be really alienated from your kids and grandkids who have free minds and do not buy into the victim narrative.
You may cry because the media told you a fentanyl overdose was police brutality and your descendants will see you as the retarded nigger you are.
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@Earth
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Sign ups up also if I didn't tag anybody I just haven't got to it yet and I will and you are welcome to sign up.
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Actually 4th option fuck it. Skibidi toilet since it's the name of this thread
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Honestly skibidi is a place holder name. This will not be as experimental as the last game I made I think I took that a bit too far. If you have ideals for themes than throw them out but it has to be stuff I don't need to research or stuff I have already researched. I have an ideal for where I want to go with it but not sure. Actually fuck it. You guys can choose the theme
I won't mix and match themes this time just toss a coin in a row.
1. Heaven and hell Mafia. I was dicking around with this ideal and had an ideal for an afterlife and a questionnaire prior to the game so I can determine whether you deserve to be in hell or not
2. Random pages from my "diary".
3. The greatest conspiracy of all time. I uncovered a conspiracy that will literally get me murdered if I share it with you guys but I can break it apart and make pieces of the conspiracy into characters. I will be assassinated by a secret society if you pick this one though so please if you don't want me dead don't pick it.
Also signups are unlimited and will end in 7 days or when I get 12 people
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@cristo71
Publix is excellent— happy and efficient employees with stock in a private company. Costco is similarly well run but a public company.
Their generic stuff also seems somehow better than name brand and the subs with the hard bread are hard to get anywhere else. Glad I am moving back to Florida soon. Yes the sunshine tax sucks but currently stuck in Wilmington Delaware and am always on Guard because everywhere is literally the ghetto
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@Double_R
And the reason what, in case you are wondering, separates this from us leftists holding MAGA responsible for the January 6th rioters is because those rioters were inspired by, defended by, and then pardoned by, the indisputable leader of MAGA whom you all voted for and continue to unequivocally support despite all of this. That makes you complicit. You cannot reasonably argue the same the other way around no matter how hard you try.
You really can because you are literally downplaying the riots and calling them mostly peaceful. The media did the same thing. Politicians bent the knee to that movement who was demanding crazy shit like removing funding from police .
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@Double_R
Except one problem... He wasn't a protester. He was an off duty police officer dressing up like the protesters so that he could cause damage that would later be blamed on BLM. And I don't even need to Google what Fox news broadcasted that evening to be pretty damn confident at least some segment of their huge audience heard the bullshit story but not the correction. This is the kind of stuff I be talking about.
I believe the government uses agent provocateurs so it wouldn't surprise me. I guess my position is they will use them on left and right protests where you likely think that on January 6 not a single one existed.
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@Lunatic
Oh I keep forgetting how those work. I guess if I add any to my game nobody will know how they work mechanically
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@Best.Korea
If coops suck on a mass scale than the free market will prefer other businesses.
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@Double_R
I don't back up my positions, meanwhile this is at least the second or third time in this thread alone that I've posted a multi thousand character response addressing multiple different points you made (the last post was 10 different sections) and you ignored every point I made except the one you cherry picked out of the post.
Because my time is extremely limited. I literally can't respond to everything and I pick the first thing that stands out.
I work between 50-60 hours a week, I spend 20 hours studying for my bachelor's degree and I try to play at least an hour a day a video game with my son or watch a movie. Yesterday we took a PS5 remote and repaired it together.
I appreciate the effort you put into this but unfortunately I can't reciprocate. It would be honestly better if you pick the thing I say you take issue with and tear that apart so I can focus on what you find most important. Right now and I know it's not technically a gish gallop but give my limited time it's almost like dealing with a gish gallop where I have to just pick one thing.
If you were more concise it would help. I also am able to listen to YouTube in the background while I work so if a video Is kinda a similar point to you than I can add it to my playlist and listen.
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@Savant
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Some of these worker owned places were literally gifted to the workers by the entrepreneur who created them.
Sometimes it's a small place and the owner is like, I wish I could sell to you guys so I know the place is taken care of and the workers are like "well you can do that, here is how we can make it happen"
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@Best.Korea
I am not advocating for workers to seize the means of production. I am just saying that they can collectivize and own stuff as a group and succeed.
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@Greyparrot
I don't know how it works. I think you just lose the values of your shares if it goes bankrupt and yes Publix employees are paid better than those at competitors of nearly all grocery stores with significantly better benefits
Also every few years a long time Publix employee who never sells their shares makes the news for retiring as a millionaire after being a bag boy for 20 years.
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@Best.Korea
There are large employee owned businesses and generally you care about the continued existence of the business so you want to elect people that aren't dog shit at business management
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@Greyparrot
I definitely think more people should exercise their voting rights but i wouldn't be opposed to replacing the useless HR teams with what he suggested assuming it could be implemented better than most things with that intention are
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@Shila
I agree. Immigrants are not the problem driving price of houses into the millions.
You would think so but you have Chinese nationals buying up farmland driving up prices.
Also not all immigrants are broke. Yes the reason immigration is so high is because corporations hate that Americans demand fair pay, but. If you look at nursing it's a lot of African immigrants and nursing pays well, construction pays well and that's where Mexicans are and the tech industry pays well and that's where the Indians are.
Nurse, construction workers and tech workers so have money and pay well. They would pay better without lowering the bar of entry and flooding the market with immigrants (see supply and demand) but they still pay reasonably well and these people do but homes.
We literally had that FDR dude on here bitching about worker shortages, but worker shortages are actually a good thing because it gives workers more bargaining power
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@badger
I'm not talking about giving money to anyone, instead laws that necessitate worker representation on corporate boards. If democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for a dinner, what is a corporate board?
Its not a bad ideal TBH. I wouldn't oppose this. It depends on how it's done though.
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