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Mr. Nice! posted:Individual businesses can do what they want. At will employment means at will. Lol right. Red states are pushing laws to prevent employers from mandating vaccines. Private business rights only last until the fash want to make a point.
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Zamujasa posted:pretty cool how a major powerhouse of the government is a bunch of withering, unelected, for-life appointees. I always thought the better solution for the "Supreme Court" would be to do away with the presidential appointment system altogether and establish a "lottery" system. Federal District Court Judges - one from each District - are chosen for eight month terms, transported to and boarded in DC on the government's dime, they're paid the same amount per month that SCOTUS Justices are now for their time and service, which is a pretty sweet gig if they're living rent-free and can claim a per diem for food and incidentals. If you want a Baker's Dozen, include DC courts in the mix. They'd get a kick out of that. When their term is up, they return to their prior positions within the District Courts. They're then taken out of the selection pool for two years' time at which point they're eligible for selection again. I feel one of the worst aspects of our judicial system is that higher-profile Federal Judges feel they need to keep their decisions and ~legacies~ cleaner than their actual case history just in case they ever get that "tap on the shoulder." If you make "sitting on the Supreme Court" a thing that *any* Federal Judge can do - for a limited period - maybe we'll have a better Federal court system since the Judicial "endgame" will disappear. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 01:14 on Jan 14, 2022 |
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at this point I'm starting to think that the entire federal governing system needs to be a random lottery of eligible people with six year terms. I'm fairly certain asking for 535 random people from across the US would be more representative and intelligent than the current congress made up mostly 60 year old lawyers, business idiots, and professional pols
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Defenestrategy posted:at this point I'm starting to think that the entire federal governing system needs to be a random lottery of eligible people with six year terms. I'm fairly certain asking for 535 random people from across the US would be more representative and intelligent than the current congress made up mostly 60 year old lawyers, business idiots, and professional pols Wait, you mean I have to do jury duty and this?
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facialimpediment posted:One weird trick to avoid detection: pictures of messages in cursive handwriting! LOL Cursive is an important area for OCR. USPS has been reading it for a long, long time.
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Defenestrategy posted:at this point I'm starting to think that the entire federal governing system needs to be a random lottery of eligible people with six year terms. I'm fairly certain asking for 535 random people from across the US would be more representative and intelligent than the current congress made up mostly 60 year old lawyers, business idiots, and professional pols Sign me the gently caress up. I'd vote for anyone that advocated for this and had a chance in hell of winning a town council seat. So no one. I'd cast a blueball vote, even at the town council level.
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Let them Google cake https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1481708342104006662?s=20
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Defenestrategy posted:at this point I'm starting to think that the entire federal governing system needs to be a random lottery of eligible people with six year terms. I'm fairly certain asking for 535 random people from across the US would be more representative and intelligent than the current congress made up mostly 60 year old lawyers, business idiots, and professional pols counterpoint: voters but even with that said, I think you're right  The closest thing lately has been the redistricting commissions and a lot of them have functioned quite well, though some have exploded into hilarity
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Defenestrategy posted:at this point I'm starting to think that the entire federal governing system needs to be a random lottery of eligible people with six year terms. I'm fairly certain asking for 535 random people from across the US would be more representative and intelligent than the current congress made up mostly 60 year old lawyers, business idiots, and professional pols Vox just had a summary of the recent real, actual political science work on government by lottery. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22878118/jury-duty-citizens-assembly-lottocracy-open-democracy
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If you want to use a lottery, might as well borrow from the brilliant Venetian electoral system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfrf05FT85A https://www.theballotboy.com/electing-the-doge
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That Works posted:Let them Google cake Love having to choose between uncaring apparatchik lanyard motherfuckers and straight up fascists. Nice country we have here.
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https://twitter.com/Amy_Siskind/status/1481731676669632516 Thinly sourced but extremely cursed thread here. I would rather cut my own arm off and bludgeon myself with it than ever vote for her.
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stealie72 posted:Jesus H. I'm part of a left-leaning community group on FB and most of the traffic in the past week has been "[Store/library] in [town/neighborhood] has tests in stock!" and then follow-up posts two hours later that they're out of stock. How the gently caress are you supposed to google that poo poo? I mean we knew this about her from day one; she was the attorney general of California. Just remember the way of the Prius, this is the way.
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Marshal Prolapse posted:I mean we knew this about her from day one; she was the attorney general of California. Never trust the dems to help the people. Only Eugene Stoner can save you from fascism.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:https://twitter.com/Amy_Siskind/status/1481731676669632516 IIRC Sinema having extremely delusional presidential ambitions has been reported on before, and I can absolutely believe it. What an absolute garbage human being.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:https://twitter.com/Amy_Siskind/status/1481731676669632516 Sinema seems like a white trash idiot who found out that the best get rich quick scheme would be to be a corrupt rear end in a top hat and play ball with billionaires so they throw scraps to her, just like they throw table scraps all the other Congressmen and women. It's insane how cheaply these corrupt pieces of poo poo are bought off for. "$50k for my reelection campaign and all I gotta do is vote for something that saves you $2 billion a year? Sure!"
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https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/12/politics/trump-overturn-2020-election-fake-electoral-college/index.html Not sure if this was posted previously, but apparently a bunch of AZ republicans tried to sneak in fake electoral college votes for 1/6 to give Pence ammo for overturning the election.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:https://twitter.com/Amy_Siskind/status/1481731676669632516 Would be amazed if she makes over 2% in any primary, although might be deluded enough to stick around until Super Tuesday before dropping out and retiring to the grift circuit.
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Kazinsal posted:Never trust the dems to help the people. Only Eugene Stoner can save you from fascism. Bo Burnham "that funny feeling" starts playing
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Oxygenpoisoning posted:https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/12/politics/trump-overturn-2020-election-fake-electoral-college/index.html don't worry, nevada's there with you quote:A few hours after the official state process had ended, a video accompanied a tweet from the Nevada GOP, saying, “History made today in Carson City,” as footage showed Republican electors signing papers on a table. The event was live-streamed on a YouTube channel called “Right Side Broadcasting Network.” this is from a month ago but is mentioned in the above story; someone reported a real case of voter fraud: quote:In one case, Donald “Kirk” Hartle, who told the I-Team last year that someone had stolen his deceased wife’s ballot and voted, in fact voted himself, officials said. it's always projection
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pantslesswithwolves posted:https://twitter.com/Amy_Siskind/status/1481731676669632516 https://twitter.com/getfiscal/status/1481765450375700483
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stealie72 posted:Jesus H. I'm part of a left-leaning community group on FB and most of the traffic in the past week has been "[Store/library] in [town/neighborhood] has tests in stock!" and then follow-up posts two hours later that they're out of stock. How the gently caress are you supposed to google that poo poo? Same here. My local nextdoor and the state-area reddit is just multiple daily posts of "where can I find tests, where is testing open wtfff".
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Oxygenpoisoning posted:https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/12/politics/trump-overturn-2020-election-fake-electoral-college/index.html I think the Archivist or some other official pointed out that someone always does that with a fake name of a general, among other people. ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Bo Burnham "that funny feeling" starts playing Oh god my wife is starting to post here.
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Hey this is great, shipping costs are about to go down down down!  https://twitter.com/AP/status/1481764407881392132
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Those twenty-year-old teenagers.  Unrelated transport woes: https://twitter.com/johnschreiber/status/1481770722271760384 https://twitter.com/johnschreiber/status/1481770959673520128
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Platystemon posted:Those twenty-year-old teenagers. Pfft just put some Pinkerton’s on there with some Colt Monitors.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Putting 18-20 year olds in interstate trucks is going to cause a hell of a lot of accidents, even with the nanny network in place and timed log shutdowns after daily hours limits. While I'm definitely in solidarity with them, I really hope it isn't long, considering how hosed our supply chain is already.
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Marshal Prolapse posted:Pfft just put some Pinkerton’s on there with some Colt Monitors. It's about time train robberies came back into style.
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https://twitter.com/fullcontactmtwf/status/1481638689415462916?s=21 Rogan still being very stupid and anti-vaxx. Some people have said he just believes the last thing he hears. I think this shows that is not true.
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Eason the Fifth posted:It's about time train robberies came back into style. This ain’t the Roaring Twenties. It’s the Second Gilded Age.
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So tight the anti-vax leaders in politics and the right wing media space all have been vaccinated boosted and have personal doctors. This is cool and normal.
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Bored As gently caress posted:While I'm definitely in solidarity with them, I really hope it isn't long, considering how hosed our supply chain is already. Rail is pretty hosed here. There was a twitter post I remember from a couple months ago, where nothing could really move on the west coast due to fires, floods, washed out rail, etc. poo poo's already wild. And BNSF has had a history of loving their operators, relying on tech to thin their books, steadily laying folks off for the past several decades while also slacking on rail maintenance. They deserve to be fighting a strike right now.
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