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M_Gargantua posted:Ban 401k's and bring back pensions after 20 years of service and make sure there is a robust system so the workers still get paid if the companies go under or get bought out. But how else will Wall Street raid the savings of average citizens every 3 to 5 years?
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We are all damned. Not doomed, damned, because we (as Americans) have earned our fate.
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Tiny Timbs posted:Looper owned gently caress y'all
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Jan 14, 2025 19:47
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While that's a terrible answer, and it kind of indicates that he may not even know what Asean is, I wouldn't expect even a top level American appointee to have memorized the membership of every economic partnership we deal with. Its the kind of question that just having a cheat sheet for would be acceptable for. There are better examples of this guy's insuitability for the position.
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Jan 15, 2025 00:50
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shame on an IGA posted:the lack of a cheat sheet is in itself utterly disqualifying for an executive position because he's demonstrating he doesn't have a team whose only job is to keep him from embarrassing himself and would be too stupid to delegate to them if he did Defenestrategy posted:Seems like a big deal to have a broad understanding of "The block that basically contains most of the land mass bordering the south china sea which china has geopolitical aims on." if you're either SecDef or SecState, but that's just my opinion. I'd add that it would be important to know that this is more of a trade bloc than a strategic alliance (at this point) and that they're neither a US partner nor rival. If he demonstrated that level of knowledge, and he didn't, then I'd be inclined to say 'yeah, sure whatever'. But again, this guy was selected for loyalty, not ability.
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Jan 15, 2025 03:42
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Discussion Quorum posted:shhhh you're going to wake up Korematsu I can definitely see the incoming administration invoke that. I also would expect that most of the internees would only leave as ash clouds.
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Neither party should be suffered to exist. Go ahead and post all the roll eyes you want.
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Jan 17, 2025 02:05
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What's the legal precedence for this? The executive has nothing to do with whether or not amendments to the constitution are ratified. Did the states finally ratify this while I wasn't looking?
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Jan 18, 2025 00:50
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Platystemon posted:Wow O.K. I knew that Biden was being dumb, but I did not consider that he was being that dumb. He does the bare minimum (or less) long after it would have had any useful effect. That should be his lasting legacy. This 28th amendment thing is a desperate attempt to put some shine on his own presidency right before he becomes an answer in a trivia question alongside James A. Buchanan.
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Jan 18, 2025 02:21
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In other news, the MAGA flag will literally be flying alongside the US flag at the state capitol on inauguration day. My state is not the only one that will be doing this.
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Jan 18, 2025 03:49
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facialimpediment posted:chuds are very flag-mad because Biden did the standard thing on the death of a president - flags at half-mast for 30 days This isn't just flying the flags at full staff, this is flying the flag of a political faction with equal precedence to the flag of the nation. I don't like the historical precedence for this. Acebuckeye13 posted:Democrats, while flawed, are still generally well-meaning people I do not believe this, or at least, I do not believe those who make the decisions that matter within that party are well-meaning people. That's not to say that they're like the republicans, just that they're a different breed of awful. A.o.D. fucked around with this message at 08:03 on Jan 18, 2025 |
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Jan 18, 2025 08:02
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Did I just witness the messaging equivalent of "Ah, well, nevertheless..."?
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Jan 19, 2025 00:42
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Platystemon posted:https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1881129549112738256 Does that mean Elon fixed the election for Trump? Not that it matters, even if the receipts were leaked, no one would do anything about it.
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Jan 20, 2025 04:36
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Terrifying Effigies posted:Some real last flight out of Saigon energy A few unlucky administrations get one of those, the Biden administration got to enjoy two!
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Steezo posted:He couldn't even wield the tools of Kagrenac let alone achieve CHIM. What a grand and intoxicating innocence.
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Jan 20, 2025 17:59
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And to think, this is just the start.
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Jan 21, 2025 02:31
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facialimpediment posted:Nah, they're freaked that if they call the thing the thing, Elon will sue them for defamation. That said, it's absolutely everywhere online - though I can't speak to the TV poo poo. All the written pubs are calling it a "weird gesture" or whatever the gently caress. I bet Donnie's still pissed about it trampling on His Special Day. I'm starting to think that certain people aren't worried about lawsuits any more.
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Jan 21, 2025 06:09
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Laughing Zealot posted:The January 6 pardons aside, batshit as they are, isn't it a bit unusual for a President starting handing out pardons on day one? Feels like it's usually a end of tenure thing usually. End of tenure pardons strike me as cowardice, since the lame duck won't have to face any real consequences of unpopular actions. While the pardons are a sign of things to come, at least they're not pretending to try to sneak something by. But then again, you don't have to hand it to 'em.
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Jan 22, 2025 14:26
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GD_American posted:Peck literally arrested a teenage girl for slander. He's Trumpy through and through Nah, he was the kind of Democrat whose daddy paid for school and pulled strings so that he wouldn't get drafted. He smoked the acceptable amount of weed and hung out around protests to hit on girls. He's fine in theory with certain people having access to jobs and houses, just not his workplace, and not his neighborhood. He nods along when party high ups tell the peons to know their place.
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Jan 24, 2025 01:15
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Casimir Radon posted:Honestly I hope they accidentally deport a bunch of citizens who voted for Donnie, and they get stuck outside the country for a good long while. Then ICE can go on record and explain that they looked a certain way. If only Mr. Trump knew what was happening, he wouldn't have let it happen to me!
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Jan 24, 2025 04:58
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bird food bathtub posted:Cancel commissary and school programs? I don't see that happening. Why don't you see that happening? Is there some guard rail preventing that from occurring, or do you simply not want to believe it's possible?
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Jan 26, 2025 14:23
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ded posted:1500 a day? where the gently caress do they plan on holding them? Well they'll pile them on top of each other until that no longer works, then contracts will be handed out to buddies to make windowless buildings to concentrate the problem until a final solution can be devised.
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Jan 27, 2025 18:35
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We just had a meeting today reminding everyone that contractors are not government employees and that EOs do not have any immediate bearing on our jobs until a specific directive gets filtered through the agency and hashed out with the contract. Yeah, that's a nice sentiment and all, but I don't think Law or Binding Documents are all that powerful in this new era. We'll see.
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Jan 28, 2025 00:41
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OddObserver posted:More prosaically, your employee will not pay lawyers to do the right thing. They probably will if they just get outright screwed out of money, though There may be financial incentive to keep certain personnel off site, as the Contractee sometimes charges for floor space, to the point they're trying to take desks away from field service techs because "They're always out on a job" even though those service techs work 100% on site. I hope I don't have to explain how asinine that is. Anyhow, I have no faith in The Company to do the right thing, but I do have faith in them when it comes to pinching pennies. We'll see how all that goes.
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Jan 28, 2025 00:46
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That Works posted:I kind of figured they were gonna do what they said they were gonna do. No poo poo. When someone, and especially a fascist, promises to hurt someone, believe them, because they really, really mean it.
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Jan 28, 2025 13:14
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Casimir Radon posted:Send them to Delhi for a few weeks so they can see some real smog. Actively praising Modi's policies, so no, they will never care about the consequences of their actions. If you die due to air pollution, you were weak and unnecessary. This is a post sanity world, and there is no bottom.
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Jan 29, 2025 04:37
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Casimir Radon posted:I have doubts they’ll stick anywhere close to 30L people at Gitmo. Donnie is a loving idiot who likes throwing big numbers around, and reality may interfere with that significantly. I do think you’ll see some insane human rights abuses that will make everything that happened in GWOT look quaint though. I think that he should be taken at his word. I believe that he really does mean for very terrible things to be inflicted on a great many people for the simple crime of being undesirable in his eyes.
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Jan 29, 2025 23:25
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Notahippie posted:Same thing, except I did reread it a couple of years ago and realized that the main character is a horrible sad dork. And he was always meant to be. He's not even like the third or fourth coolest character in his own story.
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I don't view it as welfare, I view it as an exchange of goods and services. I give you my knees, you give me a GI Bill. Some give their sanity, and in return they get ???
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facialimpediment posted:We're onto the February thread, but no: You can always strike. You just have to be prepared for the possibility that the Pinkertons will be setting up machine gun emplacements on the hilltops.
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