RememberTheApollo_ @ RememberTheApollo_ @lemmy.world

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For republicans, “wealth transfer” is a dirty phrase if used in any shape or form that leans towards fairness, a level playing field, and equality. However, handing money to the already wealthy and fuck everyone else is perfectly acceptable wealth transfer.

I’ll concede that everyone, including myself, thought he (and trump) were too old to be running because they’re both mentally declining in different ways.

This pretty much said what you replied, even if not as vehemently.

Why do you feel the need to call what I said “bullshit”, then proceed to say almost exactly what I just said?

Gotta be something where their contract lets them game the system. Picking up extra time if someone calls out sick on a holiday night or something. Probably got a “cartel” going where officers group up to trade and manipulate schedules in order to maximize pay.

Cutting benefits for the poorest.

Recipe for civil unrest, riots.

Riots mean more militarization of police, more authoritarianism, and domestic camps like Arpaio’s shitholes.

Now you have opportunity for forced labor to take the place of the exploited migrant labor we used to have.

Republicans just wanted to put minorities back in the fields as essentially slaves.

But if you can’t google a solution to a problem there is no problem.

Definitely. The people that faced extermination camps have made their own for others.

Bummer. I can see pocket going, I tried to use it but it’s basically a place to put stuff that you plant to but never actually get around to reading, a bookmark does the same thing. Fakespot I’m not sure about. I’ve used it, but there’s no way to verify how right it is.

It’s been repeatedly shown that no, they quite often do not read bills that are up for vote.

Floors me that the same generation that fought the fascists have done everything they can to usher in American fascism.

Basically exempts trump action that ignores a court order from facing enforcement of contempt. They can break the law, ignore the injunction and disregard the contempt charge for ignoring the court.

More dictatorial powers handed to trump that further dismantle any checks and balances against him.

Two attention hungry vainglorious narcissists can’t exist in the same space for long.

They’re literally unable to do anything else except remain in their protected little cocoons arguing with each other while people fawn over them and pay them for their favor.

They’re like the minor peerage of old. All trying to hang on to their name and title to keep their ego afloat.

I love all the broken clock mfs in here. I’ll concede that everyone, including myself, thought he (and trump) were too old to be running because they’re both mentally declining in different ways.

We didn’t know of any obvious major health issues with Biden. He had a shit debate and everyone suddenly acts like they knew something was wrong other than just getting old, being propped up on cold meds or whatever the official excuse was. Prostate cancer doesn’t cause these symptoms.

That said, the big question would be whether or not it was known he had cancer and was getting treatment for it, the effects of treatment certainly would be hard on someone mentally, their mental capabilities, and physically. Hiding that shit and running him for office again would be fucked up.

You’re conflating modern sciences with historic geology, and tossing in a dash of denialism to boot. There’s a well known adage called Planck’s principle (IIRC) which basically says that science advances one funeral at a time:

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Also, science was very much a good ol’ boys club of people that often came from wealthy backgrounds because they could afford the education to become scientists, so they were very much big egos trying to keep their theories and discoveries attached to their names even in the face of more correct or contradicting information.

Nowadays the egos may not be quite as large, though there definitely plenty that resist change due to ego or other personal interest, but absolutely politics influences science in multiple ways. It determines who gets funding, what commercial interests pay and benefit from the discoveries, and what gets presented to the public.

Sure would be nice if all scientific results were unbiased, accessible, and free, but unfortunately that’s not always the case.

Oh look, the “you can’t take from the rich, that’s redistribution of wealth and communist!” people are wanting to take from the wealthier states and redistribute wealth.

Consider one of those protective cases that has the flap that covers the charging port. Yeah, a minor annoyance when you want to plug the charger in, but it keeps the port crud free. I’ve used variations of that style for years and it keeps the phone in good shape even when it’s collecting rust- or sawdust in the shop.

Following, just because I hope someone will post where this is.

Shitty argument that subjectively implies a min/max. Exactly how many people need to be killed by rapid-fire mods for you to change your mind? No, don’t butwhatabout some other unrelated statistic… Spell it out. What number of people dying will be enough for you to decide that increasing the fire rate of firearms should not be done?

There is a serious threat of blown fuse plugs or fire. The carbon brakes create a lot of heat really quickly, but it takes a few minutes for that heat to soak into the wheel assemblies. There are plugs that melt to release the tire pressure so they don’t explode and cause further damage, but fire can still be a problem.