buddhabound @ buddhabound @lemmy.world

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...and my mind is stronger than a child's...

It's not though. It really, really isn't.

I'm not saying it's too racist to elect a black man. What I'm saying is that he was a solid enough candidate across the board that the only 2 major downsides that I can see were, primarily, he was a Democrat (biggest hurdle) and black. Here's an interview with Marcus, and while you can see some of his positions aren't going to entice Republicans, hes pretty much as moderate a Democrat as one can be in Georgia and still have a chance at winning.

He had a solid ground game in the area. I don't live far from that district and his name was everywhere, and for a long time. Lots of ads, lots of campaign material, lots of meet and greets in the area. I probably had name recognition of him at least 8-12 months before the election, if not earlier. So, I don't know how much more money could be spent on a house district in Georgia for it to make sense pulling that much funding away from other candidates elsewhere. The gerrymandering might help, but I don't think that solution is within a decade's timespan. The Rs don't need more republicans around Atlanta, because they're not going to swing Fulton anyway. So, they're better off keeping the outer districts super safe R districts and letting Fulton go to the Dems.

Unfortunately, it would probably be a better investment of campaign cash to support a less crazy Republican in the primaries, if the desire was to get rid of MTG, and I HATE the idea of trying to save the Republican party from itself.

Marcus Flowers ran against her in 2022, and really had two things working against him in Georgia - he's black and a Democrat. He's a veteran, smart, committed to doing the right thing, ran a clean campaign on policy, and worked hard. Meanwhile, she trolled, filmed videos of herself wasting time at his campaign office while he worked, etc, etc, etc. And all of that happened while she was removed from all of her committee assignments which meant that she couldn't even do anything to support her district for 90% of her first term.

They gerrymandered her district as much as they could by reaching down to Cobb County suburbs to pull as much away from Atlanta as they could afford to, and Marcus lost by a lot. I'm not entirely sure we're not stuck with her for a very long time, unless she loses a primary, which I don't see happening with the Republicans in their current state.

There's a constitutional reason the justice department falls under the president. It is a function of the executive branch, from Article 2, Section 3 of the Constitution: "...shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed...". The DoJ is the enforcement arm of the executive branch.

I love MARTA. I also know it has its problems. As a neighbor from a nearby small city, I don't even have a business stop within 5 miles of my house. I love being able to take MARTA all over place in Atlanta with a day pass.

Wait until people and brands start getting spammed with @s full of porn or CSAM and they can't block the person tweeting it at them.

I believe you could use block to prevent other people's shit from showing up in your feeds that other people see. My account is there, pointing at my mastadon account, but I deleted the app from my phone last December, so it doesn't really matter to me what happens on that site. But, it seems wild that a person can spam your feed with goatse and you can't do anything about it.

Coney-Barrett is #3 of the current justices.

Would you believe me if I told you that at least 3 of the current supreme court members were lawyers arguing on behalf of Bush in that case?

He certainly can contribute to his own defense. He is choosing to run for president (to try and avoid accountability for his crimes). If he seriously wanted to beat the charges, he could suspend his campaign.

He is a defendant, and a rich one at that. There are countless defendants in cases every day that have to choose between hiring sufficient counsel that can offer a good defense and paying rent or buying groceries for their children.

Trump is affluent enough (and has enough people willing to donate to pay his legal bills) to be able to focus on these charges and nothing else, but he tries to get sympathy for his own choices.

I have none to offer him.

I think it's still the most ridiculous thing. Either that, or farting on Jenna Ellis during the legislative hearing and giving her COVID. I'm really not sure which of those is more ridiculous.

Toto makes a handheld battery powered travel bidet, if you didn't know. Instructions are in Japanese, but you can probably figure it out cuz there are illustrations.

If it's the one from his arraignment, it's a trump branded umbrella that says "TRUMP" in gold letters on the side you can't see. Which, if it's anything like his other branded stuff, it's most likely crap, and you can buy one if you are easily parted from your money.

Same, for better or worse.

My reddut account was from 2012. 2010 is when digg died and reddit took off more. So, reddit had 13 years to develop its content flow. This person couldn't stay around 13 weeks to see what Lemmy could be.

34 now. They added 2 more yesterday.

For Karl!

Kyle!

It's almost as if he isn't actually investigating medical billing fraud.

Ok, but what do you mean by "pretentious"? Who gets to decide how important an issue is to someone else? Pretentious means that a person is acting like an issue is more important to them than it actually is. Who decides how important it is to a person that they're living in a country where police can kill an innocent person and not face a jury over it? Who decides how important it is to a person that the women in their lives can get raped and will be forced by the state to give birth to a child that is the result of the rape?

Your definition of "woke" is built upon a third party determining that someone else's concern with an issue is not as important as they "pretend" it is. Who gets to decide that, and under what authority?

Alternately, we could actually collect taxes from the companies that use the majority of our nation's resources, underpay their workers, and are the cause of much of the need for spending for Medicare & social security due to killing pensions and opposing universal health care.