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  • I was forced to watch Fox News in a waiting room yesterday. They cut away from Merrick Garland being questioned after a republican screeched about burisma, talked about how cool the crown Prince is, and then went back to the hearing after Democrats asked Garland actual questions.

  • I find the phrasing throughout this highly annoying. It implies that the Biden admin is somehow at fault for 1) people misunderstanding the initial instructions, 2) using that and strawman to undermine that public confidence, and 3) then doubled down on the stupidity seemingly out of spite.

    Simultaneously, these assholes sued and said that the admin over stepped by asking, strongly, for social media to stop overt lies from being spread on their platforms.

    We always blame those trying for not succeeding and give a pass to the idiots operating in bad faith.

  • My concern is that if you can drop tens of billions of dollars on a single acquisition, what's to stop you from spending "just" one billion to manipulate the situation to put your target in a vulnerable situation?

  • He put in some, financed more, and got backers for the rest.

    Some of his backers were involved with competing projects.

    In addition, he and they will eventually be able to take a loss, which they can carry forward to reduce their future tax liability.

    And while all that plays out, he gets to use it to empower fascism, which also will probably be used to make him more money via government contracts.

    If ever the government tries to stop him, he can now claim free speech violations.

  • Yep. When allied troops freed concentration camps victims, they didn't free the LGBT+ people. Those who survived were still considered criminals by the allies so they remained imprisoned.

    Berlin was the height of queer culture in the 20s and before. It took us almost a hundred years to rebuild a modicum of tolerance, let alone acceptance. That's why these regressive pieces of shit are frothing at the mouth to commit their genocides again.

  • If you look at policies, people overwhelmingly support policies, initiatives, laws, etc. that progressive groups champion.

    If you look at how people rate themselves and people they know, they will simultaneously say that they are all moderates or conservatives.

    Politicians further misunderstand the overall lean of their constituents, because the loudest and most consistent voices are regressives screaming that all conservatives are with them.

    Add to this that progressive groups tend to be focusing on actually doing the things, while regressives can quickly build a fantasy world and just all agree to repeat it ad nauseum, and you've got a perfect storm for people to not have any good way to actually describe the world they want to live in.

  • Our entire society is set up to wring out anyone who is unfortunate enough to find themselves buying anything.

    And as resources get squeezed, more and more people are trying to claw at smaller and smaller pieces of the overall economic pie.

    The breaking point will be catastrophic.

  • He was already hiding assets because his ex wife was suing for full custody and would wind up with substantial child support. Her lawyers argued that he was batshit and shouldn't be around the kids. His lawyers argued it was all just an act. Then he got on the stand and doubled down on his "act" and acted batshit.

    It's also been known that he's been hiding assets since due to this ruling since early 2022.

    So what do I expect? I expect us to stop buying the bullshit "plausible deniability" angles these crooks keep thinking up. Plenty of people owe restitution that they can never hope to pay back. They still owe the money and are expected to make reasonable payments, to not artificially limit their income, and to not bump up their expenses unnecessarily. If they can't do that, then the court can and should garnish their accounts above a set budget.

  • Local clerk of court website can help you with this.

    If you can get their names, you can know the property they personally own.

    And if they're big enough to have a corporate name on the deed, then they will probably be registered with your secretary of state or whichever department handles business filings.

  • Check their post history. Next most recent comment is calling Lyft sexist for letting women select the gender of their driver, and the one after that is saying that there should be no limits on landlord's ability to evict.

    This is not someone operating in good faith.