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Hater of false dichotomies
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You guys need to hire a copywriter that understands why your headline is terrible.
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It's a thing - a disturbing thing on many levels - but still a thing.
www.thelist.com/1817157/what...
www.women.com/1820104/what...
www.irishstar.com/news/us-news...
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And their immediate families, too, right?
Right?!
Yeah, I doubt you want to have that conversation, Mrs. Bruce Mann.
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Plausible and even likely. But junior servicemembers are all keenly aware of things that aren't "required" in a legal sense vs a practical one:
- You can go to the party or you can go to work
- It will look bad if we're all not there
- You're really gonna let your teammates down?
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I'm not worried about CANG leadership knowing their legal limitations; it's the deckplate (or 'frontline' I guess in non-Sailor-ese) and likelihood for mutual escalation that has me concerned.
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Confirmation Bias is a helluva drug
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They've already done the math. They know where the inflection point is.
I'd hazard a guess that a 25% tariff is *still* cheaper than making them in the U.S., and that's just manufacturing costs not including real estate, plant, overhead, etc.
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Part delusional, but also partly that that's the information he's being fed by his enablers.
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The lack of provisions concerning financial stability and inadequate guardrails are ENTIRELY intentional.
Can't grift the rubes when regulations are in place and enforced.
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"The free market should determine prices..... WAIT NO, NOT LIKE THAT!!!"
Remember free market republicans?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
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It's one of the most American things in existence, the "I got mine" mentality as they pull the ladder up behind them.
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"Let the free market decide what prices companies charge!"
"WAITWAITWAIT NOOOOOO.... NOT LIKE THAT!!!!!!!"
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Never underestimate the power of bigotry in motivating people to a cause.
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Because Cheap-Labor Conservatives *want* a near-destitute population. Cutting health care is an easy path to making people work multiple jobs (for a pittance) and keeping them compliant.
Cheap-Labor Conservatives and their obsolete mercantilist policies are going to kill Americans. Full stop.
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The only ones even marginally accepting it are the first-tour (under 25yo) combat arms servicemembers.
Yes, I know that's a generalization, but there are both social and psychological reasons that those units are "deep red" in their politics
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Also pretty incredible to watch them so easily adapt to addressing someone by a new, chosen name, and completely miss the irony.
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Didn't think I'd be reading about hanging chads in a decision authored in 2025 😂
Loved the carefully-selected citations (Kavanaugh, J., concurring) and (Scalia, J., concurring)
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This video is fake.
Yes, I know that it's within the realms of believability, but this particular video is manipulated.
The fact that so many believe it to be real, though, just demonstrates that the far left is just as susceptible to propaganda as the far right.
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People who think this TruthSocial post was meant for Putin are delirious.
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Just to make sure I've got this right, if you're a religious bigot then LGBTQ+ is "bad" but MULTIPLE accounts of incest in the Bible are good?
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The right aren't the only people who voted against student debt relief.
That said - and yes I know I'm gonna get dragged for this - everyone who signed an 1845-0007 (Master Promissory Note) entered a legal contract for their loan. Feel free to honor your obligations or try for the Brunner Test
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American Exceptionalism is a fascinating rabbit hole, honestly. Stalin, Communism, and Mormons, all mixed up with Puritans, feudalism, promises of economic mobility, and (the hilarious fantasy of) moral purity.
Donald Pease's works are a great resource:
english.dartmouth.edu/people/donal...
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That's been (one of) our country's problems for a lot longer than this administration. The self-aggrandizement is incessant in certain social circles... I'm sure the correlation to education levels is merely coincidental, though /sar
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They didn't. It's raw anti-intellectualism.
They firmly believe, as Asimov wrote in his essay A Cult of Ignorance, that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
They revel in being "untainted" by higher-ed, and love talking about their street smarts or going to the "school of hard knocks"
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The "beginning of the end" was the Citizen's United decision. The moment that ruling came out, this present was inevitable.
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They said it in as many words in court just the other day:
"Detained pursuant to the sovereign, domestic authority of El Salvador."
We've announced to phallic yams around the world that they can "go shopping" for their political dissidents who sought refuge in the US, and we'll happily deport them
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Congress explicitly GAVE the president this power, along with a host of others, in its decades-long abdication of authority in favor of fundraising for reelection.
Left-wing; right-wing; same f-ing bird.
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In some far-right circles, "no coming back" is exactly the hope. These people dream of forcing a Constitutional Convention to establish a white Christian-Nationalist country and have spent decades building the political/voting mechanisms to accomplish it.
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Bold of you to assume that we'll get to elect a 48th President
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"The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'"
- A Cult of Ignorance, by Isaac Asimov, 1980
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That's not the point of this EO. It's a Trojan horse for a MASSIVE power grab (almost certainly crafted by Russell Vought) in which he is declaring that he can make regulations at-will without following the Administrative Procedures Act.
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No, I blame the ~90 million citizens that chose to stay home and not vote at all.
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My question is, "Did the POTUS, on a huge prop and handouts all bearing the Seal of the POTUS, tacitly acknowledge that China and Taiwan are distinct and separate entities?"
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My personal favorite are the literally uninhabited Heard and McDonald islands 😂