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LegalLord
United States13779 Posts
On March 09 2022 04:03 Mohdoo wrote: Silver lining: There's no way Biden is resuming student loans during all this QE-infinity is probably going to continue as well. Inflation is going to just keep on going. | ||
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Zambrah
United States7393 Posts
What I’d give to have the minimum wage be retroactively adjusted for inflation and tied to inflation from here on out. We’re well past the point of 15 being enough, lol. | ||
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NewSunshine
United States5938 Posts
On March 09 2022 05:01 Zambrah wrote: I look forward to wages definitely keeping up with inflation Haha. | ||
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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Sadist
United States7328 Posts
On March 09 2022 05:23 JimmiC wrote: What is the excuse for a piece of garbage like this making it through the primary? I mean he does say the election is stolen, but can't you find better people who can repeat that nonsense, or is this really the best? https://ca.yahoo.com/news/michigan-gop-candidate-tells-daughters-190734197.html I dont understand the quote. It sounds like hes saying thats not what to do. The guy is clearly a nut (Russia bombing Ukraine to knock out bioweapons labs run by Fauci?) But the reporting is confusing. | ||
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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Mohdoo
United States15743 Posts
On March 09 2022 04:58 LegalLord wrote: QE-infinity is probably going to continue as well. Inflation is going to just keep on going. Add the two together and you essentially incidentally forgive student loans lol. Eventually a car loan for a new Honda Civic will be the same as my student loan | ||
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LegalLord
United States13779 Posts
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gobbledydook
Australia2605 Posts
On March 09 2022 04:18 farvacola wrote: Just in case there's still confusion on the point of whether January 6 rioters were armed, the first rioter taken to trial was found guilty on all five counts of the indictment, two of which involved his carrying a firearm. In the first Jan. 6 trial, a jury found Capitol riot defendant Guy Reffitt guilty It's true that Capitol rioters broke the law. It has been proven in court. It's also quite likely that they would not have done that it Trump had not told them to "go to the Capitol peacefully". That said, whether by design or accident, the words Trump uttered give him plausible deniability about whether he incited the riot, or whether the protestors just got out of control once they got there, without Trump's direction. It is a fundamental principle that guilt must be proven beyond reasonable doubt in a courtroom and Trump left himself more than enough doubt that I don't think he would ever be found guilty for what he did on Jan 6. | ||
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gobbledydook
Australia2605 Posts
On March 09 2022 05:47 JimmiC wrote: He is telling them that if they are going to be raped and can not get out of it they should just lay back and enjoy it. It is once of the worst quotes ever by anyone, let a lone someone currently running for office. That was clearly said in jest to demonstrate the futility and ridiculousness of just lying down and taking the hits in an election. Was it wise to utter something that could be easily taken out of context? Maybe. But then he has another excuse to blame the "fake news legacy media". | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland27148 Posts
Where best case scenario is not making a terrible analogy to illustrate a valid point, and a middle ground where one makes a terrible analogy to illustrate a valid point, which I am certainly guilty of haha, this is hitting 0/2 I’m not even outraged tbh, bar a simmering disdain I just sort of shrug my shoulders at this point. | ||
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Sermokala
United States14155 Posts
Interesting timing on this from what was said yesterday. The first Federal trial of Jan 6ers, Guilty on all counts including carrying a pistol into the capitol. Notably also as a case where one was turned in by a relative and providing a pretty solid case for the next 500 or so cases it says are behind it. Probably a pretty heavy outlier for all the cases and I don't think that he'll get the 20 years max but certainly the start of a lot of court cases for these terrorists. | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland27148 Posts
On March 09 2022 08:32 Sermokala wrote: Edit: Already posted link just imagine this is in reply to farva. Interesting timing on this from what was said yesterday. The first Federal trial of Jan 6ers, Guilty on all counts including carrying a pistol into the capitol. Notably also as a case where one was turned in by a relative and providing a pretty solid case for the next 500 or so cases it says are behind it. Probably a pretty heavy outlier for all the cases and I don't think that he'll get the 20 years max but certainly the start of a lot of court cases for these terrorists. I mean, fair. The sad thing is these aren’t lone wolf types. Everyone who benefitted from the ‘stop the steal’ narrative, propagated and profited from it are going to skate. There seems to me a curious lack of anger about that, from the similar types of people who were there at the Capitol. | ||
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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gobbledydook
Australia2605 Posts
On March 09 2022 09:17 JimmiC wrote: There are a million analogies to use, and this is one he picks? Best people..... Very vulgar and inappropriate for civil society of course, but considering he's basically trying to appeal to rednecks... | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland27148 Posts
On March 09 2022 10:07 gobbledydook wrote: Very vulgar and inappropriate for civil society of course, but considering he's basically trying to appeal to rednecks... Does it work as an analogy if your target audience doesn’t think the parallel you’re drawing is even a bad thing? | ||
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gobbledydook
Australia2605 Posts
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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Mohdoo
United States15743 Posts
On March 08 2022 15:52 Doc.Rivers wrote: It's easy to make an argument when you exaggerate every aspect of the facts. All you are actually saying is that you strongly disagree with me. I'm just saying that when there's a crowd of a couple thousand and it's estimated by NPR that 3 dozen had weapons, but mostly makeshift blunt objects, no guns, no knives, etc, that crowd did set out with the intent to hunt and kill people. Let's examine how doc chose to respond to this situation, 1) Pretends facts are being exaggerated, essentially rejecting well documented reality. 2) Presupposes that the facts being discussed are a matter of disagreement, that it is just a matter of looking through a different lens, rather than documented reality. 3) Pretends what determines if bad people were present is the % of them, not the absolute value. In the end, it is worth pointing out that he has essentially not conceded a single point throughout this entire conversation. It has been long winded justifications for rejecting the realities that all of us are taking as a given. | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland27148 Posts
On March 09 2022 10:42 Mohdoo wrote: Let's examine how doc chose to respond to this situation, 1) Pretends facts are being exaggerated, essentially rejecting well documented reality. 2) Presupposes that the facts being discussed are a matter of disagreement, that it is just a matter of looking through a different lens, rather than documented reality. 3) Pretends what determines if bad people were present is the % of them, not the absolute value. In the end, it is worth pointing out that he has essentially not conceded a single point throughout this entire conversation. It has been long winded justifications for rejecting the realities that all of us are taking as a given. 4) Complaining it’s unfair to characterise his response as shrugging off the events. I might be broadly in favour both of the cause and methodology of protests against the police. It a bunch of folks at such a protest were chanting fuck the police, had weapons and stormed a police station and were stopped, making a claim like ‘no police officers were in danger’ would be patently ridiculous. | ||
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