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- Comment on Elon Musk Says Amtrak, US Postal Service Should Be Privatized 20 hours ago:
Wow, what a surprise.
USPS, also government-owned, has accumulated over $100 billion in losses since 2007, including $9.5 billion in the 12 months ending Sept. 30, 2024.
Common conservative disinformation.
From this usps page,
Over 80% of our current year net loss is attributed to factors that are outside of management’s control, specifically, the amortization of unfunded retiree pension liabilities and non-cash workers’ compensation adjustments.
Republicans voted to force them to do that precisely so they could claim they’re ‘losing’ billions and should be privatized. Why? So cronies like Elron and DeJoy can profit from it.
- Comment on Hegseth orders Cyber Command to stand down on Russia planning. 1 week ago:
I feel like at this point, Russia could invade the US and the Trump admin would be more likely to help them than anything.
- Comment on im not a conservative im a proservative 1 week ago:
It’s pretty meaningless.
- Comment on Conservatives say 'good riddance' to Joy Reid's MSNBC show as liberals slam network shake-up 1 week ago:
I love Fox’s braindead takeaways on stuff like this. “Conservative commentators didn’t like Joy Reid!” Wow, no shit. The article did have a variety of reactions at least.
- Comment on Kash Patel Is Already Making Huge Changes At The FBI 2 weeks ago:
Do you have any sources besides this foreign influenced fascist bullshit site?
- Comment on Stephen Miller Embarrasses CNN Over Absurd Trump-Musk DOGE Question | Headline USA 2 weeks ago:
Trump explicitly said that Musk and Ramaswamy would be running “DOGE”. What changed? Oh, they figured out they had to weasel out of it and lie. That’s really embarrassing and amusing, Herr Miller. His “explanation” doesn’t even make sense - what a weasel. As if departments don’t have heads because the President theoretically tells them what to do? Jesus right wing media is fucking trash.
- Comment on Watch: Trump Calls Out Massive Social Security Fraud After DOGE Exposes Ancient 'Vampires' 2 weeks ago:
Yep, apparently you’re one of the people who believe whatever tripe Musk spews. The guy has been lying and exaggerating about his businesses for years. He lies and distorts about political events on Twitter every single day.
He hasn’t proven in any way whatsoever that he found real Social Security fraud, and in fact, it’s been disputed by people who worked for the agency and actually know what they’re talking about. And then, Musk has not demonstrated any way whatsoever that they have done anything to fix this alleged fraud. You’re getting snowed by bullshit. Cool sounding “teehee clever” hashtag though, you’re doing great.
- Comment on Watch: Trump Calls Out Massive Social Security Fraud After DOGE Exposes Ancient 'Vampires' 2 weeks ago:
Jesus, this community is an endless parade of horrors.
- Comment on DOGE needs to 'cut deeper' and must ‘keep slashing’ to succeed, says Kevin O’Leary 2 weeks ago:
It took off from the US and apparently the landing gear failed. Trump and his pasty pal, are they going to increase the number of inspectors and tighten regulations for airplane maintenance? Seems doubtful. Probably fire as many inspectors as possible.
- Comment on DOGE needs to 'cut deeper' and must ‘keep slashing’ to succeed, says Kevin O’Leary 2 weeks ago:
Succeed at loosening regulations on Elon Musk and arranging wonderful things like drilling for oil at national parks. Here’s a hint to people who don’t understand: “DOGE” succeeding means harming the public in a variety of ways. “DOGE” is not about efficiency, and the only way it’s about corruption is to try to enable it.
- Comment on Leader behind migrant flight to Martha's Vineyard tapped to head red state's new immigration board 2 weeks ago:
Oh, those flights that were basically kidnapping and arranged by lying to people? Stand up guy. Maybe commit a few felonies and he can get a cabinet position.
- Comment on Projected DOGE savings now near $110 billion, or over $700 per American taxpayer. 2 weeks ago:
You don’t even live in the US but for some reason have opinions on this? Oh.
Anyway, after they fired 300 people from the National Nuclear Security Agency, they were “oh oops DOE didn’t realize those people oversaw the safety of our nuclear arsenal” and tried to hire them back, but for some idiotic reason said they didn’t know how to contact them. Employees often aren’t keen to go back to employers that suddenly severed them for no reason. And how insanely stupid is that? Maybe these “DOGE” morons should be a little more careful, not “cut first, rehire later”. It’s not that easy. There is NOT a lot of transparency about this, in fact. If you really think it’s about efficiency or savings you are misinformed or perhaps deluded.
- Comment on Projected DOGE savings now near $110 billion, or over $700 per American taxpayer. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t feel like flight controllers, nuclear security staff and park rangers is wasting money.
- Comment on Projected DOGE savings now near $110 billion, or over $700 per American taxpayer. 2 weeks ago:
If it’s even accurate, which it probably isn’t.
- Comment on The eye-popping amount of money Elon Musk has already slashed from the Education Department as staff melt down 3 weeks ago:
Disconnected from real life? Well that explains some things.
- Comment on The eye-popping amount of money Elon Musk has already slashed from the Education Department as staff melt down 3 weeks ago:
“Saved”. I saved money by not replacing the roof on my house and just letting it leak. Saved big money by never changing the oil on my car or paying for insurance, too. Am I as smart as Elron and danald tramp yet?
- Comment on The Reason for the Electoral College 5 months ago:
i would love more parties and more choices. If we could get something besides FPTP voting that would be great.
- Comment on The Reason for the Electoral College 5 months ago:
You are still missing who votes. You seem to think you vote, but it is really the state that votes.
Uh… no, that’s my point. If electors are selected by a popular vote, that’s the vote. Very rare for electors to switch candidates.
This states thing is a questionable proxy system. We are sort of, theoretically, a republic of states. Sure. However, it’s a flawed system that isn’t quite relevant to how the country has developed. It’s silly to act like a system invented 250 years ago will always be the best or most effective. The founders of the country didn’t expect for the systems to never change. They also didn’t expect a party duopoly and hoped to avoid the current situation.
- Comment on The Reason for the Electoral College 5 months ago:
I’m obviously aware of electors. They’re selected by what you called a ‘popularity contest’.
A ‘fair vote for president’ is not really what I’d call the electoral college. Why would my vote count for more in Wyoming than Florida? It’s not consistent either. Large states still have way more power, so I’m not sure what that’s solving.
Okay, glad we can agree on swing states. How could that change under the current system, though? I guess small population states are never going to be as popular for campaigning as places where you can go visit 20x the population in just one city.
The left complains about this system because gives conservatives power disproportionate to their actual numbers, while we are still nominally a democracy. If there was anything like reasonable bipartisan legislative work, it might be better, but things have become so contentious. And yes, I don’t expect to see it change because conservative states would have to choose to give up power.
- Comment on The Reason for the Electoral College 5 months ago:
A popular vote is something people who do understand the Constitution or the power of the states.
I can’t parse that sentence.
Being president isn’t about being popular. It is about the states picking the person to represent them.
We are a representative government. We are not a boy band where popularity matters.What? Within each state it’s a popularity contest.
So you’re saying popular vote or ‘boy band popularity contest’ is fine within each state, but not for the whole nation at once, because we have to disproportionately select electors where people in North Dakota count 3x as much as people in Texas or California. Why’s that? The Senate is already bad enough where 30 million people in Texas get the same weight as 4 million people in Oregon or 700,000 in North Dakota.
The idea that the US is a coalition of independent states made sense over 150 years ago or 250 years ago, but not so much now. As much as say, some idiots in Texas fantasize about it, states are not free to leave the US and it’s no different than any country made up of provinces.
I would be more fine with the electoral college if the number of electors was updated to match growing populations. The system also is super lame in how it makes the entire election come down to tens of thousands of votes in ‘swing states’.
- Comment on The Reason for the Electoral College 5 months ago:
I like how you act like you really believe these things and that they make sense.
- Comment on Trump Supporters Mysteriously INJURED At Trump Rally, Chemical Attack Being Investigated 5 months ago:
prob just secondhand meth smoke given the demographic
- Comment on California proposal would give phone subsidies to illegal migrants 5 months ago:
This is another headline phrased as if the program is exclusively for undocumented immigrants, while it’s actually for anyone and the issue is whether to require a SSN to apply. Last time, it was about housing assistance and Fox did the same thing. However, Newsom ended up vetoing that anyway (as mentioned in this article).
- Comment on Iranian hackers sent stolen Trump campaign info to Biden campaign associates, FBI says 5 months ago:
My guess is Iranian Republicans thought of this scheme. I mean, Iranians have a lot better things to think about right now.
- Comment on No More Debates, No More Mistakes 5 months ago:
I can read the entire article. You mean you don’t use NoScript etc?
There’s no “paranoia” about Theil. He’s shown himself to be an incredibly horrible person and to do bizarre things like have special assistants for donating blood he is injected with. Imagine how much ‘conservatives’ would freak out if Obama or someone similar did that, but he’s your boy, keep him.
- Comment on No More Debates, No More Mistakes 5 months ago:
Yeah bro, TDS, the left!
We were comparing their debate performances as far as I can read it, so pretty sure that’s not “TDS” (which is an absurd term, and fuck Charles Krauthammer for introducing that to the lexicon - about Bush, of course).
I don’t really trust anyone once Theil is involved. Maybe that’s just my Theil Derangement Syndrome, since of course criticizing conservatives always means mental illness.
There are other experts who have analyses too, of course. You might check out this one:
fortune.com/…/trump-vs-harris-election-odds-who-w… - Comment on No More Debates, No More Mistakes 5 months ago:
We can discuss Harris, sure. However, the topic was a debate - so yes, the idea is comparing the two. Trump was slovenly, unhinged and incoherent, but you somehow didn’t notice and claim that Harris did a bad job? Your interpretation is so distorted that I’m not sure it’s worth addressing.
okay, so Silver is working for Peter Theil now. Good to know.
- Comment on No More Debates, No More Mistakes 5 months ago:
That’s a wild analysis about her lying constantly. It’s so bizarre that someone would hear trumps endless spew of nonsense and then say that about Harris.
Sorry to have to mention reality, but that is not what Silver is saying currently:
…fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/
Harris wins 61 times out of 100 in our simulations of the 2024 presidential election. Trump wins 39 times out of 100.
- Comment on No More Debates, No More Mistakes 5 months ago:
Just imagine beholding Trump, everything from his very foolish appearance, to the horrible things he says, his complete lack of understanding about almost every issues (dumbfuck is still acting like other countries pay tariffs, to say nothing of retaliation and trade wars), his deranged ramblings, moody insults, defensiveness, and not being repulsed. What the fuck is wrong with republicans?
- Comment on No More Debates, No More Mistakes 5 months ago:
“Acting foolish” in what way exactly? She actually expressed ideas for policy and acted professional while Trump just whined, attacked with lies and moaned in a slovenly way, with a few notable outbursts about bullshit.
As of now, Trump is expected to beat Harris in the election.
Expected by whom? That does not seem to be the consensus in any media I consume or with people I’ve talked to.