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- Comment on Supreme Court issues decision on Trump immunity case | CNN Politics 4 days ago:
@wintermute_oregon While you're right, my only problem with this is that there's no harm in just providing that precision now.
While I'm not going through conniptions over this like the #BlueAnon wokeboi crew here, there is a part of me that suspects that this ruling could risk giving the #POTUS too much power in the future. With a ruling so broad, caution, rather than jubilance or terror, seems to be the only reasonable stance to take until we know just what this ruling will do.
- Comment on Supreme Court issues decision on Trump immunity case | CNN Politics 4 days ago:
@Gradually_Adjusting @wintermute_oregon I think it depends on how this ruling gets applied/interpreted.
There is a real risk, pointed out by #Sotomayor, that federal procedures could legitimize illegal acts like assassinations. However, one could just as easily presume that such actions would be unconstitutional and therefore fall outside the bounds of ordinary business, and thus do not meet the criteria for "official acts".
I wish this ruling had a bit more precision.
- Comment on Weird: DeSantis signed a law requiring hospitals to ask patients about immigration status and suddenly Medicaid spending on illegal immigrants plummeted 1 week ago:
@Bongo_Stryker @wintermute_oregon
> Anyone who uses religious language to make themselves seem moral and righteous, but then says illegals don’t deserve healthcare, that person is a hypocrite.
Ah yes. Unlike other politicians.
- Comment on Weird: DeSantis signed a law requiring hospitals to ask patients about immigration status and suddenly Medicaid spending on illegal immigrants plummeted 1 week ago:
@Bongo_Stryker @wintermute_oregon
> Anyone who says they are Christian or advocates for a “Christian nation” should understand that the parable of the good Samaritan applies not only to individuals but Christians collectively.
Eh, that parable is about how individuals are to behave, it doesn't apply to states. Also a true #Christian nationalist would be okay with if not in support of an apartheid state, with unbelievers being excoriated from society if not excluded from the country.
- Comment on Exclusive: Farage: Capitalism is Dead, We're Living in Corporatism 1 week ago:
@wintermute_oregon @agamemnonymous
> The problem is large companies have a large influence on politics, etc that they shouldn’t have.
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> It’s why I praise Elon for growing Tesla.Usually I'm with you but...HUH? #ElonMusk literally owns #X, one of the largest social media platforms, and therefore has some amount of political power in the #USA.
- Comment on Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era ban on bump stocks, gun accessories used in 2017 Vegas massacre 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era ban on bump stocks, gun accessories used in 2017 Vegas massacre 3 weeks ago:
@wintermute_oregon Bump stocks should never have been banned lol
- Comment on Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era ban on bump stocks, gun accessories used in 2017 Vegas massacre 3 weeks ago:
@wintermute_oregon #MAGA rarely pays attention to these sorts of things but it's funny that the #Trump administration brought in the bump stock ban and the #JoeBiden administration got rid of them
(Yes I know the president doesn't control the #SupremeCourt, but still)
- Comment on Gov. Abbott pardons Daniel Perry for 2020 fatal Black Lives Matter protest shooting after recommendation from pardons board | CNN 1 month ago:
I rewatched the video and this was interesting: https://twitter.com/pine_tree_riots/status/1410742168868704258
Looks like the protesters were blocking the road, and it's not that evident that he actually hit anyone. He also was taking a right turn on a red light, which is a legal thing to do.
I can see why #GregAbbott might have wanted to pardon him, although the case certainly isn't exactly cut-and-dry and it's fair to have different takes on this.
- Comment on Chinese Communist Party-linked network behind 'well-funded' anti-Israel campus protests, group says 1 month ago:
@wintermute_oregon So...are the pro #Hamas protests funded through grassroots means, by #China's #CCP, or by #GeorgeSoros? I'm trying to keep up.
- Comment on Florida shines under DeSantis' leadership. His liberal critics should learn from him. 1 month ago:
@MushuChupacabra @wintermute_oregon I'm mixed on a take like this. He did make the state a lot better, but it's to such a degree that people have swarmed the state and people are now complaining that the cost of living is too high. Between that and the authoritarian/pseudofascist way he likes to address culture war issues (banning handing out #Nazi pamphlets in public, punishing #Disney for being woke, etc.), I don't think #DeSantis should be too closely emulated.
- Comment on CNN Called Out For Not Fact-Checking Biden Interview With Erin Burnett 1 month ago:
@BobaFuttbucker @wintermute_oregon They still do *some* good work. Their expose on how the pullout from #Afghanistan actually went down was some solid journalism.
- Comment on UN revises Gaza death toll, almost 50% less women and children killed than previously reported 1 month ago:
@unexposedhazard @wintermute_oregon Anything to defend #Hamas I guess 😂
- Comment on Red state governor signs bill cracking down on squatters: 'Best dwelling' for them 'is a jail cell' 1 month ago:
@LookBehindYouNowAndThen @wintermute_oregon Homelessness is a complex issue caused by economic issues, broken homes, drug use, etc.
Simplistic solutions probably won't be able to resolve a problem with complex.
- Comment on Israelis critical of the government 1 month ago:
@BobaFuttbucker @Blamemeta IIRC all intelligence indicates that this was a misfire, the rocket was one in a set of rockets that was targeting civilians in #Israel. #Hamas did not intentionally strike the #AlAhli hopsital.
- Comment on Joe Biden Hands Out Obamacare to Illegal Immigrants 1 month ago:
@BobaFuttbucker @Blamemeta We can try, sure, but if you're bad at something, and you decide to do more of that thing, what result would you expect?
- Comment on Israelis critical of the government 2 months ago:
@wintermute_oregon No no no not #IDF soldiers; the #IDF, as a military group, as part of a militant campaign. People tend to do whatever when they're off duty, that doesn't exactly count.
- Comment on Israelis critical of the government 2 months ago:
@wintermute_oregon Hmm. I never saw any clear confirmation as to why it was used during the war in the one case it was discovered.
- Comment on Biden must remember the reason Jordan, Egypt, and the rest of the Middle East don’t accept Palestinian refugees 2 months ago:
@PeepinGoodArgs @wintermute_oregon Holy buzzwords #Batman
- Comment on Israelis critical of the government 2 months ago:
@Blamemeta @Bongo_Stryker Thing is, violating international law and the rules of war are not the same as committing a genocide. Genocide is a very specific claim that #Israel does not meet the standard for. It's interesting to note as well that despite the (albeit minority) amount of American more mad at #Israel than #Hamas, #Hamas has done far, far worse in the #Israel #Hamas war than the #IDF has.
Has the #IDF raped civilians? I think not.
- Comment on Israelis critical of the government 2 months ago:
@Blamemeta @Bongo_Stryker I'm pro #Israel, and support their side of the conflict, but there are some small (but significant) cases in which the #IDF very likely violated international law/the #GenevaConventions; using #WhitePhosphorus, and the siege on #Gaza, as well as potentially the targeting of the #WCK truck. Targeting #Rafah probably looks like a genocidal tactic, but to be fair #Hamas militants are likely there.
- Comment on If these mollycoddled anti-Israel students are America’s future, the West truly is doomed 2 months ago:
@some_guy @wintermute_oregon I could be wrong but I don't think the left has done much to call out #Hamas
- Comment on If these mollycoddled anti-Israel students are America’s future, the West truly is doomed 2 months ago:
@uzi @wintermute_oregon This sounds a bit like the rhetoric from #OsamaBinLaden's manifesto
- Comment on Nypd storms Columbia 2 months ago:
@Bongo_Stryker @wintermute_oregon
"I don't know why people are calling protesters #Hamas supporters, they're only saying 'we are #Hamas' and 'intifada revolution'!" - You, apparently
- Comment on Nypd storms Columbia 2 months ago:
@wintermute_oregon You can't bar someone from returning with our border in the state that it is, can you?
- Comment on Nypd storms Columbia 2 months ago:
@wintermute_oregon I'd prefer jail to deportation, especially considering the state of the southern border.
- Comment on Nypd storms Columbia 2 months ago:
@LookBehindYouNowAndThen @wintermute_oregon #Vivek did a really good job at pointing out the difference between the pro #Hamas and pro #Palestine campus protests and right wing protests like the truck convoy protests in #Canada
- Comment on Wall Street has spent billions buying homes. A crackdown is looming. 2 months ago:
@wintermute_oregon ehhhhhhhh a 1% death rate doesn't equal an emergency in my book. I get that people were scared, but still, cooler heads should prevail when it comes to government leadership
- Comment on Wall Street has spent billions buying homes. A crackdown is looming. 2 months ago:
@wintermute_oregon @Mango #COVID19 wasn't an emergency.
- Comment on Affluent Americans are driving US economy and likely delaying need for Fed rate cuts - KESQ 2 months ago:
@BobaFuttbucker @wintermute_oregon Greed is about selfishness, not desire
https://web.archive.org/web/20140104164308/https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/greed