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- Comment on After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning. 1 week ago:
Trump meets with Putin and is nice to him: “Trump is Putin’s bitch, look at him!”
Mamdani meets with Trump and stands at his desk like an obedient puppy: “Wow, our hero really charmed him with his immense rizz! Trump’s a coward!”
Politics is so braindead. 😩
- Comment on After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning. 1 week ago:
I don’t know if this is some sort of joke, but that’s not an agreement. That’s Trump not wanting a convoluted political beating around the bush, which is what Mamdani was about to do. Such a response would feed the media, but just saying yes and Trump shrugging it off sabotages the media’s obvious attempt of pitting them against each other.
- Comment on Had to look this up 2 weeks ago:
There’s no way you people would think she’s racist if she wasn’t transphobic.
She was very accepting of Hermione being cast as a black girl. Seaman was just used as comedic relief in the movies, much moreso than in the books, with his magical mistakes causing explosions being primarily when he was a kid. He was loyal and high achieving character.
Meanwhile, the blonde character who uses the offense slur “mudblood” is the childhood villain for most the books. Yet she is racist for this somehow too, I imagine.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved 3 weeks ago:
Are you joking? Not even close.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 3 weeks ago:
With a centrally controlled food supply, a misstep can lead to there literally not being enough food. You know this is different and this post is disingenuous.
More people die from obesity than starvation. There are tons of options for free food. Nobody is going to starve to death.
- Comment on PC Master Race 4 weeks ago:
When 1.6 came out I was stubborn and refused to install Steam which was needed for it. But I eventually did and it eventually grew on me even though recoil and everything is a bit different. Still using my 22 year old steam account.
- Comment on After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 4 weeks ago:
Sometimes lawyers do preliminary motions like to suppress unconstitutional search warrants or change of venue and stuff. If it’s complex, it can take a while, and defense cannot request speedy trial if they’re filing things, but you also don’t necessarily want to forgo filing useful things.
Also, if they violate the constitutional right to a speedy trial, you can file a habeas corpus or something and, even if you win, there’s still no consequence except them shrugging and saying oops.
- Comment on After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, been like this for quite a while. They can drag you for a while, lose their case, shrug it off, and continue as normal.
Meanwhile, you lost your job after your arrest, maybe even were denied bail and had to stay ~2 years in jail waiting for trial, and spent $100k on legal expenses. Winning at trial gives you no restitution for those massive losses. You’re expected to also shrug it off and continue life.
- Comment on After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 4 weeks ago:
Important for those who don’t know: police can legally lie to you. Happens all the time when they’re trying to get a confession. In a discussion, they’ll be like “we have your fingerprints matched and we have video of you, so it’s better if you’re just honest with us.” But they often don’t have anything which is why they’re desperate for a confession.
Weird to me that people are taking issue with the cameras more than the police work.
The problem here is charges being made with weak evidence and officers legally allowed to lie. I had a similar experience, but she was smarter than me. I was 22 and naive, thinking I didn’t need to prove my innocence because they have to prove my guilt in court. The presumption of innocence is a lie. I had to learn the hard way, losing many years of my life.
- Comment on U.S. hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic 5 weeks ago:
To be fair, nobody here would care about this if a Democratic was responsible.
- Comment on U.S. hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic 5 weeks ago:
Lol, DOGE was the quickest abandoned federal organization ever. Trump used it to get votes of real conservatives and some libertarian types.
- Comment on U.S. hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic 5 weeks ago:
You must be almost 40 years old at this point.
- Comment on U.S. hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic 5 weeks ago:
Did you just imply that Trump is a fiscal conservative? Since 2015 he made it clear he wanted to spend a lot of money. For a little while he pretended to side with Musk who was attempting to NOT spend so much money, but he eventually ditched DOGE and kept spending.
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 2 months ago:
Using what definition of irony?
A situation is ironic if it defies expectation. Like how Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, was killed by a stingray.
Kirk being killed by a leftist extremist, who thought he was a fascist, using a gun, is pretty much in line with how you’d expect him to die.
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 2 months ago:
True. Most were against the violence, but many supported it.
Also, the country was founded using political violence.
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 2 months ago:
He was reckless, no doubt. Being around a dangerous mob always is.
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 2 months ago:
Maybe rift on him crossing state lines.
Very true.
Rittenhouse traveled all the way to some far off city he had no interest in. Sure, his father, grandmother, aunt, uncle, and cousin live there. Sure, he stayed with his friend who lived there. But otherwise, he only went there because he’s racist. That’s why he shot a couple white people.
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 2 months ago:
My personal feelings do not inform this argument. What I say is wrong or it isn’t, regardless of my feelings about people or topics. I routinely argue against pro-choice arguments, for example, not because I’m pro-life, but because so many pro-choice arguments are bad. I actually support unfettered abortion and even limited legalized infanticide similar to Peter Singer, but that’s quite irrelevant to arguments I make about abortion.
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 2 months ago:
I guess people in the military aren’t willing to die for anything either. After all, they wear body armor and use weapons against their enemies.
You can’t be so stupid as to think a willingness to die is the same as trying to die.
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 2 months ago:
Me liking women and non-white people isn’t even relevant. If you don’t want to discuss the issues, then don’t.
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 2 months ago:
Nothing I’ve seen would suggest that he was not willing to die for gun rights. Seems more like you cannot even comprehend someone being principled and politically consistent. Seems like projection to me.
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 2 months ago:
It only qualifies as ironic if Kirk would not support being a part of the “price worth paying” for gun rights. Do you actually believe he would’ve only accepted the deaths of others and not of himself?
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 2 months ago:
Not being mad about a fascist who advocates for public shootings as a necessity for society getting popped
So you don’t think he deserved it? Aren’t celebrating it?
I’m not opposed to public executions in general. The only problem I see with Kirk’s logic (which was that it would deter children from crime), is that only extreme violent crimes like murder would be deserving of execution. And allowing children to see killers getting killed isn’t exactly going to deter them from typical crimes, just murder.
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 2 months ago:
If DEI is explicitly taking measures to not consider race/gender in hiring practices, then conservatives would largely support it.
So they’re not racist for opposing DEI, they just don’t understand what it really is, right?
This is the problem in politics when everyone is using the same terms with different meanings. Political discourse devolves into people speaking past each other with absolutely no point.
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 2 months ago:
Rittenhouse defended himself against criminals trying to kill him, shooting one of them in the arm just as he was lowering a pistol to point it at him.
Nobody would be “celebrating” him if people didn’t try to vilify him and lock him in prison for the rest of his life.
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 2 months ago:
you’re open to public executions in general.
You act like you’re not, in a thread of people celebrating a public killing. 🤔
I would actually be against public executions for political assassins like Vance Boelter, Tyler Robinson, and Luigi Mangione. It would radicalize more people, potentially making them more of a martyr for a cause.
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 2 months ago:
That suit was moved to private arbitration proceeding and settled out of court.
And I joked about hiring women to pay them more. It’s a joke because that implies that tech companies, publicly disclosing their desperation to hire women, are actually losing hundreds of millions (collectively billions), just to avoid hiring women. I’ve never met anyone working on tech that hates women that much. It’s one of the most liberal fields out there. They bend over backwards to be diverse. It’s a struggle because asians are overwhelmingly dominating in terms of qualification.
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 2 months ago:
Yeah, I wonder why that is. Could it be that getting hired and promoted is much harder so a lot of women don’t bother? I wonder how you could fix that…
Around 58% of college students are women. Of black grad students, the vast majority of degrees go to women, 71.5% of masters and 65.9% of doctoral/medical. Tech companies are starved for female representation. And you think it’s somehow harder for women to make it?
I’m curious why you think men are under represented in college then. I’m sure it’s conveniently not because they think they’ll have a hard time succeeding and “don’t bother.”
I’m supposed to think they won’t be underqualified?
You’re clearly a heavily biased individual, so who knows what you’re going to believe.
In what way am I biased? Use statistical probability and logic to answer the question, that’s all I’m doing. If I narrow my pool to a smaller subset, then are my chances of getting the most qualified people diminishes. Right?
Yes, good thing they’re IBM and can can pick the highly qualified women from that smaller pool.
You certainly see the problem with this. They’re not the only ones doing it, and even if they weren’t, they’re still passing up more qualified people, assuming parity in the rates of qualified people in the 20/80% distribution.
Let’s be real, when you’re looking for an attorney, the most important thing for you is how much they charge.
Wrong. Out of the three I’ve gotten, I look for their specialization to the task I want first. Notice how you completely evaded the question?
Justice Thomas proves that merely sharing someone’s race does not represent that constituents of that race.
If you want to talk about someone who is incredibly unqualified, he’s your guy.
Oh really, care to provide any evidence of that? I assume you’re an extremely qualified lawyer? Maybe a professor of law? (see how dumb these questions are?)
Only anecdotal.
So no.
Personal testimony is admissible evidence in court, so it’s not nothing. Just not useful evidence for this discussion.
Ah yes, the lawsuit. What happened in that lawsuit?
The lawsuit was stayed pending binding arbitration proceedings, meaning they settled privately out of court.
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 2 months ago:
So you want to outlaw everything designed to kill, I take it? Fine.
What about police officers that use guns to kill people who are actively attempting to kill others? If they’re disarmed, more of these people will succeed in killing innocent people, right?
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 2 months ago:
I see the real reason you guys hated Kirk so much. You seem very uncomfortable confronting differing opinions. That’s not politically healthy.
