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Ah, but you see, that’s where the national security and economic prosperity conditions come in. Can’t be having alternative teachings encouraging terrorism and communism, you know?
Ah, but you see, that’s where the national security and economic prosperity conditions come in. Can’t be having alternative teachings encouraging terrorism and communism, you know?
In turn compromise the health and futures of their kids and themselves.
For-profit healthcare: 🤑
If only the system wasn’t designed to squash third parties. Blue gives very little fucks either, it seems.
I mean, if you consider bigotry to be a mental health disorder, sure.
Next month:
This court finds that, without any question of interpretation, church and state, including publicly-funded education institutions, must be separated. We also find that, with the evidence considered, the teaching of the Bible does not violate the separation of church and state. Teaching of religious texts may, for educational purposes, be added to school curriculum when said curriculum does not mandate teachings containing subjects contrary to the interests of national security and economic prosperity.
At this point, it’s an unsolvable problem.
The only way to begin preventing lobbying interests from overtaking voter interests would be to have anti-lobbying politicians, and enough of them to actually get something done without being blocked by both the Democrats and Republicans. That would only happen after multiple decades of anti-lobbying presidents being elected, and that itself will never happen because the RNC and DNC are both paid off by corporate interests, so they’ll never nominate a candidate that goes against their masters. And, on top of that, it’s highly unlikely that a third-party candidate will ever succeed when they’re both illigitimized by the media and put in an extreme disadvantage by the electoral college.
It’s yachts all the way down.
I’m not saying the system is rigged, but what’s a few million extra bribery lobbying dollars out of your corporate budget when it means that you can secure your goal of reduced government oversight? It’s not like you have to do this for any other political candidate than the Republican and Democratic nominees either, since you know news outlets will make sure to not platform and illigitimize any independent party that’s a threat to their own financial interests.
I think, in hindsight, I was very wrong about this.
If months of pussyfooting around dropping support for the Israeli government in spite of public outcry and Democrat voters’ desires hasn’t done anything, maybe we’re not actually something that Biden cares about. I don’t think Israel holds that much value in military intelligence that it’s worth risking both tarnishing the United States’ global reputation and being hated by his own voter base over.
Either he’s expecting to win, just by virtue of his opposition being worse, and doing what he wants because of it (which you pointed out), or he’s doing what his party was paid to do by lobbyists. It doesn’t make sense for someone who is supposed to be representing his voters to go through so much effort to avoid listening to them unless there are greater interests at play. Either way, something is very fucked up about this election cycle, and it’s going to have some nasty consequences for the future.
Baby pandas? You mean that species that is too lazy to even reproduce? I hate to break it to you, but I don’t think there are any left after you dropped two whole sarcasm indicators like that 😟
I think the commenter missed the “rs” after “/s”
Russians in general, or her specifically?
Trump puts the LGB in LGBT. And by that, I mean Legitimately, Genuinely, Bigoted.
Jury nullification. Prosecutors and judges hate it, but it’s not illegal!
I’m a liberal, and I sure as shit know the only ethical choice is to vote against Trump. People who demand perfection as the alternative to a fascist takeover aren’t just virtue signaling but also maliciously stupid.
Full Self-Driving
Any idea that comes out of that prick’s mouth is snake oil if we’re going to be truthful about it.
Damn right! We don’t introspect, we demand respect! /s
I’ll give you an upvote for the satire/sarcasm, but I want you to know that it comes with a feeling of disgust towards myself for upvoting those words.
The trickle that you’re currently feeling is from the rich pricks pissing all over you, not from economics. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
I think we all know that one of those two things will never happen in the land of the free and home of the mass-produced automobile.