“What, the curtains?”

Denying science isn’t really something that deserves to be called a “view”.

I suspect that if you add up all the money Youtubers make, and you divide it by all of the man hours people spent trying to make a living off of Youtube, “poverty stricken PhD candidate” would start to seem like a good financial decision.

Why do Minnesotans have accents?

Everybody has an accent. It’s a weird question that seems to indicate that some people either don’t have an accent or have some sort of “correct” accent.

If things had worked out differently, an accent like the Minnesotan accent could have been seen as the “correct” accent.

There wasn’t some grand conspiracy to implement it, all that happened was the rich being opportunistic and taking advantage of a broken system as per usual.

Does anybody truly believe that conservatives behind these programs believed they were giving free money to help out poor people? That goes directly against their usual platform.

In my opinion, the thing you’re describing, where rich people convince politicians to give them money, while selling it as a way to make poor people wealthier, is a grand conspiracy, and the politicians were in on it.

It’s obvious if you compare it to an actual alternative: Take the same money and instead of giving it to rich people, use it to help poor people start small businesses through grants, tax breaks, and discounted loans.

I think it couldn’t be more blatantly obvious, but everybody is entitled to their own educated opinion.

I learned something from this post. Previously, I would have said that trickle down economics doesn’t work at all.

But that’s not right. It has always worked as intended. Because it was always intended to benefit the rich and increase the wealth gap between them and everybody else.

Joe Rogan should spend more time riding on public transportation. He’d be sure to find other people who make sense to him. They’ll be the ones who are walking around talking loudly at other passengers.

The VP actually has a great deal of Constitutional power already, as the Constitution declares them to be President of the Senate, with the power to cast a tie-breaking vote. Their ability to be Presiding Officer of the Senate, I would argue makes the VP more powerful than a normal Senator. The fact that modern VPs choose not to use this power, I think demonstrates that the VP actually has a lot more power than people realize.

She’s got a point, but the same point could be made about her, so it’s hard to take her seriously.

So, you agree with her statement because of its content, but then try to cast doubt on the same statement because of who said it?

Also, ACAB doesn’t mean there are no good cops. Just that even the good cops are sullied by being a part of an organization that promotes and protects those who commit terrible crimes. Sort of like, “Even the really good ones are sort of bad.”

I thought there was supposed to be video footage somewhere of Trump saying the n-word in The Apprentice board room for his TV show. Something along the lines of asking whether people would accept it if an n-word won. That would be a lot more recent.

This article is a debate-style where they asked people to argue each side.

The person defending Clarence Thomas really stretches in that defense, relying on the fact that he sort of knew him in law school and he was “sweet”.

He furthermore relies on it being “travel expenses” with “a close friend” who has no “pending” cases. Those words in quotes do a shitload of heavy lifting.

Thomas didn’t just get travel expenses paid. Somebody bought him an RV. This billionaire didn’t become “a close friend” until Thomas complained about his pay publicly and acted like he would resign. And for an oligarch, many cases are of interest.

It was a weak argument and the guy obviously knew it. He did his best, but Thomas’s actions are really basically indefensible.

Since these people aren’t treating any ear injury, you might as well call these “ear diapers.”

It doesn’t have to be an assassination attempt. Just the fact that there was life-threatening violence in a place that is so close to her that her bodyguard had to be involved brings this issue to mind. Even if a liberal justice dies of natural causes right now, with the Senate’s razor-thin margin, it’s possible for another RBG moment were Trump to win, making SCOTUS an even worse 7-2 supermajority for conservatives. If Supreme Court justices were elected to proportionally represent Americans, there would be at least a 5-4 majority for liberals.

A carjacker pulled a gun on a person sitting in a car in front of Justice Sotomayor’s home, a place where it’s very possible that she might have been. It doesn’t matter whether she was targeted or not. If she dies for whatever reason, it’s a concern. Whoever Biden appoints would have to pass the Senate with the current razor thin majority.

Had she been in the car for some reason, then we might have another Ruth Bader Ginsberg moment, and in the worst case scenario, Trump could get reelected and appoint somebody for a 7-2 conservative majority in the Supreme Court.

Don’t get stuck in the idea that lifetime appointments are only a problem for assassinations. Ginsberg died of natural causes, and see what that got us.

You can’t fathom how a lifetime appointment ends when the person dies?

I think that there are many serious inherent flaws with the idea of lifetime appointments, especially for the highest court in the land, and this is one of them.

I’ve recently become a fan of the idea that for Supreme Court justices, they have a fixed-length term, and each President gets to nominate a predetermined number of them.

That doesn’t make any sense. Explain why you included the part about genocide at all of you didn’t intend it to be about Biden. It wouldn’t make sense to include that paragraph if you meant Trump or were trying to be ambiguous.

If you know the Sinatra version, it wouldn’t occur to you to ask which version they’re referring to.

And Trump told Israel that they should “finish” Gaza.

Trump is more genocidal than Biden, anyway.