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December 31, 2025 at 12:33 AM
—Russian Squidward
You are confusing how things ending up when everything was slow-rolled, with how it was at the time. Imagine talking to yourself on January 5th and saying that the Senate wouldn't convict even when Senators of both parties were cowering for their lives. You'd call yourself a nut!
December 29, 2025 at 3:38 AM
You are confusing how things ending up when everything was slow-rolled, with how it was at the time. Imagine talking to yourself on January 5th and saying that the Senate wouldn't convict even when Senators of both parties were cowering for their lives. You'd call yourself a nut!
More importantly, "The Sitting president just attempted a coup" is the exact time you should be immediately fucking doing impeachment, because there's a clear danger! You don't go the fuck home and wait!
December 29, 2025 at 3:35 AM
More importantly, "The Sitting president just attempted a coup" is the exact time you should be immediately fucking doing impeachment, because there's a clear danger! You don't go the fuck home and wait!
Yes, because they were scared! Because there wasn't yet time for shifting the narrative! Because at that point, "Trump encourages people to invade the Capitol building to overturn an election" was not old news, was not a political football to be debated, it was still shocking and scary!
December 29, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Yes, because they were scared! Because there wasn't yet time for shifting the narrative! Because at that point, "Trump encourages people to invade the Capitol building to overturn an election" was not old news, was not a political football to be debated, it was still shocking and scary!
Her delay on the impeachment, rather than pushing it through the evening of Jan 6th (when the Senators were more scared for their lives than their jobs! When Trump hadn't had time to put together another narrative!) was an incredible own goal, possibly the greatest in the last decade.
December 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Her delay on the impeachment, rather than pushing it through the evening of Jan 6th (when the Senators were more scared for their lives than their jobs! When Trump hadn't had time to put together another narrative!) was an incredible own goal, possibly the greatest in the last decade.
Which is just straightforwardly a sign that they have too much centralized power; imagine if Microsoft tried to get a cut whenever you bought something online because you used their computer!
December 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Which is just straightforwardly a sign that they have too much centralized power; imagine if Microsoft tried to get a cut whenever you bought something online because you used their computer!
Is our principle that the government should never stop paying for something unless there is a perfect system of welfare to catch anyone who might lose their job as a result?
December 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Is our principle that the government should never stop paying for something unless there is a perfect system of welfare to catch anyone who might lose their job as a result?
Which was fucking awful! And the actual problem at hand!
December 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Which was fucking awful! And the actual problem at hand!
Another great reason the UK gov't should've been better funding welfare, *for everyone in the country* what, did the unemployed non-miner not need to eat?
December 4, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Another great reason the UK gov't should've been better funding welfare, *for everyone in the country* what, did the unemployed non-miner not need to eat?
A great reason to expand the dole, for everyone, not just people in mining towns lucky enough to have their industry paid directly by the govt!
December 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
A great reason to expand the dole, for everyone, not just people in mining towns lucky enough to have their industry paid directly by the govt!
Why shouldn't the retail worker in London or the waitress in Leeds not also get the same subsidy for their wages?
December 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Why shouldn't the retail worker in London or the waitress in Leeds not also get the same subsidy for their wages?
The dole is good! I'm a big fan of welfare! Which is why I think it ought to be available to everyone. My point in specifying "free £" is that paying more for coal than it costs to buy, purely to keep mines open for the benefit of miners, is a form of welfare, an unfair and inefficient form of one!
December 4, 2025 at 10:38 PM
The dole is good! I'm a big fan of welfare! Which is why I think it ought to be available to everyone. My point in specifying "free £" is that paying more for coal than it costs to buy, purely to keep mines open for the benefit of miners, is a form of welfare, an unfair and inefficient form of one!
Communities are not moral patients; people are. Communities do not have some inherent right to continue existing separate from the interests of the people living there. Those interests (continuing to be paid to live there) have to be balanced against the rest of society who probably also want free £
December 4, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Communities are not moral patients; people are. Communities do not have some inherent right to continue existing separate from the interests of the people living there. Those interests (continuing to be paid to live there) have to be balanced against the rest of society who probably also want free £
Not sure why you think I think the dole is bad or that I'd criticize them for being on it; my problem is that the de facto subsidies they were asking for would not have been available to the rest of the working class!
December 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Not sure why you think I think the dole is bad or that I'd criticize them for being on it; my problem is that the de facto subsidies they were asking for would not have been available to the rest of the working class!
Generally speaking if your job is no longer there and you can't find another one in the area, you move, yes. The farrier and the hand weaver may also have had to move. Is the idea that the pit will remain open eternally and no one will ever have to get a new job? Because that is not a possibility
December 4, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Generally speaking if your job is no longer there and you can't find another one in the area, you move, yes. The farrier and the hand weaver may also have had to move. Is the idea that the pit will remain open eternally and no one will ever have to get a new job? Because that is not a possibility
Look I am sympathetic to unions protecting their members but if there's a better way to get coal than running the mine, if keeping it open is no longer about getting a thing we need but a de facto subsidy to a select group at the expense of the broader population, then the thing they want is bad!
December 4, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Look I am sympathetic to unions protecting their members but if there's a better way to get coal than running the mine, if keeping it open is no longer about getting a thing we need but a de facto subsidy to a select group at the expense of the broader population, then the thing they want is bad!
That motivates him to say such things but doesn't change those things being wrong
December 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM
That motivates him to say such things but doesn't change those things being wrong
I mean, the purpose of coal mines is not to give miners jobs or support the community; it's to mine coal. The community exists because the coal mine exists, not the other way around!
December 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I mean, the purpose of coal mines is not to give miners jobs or support the community; it's to mine coal. The community exists because the coal mine exists, not the other way around!
FIFA is very much an "inside pissing out" sort of corruption organization
November 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
FIFA is very much an "inside pissing out" sort of corruption organization
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If you want Epstein to be Benghazi! I think you just keep attacking it from different angles until you land on ones that stick and the public believes something is gravely wrong through information saturation.
November 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
If you want Epstein to be Benghazi! I think you just keep attacking it from different angles until you land on ones that stick and the public believes something is gravely wrong through information saturation.
It's not just about strict vs not strict, it's about the relative requirements: the US in particular has fuel economy standards that're relatively lenient for "light trucks" than for cars, so SUVs for the American market can be made relatively cheaper than sedans. That's my point
November 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
It's not just about strict vs not strict, it's about the relative requirements: the US in particular has fuel economy standards that're relatively lenient for "light trucks" than for cars, so SUVs for the American market can be made relatively cheaper than sedans. That's my point
I'm talking specifically about Ford leaving the small car market, the thing mentioned in the post I was replying to
November 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I'm talking specifically about Ford leaving the small car market, the thing mentioned in the post I was replying to
I mean that's a specific effect of poorly written CAFE standards; they're incentivized towards light trucks and SUVs because the fuel economy standards for those are easier to hit. It's nothing to do with too much luxury or w/e
November 11, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I mean that's a specific effect of poorly written CAFE standards; they're incentivized towards light trucks and SUVs because the fuel economy standards for those are easier to hit. It's nothing to do with too much luxury or w/e