reasonable Republican

The more people pretend this fiction is real the worse the country gets

It’s legislation written by a Republican, it’s going to be full of loopholes and also somehow send a bunch of taxpayer money to one of his buddies

Yeah, unfortunately that probably is how it’s going to go, but it will still be a good thing to see people who are alerting the public to religious bigotry in our government are well compensated

The way that it’s so impossible to tell what’s organically popular and what’s just a hype campaign is honestly so maddening, it’s not as blatant as what they do with political campaigns but it is still an attack on democratic pluralism in a really significant way imo

e; ‘pluralism’? where tf did you even remember that from - searches -

Pluralism thus tries to encourage members of society to accommodate their differences by avoiding extremism (adhering solely to one value, or at the very least refusing to recognize others as legitimate) and engaging in good faith dialogue.

I mean, sure, but just not with genocidal people, right?

One of the more famous arguments for institutional pluralism came from [noted slavery advocate and slave owner] James Madison in The Federalist paper number 10

Maaaann, I hate politics

In a Wednesday appearance on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show, Fetterman [attempted to] cut into Democratic attacks on Trump’s remarks that he is not focused on the financial situations of Americans while negotiating with the Iranian government, arguing Trump’s comments were “clipped.”

Fuck the Hill for making me add that, moving on,

“He said something that got clipped … saying, ‘I’m not thinking about American people financially,’ but what he really was saying — he did say — is, ‘I’m really thinking that we can’t ever let Iran building a bomb,’” Fetterman told Hannity.

A) He really did say “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation.” He did not ever say “I’m really thinking that we can’t etc.” or any other more polished statement you wished he did say. B) If you’re really so concerned about putting Trump’s comments into full context, Trump said Iran’s ability to build a bomb was already “totally obliterated” last year. But you’re not, you’re not even cherry picking stuff, you’re just straight making shit up to make Trump look good because you’re a scumbag like that.

Hey, if he wants to keep feeding evidence of their bigotry and hostility towards these employees so their attorneys can really ratchet those punitive damages up I say let him

In a better world this would be the reason, but he always was and never did and it didn’t stop him from making an obscene amount of money off of his BS previously

From the ideology that gave us Jeff Sessions saying he liked the KKK until he found out they smoked weed, “I liked Israel until I found out they were Jewish” sounds about right

I think I remember reading that the act of remembering something is neurologically indistinguishable from just straight up imagining something, but I might be making that up

For real tho, everyone’s memory is crap and most people won’t/can’t take the time to research things they think they remember

I mean,

Union leaders say the veto is an about-face from promises she made on the campaign trail. In February, a month after entering office, the governor attended a rally in support of the bill held by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), according to the Virginia Mercury.

but yeah, their endorsement of her looks pretty silly now

I mean, I’m never going to admit it to you because I ragebaited myself at the beginning of this and now you’re putting an unseemly amount of effort into defending evil shitheads, but I hope I’d add an edit to my first comment in an effort to promote factual accuracy in the community generally

Fuck off with the Heritage Foundation bullshit. Maybe having multiple metrics for slicing the same underlying pool of data could be useful, but then dumbasses with PhDs get lost in their little numbers and do stupid shit like “Hey, if we used core CPI for cost of living adjustments in benefits programs that’d save the government a bunch of money,” forgetting that poor people actually have to buy food and energy because they don’t give a shit because they’re bad people.

Maybe when our governments stop using “expert” economist advice to fuck over poor people and give taxpayer money hand over fist to wealthy scumbags I would be open to some more abstracted metrics and have a bit of trust in the eggheads, but since I’ve spent my entire adult life watching highly educated fucking idiots do the exact opposite fuck it, core CPI is a scam.

Nope, energy and food don’t get counted because a) respected economist: “tHeYrE tOo VoLaTiLe!” b) me: fucking rich bastards and the government economists that work for them lie like rugs (the reasonable truth is probably somewhere in between those two but I got too frustrated to be reasonable like ten years ago)

e; Actually nope, I screwed up and assumed CNN was reporting core inflation (which does exclude food and energy prices and gets used for adjusting the payouts of a lot of different benefit programs and such), but they decided to go with overall inflation. Core is at 2.8% overall is at 3.8.

Bernie’s fate was less bloody than Rosa’s at least

Nah, free subways or busses or whatever they end up doing, no more means testing. Every single paperwork barrier is an opportunity for perniciousness.

Ugh, when we finally fix this country by ramming a new VRA down the throat of every single red state tyranny out there we absolutely need to make some kinda ranked choice system the standard

Honestly they’ve repeatedly been worse than I have been able to imagine

Yeah and that scumbag knows a lot about thwarting the will of voters (arc)

Links are perfectly fine sources, better than primary ones in some ways because the reader can evaluate the author’s use of that citation with full context instead of having to take it on faith that someone else’s quote is being reported accurately and with context

Every link in there besides nyt goes to a msnow article that does the exact same thing as this article: just summarize somebody else’s news gathering

Researching organizing and presenting multiple sources for readers and synthesizing those sources into a meta story that can cover a bigger time frame or offer additional context to breaking news is a valuable part of the journalistic ecosystem

every click on msnow is another death blow for some aspiring journalist that won’t be able to find a job.

Well, this is completely backwards, but at least you care about the right things.

First of all, MS Now linking to other people’s articles is the only way a lot of readers will ever find out about those other articles and publications in the first place. Like, seriously, the idea of a reporter or editor feeling aggrieved because someone else shared their work is nuts.

Second of all, MS Now hires and employs journalists. Even if you think they’re a bottom feeding outfit, some great journalist might start their career their with a summer internship or something. Bottom line is there’s no way in which MS Now getting purity tested out of existence makes things better for journalists or the people who read them.

I cannot believe a Republican president lied to get us into a pointless war in a middle eastern country with a four letter name whose first three letters are “I” “R” and “A”