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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Pittsburgh is banning LGBTQ conversion therapy in response to Trump and Pence's win.
The bill is scheduled to be signed soon.
No reason it should, though i'm not familiar with Pennsylvania's constitution all that much.
Republicans here aren't that hard on the homophobia train. Voter suppression and shale gas drilling are their big talking points.
Plus, since it's only a ban in Pittsburgh, if they really wanted to you could just set up shop in any of the surrounding areas, put your clinic in one of the smaller, hickier townships around here.
It's mostly a symbolic gesture.
Yep Corporate Governance is here to stay people
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Exxon is willing to sell America out just so it can drill some sweet ass oil in the Arctic.
edited 14th Dec '16 10:41:11 AM by JulianLapostat
A few actions people are being asked to take right now:
(1) Contact your representatives and governors to ask that they demand that the electors be debriefed on the CIA information on Russian interference prior to Dec. 19, and to delay the electoral vote if that's not possible, given the time-frame.
(2) Contact the U.S. Attorney General and ask that the Electoral College vote be postponed until a full investigation of Russian interference and the Trump campaign's potential coordination with Russia is complete. (You can reach the Attorney General's office at 202-514-2000 (Comment line...press 4.)
"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."This other interview with a Trump voter is just fascinating for the mentality it exposes:
Ruby Atkins I'm hoping he'll have people put in place that would understand that you just can't survive like this. And we're ... not going on welfare and food stamps. That's not right. That's not us.
You just don't know what next month brings, so you got to watch out. I mean, people with welfare and food stamps, they don't even grow a garden anymore. You've got to have a garden, you have to survive. That's the way I was raised. The people who still care and still do it. If everything was handed to you, no, you're not going to grow a garden.
I worked in the school system for 13 years. I was secretary at the school.
And when they had the Christmas programs, some of the area programs will say to the teachers, “I want a list of your poorest kids,” and get them clothes and toys and stuff.
They are not the one that needs help. They are the one that's getting the welfare and the food stamps, the electric bill paid for, everything. It's the ones that’s working and barely scraping by that—
Sarah Kliff Aren't getting enough help?
Ruby Atkins And then here, the Christmas programs are all geared for the poorest ones.
Sarah Kliff What would fix your problem? If you could talk to Trump, to these congressmen, what would you tell them?
Ruby Atkins Well, for one thing, if the coal business did come back and pick up, that would help our area a whole lot, and our incomes a whole lot. But as far as the health care, I don't see no end in sight in all this. This is like ... gas prices a few years ago. It's just going to keep going up.
I mean you can see that mentality there perfectly. They are angry that their lot is bad because they hate the poor and have contempt for them, even having a petty dislike for them getting toys for Christmas...isn't that just perfect Little American sentiment. Ayn Rand is weeping a tear of happiness in the hypothetical afterlife.
And gas prices have gone down...so it was likely that health care would become more affordable over time as well.
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So essentially "fuck you, got mine" isn't limited to the rich alone.
Dogville was a fucking documentary.
edited 14th Dec '16 10:46:32 AM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprisedYeah, it's the thing that goes kind of like this:
"Everything's so hard, I can barely afford to feed my kids."
"Would you like some help? I could pay for your groceries today, if you want."
"DON'T YOU DARE PITY ME, HOW DARE YOU!" (stomps out)
These are people who can't tell the difference between genuine kindness, condescension and mockery.
edited 14th Dec '16 10:50:26 AM by Zendervai
Ayn Rand didn't have ideals...the opposite of them...seriously that this horrible, awful, hack became a writer of consequence and influence is an eternal mark of America's shame.
But Obamacare’s success in Whitley County
and across Kentucky hasn’t translated into political support for the law. In fact, 82 percent of Whitley voters supported Donald Trump in the presidential election, even though he promised to repeal it.
...
I spent last week in southeastern Kentucky talking to Obamacare enrollees, all of whom supported Trump in the election, trying to understand how the health care law factored into their decisions.
Many expressed frustration that Obamacare plans cost way too much, that premiums and deductibles had spiraled out of control. And part of their anger was wrapped up in the idea that other people were getting even better, even cheaper benefits — and those other people did not deserve the help.
Now these guys are Welfare Queens, i.e. they hate the idea that poor people are getting benefits at a rate affordable to their low-income level and they want to hoard it for themselves. Right-wing ideas and phrases always describe them more than they do their targets. Ayn Rand was a bigger moocher and looter than others she described, Reagan's non-existent welfare queens more accurately describes the "White's First" attitude that his working-class voters had, and the Confederacy denounced the War of Northern Aggression despite firing the first shots and attacking first.
edited 14th Dec '16 10:56:12 AM by JulianLapostat
What IS it with conservatives and Psychological Projection? I just don't get that mindset.
Sigmund Freud once noted that America lacked the sense of inwardness and self-reflection
that made them look inside themselves. He once enigmatically remarked that America "was a mistake, a giant mistake".
That explains American projection, they aren't encouraged to think or reflect deeply, and most of that work happens in Church where it depends on the Priest and Nun.

You mean Trump is definitely going to outsource it?
1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV