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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
The thing about this whole controversy is, even if one is being incredibly charitable and doesn't think Trump's comments were specifically racist, they were still horrible, callous things to say and underneath the office of president.
And I don't want to hear the overused excuse "He's just fighting back!" That's not the president's job.
Edited by speedyboris on Jul 17th 2019 at 10:10:21 AM
Trump feels a bit like the Galactic Empire.
It's not that his latest atrocity is any more heinous than the previous or that people aren't fighting back.
It's just that if he loses this one, he'll be back next week with a fresh horror.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Yes, that is what happens when terrible people hold power. The more power you give a terrible person, the greater that person's capacity for being terrible on a consistent basis.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.More than that, they are authoritarian. Even without the race thing, "if you don't like it here then go away" is a thing dictators say. Shit, it was literally the slogan of my country's military regime. Devoid of racism, it is still a very concerning statement.
Edited by tclittle on Jul 17th 2019 at 1:07:59 PM
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."Edited by speedyboris on Jul 17th 2019 at 1:25:00 PM
Trump's position is that he's kept his promise and made America great again. He's been kicking around "Keep America Great" as his 2020 slogan.
So you see, badmouthing the country in 2016 was okay, but doing it now that Trump made it great again is literally treason. That's the logic.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I suppose someone needed to find a use to that
.
Christ, I can't believe I've spent money on that back then.
Huh, apparently Warren introduced a bill that would increase access to SNAP benefits for College students
, with Kamala Harris as a co-sponsor. Pretty sure every Grad student in the US would rejoice if that thing got passed. It won't, because Turtle's gotta Turtle, but still a nice thought.
Adding the relevant text for context:
Additionally, almost 2 million at-risk students who are potentially eligible for SNAP did not receive benefits in 2016.
A survey by Temple University released in May confirmed concerns over college students' access to food.
Forty-five percent of the nearly 86,000 two- and four-year college students surveyed said they'd experienced "limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe food, or the ability to acquire such food in a socially acceptable manner" in the 30 days before being surveyed.
Edited by ironballs16 on Jul 17th 2019 at 3:58:32 PM
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"And Jesus tapdancing Christ, new data regarding opiates was released yesterday
, and it is horrifying. Emphasis added.
The publication of the Drug Enforcement Administration statistics is a blow to some of the country’s biggest pharmaceutical firms that have paid hundreds of millions of dollars in out of court settlements in part to keep sealed evidence that they profiteered from escalating demand for opioids even as public health officials were declaring an epidemic.
The database covers '2006 to 2012 when opioid prescriptions reached a peak of 282m a year, enough to supply every American adult with a month’s worth of pills. By then, annual sales of narcotic painkillers had surged past $8bn.
...
Deliveries of the two most common opioids, hydrocodone and oxycodone, escalated by more than 50% in the years covered by the database, to 12.6bn pills in 2012 alone, an analysis of the DEA numbers by the Washington Post found.
By then the federal agency the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had declared a public health crisis because of the surging death toll from overdoses. Some of the largest increases in sales were to parts of the country already devastated by opioids.
Nearly nine out of 10 of the pills were manufactured by subsidiaries of three pharmaceutical multinationals – Mallinckrodt, Endo and Actavis, since renamed Allergan.
The article has more, but I think that speaks volumes.
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"The opioid crisis is a staggering example of unchecked, unregulated corporate greed that is literally killing people by the thousands.
Edited by Fighteer on Jul 17th 2019 at 4:06:28 AM
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
That's extreme and unreasonable. However, systematic issues like this are absolutely unconscionable.
That. That kind of extreme rhetoric is completely and utterly counterproductive and only serves to make a side looking for reasonable control and regulation look bad.
> If a company kills even one person, that company should be shut down and dissolved immediately and entirely.
If that company was called Mafia inc I'd agree but companies don't set out to kill people,obviously they should be fined and punished and someone should be jailed for the tragic loss of life,but when its entire company,your talking about the livelyhoods of loads of people,do they all deserve the same fate for at least one person's fuck up?
It goes back to 'business aren't people' so you can't jail and fine every single person like they're all the same guy
Edited by Ultimatum on Jul 17th 2019 at 8:33:25 AM
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In fairness, that would be the logical conclusion of Corporate Personhood - if I killed a someone by hitting them with my car, I'd still be sent to jail on Manslaughter, barring extenuating circumstances (e.g. the collision happened at a blind intersection). Not agreeing with it, but it does suck that Corporations are able to get all the positive aspects of "personhood" with none of the drawbacks.
Well, hopefully Mike Kelly (R-PA) gets the boot next election, as he defended Trump's tweet by saying
- "You know, they talk about people of color. I'm a person of color. I'm white. I'm an Anglo Saxon. People say things all the time, but I don't get offended."
I don't think we even have a trope for that level of bullheadedness, do we?
Edited by ironballs16 on Jul 17th 2019 at 4:41:26 AM
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"And she has a Welsh surname, which means her husband has some Welsh ancestry in his lineage somewhere. (It comes from a Welsh river.)
If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.

I'm hearing the judges blocked the law due to his racist comments,which actually makes sense,talk about shooting yourself in the foot donnie!
have a listen and have a link to my discord server