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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I have a favor to ask: could someone who is paying better attention to this stuff update/organize the Trump section in While Rome Burns? Thanks.
Never trust anyone who uses "degenerate" as an insult.![]()
If there is, it's not in the page description itself. There are already several entries that fall under that anyway. There's one for Maduro and two for Trump. There's also one entry that mentions Australian PM Scott Morrison.
Edited by M84 on Nov 22nd 2020 at 10:16:15 PM
Disgusted, but not surprisedI wasn't old enough to vote in 2000 so I didn't pay as close attention as I probably should've, but from what I remember, it had recount after recount. Also, according to my mother, Gore wanted specific counties only to be recounted, so. Guess we'll see if Trump tries that, too. Or if he'll just stick with trying to get specific counties thrown out.
Republicans are reluctant to openly denounce Trump because the election isn't over. It's over for Trump, but the fate of the Senate hinges on Georgia's runoff. They can't tell Trump to eat shit; they need his voters, not in two years but right goddamn now.
The GOP knows that Trump's time is over, but they have to secure Mitch's ability to obstruct Biden before they can start saying it openly. If Trump turns on them now, Georgia's two Senate seats are as good as ours.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Okay, I found the a very relevant thread re: Trump and ROCJ
; the top sticky note seems to contain the relevant info. It does imply that I'm mostly right about no current politicians, except for a few exceptions — which I don't think any of the current real life political examples under While Rome Burns would pass the test for.
On Congress not certifying the results in January. That would be shooting themselves in the foot. All previous Senators and Representatives who were not re-elected leave, as does the president. All not certifying would do is guarantee that Mitch has to leave the Senate, something he knows full well could happen if they try to fight it.
Him wanting peaceful transition is because he knows, if the certification doesn't happen, a bunch of Republican seats are suddenly empty, Pelosi becomes President, and the Democrats basically have full reign while it's sorted out. It's in Mitch's best interests to make sure there are no snags, and Lindsey trying to help cause one could screw them over. I have no doubts Mitch is probably telling Lindsey to knock it off, for his own job's sake.
"In a move surprising absolutely no one"The Atlantic
has a very interesting article on people of color who voted for Trump:
"In the same way, Black people today may hear Trump claim, bizarrely, that he has done more for African Americans than any previous president, read about the segregationist practices of his and his father’s real-estate properties back in the day, and note that Trump is especially given to calling Black public figures “unintelligent”—and yet still decide that his agenda otherwise appeals enough that they will vote for him even if he wouldn’t quite respect them as individuals. A Latino person can know that Trump referred to immigrants from Mexico as “rapists” but still feel that Trump’s jobs record is more important than his racist sentiments. Unfond memories of life under leftist or socialist leaders such as Fidel Castro may, as it were, trump Trump’s racism in their eyes. After all, before the pandemic, the economy really was humming along in a way that materially affected American lives for the better."
and
"Progressives may suppose that, now that the country has come so far in recognizing the backwardness of racism, Americans can afford to be more exacting. And racism is indeed a gruesome reality that an enlightened America must get past as much as possible. However, there is a difference between embracing this goal as one among many and treating it as a religiously tinged mic-drop concern. Black or Latino Trump voters may know quite well that racism exists, or that Trump is racist, yet not prioritize it to the degree that the woke consensus assumes any sensible person would."
Finally: "The lesson here is that the identitarian left must not labor under the impression that all Black and brown people share their sense of racism as an ultimate deal breaker. Coalition building of the kind that will win future elections will require them to hold their noses and understand that to many perfectly sane people of color, policy matters more than rhetorical virtue on race and racism."
IOW: Specific Trump policies may matter to them more than the struggle to overcome racism, which is a secondary, even abstract, concern to them.
I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.Well, then these are awful people if they think that Trump's actual policies would be good for them or indeed for anyone.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"I have an alternative theory to the Atlantic article. These voters vote for Trumplax because they are Boomerang Bigots, like Uncle Ruckus.
"Wow, no Mega Togekiss in Legends Z-A. Or any non-Froslass new Sinnoh Mega Evolutions. Round of applause, everybody." - DawnIf you’re a small business owner who gets to work your employees six days a week without giving them benefits or job security I suspect that the economy felt pretty good.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranAssuming that racism alone won't be enough to deter certain non-white voters is one thing (we already knew that anyway), but while they might be "sane" that still reflects negatively on them. Whether it be the kind of immigrant who climbs up the ladder and then wants to knock it down, people who insist on all children being born but care nothing for what happens to them and their families afterwards, people who only care about their wallets, etc, my opinion of them isn't particularly rosy.
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The common one I've seen around is employing 40+ employees for a 10 person job and working each maybe 8-12 hours a week on a shifting schedule to make it harder for them to have multiple jobs, and none of them qualifying for any sort of benefits. Or worse, calling them "contractors".
Edited by carbon-mantis on Nov 22nd 2020 at 10:29:23 AM

(my first pagetopper and it's one of my usual weird rants. Great.)
Edited by WoodyAlien3rd on Nov 22nd 2020 at 2:57:14 PM
"Effective Altruism" is just another bunch of horsesh*t.