adespoton

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[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 points 59 minutes ago (1 children)

Libertarians are the “vegetarians” of politics— they like everyone to equate them with vegans, but in reality have no issues eating fish, chicken and other meats, and in reality have a pretty loose definition of what’s “not meat.”

The real political vegans are those who go off to form their own communities and reject the ENTIRE political structure, not just the parts that don’t directly benefit them.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago

Also, most of the susceptible people die in the first few waves. What you’re left with is a population that’s more resistant. Over time, the comorbidities tail off.

Looking at population level resistance is different than looking at individual resistance.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 hour ago

No, he would have rejected it in favor of a plan he made himself that enriched his friends and family and blamed the ensuing chaos on Obama.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

Democracy is four cannibals deciding what’s for dinner.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

If it had been, it would have been multiple health and employment violations.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

I had to do the thorough federal check once and they only went back 10 years. My summers cutting lawns didn’t have to go on the form.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

And that’s the number of crossing encounters; likely the same people attempted to cross many times, and 78% of the time they were caught.

Oftentimes, people aren’t crossing the border to find a new life in the US; they’re crossing to visit friends, do some shopping/smuggling, or find some itinerant work, after which they cross the other direction.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

It would be a nice Lemmy feature if posts and comments under, say, -20 were auto-collapsed. That would allow people to still see unpopular content without everyone having to wade through it.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

“Trump tax plans could exempt 93 millionaire Americans from income taxes”

Someone dropped the “aire” somewhere, that’s all.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

That’s great; you should always have a full slate of scrutineers.

Are the Democrats also recruiting an army of scrutineers? Because we know about Republicans and projection.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

So… is that enough votes by their constitution to move ahead with the constitutional rewrite?

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 hours ago

I figured they might have done a dry run through with him at Mar a Lago before he flew out… but you’re right; he probably thought shaking the basket looked like fun and did it because he’d seen the employee do it.

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