Can I move to Texas and sue google maps for listing an abortion clinic?  As a means of earning a living, I mean.  

Asking for a friend >_>

3 hours ago, TrickstaPriest said:

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/18/texas-heartbeat-bill-abortions-law/

 

This just reminds me of previous conversations on this topic.

In case people forgot - this bill provides a legal bounty by rewarding anyone who sues anyone connected to abortions - doctors, uber drivers, and so on, while promising to reimburse their legal fees if they win.  You do not have to be a 'damaged party' to enact the lawsuit.

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/18/texas-heartbeat-bill-abortions-law/

This just reminds me of previous conversations on this topic.

1 minute ago, Pattern Ghost said:

It says "during the Afghan war," on the site. Doesn't say that the chart shows only expenses tied directly to Afghanistan.

 

I appreciate the double checking.  Been wholly busy (for a year and a half and running), so haven't had much resources to check stuff.

https://stephensemler.substack.com/p/the-top-5-military-contractors-ate

Just for the Afghan war.

1 hour ago, Ragitsu said:

we can get our shit together at home (e.g., strengthen public education, fix civil infrastructure, institute socialized healthcare, retool the immigration process, lead the way in green energy, decouple the military-industrial complex from the economy, et cetera). Our budget isn't infinite...nor is our manpower Some people - however - want their Schrodinger's Cake

Technically speaking they don't want any of those things.  What they want is to distract people with anything possible while they loot every part of the government and American society possible.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/abigail-disney-rich-protect-dynastic-wealth-propublica-tax/619212/

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/sacklers-say-they-wont-pay-4-5b-settlement-if-judge-rejects-immunity-deal/

Did you know that if you have enough billions of dollars, you can try and negotiate a deal to make your family immune to prosecution for the rest of your natural lives?

This is one of those little "completely destroys the foundation of law" things...

27 minutes ago, Cygnia said:

When They Fantasize About Killing You, Believe Them

Unfortunately there is an incredible amount of this in online communities.  Openly fascist youtubers (who have 'pro fascist' in their youtube name/description), eager white supremacists.  If and when things get more unstable (economically, environmentally), these people will sweep in to gobble up followers and incite violence in their name.

We are basically headed for the same outcome as those places, and I've unfortunately been worried about this trend since the start of the pandemic (let alone the election stuff, the rhetoric that I'm worried will legitimize this the most).

Just now, Iuz the Evil said:

Yes there’s definitely a desire from staff for more telework options, and we’ve offered some significant incentives in that area. Hard to give injections over Zoom though… or take vitals.

Yep, and I have friends who do jobs that can technically be done remotely, but have big cohesion issues with team members.

4 minutes ago, Iuz the Evil said:

We just lost one of our best people for a nearly total telework job

I quit my last job four years ago for a remote work position and small pay increase (and substantial benefits improvement).  A lot of people left after me over poor pay and a job that absolutely refused to let us do remote work, even though our productivity was directly measurable and it was a type of work easily done from home (as we did when there was emergency situations).

5 hours ago, Dr. MID-Nite said:

I'm tired of the progressive side having to make all the compromises though. Compromise is supposed to be a two way street. In America, it's the progressive side giving ground until the conservatives are happy while they give up nothing. That's not compromise to me.

Still waiting for an administration waiting to even attempt to build a future for our civilization because of climate change

12 minutes ago, Lord Liaden said:

Nobody should have to be told to feel common human compassion, especially toward their own children. But it seems that's where we are.

You don't want to hear how I compare the anti climate change 'political strategy' towards treatment of their own children...

Don't read the comments unless you want to get very angry.

Pretty sure this won't change unless a terribly lethal variant starts to spread - people have to be dying in literal droves for people to take it seriously apparently.  Even then I'm sure it'll end up as "its the vaccine killing people, not the virus!"

It's the anti-mask, anti-vaccine, climatechange-is-a-hoax political group 'in particular' that's a huge problem.

The problem is that the election story is more or less uniting a lot of 'generally-right-wing' political groups into a potentially dangerous force.  Dangerous for everyone, even themselves.

So I won't get too down on people for 'support the police' and so on

3 hours ago, archer said:

With these two quick back-to-back suicides, it makes me wonder if it's a response to the poor reception given to the officers who testified recently in front of the House committee.

I almost immediately saw tons of comments online suggesting that they were assassinated.  Because reasons.

1 hour ago, wcw43921 said:

Capitol Police Testify About January 6 Attacks

Yes.  This has been interesting.

5 minutes ago, unclevlad said:

 

Not the government.

The country.

And it's close to being there now.

Yeah, pretty much the same conclusion I have been saying 😕

Because quite frankly, why is it "the dems who know better"?

Know better about what?

The argument essentially derides having a federal government at all - which is fine, but that takes us back, again, to the time of warring states.  Anyone can ask Japan about the Warring States period - 100 years of war - to know how that goes.

And that seems to be what is being actively encouraged for political theater.

What are they going to get out of this if they have to flee the country?  What happens when this 'alternate reality of we know better' crashes against realities like covid?  I guess I don't get how anyone fostering this actually expects a better outcome than the current direction.  Magical thinking I guess.

On 7/25/2021 at 8:25 PM, unclevlad said:

Emphasis mine.

 

The election fraud/lie should be temporary, altho it's increased the polarization a great deal.  It won't, I think, remain a central issue but it may well be a big underlying factor.  It's the second part...the obstinance, the hate isn't new.  This is, tho, one of the more stark examples of it.

The problem is literally any effort to do anything can be spun as that.  Literally any effort to do nothing at all can also be spun as that.

I'm not sure how one can account for the feedback of 'dems in Washington thinking they know best' when that's literally anything the party tries to do.  If that's all it takes, at that point the federal government might as well split in two.

Read the comments if you want to understand why I believe left vs right equivocation is a joke.

This isn't going away.  This is literal 'alternate reality politics'.

2 minutes ago, Lord Liaden said:

The higher officers are generally firmly against the more authoritarian moves by Trump, but no few of the lower ranks support the Right. So I agree, it's still up in the air.

Yeah.  I know what the generals are saying, but how many of the lower ranks believe the election was legitimately stolen (despite how amazingly difficult that would be, and how no one put any evidence legitimately through the legal system)

8 minutes ago, archer said:

With one of the political parties wanting to make it a point to stick it to the other and to deny that anything happened on Jan. 6, some sort of funding compromise isn't likely to happen anytime soon (to say the least).

 

Wonder how this will effect military voting records in the future.

4 minutes ago, DShomshak said:

Sounds easy to me: After describing the event in all its horror, conclude with, "The Republicans of the state legislature forbid me, by law, from saying that these actions were immoral." Which is absolutely factual, and thus cannot be accused of "giving deference to any one perspective."

Gotta love some malicious compliance like that.

https://iqconnect.house.gov/iqextranet/view_newsletter.aspx?id=105043&c=IN03JB

In case you thought that investigation was going to go anywhere...