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  • Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted?

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  • Even after hearing how much of a total POS shit the CEO is, yes. That's just a basic part of the rule of law. You murder someone, you get prosecuted. It's a really dangerous path for a society when it's open season to outright murder people when they're unpopular.

  • Why do Americans always presume that everyone speaks English

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  • It looks like the type of visas that are usually used for vacations give you 180 days per stay and last for 10 years. From what I've heard, they're either fairly easy to get a hold of or ridiculously hard depending on your country of origin. In other news, everything in the US around visas and immigration is fuuuuuuccccckkkkked.

  • Billionaires Are Lying Shamelessly to Convince Us To Destroy Our Government

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  • I used to be on the ml server until I got fed up with the arbitrary moderation, so I try not to generalize.

  • Why do Americans always presume that everyone speaks English

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  • Go from Wales, Alaska near the Bering Strait to the southern tip of Florida. You have traveled 4,580 miles (7,370 km) in 14 states and provinces. At no point were you not in a jurisdiction that was predominantly English speaking.

    Mandarin Chinese may have the most number of native speakers, but English has the most number of total speakers, and those speakers are spread much more widely around the world.

    The US is a business, economic, and geopolitical powerhouse. So was the British Empire.

    I'm not saying that every other language should crawl in a hole and die. I'm currently taking a crack at learning Spanish. But there are pretty solid reasons why Americans make assumptions, even if they are erroneous sometimes.

  • Billionaires Are Lying Shamelessly to Convince Us To Destroy Our Government

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  • The CFPB and the DEA are a wee bit different, though. You can be angry at the latter and still want the protections of the former.

  • i'm at a loss

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  • Even if you assume that it is not blocked, it is still 5. The pipe from 2 to 3 is never reached because 4 leaks out the hole in the bottom. Assume that the hole in the bottom is a flaw and 4 still leaks out the top before the pipe to 3 is reached.

  • Trump picks Dr. Oz to be CMS administrator

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  • Even Reddit's /r/conservative was trashing this one. Trump may have actually managed to have gone too far.

  • No sex. No dating. No marriage. No children. Interest grows in 4B movement to swear off men

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  • I'd like to see Idiocracy cited a lot less often, given that a good chunk of the plot boils down to eugenics from wealth (poor people had lots of kids, rich people stopped having kids).

  • No sex. No dating. No marriage. No children. Interest grows in 4B movement to swear off men

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  • Sex strikes have been used more recently as well to end gang conflicts, wars, and other violence.

  • Nearly 70 percent of deaths in Gaza are women and children: UN

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  • 44% children, 26% women, 30% men. Gaza is about half under 18, so that's nearly randomly killing people. That said, these are only confirmed fatalities, so presumably susceptible to bias.

    The report is here

  • US Democracy

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  • So based on your 38 days, that would be March 12th (2020-02-03 + 38 days), no? And Biden was indeed declared the winner on a March 12th, but that was in 2024. It took until April 8, 2020 for Bernie to decide to drop out.

  • US Democracy

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  • Bernie Sanders won 3 out of 5 primaries that occurred before the DNC called it for Biden in 2020 with Buttigeg picking up 1 other.

    I'm not sure how to parse what you're saying. As far as DNC rules are concerned, they "call" it once all primary races are held.

    In 2016 Sanders won 23 races and was at 43% of the popular vote despite extreme pushback by the DNC. He was democratically supported cause he had people voting for him. Democratically.

    The Democratic primary uses proportional representation, so candidates don't win states, they win delegates. Hillary Clinton got 55% of the popular vote, Bernie Sanders got 43%. There are no two ways to slice it, Bernie lost that election by the rules of a democratic election by a sizeable margin. Meanwhile, Hillary was dealing with getting hacked and Benghazi Benghazi Benghazi. And you're forgetting the often adoring coverage that was played to audiences on the left about Sanders.

    The selling point for Kamala wasn't anything in particular about her. She's the VP and was the only obvious choice. There was no appetite for a contested convention, which was the alternative. It was always going to be an uphill battle, so in a sense she's also a sacrificial lamb.

  • US Democracy

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  • If you're referencing Bernie Sanders in 2016 and 2020, he wasn't "democratically popular" in either race. That simply is not supported by polling or election results. He was well behind Clinton by all metrics. Then in 2020, he was briefly "winning" because several similar candidates were splitting the center-left lane. The moment the center-left lane narrowed, Sanders' lead evaporated.

    It's SOP for candidates to more or less clear the field for an incumbent president. This is partially because of a perceived effect from a strong primary challenger weakening an incumbent. So Democrats were just doing what both parties have been doing for the last half century.

    The change from Biden was in response to clear reactions from the US electorate. The electorate saw Biden's debate performance and was not impressed. There wasn't time to run a process, so Kamala was the obvious choice given a non-ideal situation. But the electorate got what it wanted in terms of an option that wasn't elderly.

  • Trump warns voters that his second term would get ‘nasty’ at times | According to Donald Trump and his allies, his second term would be "nasty," "bloody," and filled with "hardships" for many

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  • The inflation will be yuge!

  • CNN bans guest for telling Muslim journalist 'I hope your beeper doesn't go off'

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  • The only people who had those pagers were Hezbollah members. Hezbollah has been lobbing missiles into Israel, killing civilians including children and forcing an evacuation. They picked a fight, why should there be an expectation that Israel just sits back and takes it? Don't get me wrong about Gaza, they have gone way too far there. But Hezbollah seems at least somewhat justified.

  • Bernie Sanders to voters skipping presidential election over Israel: ‘Trump is even worse’

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  • A lot of what you're listing off is more a symptom of Harris entering the race so late. She's barely had the time to put together a campaign, let alone flesh out a real policy platform. That usually takes a long time, especially given that she has to show some level of independence from Biden while also

    no healthcare reform mostly just give aways to insurance companies through tax credits.

    What type of healthcare reform are you referring to? I don't think that anything terribly drastic is really going to happen within the foreseeable future. The Democrats burned a 60-40 majority in the Senate just to get the ACA, a relatively modest reform, through Congress. Something like single payer does poll well... until you remind people that there's no free lunch.

    no minimum wage increase

    She supports an increase to $15/hour, but that was pretty recent.

    wont commit to keeping kahn the most effective FTC chair in more than 4 decades.

    I won't defend her here, she should have the courage to tell her tech allies that she's not going to topple Kahn.

    wont commit to supporting striking workers.

    I'm not exactly sure what this means. The Biden administration has strengthened labor's hand on the NLRB, which marked a significant difference from the Trump administration. Are you referring to the railroad strike of 2022?

    no mandated PTO/Sick leave for workers.

    What left wing people are really telling you:

    I would be fine if that was what everyone was actually saying, but I hear a lot of people encouraging not voting or voting third party this cycle.

    let your reps know that your vote is at risk if the genocide continues post election. and then follow through in the next cycle.

    Politicians are trying to paste together a winning coalition. That's why you'll see Kamala's platform roughly representing the center-left, that is a winning platform for a general election. The problem with having a hard line non-mainstream view on something like the Israel-Palestine conflict is that playing hard to get will only get you so far. If your opinion isn't supported by the majority, it's very, very hard to get a politician's support.

  • Bernie Sanders to voters skipping presidential election over Israel: ‘Trump is even worse’

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  • There are also some great ways to get written off by the Democratic Party. Frequently not voting or voting third party makes for an unreliable constituency. No politician is going to pay a group that plays hard to get much heed. But for a constituency that turns out and works to turn out others, they're going to be all ears. There's a reason causes championed by Black women always feature fairly heavily in the Democratic Party platform. They really punch above their weight.

  • Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics

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  • All politicians meet with lobbyists. It's hard to get a handle on the needs of the nation (or state, or so on), and lobbying is how people inform their representatives of that need. Now whether those lobbyists are scumbags or saints, that's a different question.

  • Trump, 78, says Obama, 63, is ‘exhausted’ and ‘looks old’

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  • I've heard it's also fairly easy to do security for.