America has always had an anti-intellectualism streak and it’s become 3000 miles wide.

You know those cute stories: “Kids solve problem that the experts couldn’t handle”. They’re propaganda. The paper left out that the kids’ solution wasn’t economically viable, and the dumber among us walked away thinking the “white coats” didn’t have enough “common sense”.

Parallel is a bit too weak a word. George Lucas has said that Star Wars is an allegory for Vietnam and the Empire is based on the US.

The Guard is an agent of the state. Being this clueless about the First Amendment shows poorly on him as an American, but also suggests poor training by his command structure.

Yes, the MPD are actually the ones who violated his civil rights.

shrug You’re allowed to be annoyed by anything you want, as long as you’re as clear as you were that “that’s free speech baby”.

The point of protests is to be annoying. Whether they want to be there or not, these National Guards are an occupying force. Annoying government officials is precisely what the First Amendment protects.

The thing is that Amazon needs to get broken up way more than Ma Bell did. Most people have never heard of AWS before, but it’s crazy to have one company own so much of the internet, even before you get into their stranglehold on internet commerce (which also should be broken up).

I think I know that guy. Sad story.

https://youtu.be/rfbb4yRBH64

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My point is that nothing in the Constitution requires government shutdowns. Your comment about “the power of the purse” was fairly off base/misleading because it’s all political grandstanding.

This country existed for ~225 years with no government shutdowns. Yes, it has always been within Congress’s rights to be dumbasses, I didn’t suggest otherwise. I just want to be clear that nobody is forcing them.

Shutdowns are not caused by the Constitution or any quirk of American procedure. Newt Gingrich passed a law so he could hold the government hostage, and Republicans have gotten worse ever since.

This information is readily available. You decided that instead of listening to the IOC or physiologists you’d stick your head WAY up inside your own rectum. It’s not my job to pull it out.

But it is fun to point and laugh. 😉

I mean I’m not going to say no to the Nintendo porn

It’s so conceited to think the Jews are making you gay. They are a busy people and do not care about your love life. The Illuminati do put ‘the subliminal messages turning you into a femboy’ into all of your entertainment, but that was really more of a joke that got out of hand.

The sale to a right wing Trumpbuddy proves what I have been saying. The position of the US government is quite consistent: “WE get all of your data.”

We don’t need to be invaded, we are actually capable of rooting out the Nazis ourselves. But around a third of white people are white supremacists and another third get more mad at the suggestion their friends are white supremacists than their friends being white supremacists, so…

Shutdowns have terribly little to do with the Constitution or Founding Fratboys. They’re mostly the result of the Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (and then repealing the “Gephardt rule” in 1995).

Having a debt ceiling is idiotic. Congress passes a budget to decide what to spend, so why would they need to pass another bill to fund the spending they already passed? Literally, the answer to that is “So they can shut down the government.”

This isn’t an issue of “the power of the purse” or checks and balances. It’s political grandstanding. Republicans are determined to break the country.

No. It doesn’t make sense and it is not a good system.

It benefits the oligarchs who control our government, certainly not the people. This is working as intended. Republicans have been trying to dismantle the government for 60 years and they’ve just about got it.

Jay and the BlueSky team are useless libertarian assholes, but I generally like the vibe of BlueSky with the exception of their “moderation”. I’m looking forward to the protocol being truly federated.

A 25 lb bag of rice is $10 at Costco. I rotate between several different curries/stews/proteins on a bed of rice and it’s delicious.

I have been weirdly picky about meat my entire life. It took until recently to realize it was a 'tism thing.

It’s fine to disagree with us here, but you also “disagree” with everyone who knows anything about the subject, and that is why your head is stuck so far up your own asshole.

Do you think we can get him to run for Senate?