This is the kind of brat I can get behind. 😏

I can’t remember where I was reading this but being cheap to purchase is by design.

If politicians were expensive to buy, the public outcry would be significantly higher and would also incur more scrutiny. So there is this balance of bribing a politician vs their voters being upset that their politician taking too much money. Oddly there doesn’t seem to be a floor of “our politician can be bought too cheaply.”

The other side of this is that until Citizens United is overturned, there is no limit to how much a company can spend on special interest groups. This is where politicians fear the most. If they don’t go along with whatever issue, then they have to raise more money to run for re-election, which puts more pressure on them to accept the bribe in the first place.

TL;DR: money in politics is killing our democracy

Its fraud. In many cases this would be insurance fraud. Why health insurance companies aren’t going after him is beyond me.

They all do. They all think that they are the exception. That they are one of the “good ones”.

They don’t think the concentric cone of fascism would ever exclude them.

I feel like the headline is misleading given our current climate.

Orleans sheriff currently has a policy to LIMIT how they interact with ICE. Louisiana passed a law making not cooperating with ICE a felony. Orleans sheriff says they will continue with current policy and limit their interactions with ICE.

We miss the sign because we’re used to tapping at our normal store a certain way and your way is different. Our normal store doesn’t need a sign because it’s obvious.

I’m guessing your terminal uses the “tap the corner” method and not the screen method. If I see a sign, it’s often the corner. I’ve never seen a sign that points to the screen.

Why is there a watermark on a meme?

And is “memetherapy” spelled incorrectly on purpose?

Oh I wholeheartedly know.

But ICE has and continues to arrest citizens. Not sure if they have gone through with trying to deport them but Trump is on record saying that he wants to be able to deport “undesirable” citizens.

So yeah…Tom might be from South Carolina but he’s on the lower half of the Peter Griffin skin color chart.

Ron Swanson, as much as he hated government, loved his friends more.

He would have fought literal tooth and nail to protect Tom from getting deported.

I’m mixed on whether he would have supported DOGE. There’s an entire episode where he’s on record of “slashing the budget with a machete” but in that same episode sacrificing his job to save Leslie.

In both situations, it’s oppression. There is no other way to look at it. It’s no wonder why evangelicals are, by and large, conservatives that support Trump.

The problem isn’t the instance you are on. It’s the instance this community is on. I’ve started to comment less and less on .world because of their “both sides are the same” stance.

The biggest problem, and I do say biggest, that DNC has is that they all have been trying to win votes not by being progressive but chasing after “the center” or left leaning Republicans. They can’t do that if they support true progressive candidates.

The problem with posting stuff like this on alt-right forums is that they will reject it because it doesn’t already align with their beliefs.

There are no facts for conservatives. Only their “truth”.

Polygraphs provide authoritarians the excuse to get rid of people.

The same way that scientology uses auditing. The point is to instil fear and doubt into whomever you’re measuring so that you can manipulate them.

So, they are extremely useful.

They wanted someone with experience, who can hit the ground running, but didn’t want to pay for it, either with cash or time.

• cheap
• quick
• experience

You can only pick two.

How does this work? I know that PR is an US territory but I imagine there are some quarantine procedures for animals.

Or has all of that been worked out already and you’re just the courier?

Edit: nevermind. My mind skipped past the explanation and went straight for the cute picture.

Volunteers are on both sides of the journey.

Brazil could appeal to the World Trade Organization, propose international investigations and “demand explanations”,

Yeah if there’s one thing this administration really respects is investigations.