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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

he barely danced because he knows he'd bust his ass trying.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Aww, no virtual hand-job boogying?!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Inertia. Mostly.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 hours ago

Every time some ridiculous shit like this happens, I remember when Howard Dean yelled a little too loud and that invalidated his entire political career.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

I'll keep investing in K-12 education

The bulk of elementary education funding comes from the states. So this doesn't mean much in practice.

One place where a federal official (like the President) would be able to help out immensely is by immediately cancelling some (or, fuck it, all) of the outstanding federally held student loan debt. This could be accomplished via the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students (HEROES) Act of 2003, which authorizes the secretary of the DOE to “waive or modify any statutory or regulatory provision applicable to” the Title IV loan programs “as the Secretary deems necessary” to ensure that individuals adversely affected by a Presidentially declared national emergency “are not placed in a worse position financially.”

A number of Presidential contenders promised just this back in 2020 (Warren, Sanders, even Biden himself). Sadly, Harris hedged on this pledge even back then and has not made any attempt to renew it now.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Most conservatives believe state education isn't anything more than brainwashing against conservative ideas.

They're 100% correct. Education tends to make one confront reality and live in the real world, a very un-conservative concept.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

they have to start from kindergarten onward, because it doesn't take much education to make people realize that "because tradition" is just about the dumbest reason to do anything. and if that's the only reason you're doing something, then maybe it's time to grow the fuck up and move on

but no, they've turned words like "progress" and "change" into pejoratives. same as "expert," "science," and "facts/fact-checking"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

50% of people have below average intelligence and they finally feel represented... 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." -George Carlin

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Wouldn’t that be the median person? 🤓

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

Yes but in this case it likely makes little difference.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 hours ago

Don't be mean.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago

It's close because humans are stupid

[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

it's close because racism, jeebus, and guns. it seems like it should be more than that, but it isn't. broke uneducated GOP voters literally don't care about anything except for some combination of the above 3 things, because that's what the 1% propaganda machine told them to do

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

The guns thing. There is a rather large swath of rural, liberal gun owners. If you’ve ever lived in a locale that lacks enough ambient light for you to see your hand in front of your face at night, you get it. If you live in a place where you can hear a car approaching from more than a mile away you get it.

Let my handgun have a normal clip (average 9mm is 15 bullets) and we’re probably golden. And yet. DEMs lose moderate libs on this single issue.

Yes, I own a handgun. Off the shelf with no mods it holds 18 per clip standard and comes with 2 clips.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

i live in the mountains in a town of ~3000. i can drive 30 miles without seeing a traffic light. and i also have a gun

i'm still voting D, because i see that as a boneheaded thing to acquiesce to trump over. though to be fair, there IS NO valid defensible reason to vote for that incompetent pluted bloatocrat rapist coward

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

And the Dems will have very little affect (if any) on anyone’s jebus or guns. So it’s really just the racism that’s the distinguishing factor.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Dems will have very little affect (if any) on anyone’s jebus or guns

and yet the bleating of "they're trying to take yer gunnnnnnns" and "war on christmas/christianity" never ever fucking stops

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It’s insane.

And it’s far more likely that if the GOP had total control, they’d institute a national religion (good luck having your flavor picked for that one) and that they’d take away all the guns to protect their power (since there is clearly nothing they’d avoid doing if it meant getting/keeping power).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 55 minutes ago (1 children)

They'd probably be thrilled to give up their guns if it was GOP taking them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 53 minutes ago

OMG, you’re right

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 hours ago

the gayz in there too 🥴