Pegajace

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Notice also how their go-to response is to talk about their right to vote for third-party candidates, which is a strawman of the criticism they typically receive. They can’t and don’t engage the actual substance of criticism, which is that voting third-party under our first-past-the-post system is a bad plan that has a proven track record of accomplishing absolutely nothing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

The first movie I remember seeing in theaters was the Special Edition of A New Hope.

I loved Episodes I & II as a kid, but by the time Episode III rolled around I had developed enough appreciation for good screenwriting that I left the theater mildly disappointed.

 

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin voters on Tuesday rejected Republican-authored ballot questions that would have limited the governor’s power to spend federal money that comes to the state for disaster relief or any other crisis, unless it’s already earmarked.

The constitutional amendments were placed on the ballot by the GOP-controlled Legislature.

Democrats, including Gov. Tony Evers, and a host of liberal groups and others organized against the amendments. They had argued adopting them would slow down the distribution of money when it needs to be spent quickly.

But Republican backers argued the measures would have added more oversight and serve as a check on the governor’s powers.

Republicans pushed the amendments after taking issue with Evers having the power to distribute billions of dollars in COVID-19 federal relief money without legislative approval.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Good thing we always have old faithful- racism and sexism. That’ll swing those undecideds.

At work, both the resident Gen-X divorced-dad asshole and the luddite boomer have taken to complaining that “We’re all going to be called racists and misogynists for not voting for Kamala” while grousing about hating her more than Biden, never once mentioning a single point of policy that they dislike.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
  1. Get list of Lemmy communities
  2. Ctrl+F the name of a community against some agglomerated news feed
  3. Post link to news article without pausing to check whether it’s actually relevant to the community
  4. Repeat hundreds of times in the span of a single hour across hundreds of communities

Does this seem like authentic human behavior to anyone?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

No, Mike Pence debated Harris in the previous election cycle. It’s tradition for the Vice-Presidential nominees to debate each other.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Both lawsuits argue that Tennessee law does not account for evolving science on the transmission of HIV or precautions that prevent its spread, like use of condoms. Both lawsuits also argue that labeling a person as a sex offender because of HIV unfairly limits where they can live and work and stops them from being alone with grandchildren or minor relatives.

“Tennessee’s Aggravated Prostitution statute is the only law in the nation that treats people living with HIV who engage in any sex work, even risk-free encounters, as ‘violent sex offenders’ subjected to lifetime registration,” the ACLU lawsuit states.

“That individuals living with HIV are treated so differently can only be understood as a remnant of the profoundly prejudiced early response to the AIDS epidemic.”

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

You’re thinking of Tesla headquarters, which he moved from Cali to Texas back in 2021.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Exactly, the same mindset that takes you to “The entire geophysical establishment is wrong/lying about the shape of the Earth, so I’ll listen to this Youtube crank who says it’s a disc instead” will also lead you to things like “The entire medical establishment is wrong/lying about the effectiveness of masks & vaccines, so I’ll listen to this podcast crank hawking horse dewormer instead.”

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago

Her motivations aren’t even as noble as that. The article goes on to describe how she’s actually just trying to undercut a proposed constitutional amendment:

But Ms. Bolick also railed against Planned Parenthood and Democratic support for abortion rights. She argued that her vote to repeal the 1864 ban could be Arizona’s best shot at curbing the momentum behind a proposed ballot measure to enshrine abortion protections in the state constitution.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Insulting someone via stereotype doesn’t show that they’re wrong. You’ve added less to the discussion than the person you’re attempting to mock.

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