Tinidril

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago

Trump's way ahead of you there.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Everything but Biden.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

Right wingers have an unreasonably radical view of liberals because that's what the right wing hate machine churns out relentlessly. Liberals think most right wingers are confused but reasonable because thinking otherwise clashes with liberal philosophy. Leftists think that right wingers are rabid fascists because right wingers always show themselves to be rabid fascists the moment someone gives them permission. Enlightened centrists think both sides have equal and opposite prejudices because they like that vibe, not because it reflects reality.

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

An event that would only be watched by voters who already support Harris.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

If humanity were proactive enough to do this, then we wouldn't need to do it at all.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The pandemic is over. Now it's endemic, significantly less lethal, and our own immune systems are better prepared. That doesn't mean we shouldn't take it seriously, but it's not the same situation we faced in 2020.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

COVID now isn't what COVID was during the initial outbreak. Current mutations are significantly less lethal. Between the vaccines and the fact that almost everyone has had it at least once by now, we are far more prepared to handle it. It's still something that should be taken seriously, but it's also well into the endemic phase. This is the steady state where humanity will have to coexist with COVID indefinitely, not the pandemic where talking about "super spreader events" is reasonable.

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

He was arguably a worse president than even Trump. Which of them is a worse human being is a different question.

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

Nobody has forgotten the stutter.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Agreed. It's pretty telling that none of these corporations would accept an open ended arbitration clause in their dealings with any other corporation.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I could see very specific cases where arbitration makes sense with a very well defined scope. "Parties agree that disputes over widget quality related to this agreement are to be adjudicated by the Widget Quality Counsel". The courts are not always the best arbiters for every dispute.

However, what we have now is every corporation finding ways to slide arbitration clauses of global scope into every transaction. That is always bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

Of the two, I think the Democratic consultants do more damage.

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