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  • Zorg@lemmings.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldProtect the Cushions!
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    1 month ago

    If my eyes were sunken that far into my head, I would also be using eyeliner. No shame in wanting to look good.
    Being Peter Thiel’s little couch fucking bitch on the other hand, that’s pretty fucking weird. Imagine being willing to do and say whatever, regardless of how racist or hateful it is, because there is more money in it.





  • Death penalty

    On one hand, I don’t believe capital punishment has any place in civilized society.
    On the other, there are some in-human people (serial killers mainly, but including e.g. CEOs who have caused thousands of deaths to increase profits), where it just seems a waste of everyone’s time, to lock them away in a cell for decades. Some people are just completely beyond rehabilitation, and if they are proven guilty with 99.9+% certainty, what’s the point of locking then up and waiting for old age to do the job?






  • Rural states have a large advantage in the house, huge advantage in the senate, and of course significant skew in the electoral college. And much of it comes from compromises with slave owners.
    Abolishing the EC would not mean rural regions get completely ignored, not only would they have reps and senators still courting their votes (and campaign donations), civilized countries with functional democracies have multiple parties. A rural party would show up, which could court voters in all rural areas, instead of only in swing states.




  • They have been doing it for 50 years, it has just expanded and grown increasingly sinister:

    First, the Two Santas strategy dictates, when Republicans control the White House they must spend money like a drunken Santa and cut taxes to run up the U.S. debt as far and as fast as possible.

    This produces three results: it stimulates the economy thus making people think that the GOP can produce a good economy; it raises the debt dramatically; and it makes people think that Republicans are the “tax-cut Santa Clauses.”

    Second, when a Democrat is in the White House, Republicans must scream about the national debt as loudly and frantically as possible, freaking out about how “our children will have to pay for it!” and “we have to cut spending to solve the crisis!” Shut down the government, crash the stock market, and damage US credibility around the world if necessary to stop Democrats from spending money.
    https://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/thom-hartmann/two-santas-strategy-gop-used-economic-scam-manipulate-americans-40-years/

    Wreck the government, then point to the Democrats and loudly claim everything is all their fault…