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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • Always good to know a strong political movement being lead, when the creators, don’t mention a single policy stance, state their past sides were based on which party hired them first… and formerly helped the tea party. So in short, their goal is to find districts of low turnout where voters aren’t arsed to show up… giving an independent candidate a shot, with no indication of what that candidate will stand for.

    If I had to be a betting man, I’m going to assume, it’s going to be just like the tea party with a new strategy. IE it’s stances will be determined by the same money that dominates the existing 2 parties, given the false air of being “independent”, just like the tea party did.




  • It’s something I find kind of amusing about Catholicism.

    Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

    I mean to me the whole concept of the catholic religion believing this is one of the 10 commandments. Then simultaneously praying in front of crucifixes or Virgin Mary statues etc…

    I mean Jesus you could half way go with assuming trinity and considering him god… but it explicitly says “in heaven” and doesn’t give any kind of “except of me”.

    Actually something kind of funny to me, it says “in heaven”, “on earth” or “in the waters below earth”. Assuming christian theology… the biggest exception that comes to my mind… is things that are in hell.


  • am I missing this article, last I heard, trump was talking about extending the cuts… followed by Mike Johnson saying no we aren’t interested in that at all.

    Which then I guess further follows up the question, does Mike Johnson even need to bring it up to a vote at all? Like hypothetically even if they whip the votes and get 10 republicans to defect… would anything actually force johnson to bring it to a vote at all?


  • The political consiquences of this are unknown. Could mandami be a snake, absolutely, is it possible that behind closed doors he said to trump “I don’t actually believe anything I said, go ahead and send ice in and do whatever you want”… can’t rule it out, wouldn’t be the first time we’ve been screwed (cough fetterman).

    But at the same time… it’s also possible they just said a bunch of platitudes. He just stuck up some charm, redirected his ideas in a way that trump thought they were his own.

    Point is trump is going to have impact, and getting trump to moderately like you, is a good thing and will make enacting your goals easier, even when your goals are directly going to go head to head against trump. Mandami has a lot of goals, and he cannot get them all passed unilaterally. When he actually changes his rhetoric, or doesn’t push for any of the things he said he would, that’s when we call him out. Talking with other leaders, is kind of what politicians are supposed to do.




  • I mean if it’s based on the time of creation it would to me that’s the idea of it though. IE the troll accounts that have spent 5 years building up a following, the only way to salvage them if their creation location was bad, is to delete them and start a new one from a VPN in the country they are supposed to be from. At which point smart people are going to note “the wave of accounts made in 2025-2026 and note that timing”.

    Course unless Elon works to change that rule, not tie in the original country etc, or make a blue checkmark feature “anti-doxing” to protect your private information like country.





  • Reminds me the most of when discussing corporal punishment with a friend of mine with regards to raising kids. He was up and down talking about how his dad had to beat the crap out of him to keep him in line, and of course with a few examples, I’d follow up with “did you do that again?”, “well yeah, I got beat for doing that over and over”.

    and of course that’s ignoring the bigger part. Even giving the “punishment deters”… really it only goes in 2 forms.

    It’s often ineffective because it hasn’t hit yet. AKA you haven’t got punished, therefore you know the punishment doesn’t apply to you.

    Or you have been punished, and well you can handle it again.

    Course death penalty is a one time issue obviously. But obviously also has the follow up where, it can be even worse because people are more hesetant to charge in the less obviously wrong scenerios. IE anyone with half a heart or a concern to protect kids will throw the book at a 50 year old diddling a 10 year old.

    Laws generally have exceptions when a 19 year old has sex with a 17 year old. Somewhere out there though is greyer areas where most people would say it’s wrong, but it’s on the fence.