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Comment Re:So what? (Score 0) 122

I'm pretty sure he's saying that if we can elect Trump in 2024, the orange asshole will find a way to finish what he started with removing all safety legislation, and it won't be his problem, or a problem for any of us (except perhaps the roaches we all know will survive).

RFT!!!
Dave Kelsen
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Dying is no excuse. Nixon in 2024.

Comment Re:I'm... ok with this (Score 0) 137

Yes, but Biden is helping us dig out from the damage the orange asshole did; incompetence doesn't begin to cover what that cocksucker did, and what more he tried to do. Still, I appreciate that more people are realizing the incredible damage he and his minions commited.

RFT!!!
Dave Kelsen
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If Betsy Devos can be Secretary of Education, I can surely do whatever the fuck it is you do here.

Comment Gianforte (Score 0) 137

Although there's something to be said for banning all social media, I wouldn't necessarily suppose that Gianforte's additions are due to poor drafting. As it turns out, he's a fucking idiot who may have tried to do something like that because he truly thinks he'll get more votes that way...

RFT!!!
Dave Kelsen
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When the only tool you have is a claw hammer every problem starts to look like the back of someone's skull.

Comment Re:You need more than one Philosophy book (Score 0) 63

"Nobody was trying to get into East Germany, bro. Nobody was climbing the fence to get to Pol Pot's Cambodian worker's paradise either. Why do you think that was?"

I can tell you that it wasn't because East Germany or Cambodia were Socialists. You don't have to look very deeply to know that that sobriquet never held up, after all. Do you think the ChiComs or the Soviets are socialists?

I have problems with socialism in all its variants, including communism. But I have never seen the actual tenets of socialism implemented on a scale larger than a (small) "community."

Do you think the United States is a capitalist country? We have been moving further away from it since nearly the start of the nation. The basic attraction of capitalism is a system of trade in which both parties believe the exchange is fair, without coercion. That doesn't seem much like what we have, either.

RFT!!!
Dave Kelsen
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"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire

Comment Re: just get an court order to trun it on now! (Score 0) 226

That is a reasonable interpretation of the meaning of the phrase (and one I tend to agree with.) That interpretation doesn't address the point of the clause; none of the other amendments explicitly describes the reason for the amendment, and literally starts the amendment with the rationale for it.

In any case, that stated reason is ignored utterly by the frightened little boy crowd, who simply claim that carrying AR-15s is a god-given right, irrespective of any rights (enumerated or not) of the other Wal-Mart shoppers.

RFT!!!
Dave Kelsen
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"When people ask you what happened here, tell them the North remembers. Tell them Winter came for House Frey." -- Arya Stark

Comment Re: just get an court order to trun it on now! (Score 0) 226

As for the gun debate itself, wake me up when I can read the Constitution and precisely infer how a court would interpret it. Without that, I don't see a point in trying to act like a scholar when really we're crying constitutionality mystically, more or less. If I can't reliably say what the red line is on infringement, based on a common reading of the text, the law is relegated to the realm of elites.

A fair point; I can tell you this much, though: any interpretation that simply ignores the part you don't like (in this case, the explicitly stated reason for the amendment in the first place) unequivocally sucks.

RFT!!!
Dave Kelsen
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"I think it's safe to say Pandora didn't have too many suitors offering her oral sex." -- Brad Simanek

Comment Re:The internet was fine... (Score 0) 324

The Internet was fine after Section 230 was enacted. So, yeah, the internet was fine, later, when Google came along. Why was it fine? Because Section 230 allowed Google (and every other website or service which users interact with) to do their things without being held responsible for what other people decide to do. Name your favorite website. It probably exists because of Section 230, and will probably go away if you repeal it.

The case the Supremes are hearing is not about what other people decide to do; it's about the part where the sites (Google et. al.) run software to suggest things to users. All they have to do is stop doing that. Ta Da! You're welcome, internet!

RFT!!!
Dave Kelsen
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"How the hell is a dead guy on a stick going to stop the Klan?" -- Alan Wodzenski

Comment Re:Republican war on EVs and the IRS (Score 0) 71

TL:DR if deficits don't matter, defaults don't matter. If it actually goes badly its because Biden/Yellen with their aggressive globalist agendas CHOOSE to put the American people at the back of the line. They might try and if they do, so much the better it would provide the perfect justification for the populist uprising and recapture from the deep state our nations needs.

That's simply inane. Borrowing money (deficits) is not the same for anyone or any institution as choosing not to pay back the money you borrowed. Deficits matter, although how much, when and why is something that actual economists talk about with some knowledge, versus you, with no idea about what you speak. Defaults always matters. One is borrowing, the other is announcing that you're not going to pay it back. When the time comes to borrow (as always happens; see WWI and WWII as examples), you will be SOL.

If it actually goes badly, i.e. we choose not to pay back what we've borrowed, it will be because of the people who chose to keep us from paying back what we borrowed. Spin all you want, it won't change the simple facts about a complicated issue.


RFT!!!
Dave Kelsen
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I can't think of anything worse after a night of drinking than waking up next to someone and not being able to remember their name, or how you met, or why they're dead. -- Laura Kightlinge

Comment Re: That was Samsung (Score 0) 163

Well, no. I think you made some erroneous assumptions. To me, it was clear that what I pointed out to you was what the previous person was responding to; that when he said that you knew what the problem was, he meant that you told us that you put the phone in your front pocket and lean over.

I could be mistaken, but it seemed obvious to me.

RFT!!!
Dave Kelsen
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I buy all my guns from a guy named T-Rex. He's a small-arms dealer.

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