And the only reasons they were able to do that was the productive society that they, you, me and everyone else plays a hand in creating

I hear all this, you know, 'Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.' No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own — nobody. You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police-forces and fire-forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory — and hire someone to protect against this — because of the work the rest of us did.

Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea. God bless — keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is, you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.

Well first it was just a figure of speech but second I have no particular issue with Dell hardware. I'm not a fan but they've been perfectly cromulent systems when I've used them (i'm a Thinkpad fan myself)

But with something like this much like many have done with Target this year it's just a little nudge from "ambivalent" to "actively avoid"

Meanwhile Biden actually reduced childhood poverty and Republicans stripped this program away are when replacing it with something of 1/8 the dollars and claiming a victory lap:

The expanded child tax credit briefly slashed child poverty. Here's what else it did

In July 2021, for example, with the first monthly payment, Parolin and Curran write that "the monthly child poverty rate fell from 15.8 percent to 11.9 percent. The first Child Tax Credit payment in July 2021, on its own, reduced the monthly child poverty rate by... 26 percent."

Also hold on, this is even more ridiculous then at first glance. You lead off with talking about the "balance of power" then complain about court orders *from the Judicial Branch* and pretend like these are court orders from the Democratic party. We truly are cooked.

Uhhh James Comey, Hunter Biden, Ann Selzer and I could rattle off another dozen or two that might have a disagreement with that statement. Biden also didn't weaponize the DoJ like this you silly goose, this should have be grounds for removal alone, the fact you won't even acknowledge what a miscarriage of our justice system this is par for the course, but uhhhh, "both sides"

Trump accidentally posted message pressuring Pam Bondi to charge his enemies, source says

I wonder how the UK got into their mess? Could it have been giving the keys to dumbass Tories and folks like Boris Johnson for 15 years? They let a huckster like Farage dupe them into Brexit? You're one the ones pushing us there.

One side tried to rig the election and when it didn't work tried to interrupt the transfer of power and threatened to kill the VP. These are not the same. I'm not gonna get pretend centrists crazy-make me and pretend all these things didnt happen.

Why listen to an AC who can't even be assed to reply to the right comment? Open the schools!!!

Me when I totally understand how government budgets and taxes work. Open the schools!!!

"Soros Foundation to Donate $6.25 Billion To Encourage Families To Claim 'Biden Accounts'" and watch Republicans heads explode. It would be 24/7 on Fox.

That can all be true but I can still choose to go out of my way to find an alternative because fuck this guy. He could put his billions into a hundred other thigns that could help kids but he made this particular decision.

So you wouldn't be opposed to raising taxes on all those billionaires just the same to fund it right? Right?

And to me, sitting in my middle class suburban American home, if you don't see all the myriad ways this program, this donation and everything about this admin is an affront to what I was taught America is and should operate then you could live in the same America I do and I would consider you definitely un-American in my view.

You can think I am from wherever the fuck it's convenient for your brain waves to think I am there comrade.

Oh you mean when it went to court and Biden both times respected the courts rulings? That time?

Oh yeah, you don't think Presidents should have to listen to courts! What am I saying?!

If i was considering buying Dell in the future I sure as hell ain't now.

But George Soros amirite folks?!

"You're not listening, you're just hearing what you want to hear."

"Thanks, I'd love an omelette right about now. "

Yeah this is a case of where the idea isn't so much objectionable but the process in which it came about is corrupt and self serving. As much as we like to kvetch about bureaucracy a lot of it exists for a reason, the way we do things, particularly in government, can be as important as the thing itself.

If this was a piece of legislation, passed by both houses with all the discussion, negotiation and debate these things are supposed to have then it's not as suspicious. Legislation also carries with it a degree of permanence, the next President can't just come in and undo it like they can with this.

Then it would also have the actual funding supplied to it instead of the President partaking in impoundment which already should be an impeachable offense if the Republicans in Congress we're servile little worms who are more than happy to give up all their elected power to a wannabe king.

When you use the law or social systems or business practices or other things to *enforce* that then you are discriminating. Then again you are sharing the space with the same type of people who want to undo the civil rights act because and use that very same argument so what should I expect.

Sure, I guess that's a valid argument, even if I disagree and think the comparison is fuckin' out of bounds but a valid argument still is valid.

That said while not all anti-DEI people are Nazis all Nazis are anti-DEI

It's a little silly but I finally made the switch after the Chrome plugin update killed my favorite calculator plugin and I use that thing everyday and there was a clone made for FF (shout out Foxy Calculator)

There's been some foibles and some things I wish it did that Chrome does (please dont make me scroll tabs, just condense them into a row even when I have 70+) but overall its been nice and the full fat uBlock is kinda worth it alone.