This is the kind of brat I can get behind. 😏

I can’t remember where I was reading this but being cheap to purchase is by design.

If politicians were expensive to buy, the public outcry would be significantly higher and would also incur more scrutiny. So there is this balance of bribing a politician vs their voters being upset that their politician taking too much money. Oddly there doesn’t seem to be a floor of “our politician can be bought too cheaply.”

The other side of this is that until Citizens United is overturned, there is no limit to how much a company can spend on special interest groups. This is where politicians fear the most. If they don’t go along with whatever issue, then they have to raise more money to run for re-election, which puts more pressure on them to accept the bribe in the first place.

TL;DR: money in politics is killing our democracy

I feel like the headline is misleading given our current climate.

Orleans sheriff currently has a policy to LIMIT how they interact with ICE. Louisiana passed a law making not cooperating with ICE a felony. Orleans sheriff says they will continue with current policy and limit their interactions with ICE.

In both situations, it’s oppression. There is no other way to look at it. It’s no wonder why evangelicals are, by and large, conservatives that support Trump.

The problem isn’t the instance you are on. It’s the instance this community is on. I’ve started to comment less and less on .world because of their “both sides are the same” stance.

The biggest problem, and I do say biggest, that DNC has is that they all have been trying to win votes not by being progressive but chasing after “the center” or left leaning Republicans. They can’t do that if they support true progressive candidates.

Polygraphs provide authoritarians the excuse to get rid of people.

The same way that scientology uses auditing. The point is to instil fear and doubt into whomever you’re measuring so that you can manipulate them.

So, they are extremely useful.

They wanted someone with experience, who can hit the ground running, but didn’t want to pay for it, either with cash or time.

• cheap
• quick
• experience

You can only pick two.

How does this work? I know that PR is an US territory but I imagine there are some quarantine procedures for animals.

Or has all of that been worked out already and you’re just the courier?

Edit: nevermind. My mind skipped past the explanation and went straight for the cute picture.

Volunteers are on both sides of the journey.

Brazil could appeal to the World Trade Organization, propose international investigations and “demand explanations”,

Yeah if there’s one thing this administration really respects is investigations.

• the most felony convictions
• the most state and federal criminal investigations that are still open
• the most amount of diapers worn during a presidential term
• the first president in what 20 years to puss out and have his inauguration indoors
• the first president to have been a confirmed rapist

I’m going to speculate:

• the smallest penis
• the most obese
• the shortest

I was having just this conversation with a friend of mine the other day. There is a level of net worth that once you hit it, it becomes exponentially harder to get out of poverty than someone who isn’t poor. And absolutely no amount of money can help them because unless you can stop the churn, all that money will just go toward the black hole of fees and other expenses.

Tricking people to pay 100x its normal cost is pure unadulterated capitalism.

The kinds of psychos that work at companies that measure performance by number of commits and PRs, successful or not.

He’ll never admit it. He’ll blame immigrants or the gays or the trans or the woke or the Jews or the liberals or Biden or Obama or the Clintons.

Never himself.

I exclusively use ZigBee. It automeshes.

Pft. Rookie numbers. I’ve been leaving work 1-4 hours early as meetings allow.

The sad reality is that good journalism is expensive but no one wants to pay for it.

Even we, the readers who benefit from it, rarely want to actually pay for it.

Sadly yes. Ever since he became a “philanthropist”, people come out of the woodwork to say he’s “one of the good ones”. I have to remind them that he may be “good” now but he can still pay his fucking taxes and be better.

Some sellers are delusional and think their house is special and that it will sell for more than they list, even expect it.

There have been times where I made an offer and the seller countered and based on their contingencies, I got the vibe that they were going to be an asshole through closing.

One seller even threatened to sue even though I was fully within my rights to walk away. My response to my agent was “tell them to serve me papers.”

Never heard from them again.