Eh, no reason to discard the idea of putting a ceiling on the rich. Even if you took away all of the money people had that was over 1 billion dollars, that wouldn’t cause any of those people to suffer.

In college, I had a URL in my email signature, and the website was about etiquette in emails. I did this because I had to frequently communicate with a person who typed in all caps, and I hoped that he’d read it at some point. But anyways it wasn’t a well-known domain, nor was it one that I had registered myself.

And then, somebody sent me an email asking what kind of sick sense of humor I had, and it turned out that the link now went to a hardcore porn website. Not the best link to have in your email when you’re using it to try to find a job.

Thinking about it now, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a prank by somebody who knew me.

Trump is all about “having”, not “supporting.” He fathered children, but I’m sure he didn’t raise them.

IRL “that guy” would probably have already been partially eaten by the others.

I suspect that China knows that they can say whatever they want, and that they can do whatever they want, and that those two things have nothing to do with each other.

Saying they support humanitarian rights makes them look good.

They can sign any agreement or treaty or whatever. If it says human rights must be respected, well, that’s just ink on paper. It’s not like it’s going to change what they do in the least.

It’s more surprising that the US voted against this. Maybe it means the US ambassador to the UN is somewhat working against Trump to make him look like an amateur. Maybe it means that Trump weighed in on this directly, and this happened because he really is just that stupid.

I can’t find it now, but I remember an old video of a person opening the door and scooching through the car in the back seat when it was blocking the crosswalk.

Of course, with automatic door locks, it’s less likely to work these days.

She never deserved to get known by those initials in the first place. Her name isn’t difficult to say. They were just envious of AOC and forced it.

I always just called her Greene or Marjorie Greene. Hopefully it’s all moot now anyways and we can forget about her.

If he’s actually afraid of the axis, then he’s in trouble because the axis is always there, even if he’s not moving along the axis.

Didn’t you hear how many wars he ended? There was the, uhhh, Albania-Azerbaijan war, the uhh, Israel-Palestine war that he completely ended moments before they started a new completely different war. Also Robot Wars and Storage Wars. And many others behind the scenes, so that from the outside, he seems to have done nothing at all.

We’ve watched Scrooged (NSFW) at Christmastime for the last few years.

Yeah why does the teacher have the equation for a line next to what appears to be a parabola?

And I don’t think either function is going to describe some random cock very accurately.

The God she tells you not to worry about.

I’ve never seen A Muppet Christmas Carol, but just looking at these pictures has caused me to start weeping uncontrollably.

On the other hand, the GOP, along with some Democrats, just approved a huge military budget, $900 billion IIRC, and what have they been doing with that? Blowing up fishing boats, hijacking oil tankers, and basically gearing up for some sort of larger military action in South America, perhaps. More suffering and death.

The GOP knows that causing suffering and death is in their best interests. They need “others”. They need victims. And they need hate. If people were able to calm down and rationally vote in their own best interests, instead of billionaires’ best interests, the GOP would be gone within a few years. And after that, the Democratic party would have to change quite a bit if they wanted to stick around, as well.

These uniforms suck!

This being a poll, the most important information is the exact question they were asked. If you ask the same question in a different way, you can get wildly different results. I clicked through to the Reuter’s link from this article, but I’m not sure it says the exact question.

From the graphic on that page, it says:

“The federal government is hiding information about Epstein’s alleged clients”

From Republicans, the “Yes” is 61% (I’m assuming this is a rounding issue with their software), and “No” is 17%.

So, strangely, the headline of this post and of the article that OP linked seem to be accurate, but if you read the content of that article, it’s quite a bit less accurate. It’s the opposite of what you normally expect from clickbait news articles.

Not a cellphone in sight!

The reason cellphones are relevant here is that they are used to record the event, either through still images or videos. So, to compare, we need to look at the people in these photographs and try to figure out how likely it is that there is a camera nearby to record the event.

Authoritarians simply have a need to say these things, even if nobody believes it, or if it’s provably untrue. We should try to get Trump and Kim Jong-Un supporters into deciding which one of them is the better golfer.

Next experiment will be the Banach–Tarski paradox.

If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you. - Lyndon B. Johnson