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somewhat_drunk
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somewhat_drunk
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"There are concerns"

Can you link to something describing the basis for these concerns?
somewhat_drunk
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I absolutely agree that we should not give the Executive any more power.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/dang...

So... Harris 2024, yes?

Snark aside, as long as democracy functions, all power ceded to the government is ceded willingly by a majority of the people.

That is, by definition, the people exercising their collective will, which is to say it is the decentralization of power.

And please, we are nowhere near communism in the USA. We aren't even approaching socialism, despite what your bogeyman solicitors are shouting at you.

Do better.
somewhat_drunk
·2 anni fa·discuss
Is money tantamount to power?

Is the centralization of power bad?

If yes to both, then the centralization of money is bad.

You have no argument against this. The best you can do is to attempt to refute the notion that money is tantamount to power, which will be laughable. But please do try.
somewhat_drunk
·2 anni fa·discuss
Is it?

Currently: https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/arizona-republic...

Recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_efforts_to_restrict...
somewhat_drunk
·2 anni fa·discuss
>There were a large body of studies showing that Ivermectin helped with COVID.

No, there wasn't. I haven't kept up with the science, so there may be such studies now, but there certainly wasn't back in late 2020, when the ivermectin craze spread like wildfire among right wingers.
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It's difficult to parse subsubzero's post after his edit, but he's saying Zuck believes Trump will win in 2024, so Zuck's spinning a narrative that he was forced to remove COVID misinformation, because COVID misinformation was largely a right-wing phenomenon.

My response to him was to point out that Harris is strong and trending stronger, while Trump is weak, so the tea leaves are saying the opposite of what he thinks they're saying.
somewhat_drunk
·2 anni fa·discuss
>he sees the tea leaves in where things are headed in November

Things are headed strongly in the opposite direction you're implying.
somewhat_drunk
·3 anni fa·discuss
They didn't last longer.

https://auto.howstuffworks.com/under-the-hood/diagnosing-car...
somewhat_drunk
·3 anni fa·discuss
Prove that it wasn't fair.
somewhat_drunk
·3 anni fa·discuss
As long as half the country gets their information from a biased, inflammatory propaganda ecosystem, this will only get worse.
somewhat_drunk
·3 anni fa·discuss
I interned at Goddard a few years back and Greenbelt was my favorite place. In the middle of a giant, hellish urban/suburban wasteland full of cars and roads with almost no walkability was a quaint little walkable village that was designed around a small central shopping/community center. I loved it. That's how we should build everything, imo.
somewhat_drunk
·3 anni fa·discuss
Please describe how the Affordable Care Act led to the situation you're responding to.
somewhat_drunk
·3 anni fa·discuss
Everyone here nitpicking the trees are missing the forest: EVs are necessary to reduce CO2 output, but consumers don't want them if charging is a pain in the ass. Resolving chicken vs egg problems for the good of the nation is exactly the proper role of a well functioning government.
somewhat_drunk
·3 anni fa·discuss
I tried this a decade ago, on a kopi luwak farm in Indonesia, before it became popular.

It cost me less than a dollar, and it's still the best cup of coffee I've ever had.
somewhat_drunk
·3 anni fa·discuss
How very snowflakey of you.
somewhat_drunk
·3 anni fa·discuss
I can't tell if you actually believe your logic is sound or you're just trolling.