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>The Democrat Party, as an organization

It's the Democratic Party.

By purposely misnaming it, you are making it clear that your take is a dismissive and biased one.

But you don't need me to tell you that -- it's your whole point.


literally nobody cares what the official title of the party is, which is why they post wrong titles. We all know which one is meant and you're being pointlessly obtuse.

>When we hire at the university, we ignore creative, tenacious people and instead select mediocre people with a nice woke story that meets the woke requirements.

Which university? Name some "creative, tenacious people" who were rejected by said university.

There's nothing in your HN profile to out you to anyone, so have at it. If you are unwilling to do so, I call bullshit on your anecdote. Or as they say, "pix, or it didn't happen."


USA people, do you all really love killing other human?

   And I went up there, I said, "Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I wanna 
   kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and
   veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, kill, kill, kill." And 
   I started jumpin' up and down yelling, "Kill! Kill!" and he started jumpin' up 
   and down with me and we was both jumping up and down yelling, "Kill! Kill!" 
   And the Sargent came over, pinned a medal on me, sent me down the hall, said, 
   "You're our boy."[0]

Does that validate your fantasy about Americans?

>you have no control of your democratically elected government at all?

Yes. We do[1].

[0] https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/arloguthrie/alicesrestaurant...

[1] https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/full-text


>all I heard was Biden-flation (or whatever they called it) was why we needed a new President.

From whom did you only hear that? Newsmax? The Drudge Report?


Apparently vox populi. A majority of the U.S. must frequent those sites.

(I'm beginning to think some people missed the sarcasm in my earlier posts.)


>(I'm beginning to think some people missed the sarcasm in my earlier posts.)

Yep. Given the forum and that you've been around here at least ten years, why would you think folks wouldn't take you at your word?

Be aware of Poe's Law[0]. Especially since there are way too many folks (I can think of at least a dozen or so off the top of my head) who would say the same thing unironically.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law


All good deadpan deserves a downvote?


I think you're right. I should celebrate the downvotes. ;-)


>Which is is fine, you can change the constitution, but thats for parliament to do.

To which Constitution are you referring? And which "parliament"?

The US Constitution can only be changed by votes by both supermajorities in both houses (House of Representatives and Senate) of Congress and the legislatures of 3/4 of the several states. We don't have a "parliament."

Are you referring to Canada's Constitution? Australia's? AFAIK, the UK has no Constitution and changes to Ireland's Constitution requires a national referendum.

Please do elucidate. Thanks!


>You can be protected by safe harbour provisions, or you can editorialise your content. I don't think you should have both.

Hi. You seem to be confused or uninformed. Check out this link[0]. IT should help.

[0] https://www.techdirt.com/2020/06/23/hello-youve-been-referre...


>You can be protected by safe harbour provisions, or you can editorialise your content. *I don't think* you should have both.

Personal opinion, not legal opinion.


>>You can be protected by safe harbour provisions, or you can editorialise your content. I don't think you should have both.

>Personal opinion, not legal opinion.

Fair enough. But not very charitable (or helpful/useful to freedom of speech) to anyone who doesn't have billions in cash on hand to fight the hundreds/thousands of lawsuits anyone who doesn't like what the thoughts of others that you (or I) choose to host on our platforms, whether they be web sites, mailing lists or video comment sections.

Section 230 protects the little guy much more than it does Meta, Alphabet, Musk, etc. As they have the deep pockets to fight those lawsuits. Do you? I don't.


>Again, if you read the TFA, the entire thesis is that the insider trading is extra bad beyond corruption. The corruption itself only gets a passing mention.

I did and that's not at all what TFA argues. It argues that it's the corruption that's the problem, which is exacerbated by the lack of legal enforcement by the current administration -- mostly because many in that administration are either actively involved in said corruption, or happy to cover it up/pooh pooh it.

I suppose you might think that some folks who haven't read TFA might buy your analysis, even though it's pretty much the opposite of what Krugman argues.

You go, girlfriend!


>So, yeah. "Must earn their worth" may sound "Christian", but it's not Christianity.

Blasphemer! That's the primary tenet of the "Prosperity Gospel"[0], the primary form of Christianity in the US.

For shame! You will burn in hell for that. Unless you donate $100,000.00 to Creflo Dollar[1] right now!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_theology

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creflo_Dollar


>While I recognize the community value of religion and the comfort it brings people, it comes at a huge cost that far outweighs the benefits. IMHO, organized religion is a cancer on modern society. I think there's other ways to get the good parts from it but that's a team effort.

   Those who abandon the Path are evil.

   Those who reject the path to enlightenment must be destroyed!
Hallowed are the Ori!


>I don't think anyone in 1776, or even in the Pilgrim days, was thinking a foreigner should have the right to vote for instance.

Nor does anyone in 2026. Your point?


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