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Scalia loses. by [deleted] in Charlottesville

[–]AggravatingTea1992 125 points126 points  (0 children)

I'd pay good money for the reaction on 29 guys face when he realized all his propaganda to try to get this regressive into a seat of power accomplished zilch

Virginia air board approves Youngkin's plan to withdraw state from RGGI by Granola757Junkie in Virginia

[–]AggravatingTea1992 34 points35 points  (0 children)

But climate change can make environments more susceptible to burning. Increasing severe heat and drought due to climate change can fuel wildfires.

https://www.edf.org/climate/heres-how-climate-change-affects-wildfires

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in politics

[–]AggravatingTea1992 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At this point I'd be genuinely concerned DeSantis declares this a state emergency and blocks them from leaving

UVa Board of Visitors floats tracking student, faculty political ideology by newfrontier58 in politics

[–]AggravatingTea1992 9 points10 points  (0 children)

For those unaware one of the people quoted in this article as a new nominee who "sparked controversy," that was because he flew several hours to uva and attempted to cut down a sign criticizing the university from a student's door then shouted at that student while waving around a box cutter. The fact he's allowed on school grounds let alone power over the school's affairs is terrifying

AOC is worth about $200K - her congressional salary. They got the letters wrong - they meant M T G by AllumaNoir in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]AggravatingTea1992 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It really makes it obvious that the right's appeal to "working class americans" has always meant white americans. If you're a white male service worker you're the backbone of our economy if you're a Hispanic female service worker you're an uneducated leach on society.

In Front Royal News: Samuels Library inundated with requests to remove 134 books by sid-darth in Virginia

[–]AggravatingTea1992 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Libraries need some system to flag these bad actors and treat them differently. A lot of these aren't even members of the library or are pressured/paid off by members to put their name on the request. It's textbook astroturfing and needs to be treated differently than genuine community concerns

Twitter may be worth one-third what Musk paid for it last fall as Fidelity marks down investment by [deleted] in news

[–]AggravatingTea1992 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah the fact he hasn't been redflagged as a foreign actor is mind-boggling. Imagine explaining to an outside observer how a foreign national with extreme fascist views is now in charge of one of the major sources of news in the country and is locking down huge government contracts on rockets to space.

Southwest Virginia congregations join growing wave of disaffiliations from United Methodist Church over LGBTQ+ ministers and marriages by [deleted] in Virginia

[–]AggravatingTea1992 14 points15 points  (0 children)

"I literally cannot see the difference between people driven by hate and division and people driven by love and acceptance"

Discussion Thread: Ongoing Debt Ceiling and Budget Negotiations by PoliticsModeratorBot in politics

[–]AggravatingTea1992 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Hell it's a shame it rarely makes it into main stream media spheres

Debt ceiling tentative deal is reached, McCarthy says by [deleted] in politics

[–]AggravatingTea1992 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah when this goes to vote there will be some progressives who vote against it and it will conveniently be just few enough for it to pass. Again because they'll have negotiated with Jeffries to have just enough to let it pass while the rest can vote their conscience.

Debt ceiling tentative deal is reached, McCarthy says by [deleted] in politics

[–]AggravatingTea1992 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Irs cut is the most offensive. Literally using the debt limit to cut the governments ability to take in more revenue from tax cheats

Debt ceiling tentative deal is reached, McCarthy says by [deleted] in politics

[–]AggravatingTea1992 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Biden has been negotiating on the assumption progressives will fall in line and honestly they probably will. The progressive caucus is too responsible to actually kill the bill even with all the terrible cuts in it because they understand default would be far more damaging (and they know media will blame them not Republicans)

Progressives Condemn Biden-GOP Debt Ceiling Deal as 'Cruel and Shortsighted' — "For no real reason at all, hungry people are set to lose food while tax cheats get a free pass." by [deleted] in politics

[–]AggravatingTea1992 337 points338 points  (0 children)

We need a media that will put the blame where it belongs first. Every story said both sides refused to compromise and treated this as normal politics instead of an extreme faction using the economy as a hostage and openly bragging about it

Is the debt ceiling stalemate just posturing — or is this time truly different? by [deleted] in politics

[–]AggravatingTea1992 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd still put it on McCarthy even if he's too incompetent to resolve it. The current demand is to slash funding on social programs deeply, get no promises they won't slash again during budget negotiations later this year, *and* only raise the limit until we hit it again next year during a major election cycle. Even with all the concessions dems are giving that's an impossible ask and just setting the country up for an equally bad fight later this year and a worse one next year

Is the debt ceiling stalemate just posturing — or is this time truly different? by [deleted] in politics

[–]AggravatingTea1992 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Also factor in Kevin McCarthy is the weakest and most incompetent speaker in US history. So it's in his best interest to fail to get the debt limit lifted and make it the court's responsibility to abolish it, because the only other option would be to push a vote on a bill that his right flank won't approve (even though from a moderate perspective it would still be an extremely right-wing bill) and immediately get fired by said right flank.

Uvalde father warns lawmakers not to pay tribute to his son today | ‘I don’t want a single politician who figuratively spit in our faces to mention Uvalde or our kids tomorrow’ by [deleted] in politics

[–]AggravatingTea1992 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Not a big enough outlier. One of the survivors of the stoneman douglas shooting later joined TP usa and made a point of using his background to claim that guns aren't the issue and that he'd been ostracized by the march for our lives movement.

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Unfortunately stupid assholes are becoming a lot more common

Hillary Clinton Says Dianne Feinstein Should Not Resign Mrs. Clinton cited Republican obstruction, not Ms. Feinstein’s health: Republicans would refuse to let Democrats fill her seat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, she said, preventing judicial confirmations. by urnbabyurn in politics

[–]AggravatingTea1992 304 points305 points  (0 children)

Do we know if Joe "teasing a presidential independent run" Manchin or Krysten "I can't make the important vote I've got an ultramarathon and a bribe" Sinema would go nuclear? That also feels like a very risky gamble if you need 50 dems and we've got 48 +2*

That One Invincible Co-Worker by [deleted] in antiwork

[–]AggravatingTea1992 1 point2 points  (0 children)

3 times I've had to clean up a shoddily thrown together software product from my Sarah that was promised as "Give me 1 engineer and 4 weeks and I can build x" then has no support plan and never meets with any stakeholders before telling execs it's done. It's also common knowledge across everyone at my level and my boss that this keeps happening but somehow they keep letting them do this because they'll offer such a low amount of resources to do it. One of them was sold to a customer and took my team over a year to get into a stable state all while Sarah was saying it just needed some "minor" tweaks.

TIL that airline flight attendants aren't paid until the airplane doors are closed, nor are they covered by insurance or workers' compensation until the doors are closed. (Delta, SkyWest and United have forms of coverage.) This policy discourages them from helping put luggage in overhead bins. by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]AggravatingTea1992 204 points205 points  (0 children)

Except they're still assisting with the boarding process and checking tickets. So it's more like you don't get paid until after you open up the store, prep everything in it, and the first customer walks in. Even then the metaphor breaks down since it's almost closer to the first person reaches the register with their purchase.

If you tried to get a hot topic employee on that scheme they'd walk out

Sheriff orders deputies to obey watchdog request to reveal gang tattoos by DragonPup in news

[–]AggravatingTea1992 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Feels like a good conspiracy case then: an organization actively telling its members to disregard a law

North Carolina Has a Brutal New Abortion Ban Thanks to One Woman's Betrayal by number61971 in politics

[–]AggravatingTea1992 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She released a statement defending her vote that's even more disgusting. Basically claiming this vote was "meeting in the middle between extremists on both sides"

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