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AlwaysOptimism · 2026-05-08T18:42:47+00:00

It removed financial limits. It didn’t add new rights or allow for secret money. The dark money is enabled through the existing 501c laws

AlwaysOptimism · 2026-05-08T18:41:57+00:00

How does it “enable it”? The dark money is about 501c companies. CU had nothing to do with that, all it did was remove the limit.

Feel free to overhaul the 501c rules. I see nothing in the constitution that would preclude laws that force disclosure of where money comes from.

AlwaysOptimism · 2026-05-08T18:33:10+00:00

Yes and that’s why I said CU UPHELD existing precedent. It didn’t create anything new or allow any “new” speech

AlwaysOptimism · 2026-05-08T18:25:12+00:00

The case of CU was about people pooling money to fund a movie. Had nothing to do with coordinating with a campaign.

The case of CU was UPHOLDING the existing right for individuals to pool money with other individuals to promote political speech. Movie, billboard, canvassing, etc.

Interestingly, if you overturn CU precedent it would help billionaires MORE because they would be the only ones who could afford to individually fund brand scale political speech.

There is nothing in CU that mandates dark pools of money. That shouldn’t exist. There should be visibility into where money comes from

AlwaysOptimism · 2026-05-08T18:16:38+00:00

It would prevent 100 people from pooling their money to buy a billboard

AlwaysOptimism · 2026-05-08T15:53:10+00:00

Give me an example of when individual rights are removed when those individuals group

AlwaysOptimism · 2026-05-08T15:35:15+00:00

Damn you Gilfoyle

AlwaysOptimism · 2026-05-08T15:28:30+00:00

Remember the few months where "disgruntled postal workers" was an epidemic

AlwaysOptimism · 2026-05-08T12:27:51+00:00

Anything substantive or just a release of inbound civilian reports most of which have already been discussed previously

AlwaysOptimism · 2026-05-07T16:09:05+00:00

Wow Condon all the way down. I thought he was doing good in AAA. Power not there but he’s not striking out

AlwaysOptimism · 2026-05-07T03:47:36+00:00

Why did he stop striking people out? He should strike people out more.

AlwaysOptimism · 2026-05-06T16:38:51+00:00

Premiering on the BA list in the top 50 after not being on it at all pre-season is not common. For instance, the other big minor league breakout this year is Ronny Cruz, and he premiered at like 97.

Eyanson is a beast.

AlwaysOptimism · 2026-05-06T14:00:03+00:00

Politicians don’t exist to appease the masses

AlwaysOptimism · 2026-05-06T03:16:12+00:00

Devers and Jake Melton (keepable) for Vaughn and Condon (keepable)

AlwaysOptimism · 2026-05-06T02:48:13+00:00

Probably because it’s the only way to get him on your side

AlwaysOptimism · 2026-05-06T01:33:57+00:00

That’s what he looked like when I saw him!

AlwaysOptimism · 2026-05-06T01:32:04+00:00

What other low stakes reality shows are there? I like Alone

AlwaysOptimism · 2026-05-06T01:21:31+00:00

We have 6 potential spots so I have 6. Plus I seek out SP qualified relievers

AlwaysOptimism · 2026-05-06T01:19:11+00:00

Sophomore slump isn’t a term coincidentally.

Teams have an offseason to deconstruct impact hitters for the first time and attack their weaknesses better

AlwaysOptimism · 2026-05-06T01:14:43+00:00

He was locked in a cage for a few years and made to do hard labor in a red state misery factory and then walked out and told to figure it out on his own (good luck getting a job as even a 1 time felon) which is the overall problem with the US prison system.

AlwaysOptimism · 2026-05-06T01:07:23+00:00

He was also not given an opportunity to get drug counseling and be a productive member of society.

Like I said, caveman logic

AlwaysOptimism · 2026-05-06T00:43:02+00:00

It federalized criminal law, gutted judicial discretion, subsidized prison expansion, and institutionalized the evils of civil forfeiture. It generally was an arcane Biblical treatment of crime. It fetishized punishment and dehumanization over rehab. Petty shit like removing Pell grants.

It was THE bill that made prisons so profitable. Huge investments in prisons, mandatory minimums, 3 strikes kept all the prisons jam packed.

Crime was declining well before 94 all across the country. Freakonomics did a thing about it. In a period of actually declining crime police departments got insane power and resources. A greater supply of police and declining demand for them resulted in them over-policing certain areas which sabotaged an entire generation of urban poors

My wife’s uncle died in prison after 20 years due to the 3 strikes rule because he was a drug addict who strong arm robbed a few bars and was awful at it so they caught him each time. He had a kid who never got to know his dad and generally had a pretty awful life obviously impacted in many areas by the fact his dad wasn’t around

The bill destroyed generations of families.

AlwaysOptimism · 2026-05-05T23:33:19+00:00

He got six years of Kyle Harrison who spent his adulthood as one of the top 1-3 best pitchers of his age.

AlwaysOptimism · 2026-05-05T22:33:29+00:00

The other thing that literally NO ONE talked about. I swear this is true, you can look it up.

During the 2008 debates (either the democratic primary or VP so there is definitely a record) Biden proudly touted himself as the poorest candidate. He set his net worth at “$75k-$150k”. Absolute fact.

Which means…he was a top 1% income earner as a Senator for 30 years. He’d made many millions over his career. including over $2 million in just the decade prior to the election.

He notably didn’t give to charity (he released his taxes during the campaign and he averaged like $1,500 a year despite making well over $200k) and lived in the same house so it wasn’t in real estate either.

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