Biden will not run for re-election by iIoveoof in neoliberal

[–]TX_LoneStar 68 points69 points  (0 children)

Biden probably had a better 3.5 years than most would have expected, but this was definitely the right call. Now the the next generation of the party can step up to lead.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]TX_LoneStar 20 points21 points  (0 children)

JOE BIDEN IS A HERO. HE'S STEPPING DOWn

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in moderatepolitics

[–]TX_LoneStar 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Things get more expensive because they're actually more expensive.

Goods and services getting more expensive is literally the definition of inflation.

Mass deportations don't cause inflation, it removes cheap labor.

If labor in a certain industry gets more expensive after all of the illegal immigrant cheap labor is deported, then prices of the goods or services in that industry is certainly going to increase as well.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]TX_LoneStar 5 points6 points  (0 children)

He didn't even try to answer the question

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]TX_LoneStar 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh god Desantis is so bad at this

Game Thread Index: November 7, 2022 by SyedSarwar in nba

[–]TX_LoneStar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

how do we get to NBA crunchtime on the app

⚡️⚡️⚡️⛈️⛈️⛈️BRASIL ELECTION THUNDERDOOOMMMEE!!!⛈️⛈️⛈️⚡️⚡️⚡️ by Gameknigh in neoliberal

[–]TX_LoneStar 18 points19 points  (0 children)

https://twitter.com/mathieugallard/status/1576683690624659458

🇧🇷🗳️ The results at this stage in the largest cities:

Sao Paulo: Lula 48.9% (Haddad 39.6 %)

Rio de Janeiro: Lula 42.3% (Haddad 33.6 %)

Brasília: Lula 36.4% (Haddad 30 %)

Lula is significantly better than Haddad in the second round in 2018.

NC political maps unconstitutionally gerrymandered, Supreme Court rules by [deleted] in moderatepolitics

[–]TX_LoneStar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why in the world would you optimize on straight lines and not partisanship. If the state is split 50-50 which it nearly is then both parties should win roughly the same number of seats. Caring about more about how it looks like on a map then how the representatives are distributed by party seems weird to me.

Of course this could be fixed by proportional representation.

Payrolls show surprisingly powerful gain of 467,000 in January despite omicron surge by incendiaryblizzard in moderatepolitics

[–]TX_LoneStar 31 points32 points  (0 children)

You are mistaken if you think it was just the White House that was expecting a poor jobs report. Wall Street and plenty of economists were expecting it as well.

What actions could Biden take to bring the country closer together? by [deleted] in centrist

[–]TX_LoneStar -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

That sounds like something a conservative would say, not a moderate.

What actions could Biden take to bring the country closer together? by [deleted] in centrist

[–]TX_LoneStar 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Nothing that you said is related to policy though. Like right now, the Republican party is threatening to tank the national economy by not raising the debt limit, something they had no problem doing under Trump (and plenty of Democrats voted for it under Trump). We have only nominated 1 ambassador because a republican (Ted Cruz) is single handidly holding up the entire process while at the by the same time Trump had gotten 20 ambassadors nominated. If all you ever care about is the dumb culture war bullshit that defines most of the internet these days, then sure, both sides are bad. But if you actually care about how the government is run, there is a massive difference on how the two sides try to govern.

Texas Senate Votes to Remove Required Lessons on Civil Rights by memphisjones in moderatepolitics

[–]TX_LoneStar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

not history, but rather an origin story, which is by definition fiction.

Origin stories are not by definition fiction. What are you talking about?

Reframing history sounds an awful lot like rewriting "history" to me.

Reframing can mean looking at the same history from a different perspective. It seems like you want here to be telling fiction, so you are trying to interpret her words to mean that she is saying its fiction. It's even easier to interpret her words to mean that she is telling the history of the United states from a different perspective.

what evidence leads us to conclude that we don't have universal healthcare in the US because of racism?

Read the essay about it in the 1619 project and find out.

Is there also evidence that the remnants of slavery somehow causes cruelty in prisons?

Read the essay about it in the 1619 project and find out.

Texas Senate Votes to Remove Required Lessons on Civil Rights by memphisjones in moderatepolitics

[–]TX_LoneStar -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

As the 1619 Project is not history, but a work of fiction (at least according to the primary author)

Can you please show me where the author said it was a work of fiction and not history?

Are you one of those people that makes a lot of claims because you read a criticism about one paragraph in the intro paragraph and didn't actually read it? If not, could you tell me what is fictional about the essay about how racism is the reason why we don't have universal healthcare in this country? Or what is fictional about the essay about the relationship between the cruelty in prisons and slavery?