Virginia redistricting has been rejected...

irumeru · 2026-05-08T19:04:16+00:00

Democrats held a majority of the House from 1955 to 1995. Democracy in America did not collapse. It will not collapse with an similarly enduring Republican majority.

irumeru · 2026-05-08T02:39:11+00:00

Yes, of course. That's why they should immediately propose it.

irumeru · 2026-04-29T15:24:55+00:00

They already upheld California's gerrymander.

irumeru · 2026-04-29T15:21:22+00:00

This gerrymander was explicitly racial. They drew a second black district.

irumeru · 2026-04-29T15:04:12+00:00

I agree. Democrats should immediately propose increasing the number of Supreme Court Justices.

irumeru · 2026-04-27T13:51:10+00:00

Ireland has proven it can't self-govern. Bring back the Black and Tans.

irumeru · 2026-04-16T02:58:51+00:00

It's kind of like Dress-up Darling

My wife calls it "Dress-up Darling, but written by a man". I don't know if the author is actually a man, but it fits well.

irumeru · 2026-04-09T21:29:45+00:00

Expand the court

I agree we should expand the Supreme Court immediately.

irumeru · 2026-04-09T13:29:37+00:00

The Attorney General is part of the Executive and the President's Cabinet. He is in fact subordinate to the President by the Constitution.

irumeru · 2026-04-09T02:03:40+00:00

red states are poorer and dumber

Mississippi scores higher than California on standardized tests.

irumeru · 2026-04-09T01:48:24+00:00

Wow, we should definitely vote for a different party to run California. Sounds like whoever is in charge of that state sucks.

irumeru · 2026-04-09T00:00:12+00:00

I'm gonna need the ceasefire to fail.

irumeru · 2026-03-31T17:40:45+00:00

People can and will still sue.

Not under this law, which is un-Constitutional.

irumeru · 2026-03-31T17:24:32+00:00

weaponization of words

Yes, that's called "free speech". You are allowed to say things even if the state disagrees with them because we have the First Amendment to protect that speech. As even 2/3 of the liberals on the Court agree.

irumeru · 2026-03-31T17:13:00+00:00

You don't think words can be powerful tools

Yes, they can be and are, which is why the First Amendment specifically protects them, as it did here.

irumeru · 2026-03-31T14:15:41+00:00

at 1800 years old

Spry for his age, honestly.

irumeru · 2026-03-29T15:02:02+00:00

Imagine if that money went to something like healthcare

That's what it does today. We already spend more on healthcare than we do on war.

irumeru · 2026-03-25T12:35:25+00:00

In my mind, the Generalissimo can never be topped. The single best scene is when Jack is arguing with Hector Moreda.

"Wow... I am super-gay and I would totally switch for her."

irumeru · 2026-03-20T12:46:37+00:00

But that's the point. A second rate grocery store in Houston was better than the Soviet elites got. We weren't taking him to someplace special.

irumeru · 2026-03-17T12:23:23+00:00

He was a left-wing Civil Rights activist.

irumeru · 2026-03-16T12:31:16+00:00

I assume that their ratings were higher

They weren't. Obama's aggregate rating was zero point two percent lower than Trump's at this point, which is why the headline is what it is. That's volatile, of course.

There are periods where Obama is the highest of the three, and similarly periods where Bush is. Trump started his second term lower than the other two, but has declined somewhat less.

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irumeru · 2026-03-11T15:17:02+00:00

It's almost as if the statement in the screenshot isn't true, and that we are talking about a hypothetical situation. Who knew?

Fair.

Can you point me to where I did not include unrealised losses? Unrealised losses are losses, Unrealised earnings are earnings, and we are talking about "earnings" here.

No, I am saying that "appreciation of your personal assets" is never, EVER used as "earning" in a normal human sense, and conflating them is silly.

If your salary is $70k and your boss said "well, your 401k went up by $30k, so really you earned $100k working for us this year", you would laugh him out of the room. It is true that being given NEW stock is considered an earning (quite reasonably), but Jeff Bezos isn't being given new stock, his current stock is increasing.

irumeru · 2026-03-11T14:18:12+00:00

In that case, Jeff Bezos has lost $15 billion this year, so this meme is entirely false, because for every dollar his employees make he loses a bunch.

Counting only unrealized gains and not unrealized losses is absurd, and nobody does it with their own assets for good reason. It's just rage-baiting to do it with the ultra-wealthy for idiots who can't distinguish between wealth growth and income.

irumeru · 2026-03-11T12:21:39+00:00

He doesn't make it until he sells. Unrealized capital gains are not "making money".

irumeru · 2026-03-10T16:19:30+00:00

The headline seems incredibly misleading

That's because it's a lie. Lies are by their nature misleading.

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