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  • JUST IN: House Democrats File Bill to Form 25th Amendment Commission to Assess Trump’s Mental Fitness

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  • The fact he still believes we need another conservative party does not look good.

    He looks senile. He is.

    As for voting progressive, boy, Biden and Pelosi sure were voting progressive a lot of the time with funding police.

    Progressives want community policing. They don't want no police. You're confusing progressives with anarchists.

    But you won't convince me or many other leftists to choose a lesser evil or harm reduction or whatever false dichotomy you call come up with.

    I'm more leftist than you are, and I've already convinced several. The key idea is that we should always do the best we can. If the choice is between bombing Iran and not bombing Iran, I choose not bombing Iran. If the choice is between sanctioning West Bank settlers and getting aid to Gaza and not doing those things, I choose the former. If the choice is between teaching Americans black history as American history and not teaching black history, I choose the former. If the choice is between helping refugees and removing their legal status after they're already in the country and deporting them, you can guess which one I'm going to choose.

    While I make these choices, I convince others who aren't as progressive as me why the progressive policies that aren't yet popular make sense, so the next time around, we'll have the votes for it. In just the same way, I convince progressives who don't think through the consequences of their actions why they need to, so we have the votes not to backslide into regressive policies. I don't agree with anybody I vote for 100% of the time, but I do understand that voting for them is better than the alternative. Imagine if people who wanted equal rights for black people didn't vote for Lincoln because he said he didn't think that blacks should marry whites or go to the same schools (read the Lincoln Douglas debate transcripts).

  • JUST IN: House Democrats File Bill to Form 25th Amendment Commission to Assess Trump’s Mental Fitness

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  • So I'm hearing then they also cannot manage to keep themselves in order with their overall arching message of Resistance as well.

    Nobody is going to get 100% of their members to vote a certain way, especially if their votes don't matter. This is true for any political party, even your favored one. When their votes do matter, Democrats vote consistently more progressively than the alternative.

    Also yeah, let's not forget voting to fund ICE and DHS.

    ICE was funded by the OBBBA. All Democrats voted against it in both houses and even convinced several Republicans to vote against it to the point that Vance had to cast a tie-breaking vote.

    Oh also remember when Biden said we need Republicans as much as Democrats?

    Biden is senile. He said a bunch of crazy things, but he didn't say we need Republicans as much as Democrats. He said that we need a Republican Party that is principled and strong. It's precisely a lack of principles and backbone that resulted in the GOP's Trump takeover.

  • JUST IN: House Democrats File Bill to Form 25th Amendment Commission to Assess Trump’s Mental Fitness

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  • "Some other body" is quoted from the 25th Amendment, which empowers Congress not to do the same thing that the Vice President and Cabinet can do but to create "some other body" that can do what the Vice President and Cabinet can do. They could pass a law that empowers Congress to do that, but that would be less likely to pass than passing a law that empowers some committee because Congress has other things to do.

  • JUST IN: House Democrats File Bill to Form 25th Amendment Commission to Assess Trump’s Mental Fitness

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  • This commission is the "some other body" that Democrats in "Congress may by law provide."

  • JUST IN: House Democrats File Bill to Form 25th Amendment Commission to Assess Trump’s Mental Fitness

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  • Newly-elected Hungarian PM says Orbán was paying CPAC, calls it a ‘crime’ that ‘will have to be investigated’

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  • And the US used taxpayer money to send Vance to Hungary to stump for Orbán there, right out in the open. In Hungary, using taxpayer money to fund an extremist foreign political party is a scandal. In the US, this matter is too deep in a flooded zone for anyone to care.

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    [Politics] We hanged and beheaded the decadent Bourbon dynasty. Why don't we overthrow the Epstein elite the same way?

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  • In the US, there's very much a mood among the anti-MAGA crowd that an election can still fix things.

    More to the point, if an election can't fix things because the voters are still MAGA, the new government installed by the majority will be the same as the old.

    Revolutions don't make sense in a democracy, so until voting is stopped or the results of the vote are ignored (like if Trump had been successful on January 6), convincing voters to vote a particular way is the only surefire solution.

  • The Dangers of California’s Legislation to Censor 3D Printing

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  • Unlike laws against making guns, this law applies to printer sellers, not to their users.

  • Remember, living wages is less expensive than this!

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  • And respiratory and cardiovascular disease.

  • "God, you're hot" school board member Keith Ervin not removed from school board.

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  • Because nonsense I know that throwing a punch won't solve the problem, will gain sympathy for the attacked, and will put me in jail. Smart shit.

  • "God, you're hot" school board member Keith Ervin not removed from school board.

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  • if you're too much of a feckless hand-wringer to do anything to defend your community from predators.

    Unlike you, I do things that work instead of just putting myself in jail. I was lucky to grow up in a household with education and without violence, so that's why I'm more likely to make correct decisions.

    the will of the people is ignored

    News to me.

    your advice

    is to call for his resignation, raising embarrassment until he does. I'm active in local politics, so I know what works. It's the people who aren't active in politics who think action movies have all the answers. Rand Paul is still in office. Tony Gonzales will not be.

  • "God, you're hot" school board member Keith Ervin not removed from school board.

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  • Whatever you say, Batman. Are you the one who's going to deliver the punch?

    Plenty of other countries have more vigilante justice and still have corrupt leaders, so clearly that doesn't work either. Maybe instead work to make your government better. In a democracy, it represents the will of the people.

  • Scam Altman says it’ll take another year before ChatGPT can start a timer. An $852 billion company, ladies and gentlemen.

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  • In the video, ChatGPT was actually being used as a stopwatch instead of a countdown timer.

  • Scam Altman says it’ll take another year before ChatGPT can start a timer. An $852 billion company, ladies and gentlemen.

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  • This will actually be solved in a week. All it takes is to add the current time to each input.