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[–] 106 points 7 months ago (32 children)

can't wait to see who wins the "first sitting governor to be arrested by the Trump admin" bet on polymarket.

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  • [–] 36 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Fucking really? There’s a bet for that? I’m both shocked and sadly not surprised at all. Everything I hear about Polymarket betting is so appalling.

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  • [–] 27 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I did not bother to check if it actually exists, I actually don't know if they would allow that specific bet. But, they are ghouls that profit off the exploitation of the powerless so I'm sure they're working on it.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (24 children)

    Fucking do it, I hope they arrest Pritzker. It'll put him straight to the top of the '28 Dem candidates.

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  • [–] 18 points 7 months ago (23 children)

    Ew, please don't simp for billionaires

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (18 children)

    Our great Khan has done wonders for our state finances while constantly passing legislation that benefits the working class, preserves our rights, and protects marginalized communities. All while pushing back against Trump and laying groundwork for Democrats to prosecute this administration in 2029.

    He will be the last billionaire we eat.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (17 children)

    I'm down with eating him last, but as long as he is one of them, I'm not voting for him. There is no such thing as an ethical billionaire

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    He inherited it. Does that not change things?

    Actual legitimate question. I'm not a fan of billionaires but it seems different between just being born into the family vs actually doing the exploiting yourself, add to that he seems to be at least teetering on the edge of being a class traitor.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    In my opinion, it does not. He could choose to spend every penny he has on making life better for folks until he's as poor as the rest of us. Instead he chooses to get richer.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Regardless of the possibility that Pritzker's a good 'un who somehow slipped through the net, we should still have a policy that causes existing billionaire to not be billionaires anymore, and to prevent the emergence of new billionaires.

    If that were to happen, Pritzker would still be a good 'un (if he really is) but inequality would have been reduced a little.

    If we don't snip off that long tail, democracy won't have a chance to recover.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (11 children)

    Ok then enjoy president JD Vance or Marco Rubio I guess.

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  • [+] -6 points 7 months ago (9 children)

    If you really believe that we can just elect the total collapse of American culture away, then I think you need to do some soul searching. Learn to be resilient, nobody is coming to save us.

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  • [–] 27 points 7 months ago (2 children)
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    I can't even with you people. "Not voting" is never going to get you anything you want. Ever. You think "voting is showing my undying love for somebody!" when it's really "Which of these assholes is going to lead to a better outcome?"

    If you don't think Pritzker would lead to a better outcome than Trump then you're probably too stupid to figure out the voting ballot anyway.

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  • [–] -2 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I vote. I vote in the primaries, and the general elections, and the special elections. That doesn't mean I'm deluded enough to believe it's actually doing anything, but obviously harm reduction is the only path we have.

    Trump is just continuing the same policies that every other president has put forward. Some times the have a D next to their name and they nicer things for social issues, and then everybody forgets that they're also war criminals who are enacting a massive anti-immigrant deportation policy.

    If you think Pritzger is any different, than you're probably too stupid to realize you've been voting for all of this to happen the whole time.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Trump is just continuing the same policies that every other president has put forward.

    Bull. Shit.

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  • [–] -3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Oh, so I wasn't feeding and clothing immigrants in the largest open air detention facility in the history of the country during the Biden admin? Weird, I guess that was a dream. I guess I dreamed all of the family separation and children in prisons back during the Obama admin too.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    You understand how stupid this argument is... right? God I hope so.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    It's not. People act like this rise in fascism came out of nowhere and I'm saying that there were signs. People didn't want to read them because it would have interrupted whatever fun weekend they were having, or whatever, but the signs were there. This has been an ongoing project for decades. It didn't start with Trump and it won't end with him either

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Why not?

    Should we exclusively simp for candidates who don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell because they’re ideologically pure?

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Nope, you should support candidates that actually care about your best interests.

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  • [–] 88 points 7 months ago* (6 children)

    Several L.A. hospice and healthcare providers were raided by federal authorities early Thursday morning.

    The crackdown on the city resulted in eight arrests and the suspension of 221 facilities over 10 weeks, officials said.

    So raiding and shutting down healthcare facilities in Democratic states is the new distraction from the USA losing its own war in Iran and destroying the world's economy, which was the distraction from Trump raping children?

    When was the last time the Republicans did anything actually good and helpful?

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  • [–] 26 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    The legends tell of a time when conservatives were supportive of the environment. But I've never seen it and I’m a old.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    It was never true. Conservatives are named optimistically like Democratic Republic of NK or Soviet Republic.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    Goldwater was a strong supporter of environmental protection, saying in 1965:

    I feel very definitely that the [Nixon] administration is absolutely correct in cracking down on companies and corporations and municipalities that continue to pollute the nation's air and water. While I am a great believer in the free competitive enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment. To this end, it is my belief that when pollution is found, it should be halted at the source, even if this requires stringent government action against important segments of our national economy.

    It was probably an outlier then too.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago

    Republicans of the Early 60s were maybe not as evil, if only because that was at the tail end of the Party switch.

    Before that, conservatives and progressives were more spread between both parties.

    The Party Switch took something like 50-60 years, with Nixon's Southern Strategy being the defining moment, and Reagan's Moral Majority calcifying the status quo.

    Still, as late as the 1960 presidential election, things could have gone either way.

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  • [–] 67 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (10 children)

    Hey.

    Why are blue states funding failing red states when all they can do is elect pedophiles to threaten us?

    Also, do these traitors realize there's a shit ton of their voters in these blue states they're threatening? There are a TON of Republicans in California.

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  • [–] 43 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (9 children)

    California is a shockingly purple state, tbh. The cities just happen to have high enough density to outweigh the rest. Once you leave them, things get really red really quick. It's basically like Texas, just favouring the other side.

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  • [–] 34 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    That's literally every state, and that's because cities are where the people are, and people vote, not land. For instance, the only reason Georgia has Democratic senators is because of Atlanta.

    Usually, the cities in a state have a LOT more people than all the rural regions combined, so that's where the votes are concentrated. Simple as that.

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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Because people vote, not land. But yes, California is full of deplorable, hateful, subhuman Republicans once you get outside the major metro areas.

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  • [+] -6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Calling your political opponents subhuman comes from the fascist playbook. I wouldn't go there.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago*

    Anyone that behaves like a creature from a Germanic folk tale will be categorized as one. Humanity is a label that must be demonstrated and earned.

    Do you know what else comes from the fascist playbook? Every leftist term imaginable, because the movement is fundamentally weaponized bad faith. As with the paradox of tolerance, do not grant that benefit to those who would not grant it to others. Neoliberal language policing helps nobody.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    I agree with the spirit of what you say, we must not be like the fascist horde, and I hold in the other hand the understanding that the concept of evil and the demonoc throughout history is based on sociopathic humans like the ones that lead this country.

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  • [–] 194 points 7 months ago (35 children)

    Hurry! Stir up more bullshit, we need to distract from Iran which was our distraction from the Epstein Files!!!

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago*

    Isn't this about the upcoming midterms? Start the voter bullying early, get the controversies going to control the narrative better?

    I better read the article.

    edit: nah, it's just more "bad illegal aliens" bs.

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  • [–] 49 points 7 months ago (32 children)

    the epstien files dont even matter when you are elite ultra rich above the law and rigging markets while doing the usual US leadership move of create value for the weapons manufacturers that sponsor you, those million dollar missile defense systems arent going to sell themselves, and there is tons of money to be made in fracturing society with culture wars and raiding the fake ops of the moment, and all the while halting the progress of society that would make other important sponsors like fossil fuels become irrelevant

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  • [–] 60 points 7 months ago (31 children)

    Hey! Punctuation involves more than commas. Did you know that?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (30 children)

    He and the other person that downvoted you failed grammar class.

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  • [+] -9 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Honestly, your attempt at a joke on this, is really immature.

    Punctuation is great and all that, but taking pride in looking down is an ugly look.

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  • [+] -6 points 7 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    This is incredibly overly hostile to someone telling you, correctly, that punching down in comedy fucking sucks.

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  • [+] -19 points 7 months ago (20 children)

    my punctuation does not have to be perfect for the ideas to be understood, language, grammar, word use, and communication is as varied as the human experience, and obsessive pedantic emphasis on arbitrary rules serves hierarchy more than the free exchange of information. seems like more people understand this concept than dont as i have more upvotes than both of the obtuse grammar priss mounds. Also grades are not indicative of intelligence, in fact there are all kinds of intelligence that cant be formally measured.

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  • [+] 3 points 7 months ago (15 children)
  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    are you suggesting that people maybe shouldn't invest so much of their time and attention on things that ultimately maybe don't matter all that much?

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Basically, it was a 1 sentence review of their problem and everyone but the person I replied to decided to take it as anything other than internet fuckery.

    I don't think of myself as a troll but when people cast the bait and tackle for themselves, they don't deserve feeling indignant. They kept feeding and I kept eating. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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  • however you see yourself, you come off like a not-very-creative troll in this thread. needling people about grammar is maybe the oldest troll bullshit on the internet and it was never funny. There are venues where adhering to a formal style is important (arguably), but a random thread on a forum ain't it. It's ok to show up in your linguistic sweatpants sometimes.

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  • [–] -4 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    ACAB, especially the grammar police.

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  • [–] -5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Awe, feeling sad that it's not about you instead?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (2 children)

    Not at all. You sound like you’re 14 and trying to be “smart” in front of people who can barely stand to be around you.

    You’re not even acknowledging the rebuttal to the argument YOU started, and refuse to see that they conveyed the message they were trying to deliver without your pedantic little rules.

    Language is not a set of rules but a living, cognitive phenomenon and a system of communicative patterns acquired through usage.

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  • [+] -6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I didn't start an argument. I agreed with another user that OP used as little punctuation as possible, and then all you sour bitches came and started harassing me. Go touch grass kid.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    You made a crass statement that was needlessly rude and people pointed it out and somehow that is harassment towards you? On a public forum?

    God forbid anyone disagree with you, apparently we are so cruel to do so.

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  • [–] -5 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    i never said you were dumb, i said obtuse (for changing the topic at hand to something arbitrary) pedantic (for emphasizing the arbitrary rules if grammar) and a priss mound (for being unpleasantly self righteous about the aforementioned things) and i will never give a fuck about punctuation in certain situations or the criticisms of random bad faith internet commenters. This has added nothing to the conversation.

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  • [–] -2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    This has added nothing to the conversation.

    You're still arguing, so it's clearly added something that intrigues you.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    im just having genuine human interactions with you, after you in the first place took a jab at me over something arbitrary and unrelated to the original topic, and i think even with great effort to miss the point and deflect the trajectory of conversation, its very apparent how increadibly useless bringing up grammar and punctuation is, as this seems to be an exchange filled with animosity and ill will, going nowhere and accomplishing nothing.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    It doesn't have to be perfect, but that doesn't mean you should go full Saramago. Punctuation can really help the reader organize and process what you are saying. I read your entire first comment but I retained absolutely nothing because it just kept going and going and going. There's a big difference between grammatical pedantry and just wanting to understand what someone is saying.

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    if someone wants to understand what im saying they can communicate that to me by asking directly, i type many different ways on many differwnt formats and in my everyday life with the people i talk to regularly, i have no issues whatsoever, no one cares about my use of commas and run on sentences, misspelling, or punctuation, and if they did, they would ask me to clarify what im saying in a straight forward manner, and this includes most random people in piefed communities i engage with. i actually have not encountered substanceless pedantry since i left reddit. its obvious the trolls didnt care about what i was saying, and you dont seem to care either. i have no idea what saramago is and im not asking anyone for gramar advice and dont care how i seem to random people not trying understand me in the first place. English is a living language with a wide varieties of ways its used in writing, typing, and spoken language, people can be open to that fact and speak up about misunderstandings directly, which is what i normally encounter. I don't need grammar advice and am willing to clarify anything about my original if asked.

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  • [–] 57 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    The states:

    … California, Illinois, Minnesota (Somalia beware!), Maine, New York, and many others …

    This is so fatiguing

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  • [–] 49 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Let me introduce you to Sen. Rick Scott. A real life POS

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Scott

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  • [–] 48 points 7 months ago

    Warnings, my ass. Those are threats.

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