I love how TSA rules are different at every airport and they look at you like you're a fucking idiot when you don't speak their regional dialect of security theater.
@mamamightymac@gatewaypundit Imo the bakers are being less discriminatory. They aren't completely refusing to serve a group of people; they will still serve them normal items, just not make specialty things that violate their beliefs. The tattoo artist is refusing an entire group completely.
Senator Durbin’s argument boils down to this: “It’s already illegal, so why add verification?”
As a fraud investigator, I’ve spent more than 30 years exposing fraud. Theft is illegal. Securities fraud is illegal. Tax fraud is illegal. Bribery is illegal. Yet we still use internal controls, audits, identity verification, and oversight because laws alone don’t prevent misconduct.
The purpose of controls isn’t to accuse everyone of being a criminal. It’s to make fraud harder to commit and easier to detect.
The SAVE Act is based on that same principle. Pretending that “it’s already illegal” is an argument against verification ignores the first rule of fraud prevention: if you don’t verify, you invite abuse.
Wait so the guy who's always screaming about taxes and oligarchs and 'hoarding wealth' lives in a $6m home with a four story elevator (that he's moving out of because he bought an even bigger one) and his pre-teen children own THREE golf courses and have a major stake in a $65 BILLION DOLLAR wealth management fund? And up to $73 million in irrevocable trusts that cannot be taxed?
All of which he inherited himself from his father who built an auto parts empire in Cleveland?
Once you understand that all of the socialists are actually just spoiled rich kids who hate everything, it all makes a lot more sense.
Man our politics are dumb. I get it, it’s hard to sell the idea of simply fixing our tax code to get rid of the loopholes that exist only the wealthy. But that’s the real scam and issue. How about closing all the wealthy loopholes that Congress has essentially “sold” to lobbyists for the last 30 years. I promise you it would likely get the super rich paying more than they do now, rather than doing this class warfare cos play.
Mark Henry reveals what Vince McMahon told him after his mom passed away:
"Vince was like look I know you’re a momma’s boy. Get out of here and come back when you’re ready. I was out a year. He paid me every week."
Je suis complètement d'accord avec Luc Ferry. Le fait que l'on ne mette pas au pied du mur les idées relatives au communisme m'a toujours fasciné.
On compare le régime nazi au régime communiste, et en fait, je pense que collectivement, le jour où on associera enfin les idées communistes et marxistes au pire système que l'humanité ait jamais produit en termes de morts, on pourra peut-être commencer à avancer.
Les chiffres, parlons-en sérieusement.
Nazisme : environ 25 millions de morts. Horreur absolue, condamnée partout, à juste titre.
Communisme : environ 100 millions de morts. Le Livre noir du communisme, dirigé par Stéphane Courtois, l'a documenté pays par pays, avec une équipe d'historiens.
URSS sous Staline : 20 millions de morts. Goulag, Holodomor, purges, déportations.
Chine sous Mao : entre 45 et 65 millions selon les estimations. Le seul Grand Bond en avant (1958-1962), c'est entre 20 et 45 millions de morts par famine organisée. Frank Dikötter parle de millions de personnes battues à mort. Mao en personne, lors d'une réunion à Shanghai en 1959 : "quand il n'y a pas assez de nourriture, des gens meurent de faim. Il vaut mieux laisser mourir la moitié de la population pour que l'autre puisse manger."
Cambodge sous Pol Pot : 1,7 million de morts, soit un quart de la population du pays exterminé en 4 ans. Record absolu d'efficacité génocidaire.
Corée du Nord, Vietnam, Éthiopie de Mengistu, Cuba, Roumanie de Ceaușescu, Allemagne de l'Est. Partout où l'idéologie a été appliquée, le même résultat : famines, goulags, terreur de masse, dictature.
Et pourtant.
Pourtant, en 2026, en France, on peut afficher Marx, Lénine, Mao sur un t-shirt et passer pour un type cool. On peut citer Trotski en soirée et passer pour un intellectuel. On peut être député de la République et défendre Cuba ou le Venezuela sans qu'aucun journaliste ne demande des comptes.
Imaginez deux secondes l'inverse. Imaginez quelqu'un défendant publiquement le national-socialisme parce que "l'idée de base était bonne mais elle a été mal appliquée." Carrière finie en 30 secondes. Et c'est très bien comme ça.
Alors pourquoi le double standard ?
Parce qu'on a accepté l'idée que le communisme est une "belle idée mal appliquée." C'est faux. Profondément faux. Le communisme, dans sa logique même, suppose la suppression de la propriété privée, donc la coercition, donc la police politique, donc le camp, donc la fosse commune. Hayek l'avait expliqué dès 1944 dans La Route de la servitude : la planification centralisée mène mécaniquement au totalitarisme. Mises l'avait démontré encore avant : sans prix, pas de calcul économique possible, donc pénurie, donc rationnement, donc terreur.
Ce ne sont pas des dérives. C'est le programme.
Tant que la France considérera qu'on peut être communiste comme on est socialiste ou écologiste, qu'on peut citer Marx en cours d'éco sans citer ses 100 millions de morts, qu'on peut faire défiler le drapeau rouge dans les manifs sans susciter le même rejet que le drapeau noir à croix gammée, on n'aura pas fait le travail historique.
Ferry a raison. Il faut le dire. Et le redire.
Le pire système politique de l'histoire de l'humanité s'appelle le communisme. Pas par accident. Par construction.
We have a whole gun store packed full of guns.
No clue why @TheRascallion can't just scurry to the back and pick something out, oh no, Rascal has to traverse time and dimensions and risk tail and hide for the guns he brings you good folk.
The story Rascal was spinnin' is so wild that I only half listened. Something about portals and time jumps, or was it dimension jumps, heck I dunno.
Regardless. Rascal was talking to the fine folks over at @SummRidge and the two started debating 1911s and how they won 11 World Wars and what not and next thing we know he's conjured up a situation with @washghost1 George Washington's Ghost. The way Rascal tells it he asked the old patriot what his favorite gun was.
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@MuenzenMeister In Oregon in the USA, minimum wage is minimum wage regardless if you get tips. The lowest that anyone currently makes is $14.05/hr. And that's only in rural areas. It's higher everywhere else. Then add on the tips after that, with the social stigma attached to not tipping here...
There’s a fire that rages in me when people, especially politicians, use Jesus as a mascot for their ideology.
Jesus Christ would love “gay kids,” without question, just as we are called to do. But He would love them into righteousness, He would not cheer them into hell like people like this do.
When Jesus told the Pharisees to “cast the first stone” at the woman who committed adultery, he didn’t tell the woman “you are fine the way you are.” He said, “go and sin no more.”
Jesus didn’t die the most excruciating death imaginable so we can stay trapped in perpetual sin. He died so that we may have NEW LIFE through Him. We are called to become new creations, not to use his grace as a get out of jail free card.
Jesus is LORD, not your mascot.