Nominal Democrat Joe Manchin presents plan to sabotage Biden administration, ensure Mitch McConnell can filibuster all legislative action including on COVID, lock in damage Trump and McConnell did to American institutions. Singlehandedly takes legislature off the playing board.
Defund the police? Defund, my butt. I'm a proud West Virginia Democrat. We are the party of working men and women. We want to protect Americans' jobs & healthcare. We do not have some crazy socialist agenda, and we do not believe in defunding the police. https://t.co/EIFHX5OQ37
@BellafonteHairy@ObviousRises The Iwo Jima's ARG alone is ~5000 people, the Ford's CSG is ~7500. Add in various logistics and you could easily top 30k. We didn't just base out of Puerto Rico & aboardship, we were in least in Curacao and Aruba as well, and probably more than that.
@caitskirby@JJillikoi NO amount of "doing the right thing for 2020" in 2025 can un-do the wrong done in 2020. Even in 2020, symbolic compliance ("I'm the only one in the room masking") was utterly pointless. We had one shot at social consensus and we blew it in about two months.
@caitskirby@JJillikoi In an endemic contagion like 2025 COVID, there is very modest harm done. Most of the harm occurs during the process of everybody falling sick for the very first time. It can be skipped by being vaccinated instead.
@uavictory22@CohenSite This forceful redistribution is implicitly what they're advocating when NIMBY turns into "Enough homes are vacant that we shouldn't need to...", but they don't explicitly offer a mechanism (like high property taxes) to resolve the tension producing the status quo.
@uavictory22@CohenSite Because which is less charitable to them? That they've never heard of the concept of a supply/demand curve or the idea of floating "prices", or that they believe they can supersede it?
@sjs856 I am beginning to suspect that every single person in this thread that the algorithm sent me is a bot. Not a single real argument that explores its implication, in either direction.
@razzli_ You can't successfully call someone a hypocrite if they don't actually care about hypocrisy. If everything is a bad faith attack, if they worship only power and violence, then they think you a fool for showing up to a gun fight with *words*.