capital_sniff

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[–] capital_sniff@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We had a fellow who shot at the unmarked unidentified police roaming around Minneapolis during the civil unrest following the murder of George Floyd. He was at a gas station if I remember and they beat the shit out of him. It took a while but he won the case and some money.

[–] capital_sniff@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How is this the first I am hearing that Belgium was just open for the taking?

And isn't the deadlock not sposed to influence that like we're supposed to have money for SNAP to continue.

[–] capital_sniff@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

If I am hearing what you are saying it sounds like they don't see these immigrants, minorities, or non-whites as people. Like they think they are subhumans and don't deserve the same rights as humans. I hope that isn't the case.

 

So I get that the GOP has to remove these "illegal immigrants." But it looks like they're just putting them on airplanes? Are there like Uhaul trucks for all their stuff following them? Does their family members keep it? What if they don't have any family?

I know when we were rounding up the Japaneses that a bunch of non Japanese folks stepped in to take their stuff.

Like okay I'm not supposed to live here but I still own this house and car. Plus my I just paid the Netflix subscription. Maybe I have a family I like so I have some photos of them that aren't on my phone because I've lived here for a long time before all the pictures went on the phones some are even polaroids. Do you get to bring your ATM card? What if they charge really high international fees?

[–] capital_sniff@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Tetlock. He's got a few talks on youtube that are very interesting. As someone who called all three recent presidential elections, I almost bought his book so his talks were fairly interesting.

[–] capital_sniff@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I guess it depends on which side of the boot you find yourself on. Also probably need to account for the folks totally unaware of the system for which they work. Off the top of my head I'd guess the economic top 20% are fairly happy with the empire continuing and toss in a large chunk of Trump supporters something like 30% of our population. Obviously there is overlap between these two groups, but I'd guess somewhere between 30% to 40ish% would be opposed to the US empire declining further.

[–] capital_sniff@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

That is def one way to accelerate the decline of this American Empire.

[–] capital_sniff@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Minority rule is not doing us fair.

[–] capital_sniff@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah real strange when a bunch of other billionaires start coming around your neck of the woods and messing with the people you have been exploiting. I guess I don't know enough about Pritz, but his response seems as simple as the old poker saying you can shear a sheep multiple times but only skin them once. Which is my way of saying he might just take exception to the skinning of his constituents, and is not about fixing shit beyond pragmatic constituent shearing.

[–] capital_sniff@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago

Something like over half the price increases are because the businesses are able to raise prices and consumers still buy. So high prices are in large part due to greed. The rest I assume are increased input costs and costs of doing business.

[–] capital_sniff@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Wasn't the first about a programmer getting his game back from the evil corporation?

[–] capital_sniff@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

They need to rebrand the march as a totally peaceful tour.

[–] capital_sniff@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Are those the Texas guard that are coming from the perfect land of Texas where no one is swept away in floods or goes without electricity?

 

I'm not talking about the people going underground part or them not knowing why they are there, but the parts were lots of things are hinted at or plot bits dangled and then it just turns out there aren't any answers.

 

If there was a game show like are you smarter than a fifth grader, but instead it is are you smarter than previous President George Bush Jr. and twice impeached previous President Trump is the first contestant would Trump win? So basically who is smarter the 43rd or 45th?

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