U.S. Politics

[konfab]

Oh god. On top of all your other ****, you are an anti-vaxxer too.

I post a quote from the CDC saying that vaccines are not effective against the thing that they are meant to protect against, yet I am an anti-vaxxer?

I am the opposite. I am very pro vaccination and will quite happily get the vaccine the moment the Politibuero decides it is morally acceptable for a South African medical aid to purchase them.

In fact I am so pro-vaccine that I think the evidence for them is strong enough that there is no need for any other measures for people to take once they are vaccinated. But that isn't good enough for the cult of the Branch Covidians, who relish at any thought at constraining someone's freedom.

 

[scudsucker]

I post a quote from the CDC saying that vaccines are not effective against the thing that they are meant to protect against, yet I am an anti-vaxxer?

I am the opposite. I am very pro vaccination and will quite happily get the vaccine the moment the Politibuero decides it is morally acceptable for a South African medical aid to purchase them.

In fact I am so pro-vaccine that I think the evidence for them is strong enough that there is no need for any other measures for people to take once they are vaccinated. But that isn't good enough for the cult of the Branch Covidians, who relish at any thought at constraining someone's freedom.

OK, Konfab



Also: * politburo

 

[konfab]

Based on this post, I hope you do not have kids, and you have no need for income through your job.

7 months too late for that

I very much like being able to give my wife a 30 minute break and keep the baby entertained whilst I work.

 

[Vorastra]

"They're too stupid to have ID."
- white leftists

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1379826356846882821

 

[Vorastra]

7 months too late for that

I very much like being able to give my wife a 30 minute break and keep the baby entertained whilst I work.
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Wraith Max cooler? Good choice. Almost broke the pins off my 3600 trying to take it off. GG, nice chip clamp AMD.

 

[Vorastra]

Based on this post, I hope you do not have kids, and you have no need for income through your job.

I'd retort but we both know the answer to that.

 

[scudsucker]

7 months too late for that

Poor guy.

 

[Temujin]

"They're too stupid to have ID."
- white leftists

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1379826356846882821

Them white middle/upper class leftists... they all think the same and voted for the man who they identify with

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1363224533759574016

 

[Temujin]

 

[buka001]

That is really stupid.


If only there were some technology that would allow people to work from home...

How does a guy who puts in formwork to hold concrete in place, work from home?

 

[buka001]

It could by proposed by the Trumpenfuherer Himself and I would still think it is stupid.

Working from home is the only positive thing that has become normalised because of Covid, and it really is one of those things that has very few downsides.
Raising children is slightly more than paying some minimum wage teenager to keep them from killing themselves, which is exactly what a workplace childcare facility would be. It is a golden opportunity for a lot of parents to be able to work and keep an eye on their children.

Ha! You obviously don't have a kid who is older than say 4 and your wife obviously doesn't work, if you can say flagrantly ignorant stuff like that.

LOL. Of all the sh!+posting of today, this actually made me cry with laughter.

Hilarious. Keep up that ideological front though. Must be that satire you guys talk about.

 

[buka001]

7 months too late for that

I very much like being able to give my wife a 30 minute break and keep the baby entertained whilst I work.
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Called it.

 

[Unhappy438]

That is really stupid.


If only there were some technology that would allow people to work from home...

No this post is really stupid.

 

[surface]

Based on this post, I hope you do not have kids, and you have no need for income through your job.

He recently became a dad I think. He became quite a militant a-hole after that. I feel for the little one though.

 

[cerebus]

Ha! You obviously don't have a kid who is older than say 4 and your wife obviously doesn't work, if you can say flagrantly ignorant stuff like that.

LOL. Of all the sh!+posting of today, this actually made me cry with laughter.

Hilarious. Keep up that ideological front though. Must be that satire you guys talk about.

I dunno, I agree with him. Although my wife doesn't work - if she did it would be a different story. But wfh is much better for me than working in the office, even with 3 older kids around - even when they had to stay home because of school closures. WFH should at least be an option and these days I think most jobs could be transferred to home without too much trouble.

 

[buka001]

I dunno, I agree with him. Although my wife doesn't work - if she did it would be a different story. But wfh is much better for me than working in the office, even with 3 older kids around - even when they had to stay home because of school closures. WFH should at least be an option and these days I think most jobs could be transferred to home without too much trouble.

I can't work from home.

My wife could work from home, however it was not possible for her to work efficiently with a 6yr old around.

A colleague has 3 kids. He wrote to the school and said write the year off for them, as his wife cannot school 3 kids seperately and work all at the same time.

Luckily for us, my wife got key worker status as well and we could take him back to school after 3 months into the pandemic.

I was schooling my kid until 9pm at night sometimes over those 3 months, when I got home, because my wife had a day full of meetings etc, so couldn't do both, during the day.

 

[Unhappy438]

I dunno, I agree with him. Although my wife doesn't work - if she did it would be a different story. But wfh is much better for me than working in the office, even with 3 older kids around - even when they had to stay home because of school closures. WFH should at least be an option and these days I think most jobs could be transferred to home without too much trouble.

Most jobs? Not a chance. Realistically its 20%.

 

[RanzB]

Sen. Ted Cruz illegally promoted his book with campaign funds, watchdog alleges in ethics complaints​

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, violated campaign finance rules by using donor funds to promote his book, a watchdog alleged Wednesday in two ethics complaints.

The Campaign Legal Center, or CLC, accused Cruz’s campaign committee of spending up to $18,000 in late 2020 on Facebook advertisements that “exclusively” urged viewers to buy copies of the senator’s book. Those ads included links to buy the book from third-party online booksellers, said the CLC, a nonprofit organization that seeks transparency in government.


“Because Cruz receives royalties from book sales, his campaign crossed a legal line by spending donor funds on Facebook ads promoting sales of that book,” said Brendan Fischer, CLC director of federal reform, in a press release announcing the complaints.

Grifters, thieves and liars. The GOP's favourite playbook.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

I actually have been thinking of the root cause of the issue with the services provided by Google, Facebook etc. The root cause of the problem I think is the jurisdiction of the contract law that these companies use. If you read the terms and services that they provide, they all state that any disputes will set in the jurisdiction of California, so it effectively is impossible for someone outside of California to settle a dispute. Yet, if I go and make a website called Google and provide exactly the same service as they do, minus the censorship, they can go and use the South African courts to compel me to take down my website with copyright law. Being able to arbitrarily pick your jurisdiction like this

The solution is actually very simple, if they want to make use of another country's legal system to protect their IP and copyright against an individual, then they have to use that country's legal system to resolve contract disputes.

It's not really arbitrary if it's in their T&C's, though. It's standardised.

Is it different at all from how other service providers operate? It would make sense that disputes are settled where the dispute arose, wouldn't you say?

It doesn't seem to the case anyway, if you go through some of their litigation, it's from all over the US and abroad. It would make sense for the majority to be in California, given they're incorporated there. This is standard for all corporations, surely?

Google litigation - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Same for Facebook, who have also been sued across the US and abroad.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Can you politely request that you change your profile pic? That bright red is a shocking eye-sore. Maybe it's because I have the dark theme on but yeah...



Isolated incidents don't really count in the broader picture.

For Five Months, BLM Protestors Trashed America’s Cities. After the Election, Things May Only Get Worse

This week marks the first time in living memory that widespread violence was widely viewed as a foreseeable, and even expected, outcome of an American national election.

www.heritage.org

"isolated incidents". Come on, Chris. Be serious.

The Escalating Terrorism Problem in the United States

The United States faces a growing terrorism problem that will likely worsen in the next year, particularly around the 2020 presidential election. The most significant threat likely comes from white supremacists, though anarchists and religious extremists could also pose a threat.

www.csis.org

Between 1994 and 2020, there were 893 terrorist attacks and plots in the United States. Overall, right-wing terrorists perpetrated the majority—57 percent—of all attacks and plots during this period, compared to 25 percent committed by left-wing terrorists, 15 percent by religious terrorists, 3 percent by ethnonationalists, and 0.7 percent by terrorists with other motives.

In 14 of the 21 years between 1994 and 2019 in which fatal terrorist attacks occurred, the majority of deaths resulted from right-wing attacks. In eight of these years, right-wing attackers caused all of the fatalities, and in three more—including 2018 and 2019—they were responsible for more than 90 percent of annual fatalities.