“If you start talking about free college tuition to [historically black colleges and universities] and you start talking about free community college in Title I and all of those things, I think that you are well on your way,” [White House senior adviser Cedric Richmond] said, noting that a timeline for Congress’s commission to study reparations wasn’t known.
Democrats, true to their platform, are pushing reparations and minimum wage agendas, despite the US debt being almost $28T.
There were some dark times recently in the stock market, due to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's choice comments within the past week or so. Some cynical might suggest his comments about the economy being 'a long way' were intentional.
Either way, inflation has been warned about for a while now, and it's picking up tone. The COVID-19 relief stimulus is attempting to be pushed through the budget reconciliation process. It contains a lot of pork as most spending bills.
Now, we're seeing the push (again) for reparations / free college, and most assuredly we can probably see something about healthcare later in this regime's tenure, I assume. These are the economic times today.
People can support Trump without being completely blind or intellectually dishonest. That's my fundamental issue and I've seen plenty of it across multiple communities because, of course, it's all on the WIN network. It's far better to face things head on than being deluded into thinking everything's fine.
I don't dislike Trump and I don't advocate anything against him since his platform is the best current offering, whatever its flaws. But I don't like the complete lack of intellectual discourse that's possible without skewing all of reality; it's the other, opposite, lesser extreme of having to put up with liberal politics, and neither's good.
Limited tax cuts that expire in a few years.
Expire for us but not businesses.
I can't be the only one who thinks that something stinks here.
You're not, but this is a Trump cheerleading platform, which lends to some user base overlap, so it's rare to see any meaningful talk. Anything that can even be considered as slightly critical of him gets downvotes from some folks, but usually not with factual counterarguments. Basically, it'll get approvals from those who agree and some disapprovals, but no meaningful dialogue that might be enlightening...which makes it an overall waste of effort.
Trump's the best president in my lifetime, but standards have been set low. I think Ron Paul would have been better, but that's an alternative reality. Trump's hands are tied by Congress since he's only part of the executive branch, but there are a lot of excuses that conveniently absolve him of all fault. He has to take some responsibility but fans only assign softball ones.
Election fraud is a weird one. He deserves blame for his regime failing to address the system, but I don't think anyone could have expected the Supreme Court from pussying out. I didn't, and thought it'd set a landmark decision to fix things once and for all. Unlike Big Tech and other matters this should've had him with some form of agency, even if late, but it didn't. It's a complete miscarriage of justice.
I'm not really into episodic stuff since I favor RPGs, but:
- Pokemon, obviously, is a good play
- Advance Wars if you're into strategy
- FF Tactics Advance for easier strategy
- Harvest Moon if into farming
- Metroid takes maybe a few hours per run
These are all for GBA, never played DS and it's been a while so I forget most of the titles.
There's also the standard staple of Mario, Luigi, Wario, and other Nintendo games that might fit.
No politics this year for some reason - https://www.rt.com/usa/516805-golden-globes-trump-politics/
I picked up 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim second-hand that u/Daucus9/ mentioned. Played the first few character intros and really liked it.
However, I'm busy with a project and that's all I did. Made 0 progress on Danganronpa 2, which I should have finished by now.
I can understand the resentment. It's natural. I've always been pro-WFH even prior to the pandemic since commuting sucks, but it's a shit experience to have to wear the mask.
I think some companies will relax commuting requirements after this is said and done, both out of pragmatism and cost savings by reducing the office space. Many, though, will never have that benefit due to employer paranoia or logistics of the job.
My parents had cable, but I never did. Do you have an over the air antenna? I bought one and pretty much never used it nor the TV, but it was useful to occasionally de-stress last year (mainly as background noise or some sporting events) when my bedroom-come-office became an enemy.
You can get an adequate one for as little as $25 if you're in an urban area, and not that much for an extended range in suburban places. It's an OK otherwise free fallback if you ever, rarely, have the itch to put on TV.
Never mind, in that case you're doing God's work. I don't know who would be stupid enough to seriously think any serious modern-day liberal is an ally.
They're just useful pawns, at best, and I hope the TERFs and LBTQIA+ groups keep at each other's throats; mutual extinction would be an ideal outcome.
I work remotely but I've gone into work a few times. Us adults have it easy - I often drink coffee and tea, so I have large stretches where I take the mask off. There's barely anyone in the same building, never mind the floor. I can schedule meetings in unoccupied offices, where pretense of a mask isn't even required.
Kids, in comparison, are completely fucked. They have to do this every day in high-occupancy rooms, have to beg for breaks, and nobody mentions this, but their ears are probably hurting a lot from the bands too. All for some sub-par level of education.
Edit: Some of us adults. For now.
I feel like I've heard this sentiment before, though I can't find it.
The other CA incident (last week) linked in the article, "Entire California District’s School Board Resigns After Mocking Parents During Virtual Meeting", I'm pretty sure was covered here.
Biden also rescinded an order threatening financing for cities that the Trump administration felt curtailed support for local police amid the summer’s anti-racism protests.
Obvious, but I feel this warrants its own story/thread rather than being buried by the lede, which is also important albeit odd.
Where is this data? Is it even possible for us civilians to know? I've found some metrics indicating increased drone usage under Trump, but even if that's true, it's to be expected given this is the modern military weapon.
Death totals seem generally centered around Obama's tenure, since that's when it became a concern. I can find some partial yearly data, but would need to dig further into them...it's a circuitous route either way.
Obama killed a lot, that's obvious and uncontested here. Trump killed some as well. How many were collateral damage, who knows?
It doesn't help that he revoked the 2016 EO on civilians killed in strikes outside of war zones. Obama might have been sly in his timing, but forgive me if I'd rather have the bits of transparency from the CIA that we can get, even if it's politically motivated.
NY Post doesn't deserve clicks - https://archive.vn/wip/voeNv
We're definitely returning to neocon politics, and I do expect the continuation of pointless wars, but if we're being fair Trump used drones as well. The most famous being the 1 with advanced warning.
Drone strikes are a part of modern day military, and aren't going away irrespective of which party or president is in office.
Edit: And, it goes without saying the double standards that mainstream media will hold. That's also to be expected.
You're absolutely on the mark.
Even though it takes a lot of sophistication to come up with the high-IQ play of shorting 100+% of a float, there's legit no way the markets would remain so bullish during a fucking scamdemic being treated as a pandemic if this wasn't true.
Not to mention some percentage of people have even taken the stimulus money and directly injected it into stocks like the filthy degenerates that we all are.
Sure, the ~$28T in debt and constantly super-low interest rate might fuck us over, but that's a problem for 'Murrica of Tomorrow.
Case in point, September 28, 2020: Some Minneapolis city council members would like a redo on defunding the police: report -- https://archive.vn/Klt41
Of course, their excuse was 'confusion' or 'misinterpretation' of the original proposal.
I still find it hilarious that even a Harvard-graduated professor hated this race baiting POS while he was in office - https://archive.vn/nRIyr
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