DauntingFlamingo

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Can't even uncripple himself, little piss baby.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Damn I forgot about lamb, goat, and their cloven hoofed friends like deer

Lamb is readily available in the US, but we (excluding farmers and active hunters) tend to eat it selectively like duck or veal as a delicacy or a meal for a special occasion. Normal everyday people don't eat lamb, veal, or duck when cheaper chicken, beef, fish, etc is available. Americans have an aversion to eating cute animals.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Not a fan of doggy style?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Chicken, Beef, Pork, Fish/Seafood.. What am I missing from my diet? Reptile?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Glad this community is moving to Lemmy. I miss the Reddit community, but I won't go back. Things are starting to settle in over here and I like it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The Dems are unlikely to straight up just ignore SCOTUS rulings. With all that's happened in the last 6 years, I believe the Republicans absolutely would ignore a SCOTUS ruling, and they would be FAR more likely to just ignore SCOTUS altogether if the Dems ignored the SCOTUS student loan forgiveness ruling.

What is more likely, would be the Dems/Biden reduce payments to some minimal amount like $1/mo and place all student loans at a negative interest rate, since the powers to set payment amounts and interest rates were confirmed by the SCOTUS ruling.

The end result would be something like 'If you've paid the principal balance, you're done. If your loans have lasted 10+ years, you're done. If you cannot afford to pay, pay us the $1/mo and eventually your balance will get to $0 because it has been set to a negative interest rate, so you're done.'

This strategy is a long term play by the Dems, because the public will be made extremely aware that the next Republican president or Republican majority Congress will force them to pay those loans, with interest. The voters will know instantly they shouldn't vote Red. Even if they were raised Republican, if you knew voting Red would mean you owe the government $10,000 as soon as that person takes office, you're unlikely to vote Red. That would be a grand slam Dark Brandon move.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I still want that. Those new folding RAZR phones fall super short by not being able to flip open or slam shut quickly

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't know about shit storm. Student loan forgiveness was clearly within the presidential powers in the HEROES Act of 2003. Loan forgiveness is also overwhelmingly popular with the voters on both sides of the aisle. Since the SC has no teeth to enforce rulings, Biden could just wait until a month after reelection and do it anyway, with near-zero consequences. Nobody is coming for him for making them not owe $10,000, especially since the plaintiffs in the SC case were unwilling, unwitting, and could not prove any harm.

I say that under the assumption Biden wouldn't lose to another candidate, and the Democrats retain at least one of the Congressional Chambers. In this fucky timeline, who knows what the USA will look like in 2 years

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Doggo sees all directions at once!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you! I will do that, only because I like the automatic updates vs pulling it from GitHub for each new version

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If we could get some of the awesome subs like askhistorians and the like to bring their content over, Lemmy could become home to many more users. The sad fact is Reddit is still a treasure trove of niche information

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