LanyrdSkynrd

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

My hometown did city wide budget cuts, including a comparatively smaller cut to the police budget. In response the police threatened to cut their K9 unit. They started posting pics on their Facebook from all the copaganda events of kids posing with the dogs, with messages like, "Say goodbye to Hunter, were going to miss this good boy!".

[–] [email protected] 40 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The NH libertarian party was taken over by a group of straight up facists. Libertarians suck for a lot of reasons, but this group is much worse. They had a "slavery was good for black people" post a while back.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Isn't this from the Trump campaign's vetting document?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

My brother is conservative in a very ignorant way. He knows basically nothing about politics, has never voted, but likes Trump for reasons he cannot really express.

When I talk to him about politics, he agrees with basically everything I say. He agrees with taxing rich and corporations and redistributing it, universal health care, prison abolition, etc. His opposition to left leaning politics is basically entirely about it not being his team. He's a country boy who likes pickup trucks and he thinks cities are weird and scary and therefore he's conservative.

I think there's a lot of conservatives like that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Oooh a new one. This series is absolutely amazing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Who said they want to control everything you do? We're talking about sports gambling

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I think we have a fundamental disagreement with the way society should be. I want to protect people from predatory companies and won't elevate the individual rights of people to gamble over the welfare of all.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (3 children)

They would have to have a lot of switches and network wires connecting them and systems to monitor them. Even then, I doubt this draw would be enough to signal to them that it's a problem. Probably not drawing more than a stove on the cleaning cycle, far below a level that would say, "This area is drawing too much power".

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (14 children)

"Everyone person should have the right to make a bad deal for themselves" is the logic of the Lochner court decisions. They said the government shouldn't stop anyone who chooses to work in a hazardous workplace, or sign a contract that says you won't join a union or choose to put their 12 year old children to work in mines.

Our laws have to protect people, otherwise we're just doing libertarianism.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Yeah, it was just Kia cheaping out by not having an immobilizer. They saved at the very most $100 a car(probably more like $40) by skipping a basic security feature invented in 1985.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Sriracha on cereal

view more: ‹ prev next ›