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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

The entire pizzagate lie seems to have been patterned wholesale from the Franklin sex abuse allegations. They just lied about who, what, and where, but all the other details are similar.

Regressives are deeply uncreative. Almost every accusation is an admission, because they can't imagine anything outside of their own experiences.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Republicans made a deal with JFK to phase out mental health hospitals and replace them with community based facilities that had a more home like atmosphere.

They did the gutting part.

Then JFK was assassinated.

Republicans decided that they didn't have to do any more after that, and LBJ used most of his political capital to get the voting rights act passed.

That's why our mental health system is so broken.

If republicans wanted to fix the system, they could start with funding the VA. Many of our troops wind up with mental health conditions due to their time in the service.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

People have implicit reactions, and regressives rely on these reactions to keep their voters in line.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (4 children)

The beginning of the drop in crime coincided with the "Broken Window" model of policing that new York and other large cities adopted. They like to claim credit.

But it also dropped in small towns that didn't have the same trendy police tactics.

The best explanation I've seen is that abortion became protected, so miserable women weren't forced to give birth in terrible conditions, and subsequently there weren't as many impoverished, abused children that turned to crime.

Guess we'll find out in a few years as the unwanted pregnancies start to tick up and economic mobility continues to stagnate.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

This. Best explanation I ever heard of narcissism is that we all eventually reach a point where we feel intense shame. It's a chasm. Some people look at it, fall in, and never recover. Some people look at it, realize the danger, and stay away from the edge but don't run screaming.

And some people see it, and become so terrified, that they pretend it never happened and will fight anyone who reminds them of the shame.

That's the narcissists, which are empowered by systems of religious dogma. Very often they're least faithful - they're just lying to avoid anyone around them finding out.

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

I saw one program that Rick rolled Bluetooth device lists.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I read a YA book when I was a kid, pretty much the same plot.

A girl was murdered, wakes up as a ghost, and has to solve her own murder to find peace.

It also touched on suicide and self harm.

Books targeted at kids need to be age appropriate, but at the same time, if you pick some topics that are unallowable for children all together, you're going to wind up with a young adult who is naive and completely unprepared for the world.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Then again, maybe if he keeps going he will unite everyone behind the banner of "Not Gym Jordan," which is a great service he's able to provide us.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Deranged. Just a bunch of angry words that demonstrate absolutely no understanding of anything.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

There's no chance of them crossing the aisle to elect a Democrat, yes.

But there's also no chance of them siphoning off Democratic votes if they're unwilling to give anything up, and can't be trusted even if they offer something juicy.

So there's about as much chance that they'll elect Jeffries as there is that they'll elect one of their own.

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

Good. If the business is at stake then the shareholders should have no objections to paying these people what they're worth and doing so for all factories, not just the factories producing outdated internal combustion engines.

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

Good. If the business is at stake then the shareholders should have no objections to paying these people what they're worth and doing so for all factories, not just the factories producing outdated internal combustion engines.

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