Cassanderer
@Cassanderer@thelemmy.club
- Comment on Could a minority in US Senate essentially disolve the federal state? 6 days ago:
Dems should refuse to fund anything until pocket recissions are disallowed really.
- Comment on Could a minority in US Senate essentially disolve the federal state? 6 days ago:
Fuck your cave to r threats advice, fuck what dumbass voters think, real leaders make public opinion. Dems will cave to terroristic threats because ivy league suits tell the public what you just regurgitated.
When is the last time those suits were right about anything though? Not about the last election were they? Not about the 2024, 2020, or 2016 elections.
- Comment on Could a minority in US Senate essentially disolve the federal state? 6 days ago:
Repubs also know from experience the dems will fold on threats of scuttling the ship of state.
Just like increasing the borrowing limit in 2024 was it, or 23, and not defaulting. Biden said for months he would not negotiate, and then folded like a cheap suit when it came down to it. Not a one-off situation the Democrats always fold.
Dems will give in on terroristic threats. There is no improving anything until we get new opposition politicians that is all there is to it. If Hakeem and Chuck are still running the show you might as well not pay attention because it will just harm your mental well-being. Not a single challenge for any leadership positions what the fuck is wrong with this party?
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 1 week ago:
Does not make sense to me, but that bit was not doctrine until 350 ad.
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 1 week ago:
You just taught me as much bible as I have ever learned, last lesson being south park raining frogs.
- Comment on Just got this flyer in the mail today. 2 weeks ago:
Heat pumps are the way to go. Or conditioning air with well water temps or ground temps other ways, 50 degrees year round 6 feet down usually.
- Comment on Pet rent 2 weeks ago:
Idk society is really down on kitty porn…
- Comment on Before modern-day authoritarian regimes, did people living under abosolute monarchies talk criticize the monarchs? Or did they just stay silent in fear of persecution? 2 weeks ago:
Newsletters kept some informed, plays even, books. After the printing press especially.
That is why the church was so powerful though, they had people all pushing the same message working off the same game plan and it gave them real power in organization and numbers.
Not until the 18th century did they lose strict control of truth and expression.
- Comment on Before modern-day authoritarian regimes, did people living under abosolute monarchies talk criticize the monarchs? Or did they just stay silent in fear of persecution? 2 weeks ago:
Depends on when and where and twas religious pricks taking issue with everything mostly. Voltaire and the philosophes penned stuff in other names all the time even as it was known to be them, they’re arrested quite often and thrown in prison but would get bailed out by there aristocratic Buddies sooner than later.
England had more freedom in this regard but by the 19th century the church had lost it’s monopoly on truth and speach even on the continent.
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 2 weeks ago:
All of that but then also that they will buy out any competition so you can care and notice, but fuck you.
- Comment on US ready to support Argentina with $20 billion swap line, Bessent says 2 weeks ago:
Too bad writers put the paywall for people in the United States, not anybody else, everybody else can read it for free, they only put up a paywall in the US from what I heard. Fucking limey pricks. I hope they get Rupert Murdoch in the dick.
- Comment on CHARK is a smooth Balatro-inspired chess roguelike and I've become an instant fan 2 weeks ago:
Have you played? This or that other I referenced?
In any case I think I’m going to get back into chess here. Have been off of it for a couple years. I had a high score and started just quit
- Comment on CHARK is a smooth Balatro-inspired chess roguelike and I've become an instant fan 2 weeks ago:
Can you play it online anywhere?
I had previously signed up to a site to try to play that chest precursor game with elephants and chariots and cavalry, and castles, but it did not work for me. I think the actual game was lost this was like a recreation of how they thought it was played in that case, the one that evolved in India before chess forget what it’s called.
- Comment on They recalled the radioactive shrimp again. Why? My research shows you can just cook off the radiation. 2 weeks ago:
Or trust ai in ascertaining that half is removed?
The radiation can be inside the animal, boiling will not free it. Overboiling works to lessen arsenic in rice from the southern us, I would hold off on assuming ai is not just hallucinating this from that.
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 2 weeks ago:
Freight rail is a lot less than it should be as well.
It is also owned by Private Industry without clear rules on what they can charge in that more than it should be.
The rails were only made with eminent domain, Private Industry should not be able to screw people on it, or give preference to large companies over people and small ones.
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 2 weeks ago:
The thing is the rail network was pretty comprehensive at one point. Only a few remain.
- Comment on 6 women arraigned on charges related to Alvarado ICE attack 2 weeks ago:
The feds are on orders to try to make mountains out of molehills and they do not care the truth of a matter, they want to accuse leftists of assaulting officers to justify a further Crackdown. That track down will happen so don’t think if we all mind our manners it won’t.
- Comment on EU to block Big Tech from new financial data sharing system 2 weeks ago:
Chat control has sullied everything they do. That and teething to the Americans on giving Silicon Valley power over their citizens. The EU needs some new leadership.