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Out of all the 23 times the US minimum wage was ever raised, 21 times it was by Democrats - and the other two times, it was because democrats fought for months unt republicans conceeded.
There’s one party that fucks the poor as their literal program, and another one that sometimes does things which look bad as headlines, but which require a much deeper look into their reasons.
Don’t equate them because they aren’t equal.
Edit: Yeah, as suspected: The initial ruling in Idaho may be pretty good for protecting homeless people’s rights, but it’s also really broader than it has any reason to be. Even if you sympathize with the homeless and want to help them (and I’m convinced News on actually does), it creates problems for you.
https://calwatchdog.com/2019/12/27/california-cities-struggle-with-implications-of-homeless-ruling/
vacate her seat
Yeah, Republicans’ wish finally came true. Wanna know why there was such an online campaign push for her retirement?
Because she was the tie-breaking vote in the Senate judiciary committee, and Mitch McConnell had already blocked her replacement.
If she had retired, all of Joe Biden’s executive or judicial nominations, would’ve been dead in the water.
Well, she kept going until today, and now, watch the shit show happening. Republicans are celebrating.
No, she shouldn’t have. Wanna know why there was such an online campaign push for her retirement?
Because she was the tie-breaking vote in the Senate judiciary committee, and Mitch McConnell blocked her replacement.
If she had retired, all of Joe Biden’s executive or judicial nominations, would’ve been dead in the water.
You should be glad she kept going to confirm as many of his picks as long as she could, because now problems are on the way.
I wrote a reply with a little bit of context and explanation to that “filibuster proof majority”. The reality is: After passing the ACA, there was no chance in hell Dems could have gone further.
The Dems had control of the House and a filibuster-proof Senate under Obama
Theoretically. For 72 days.
However, the Senate supermajority only lasted for a period of 72 working days while the Senate was actually in session.
But let’s take a closer look at that statement, shall we? Because in my opinion, it’s a blatant lie:
https://eu.beaconjournal.com/story/news/2012/09/09/when-obama-had-total-control/985146007/
On January 20th, 2009, 57 Senate seats were held by Democrats with 2 Independents (Bernie Sanders and Joe Lieberman) caucusing with the Democrats…which gave Democrats 59 mostly-reliable Democratic votes in the Senate, one shy of filibuster-proof “total control.” Republicans held 41 seats.
So far so good. Well, not filibuster proof.
The 59 number in January, 2009 included Ted Kennedy and Al Franken. Kennedy had a seizure during an Obama inaugural luncheon and never returned to vote in the Senate…and Al Franken was not officially seated until July 7th, 2009 (hotly contested recount demanded by Norm Coleman.)
Oh what’s this? The actual number was really 55 Dems + 2 independents!
Then in April, 2009, Republican Senator Arlen Specter became a Democrat. Kennedy was still at home, dying, and Al Franken was still not seated. Score in April, 2009…Democratic votes 58.
In May, 2009, Robert Byrd got sick and did not return to the Senate until July 21, 2009. Even though Franken was finally seated July 7, 2009 and Byrd returned on July 21…Democrats still only had 59 votes in the Senate because Kennedy never returned, dying on August 25, 2009.
Nope, still not filibuster proof.
Kennedy’s empty seat was temporarily filled by Paul Kirk but not until September 24, 2009.
The swearing in of Kirk finally gave Democrats 60 votes (at least potentially) in the Senate. “Total control” of Congress by Democrats lasted all of 4 months. From September 24, 2009 through February 4, 2010…at which point Scott Brown, a Republican, was sworn in to replace Kennedy’s Massachusetts seat.
There’s that filibuster proof majority of 58 Dems + 2 independents.
And when was the ACA passed in the Senate? Exactly in that period, on 24th of December 2009.
The House agreed on it on March 21st 2010, and by then, there was no filibuster proof majority anymore to go further than the ACA.
Oh, and after 2011, Dems never gained house and Senate majority together for a decade. That’s one reason why the US is so fucked, by the way.
Hi, my name is ProcurementCat and I call out people who pretend to be very leftist but actually only make leftist politicians look bad.
Edit: Oh, and there was one major amendment to the ACA, by the way: When Republicans used it for tax cuts under Trump.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Cuts_and_Jobs_Act
It took a filibuster proof majority to pass the ACA, it took 51 votes to turn it into a 2.3 trillion tax gift for the rich. Don’t really hear you complain about that.
Today, I had a weird issue: A program I worked on for hours would compile and do the (test-) output it was supposed to do. But if I’d declare and initialize another variable (unused), it would be stuck in an endless loop.
It would only happen with an initialized variable, not with simply declared variables.
Took me until this evening in my bed to realize that I probably am using another uninitialized variable somewhere in my code and that’s the source of this bug.
Wtf for some reason, my comment does not appear as it supposed to and my edits do not seem to work properly. I’m referencing two tweets: https://twitter.com/condensed_the/status/1686901855358427136 and https://twitter.com/condensed_the/status/1686895266329174016
Edit: For some reason, the “<” character kills the comment
Here’s what the experts think:
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Condensed Matter Theory Center of the University of Maryland about the original paper:
“Physics” being presented in these unrefereed preprints is a travesty. The original paper has no obvious SC transition and the T< T_c resistivity is 100 times that of Cu. Southeast also has no transition, just instrumental artifacts. What is the goal here? No one can fool nature
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Condensed Matter Theory Center of the University of Maryland about a claimed replication:
Very helpful @QM_phys_kyoto (thans) points out that Southeast may have drawn their figure misleadingly. On a linear scale, there seems to be no transition, very disappointing and not a good sign since the artifact also looms large
CMTC has high standards and we are exhausted
You can always run software in a Virtual Machine to see if it’s the real deal or not. Additionally, people really like to be “the first” or “the one” who actually provides something. See for example the first cracked Version of Read Dead Redemption 2 - it was announced like a special record (and it was!). Being the first to provide an actual, working copy brings fame, that’s why people go to such lengths to crack and provide software. And the people who download it? Well, they can often rely on those with virtual machines testing the software and then on reviews and ratings available on the download sites.
Well, if they are so cool then this article should maybe mention Mick West, a professional debunker of UFO footage, who has insanely detailed analysis’ and explanation for those videos. For example the Gimbal video, for which he showed that a systematic shortcoming of the used military FLIR device using a gimbal system is responsible for it (thus explaining why the US military gave the footage that name) or the Nimitz “Tic-Tac”, for which it was super easy to prove that it wasn’t moving fast and low, but high and slow.
All these videos ever show are shortcomings and weaknesses of military technology.
Yes, I am. Because the democratic party base has chosen a guy to represent them and become president who, together with his party, mass pardoned Marihuana convicts and capped insulin prices to 35$ for private insurants and Medicare recipients and have increased the minimum wage every time it was increased and raised the federal minimum wage to 15$ in the first week of Biden in office and cancelled 66 billion in student loans already and cancelled 10k student loans for everybody and expanded gun safety laws for the first time in 30 years and banned oil and gas price gouging and provided millions for baby formula during the shortage and increased veterans benefits and gave Americans abortion rights in the first place and killed the Keystone XL pipeline and vetoed EPA regulation rollbacks and got you fuckers $1.400 COVID relief checks and expanded unemployment benefits for 9.7 million people and got the fucking Covid vaccine going and ended transgender discrimination in the goverment and protects abortion access and ended family separation
And a party that’s actually beholden to “big money” blocks and votes against all of that. Which Republicans did.
China is communist in name only, in practice they are the definition of State Capitalism.
Oh, that’s great, because now you are the guy saying “that’s not communism” instead of the people attacking capitalism. Which is great because I think exactly the same!
See, East Germany or the USSR also weren’t communist, because there were no democratic elections (contrary to communist ideals), independent courts (contrary to communist ideals), free and independent media (contrary to communist ideals) or opposition parties (contrary to communist ideals).
It’s almost as if all the “communist” countries you know were not communist at all, but authoritarian.
You know there were socialist/communist success stories, right? But they were always couped and destroyed by conservatives. Noteworthy examples were the Paris Commune or the communist regions during the Occupation of the Ruhr, who resisted the military occupation of the Ruhr region of Germany by France and Belgium.
Well that’s probably because those are always proof of shortcomings in american military sensors or weapon systems.
Man every US military raid under Trump’s reign was a horrible shitshow. The very first one was a sign of things to come
Ask them which of the 42 Barbie movies was the first to be woke
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie_(media_franchise)
It’s always funny to ask them stuff they have no idea how to even answer it
Barbie is a deeply American Idol like Coca Cola. When traitors like Shapiro claim that Barbie has gone “woke” and unamerican, ask them at which of its 42 movies they first started to be “woke”
Always a fun question
ReVanced doesn’t really require frequent updates. After modifying the YouTube app, I disable auto updates and keep using it until something doesn’t work properly (usually ads reappear)- Happens maybe every 4-5 months for me.
For example, the YouTube version I’m using right now is 18.23.35 from June 10th, while the newest version that can be patched with ReVanced is 18.35.44. But since I haven’t seen any issues, I didn’t even bother to check for updates. Only your comment made me check and realize that I can update it.