GalacticSushi

Progressivism means Americans criticize America because they are interested in making it better. Conservativism refuses to criticize America because it has no interest in making it better.

I’d just like to add that freely and openly criticizing your country, its government, and its leadership is the founding ideal of America. It’s rich that he brings up “the premise of the declaration of independence and hence our form of government” as if exercising freedom of speech is not the cornerstone of both.

Don’t forget that he publicly stated that gun deaths are just the cost of having the freedom to bear arms. I, for one, commend him for putting his money where his neck is.

Has his son confirmed this?

I convinced him that it was real and he should use it. I got added to the Iran war signal chat by accident earlier this week, don’t think he’s noticed I’m not supposed to be included. To be fair, he’s usually pretty lit.

Why are we still talking about shit that Hillary Clinton said nearly 20 years ago?

Just compress it with PiedPiper

It converted to a company that sells buzzwords to investors as far as I can tell.

The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

Per the description in the post.

The compact takes effect when states representing a majority of electoral votes – 270 of 538 – pass the legislation and thus would determine the winner of the presidential contest. With Virginia, the compact now has 222 electors.

In other words, they need additional states with a combined total of at least 48 electoral votes to pass the legislation in order for it to take effect. So they’re closer, but nothing has happened quite yet.

Can the AI take the in-office seats so I can go back to being productive at home instead of listening to my coworker loudly talk to a garage door salesman on the phone?