Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

@Niggoslav_Krawczyk
You don’t seem to realize that Trump was itching to help Russia invade Ukraine but was out of office before he could suck Putin off live.

@Zaknel
There’s a reason he has his duck badge.

@Meanlucario
He does, he’s saying repubs don’t.

@The Smiling Pony
My mistake than.

@CaptainXtra
You’re supposed to be committing crimes in GTA. It’s fictional.

Violent games don’t make bad people, but it can attract them.

A grown ass cop should be able to come home and shoot a cop in a videogame just because it’s shocking adult entertainment. It’s also societal commentary if you want to get into it.

I would like to see games explore beyond all the violence more sure, avoiding how is always ‘an enemy’ but this isn’t a matter of morals, it’s a matter of art.

Elon Musk is just a prick. He’s trying to jerk off old people while pretending to be ‘with it’. He’s always looking for a moral high ground because he knows he sucks.

Ps he spends 2000$ on clothes to look like he spends 100$ on clothes. What happened to rich people dressing nice?

His memes are shit. Atleast Zucc doesn’t pretend to be a primate.

@CaptainXtra
It just looks like they, personally, do not like the games from that screenshot…

The House just censured Jamal Bowman for his recent stunt of pulling a fire alarm.

@Zaknel
I don’t care about the franchise myself, but Musk is going on a high horse about it for no good reason. And according to Moist, Ian is straight up lying since he has multiple videos playing GTA 6.

Eh, if that’s the worst he gets then fair.

Enough to warn him and others not to do it again while recognizing he had no ill intent.

Double post.

After much speculation and inquiring, it appears that the investigation into PizzaGaetz will be reopened.

Depending on how it goes House Republicans might lose their majority come next year.

A state judge in Texas has ordered that a woman who was suing the state to be allowed to have an abortion can go ahead and get one, putting an emergency injunction in place blocking the state from prosecuting her.

The woman is 20 weeks pregnant, but the fetus was diagnosed with Trisome 21. A majority of infants with this disorder die within days of being born, 90% die within a year, and 99% die within 3.

Moreover, the woman is having symptoms of a type of placental rupture that can cause problems such as sepsis, and lead to infertility and even death.

The state tried to block her from getting an abortion because, in Ken Paxton’s words, her “condition” was not severe enough.

I recall a certain someone in this thread that swore up and down that shit like this wouldn’t happen if Roe was overturned.

Since 2018, the nonprofit GiveDirectly has been pilot-testing various Universal Basic Income (UBI) programs in Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda. Yesterday, they published a report on the early results of the programs after the first two years.

It’s an interesting read, and it gives me some satisfaction to note that not only has the “DISINCENTIVE TO WORK” claim not materialized, but the opposite is happening, with the poor becoming more productive and even entrepreneurial.

Assuming everything is true as presented, this is promising data for the efficacy of just giving poor people the damn money.

@BlitztheDragon
Someone is gonna get triggered.

@Dustcan
before or after the election, cause it will be infinitely funnier if the repubs lost the house before the 2024 elections.

Unemployment ticked down in November, going from an expected 3.9 to 3.7%, wages also grew faster than expected, rising 0.4% from an expected 0.3%.

Labor force participation ticked up .1% to 62.8% from 62.7%.

Inflation rates are cooling unevenly, with the “deep south” seeing the slowest cooldown, followed by the Midwest.

The dollar is strengthing against the benchmark, despite efforts of hostile nations to spark divestment.

The US economy continues to show incredible resilience and strength.

The odds of a rate cut in Spring have dropped, however, as the jobs report is likely stronger than the fed would prefer.

@Background Pony #D4C8
Something tells me that you are “misunderstanding” the laws that are punishing people for being trans.

@Background Pony #D4C8
oh look we got one now.

@Background Pony #D4C8
Wow, it’s almost like there are different people in that group with different personalities and experiences and intentions. Almost as if these are real human beings, persons, and not monolithic caricatures to be used as cheap punching bags.

You know, just like how not everyone in Alabama fucks their cousin and not every straight man viciously wants to beat their wife with a sock full of oranges.

@The Smiling Pony
Very true. Some of us like to use butter or spoons instead of oranges.

Adam Conover does a segment on the explosion of child labor in the last couple years and contrasts why we got rid of it in the first place.

Gotta say the anger in this video feels genuine and I am HERE for it!

Biden could have picked Letitia James or Dana Nessel for Attorney General. Someone who know show to deal with fascists.

An update on this.

The Supreme Court in Texas put a stay this order, effectively freezing her out of care until they rule.

This is the world the anti-woman crusaders are salivating for. A world where women have to go beg in front of a court of men to get basic medical care.

It’s the christofascist wet dream.

@Zincy
I wonder how all the Female GOP voters are feeling about this.

You’re not too far off to how “pro-life” women operate. Many of them have gotten abortions at some point and their rationale is “well I can cancel that one out by preventing x other women from getting abortions!”