[-] jaywalker@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago

What are you even trying to communicate here?

[-] jaywalker@lemm.ee 38 points 9 months ago

It got me hard.

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[-] jaywalker@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago

The first Red Scare was in 1919 and communism was a big enough idea in the US that the government was putting communists in prison

[-] jaywalker@lemm.ee 14 points 9 months ago

Sounds like the way to not hate your job is to be rich?

[-] jaywalker@lemm.ee 14 points 9 months ago

Biking while too drunk to drive is probably still a bad idea. Not as bad as driving a car, but you can still cause a serious accident on a bike, especially on roads in the US where there aren't even bike lanes in most places.

[-] jaywalker@lemm.ee 12 points 10 months ago

Or all the suffering that has been and will be caused by climate change on behalf of the shareholders

[-] jaywalker@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago

Not sure if you're just joking, but plenty of people survive plane crashes. Most crashes aren't just a plane falling out of the sky at full speed. Survival rates are around 95%.

[-] jaywalker@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

Your only source is "trust me bro"

[-] jaywalker@lemm.ee 23 points 10 months ago

I can imagine Elon paying for this. I'm not saying he did, but I can imagine it.

[-] jaywalker@lemm.ee 25 points 10 months ago

Seems like people who are being fairly compensated in a comfortable work environment will make a better game than people being underpaid and overworked?

[-] jaywalker@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago

I just play unciv instead now

[-] jaywalker@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I don't think the Democratic party actually had a supermajority. January of 2009 there were 57 dem senators plus Bernie and Lieberman (who refused to vote for single payer); however, Al Franken wasn't sworn in until July because he barely won the election and Republicans forced a recount, leaving that Senate seat empty. Ted Kennedy was dying and stopped showing up in March and later died, Scott Brown (a Republican) won that seat in a special election. Kennedy did have a replacement who voted in favor of ACA right before Brown won his election.

I don't believe there was ever a time where dems actually had 60 votes in the Senate during 2009 except the pretty short period where they did manage to pass the ACA with exactly 60 votes that included Bernie, Lieberman, Franken, and Kennedy's temporary replacement. But remember that Franken wasn't there until July and Scott Brown got elected right after ACA passed the Senate in December 2009. So by the time the ACA made it to the House vote it was March 2010 and if the House Dems didn't pass it as it was, the Republicans would be able to block it in the Senate.

I'm not so sure that Dems would have done more if they had a proper supermajority, probably not

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