“Democracy dies in broad daylight” ? No; Fascism is born in silence.

They will claim: “He is always sleepy and slow, and SUDDENLY he is fast and upbeat? He must on some stimulants! We cannot have a President on stimulants!!”

I guess only in the sense that both parties are right wing? One is just extreme in that direction?

I used to have Netflix, HBO Max, Youtube Premium, Disney Plus, Amazon Prime and “Videoland”. But since I used Linux, I could not stream with a higher bitrate. I could not download for offline playback, I had to jump through hoops to get things to play every now and then.

They also did not always have everything I wanted to see, or I had to pay extra for “premium early access” (Disney).

So I was fed up, learned about using multiple usenet backbones, how to send sabnzbd through VPN’s, Radarr, Sonarr and Overseerr. Now I only have Netflix and Youtube Premium for my wife. And Plex for myself. And access to much more content.

And I do not consider it stealing, i consider it to be the natural result of them trying to gouge me while still not providing me.

Agreed, that would not be beneficial to anyone really. Basically a “shitty move”.

Seems like Republicans really did not leave them any other option though.

Also: the reporting of the New York Times has really nose-dived in quality the last few years.

Thinking about it more… It would have been an interesting tactic of the Dems to “cooperate” with some more level headed Republicans and sideline the Chaos Caucus from having anymore influence. It could have had major impact on the effectiveness of the house going forward.

As I understand it, they actually tried this. Sort of. But McCarthy was very ANTI-DEMS towards it. So they voted the way they did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEj9pnkXei0

I see your point. It’s just kinda… Not true I think.

As I see it: They never wanted McCarthy anyway, he was too extreme for them from the beginning. They realized pretty soon that they would rather see him go then stay, since it would just be too difficult to get on board with his shenanigans. He was not being a Speaker of the House, the whole house, he was trying to be the lackey for the Republicans.

And using the shutdown as a way to pressure them was a republican thing. Not the Dems. The Dems just called their bluf. Which in the end… turned out to be just that.

In the end, republicans are doing this to themselves, they are (rather) quickly destroying the party from within. Fascinating to see.

As a parent of two boys, i feel that much of the annoyance of no-children-having people is due to parents not putting boundaries for children in place.

Children scream because of attention. It means they are not getting it.

Start walking around with the kid to calm it down. Its your job as a parent. You cannot stay seated and act like “what are you gonna do? They are children ! They scream!”

No. You are a bad parent for letting them just scream.

Having said that, babies sometimes just scream without reason. Perhaps, and I mean this, if you have a baby that is prone to doing this, do not travel in confined spaces, or dine at restaurants until that phase of screaming is over.

Tell me 1 good deed done in the name of religion that could not have been done without religion.

There are numerous heinous deeds done in the name of religion because it told them to do it…

People are people, they will do bad and good things. But religion always makes them worse because they put themselves above others.

The religious are only persecuted by other religions and currently religions are persecuting the non believers. (Christo fascism in the USA as a prime example)

And lastly, if churches would start paying their fair share of tax. No one will need to donate ever again.

Islam says (for instance) that they have the final word of god. Thats pretty damning in and of itself. It leaves no room for anything else.

Christianity had been used through the ages to commit the most heinous crimes against humanity. They still do.

We should try a world without religion.

This is why so many “founding fathers” around the world, including the US, did not want religion to play ANY part in politics.

We should return to their plan on this point.

It’s weirder then that: The reason is: “It’s god’s plan that you became pregnant, and if you do not survive, that’s god’s plan too. We just need to trust the plan”.

It’s one of the reasons why I strongly believe religion is the source of all things evil.

https://archive.ph/QZSZo