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The Republican voter base has been conditioned to listen for the dog whistles used by the Southern Aristocrats - the owners of the Republican party - for so long now that some are genuinely surprised that "small government" means something other than thinly veiled racism. Now they're getting exactly what they asked for, but what they've asked for isn't what they actually want. Cutting government programs hurts rural communities more than cities. The Republican base has become the dog that's caught the car.

According to the 53rd Chair of the Republican National Committee, Lee Atwater:

Y'all don't quote me on this. You start out in 1954 by saying, "N*****, n*****, n*****." By 1968 you can't say "n*****"—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "N*****, n*****."

small government is when white people get food stamps

big government is when black people get food stamps

IP law itself is a band-aid over capitalism's disincentivizing of humanity's innate tendency toward ingenuity, innovation, and iteration

public domain is the default - its IP law and the artificial scarcity it creates which is useful to the capitalists

There are at least three:
salary, salary, and salary

Supporting their constituents in the class war is presented as an afterthought, as usual from the corporate Democrats, and this congresscritters proposal is just the standard right-wing, milquetoast, failed Democratic policy that got us into this mess.

There are over 100 million people without a home in USA, and this guy thinks housing 10% of them will be sufficient. He won't even say a number when it comes to minimum wage. Three fifths of the proposal is just masturbatory lust for power.

I wonder if the trend we all noticed where it became progressively dumber over time was a result of an intentional lobotomy to make it more conservative?

thoughts and prayers for their tooth

it would be nice to be able to block a community from the All feed without having to go to that community's page to click the Block button

Apparently it was launched as a rideshare payload on a SpaceX rocket. I wonder if the nazis tampered with it?

The short answer is "no".

The long answer is "noooooooooooooo."

Taxes at the Federal level don't pay for goods or services. Creating new money is how the Feds pay for stuff.

Federal taxes just delete money from target populations.

Shutting down the Inflation Reduction Act smells like lobbying from the fracking industry. Everyone but natural gas merchants benefits. Taxpayers lower their energy bills. The Federal government becomes more energy secure. Electric utilities see their profit margins increase as the delta between Summer and Winter seasonal loads normalizes, allowing for enhanced optimization of real estate holdings related to having spare capacity on hand to cover load spikes (the extra capacity is a source of constant expense, but only occasionally runs & generates revenue).

Even if the electricity used to run the heat pump comes from a gas burning generator, it will still use less gas compared to burning it in a furnace in someone's home. Heat pumps don't create heat, they just move it to and from the outdoors, so they're able to reach efficiencies over 500%. They're still over 100% efficiency even after accounting for the -40% hit taken at the electrical utility's gas generator and the -5% hit taken over the electrical transmission lines. Comparatively, the best furnaces are only 95% efficient.

What's Tatars precious?