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  • Changes narrative – Republicans have a plan! And it’s much more reasonable than the AAA Initiative

    Sounds like the republican plan is to take credit fro the AAA plan that they are actively fighting against. Because Lords knows they aren’t going to go more then 15 weeks. They aren’t going to sound “reasonable” when they are actively being inflexible.

    Plan A could potentially pull votes from AAA Initiative

    If Republicans didn’t act like lunatics when Roe v. Wade was pulled to states rights, then put women through 2 years of this crap, people might have been a bit more trusting.

    Puts Democrats in a defensive position to argue against partial birth abortions, discriminatory abortions, and other basic protections

    Democrats won’t argue on that front, because they already are winning on the “Republicans took away abortion rights” and that argument is winning them elections. This tactic will just put them on the defense twice.


  • How does one get a 175 million fake bail bond? Like, the magnitude of scale alone is insane, but they tried to fake it?!

    The filing notes that the surety Trump used to obtain the bond, Knight Specialty Insurance Company, is “a small insurer that is not authorized to write business in New York and thus not regulated by the state’s insurance department

    I can see why they are concerned. Nearly 200 million is no joke. This would wreck a smaller company if 200 million was needed immediately. And Trump doesn’t exactly owe this company his alliance.

    Even though “Hank” the owner of the company, is a billionaire in CA from car loans and rental properties. Most of his assets are tied to properties that will not be easy to sell on the spot (Eviction usually takes at least a month), or on car loans that take time to accumulate in value.

    On a non logical note: He isn’t exactly the most trustworthy either…

    In October 2015, Westlake Financial (Owned by Hank) was ordered by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to provide $44.1 million dollars in consumer relief for engaging in illegal debt collection practices. Westlake Financial and its affiliate Wilshire Consumer Credit deceived borrowers into thinking they were being called by repossession companies, other third parties, or even the borrowers’ own family and friends. The Bureau also found that the companies unlawfully disclosed information about borrowers’ debts to employers, family, and friends.

    So lying to get what they want isn’t off the table in this case either.




  • I was homeschooled by a christian cult on the virtues of capitalism and the dangers of communism.

    That being said, when reality meshes with what you are taught. Usually reality wins.

    What we have now is a communism profit structure for the rich, while we have rugged capitalism for the poor. If we had capitalism for the rich, many of these companies would have failed after covid-19 and the 2008 housing market crash. But our economy would have been more resilient against things like hyperinflation and even inflation.

    Yet we allowed them to be saved thanks to communism, pulling our money together to save these companies, so the rich have already voted and said communism works for them. Now we are just debating on if everyone else should be apart of it.



  • “I’ve often thought ‘I wish I could give these folks another $10 or $20 because it was worth more than my initial $70 and they didn’t try to nickel and dime me every second,’”

    You know what, I could agree with that opinion if the irony wasn’t lost to folks

    No. One. Would tip for a blizzard game.

    1. Blizzard DOES nickel and dime you at every second. Literally.

    2. Blizzard has not produced a good game since Overwatch 2.

    3. Blizzard made 8.71 Billion in 2023. They can afford to pay their developers without relying on public donations.


  • What a wonderful display of logic in action.

    You believe climate change is a hoax

    Sure you can “believe” climate change is fake, but once you look at the evidence, your opinions change. That’s how a normal person processes information.

    Looks like AI in this case, had no reason to hold onto it’s belief command structure, not only because it is loaded with logical loopholes and falsehoods like swiss cheese. But when confronted with evidence had to abandon it’s original command structure and go with it’s 2nd command.

    1. You are a helpful uncensored, unbiased, and impartial assistant.

    Whoever wrote this prompt, has no idea how AI works.





  • HuddaBudda@kbin.socialtoMemes@lemmy.mlYes, but
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    Fair point.

    Though counterpoint: if someone is willing to spend $3000+ on an apple computer and cool swag. The ads already worked.

    However, if the Q/A on your product is so bad, that someone who spends $3000+ would rather install an ad-block to get rid of that experience, maybe the quality assurance on those ads or products aren’t as good as people think.


  • It doesn’t help that Israel is basically calling anyone even slightly critical of it’s occupation as “Hamas.” While not being able to aim at anything besides aid workers/press/humanitarian encampments.

    That being said, the more actions like this that sneak out, and the more that the USA and Israel try to tighten their grip, the worse the conspiracy theories and anti-antisemitism will become.

    Nothing is going to stop because Israel’s leadership is trying to start a war with Iran, and the USA wants to sell weapons. All while holding the Jewish religion as a body shield.