KevonLooney @ KevonLooney @lemm.ee

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This actually tells you how to convince these people to vote for you. Hint: they don't care about policies.

Remember when trump said "Take the guns first, then worry about it later"? That's what these people like: action. The Democrats should just act and force the Supreme Court to stop them.

Declare all student loans forgiven and let the Republicans deal with the fallout. Negotiate more than 20 drug prices, for all Americans immediately. Direct the FTC to investigate food price collusion. This shit literally grows on trees and you can buy fresh food directly from farmers for almost nothing. Moving it a few hours away to a city should not jack up the price substantially.

Russia has had democracy for 33 years. The people living on the Ukrainian border have electricity and running water. They are not idiots. You are acting like missing a few comforts makes people so stupid they can't take care of their own lives.

Guess what? Most people who voted for George Washington for President lacked running water. And all of them lacked electricity (except Ben Franklin I guess). They figured it out because you don't need running water or electricity at all. If you can run a farm and feed yourself, you can figure out who is lying to you and choose your leader.

You realize the interview only showed the people who give the best sound bites? I bet you could find someone living in Washington DC who still thinks Clinton is President. And maybe someone who thinks Hillary Clinton is President.

People are responsible for who they vote for. Being uneducated is not a good excuse when there's only a few choices. It's not like they're being asked to run the entire country. If they are voting, they have a major responsibility and entire years to make up their minds.

This shows that Hamas was more interested in being warlords than the actual business of governing. Just like the Israeli government is more interested in conquering a tiny bit of bombed out desert than actually living in peace.

Both sides are clearly led by pieces of shit. Israel has a democracy though, so they are choosing to be led by pieces of shit. Palestinians might have some shitty beliefs about Jewish people, but they don't have a voice in their government.

Literally no country actually cares about Palestinians. Iran and their proxies (Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, Syria) just want to be warlords. Turkey, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia just want to distract their domestic audience. Europe is just going to wring their hands and hope the killing stops.

America is actually the biggest force for peace in the region. All of these were signed in Washington DC (or nearby at Camp David):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_David_Accords

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_17_Agreement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_Accords

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Jordan_peace_treaty

I heard this as if it was yelled unsolicited by an old man on the F train in Queens.

Literally shut up. Who are these people who insist on impossible 100% perfection in their candidates? The choice is between ice cream and a piece of shit. You are complaining that there's no sprinkles.

Please. The Orlando Kick Champs will kick their asses.

knocked off patents

This is the least problematic part of your complaint. There's a lot of good quality knock-offs in Asia, sometimes from the exact same factory as the originals. T-shirts should not be $500, no matter what quality they are. Baseball caps should be $20 maximum. They cost like $5 to make a good one that sells for $500.

How is the safety QA and employee treatment at these companies? Is it just trading expensive crap (Tesla) for cheap crap?

The thing is, it's not even necessary to be this drastic. Feel free to start negotiating from this point (tax all wealth above $50 million) but even settling for a 2% tax on wealth above $1 billion would be good. You can ease into it with a 1% tax on wealth above $100 million.

This wouldn't really affect the living standard of anyone wealthy enough to be taxed. Interest on invested assets will pay the tax easily. That's what Biden meant by "nothing will fundamentally change" for the wealthy.

If you have $1 billion you will probably be living off of $40 million in interest per year. A 1% tax would mean $9 million of that is taken as wealth tax (plus there will be some other income or capital gains tax). You will be fine.

Till said her daughter was sleepy during the Tuesday court visit because the family doesn’t have a permanent residence.

The teen was seeing King’s court as part of a visit organized by The Greening of Detroit, an environmental group.

Uh... so this child is almost homeless and is donating their time to help the community. Clearly this judge is very bad at judging people.

I will ask you to leave Jorkin Depeanus Vance alone, thanks.

Yeah but this is still hilarious. This is like something Lyndon Johnson would say. Then I assume he would whip out his massive hog. I don't know, I wasn't around in the 60s.

Uh, that guy actually did steal literal IP. Uber was founded by an asshole who didn't care about breaking the law.

six weeks before his resignation, Levandowski downloaded all these highly confidential files and proprietary design files

It happens all the time. Almost everyone who starts a new tech company has worked in a different one.

It's not cut and dry. This is something to be litigated. A conviction in NY would make Trump ineligible to vote while incarcerated. This needs a hearing at the very least, especially since it's not just one felony here: it's 34. Jail time is a distinct possibility.

This is why we have courts: to keep serial felons like trump off the streets.

In California it's totally fine. That's why there's so many tech startups there. It's not taxes.

That's not really how IP works. Just because you think of something while eating a sandwich that Google paid for, that doesn't mean they own it. Your brain is not "company resources". The sandwich was not necessary for the brainstorm.

It's smarter to think up good ideas away from the office, but it's completely legal to take knowledge and experience with you when you leave the company.

Because different layers protect you against different things. It's like how you have anti-lock brakes, a seatbelt, an airbag, and crumple zones on your car. You don't just have one thing to protect you.

It saved him like several hundred per month.

If you live within biking distance of Google, you are spending a ton of money on rent. Work from home is way cheaper, especially since you can just live somewhere with sub-million houses.