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Just goes to show that unions are a necessary evil, something that a truly progressive party should be trying to make obsolete with sweeping labor reform legislation rather than prop up.

Even if Trump abolishes term limits, he's gotta die someday. And it'll probably be someday soon. I can see DeSantis being willing to wait his turn.

There is one possible upside to continuing to drag our feet on this: If Trump continues to believe running is the only way to avoid prison (or worse), he'll have no choice but to run in 2024, even if he loses the primary to DeSantis. And he'll go hard. Hard enough that even if public sentiment...

Also, the Republican mainstream never dreamed that they could get away with just telling everyone flat-out "We just want the world to burn and don't care who knows it" and still get votes until Trump did it out of a sheer inability to keep up a façade in the first place. People who have to hide...

Would we, really? There's evidence that Big Oil has been behind the vilification of nuclear power, but I haven't heard anything about them suppressing R&D on batteries, which are a big step that still needs to be taken before EVs can be sustainably produced and economically competitive. What we...

Yeah, it's not even so much that he wants power; he just hates losing. Arguably the worst thing he ever did with the power he had was block other, more responsible people from having it instead.

Tonight's hearing was pretty anticlimactic. They kept pushing the idea of "dereliction of duty", which, no matter what you might think about it, is a lot of steps down from "treason". It's almost like they're trying to send a message to the DOJ that well, actually, what he did really isn't worth...

Eh... nationalizing said billionaire's assets and dumping them all into funding green-energy policies maybe. Or is that what "eating" is supposed to mean now?

Oh hey, looks like the UK is threatening to join the fun if (read: "when") the industry doesn't start policing itself. So that's one to keep an eye on as well.

"Who are you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?"

I wonder how that stacks up to membership of the other parties. I could see the UK just being full of officially-nonpartisan people. In the US, you have to belong to a party to vote in most states' primaries (Ohio being one of the exceptions), so there's incentive to sign up just to participate...

Also, they were a pretty small industry in those days and didn't have nearly the lobbying power that they do now. Even if they don't have the clout to buy politicians' votes and kill legislation, they're probably convinced that they can.

The general public has no say in what's being debated in Congress, but C-SPAN exists anyway.

There was a US Congressman who proposed a bill restricting how video games were allowed to use lootboxes. He was a Republican, even. I think it must have died in committee because I haven't heard anything about it since before the pandemic.

Or ever.

We had a thread for this before, and it's in the news again, so let's bring it back. First off, Diablo Immortal has just broken the record for lowest Metacritic score (read: biggest review-bombing from angry gamers), and while I'm sure some of it is just gamers being pissy about it being a...

It is sad that the country most associated with "It could happen here... and it probably will happen here, in particular" (see: 1984, The Wall, V for Vendetta) and devolution into a police state has better policies for dealing with misbehaving cops than we do. On that note, I've noticed that...

I should note that some of the smaller cell providers piggybacking on the big three networks are themselves operated by the major cable companies. You'd think the big three's lobbyists would have some choice words to say about the lopsided nature of that deal, if nothing else.

How many Republicans are in Congress? It's at least that many. That's the number they're afraid of being found.

And maybe that's the problem. If someone is attacking you and you refuse to fight back, of course they're going to win.