GW Hayduke
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Nancy Pelosi is a badass MF and I want her to be Speaker
GW Hayduke replied to Hugo Stiglitz's topic in Cloak Room
I'm serious about fixing our political situation and making our democracy stronger. However, age restrictions are just window dressing and would be an actual step back for democracy. Campaign finance reform, ending citizen's united, increasing education and critical thinking, managing misinformation/disinformation and information bubbles are all real substantive solutions. Age restrictions are just dumb. It is the kind of shit Ted Cruz and Bernie Bros can all rally around. -
Nancy Pelosi is a badass MF and I want her to be Speaker
GW Hayduke replied to Hugo Stiglitz's topic in Cloak Room
She is running to represent a district. If the people of that district don't want her to represent them, then they can vote for someone else. If the people of that district want her to represent them, then they can vote for her. The people in her district know her age. That is how democracy works. I understand folks here want to set limitations on our democracy and be able to control who the people in that district are able to vote for. -
Anastasis holds human life in very high regard. His religion directs him to. He just holds his convenience with easily purchasing firearms to be paramount. This is not the same moral failings inflicting the rest of the GOP. That is something different.
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The use of "human trafficking" in the US is almost entirely fearmongering that points at the "others" as being bad and evil and distracts from the real drivers of the problems described in the documentary. The title of the doc should be "A Broken US Immigration System" or "Poverty in Central America" or "Corrupt Corporate Power." Fix any of those three root causes and there would be no market for smuggling or the problems presented in the doc. Frontline's story starts with a Guatemalan family making one dollar a day. They struggled to feed their teen kids. The spooky evil "trafficker" provides the teens with an illegal means of reaching the US and making money for the cost $15K, which the teens/family have to pay back over time. They made it to the border and were apprehended by CBP. The "trafficker" organized fake sponsors in so the teens were sent Ohio. They were provided with crowded/impoverished living conditions and given a job at Trillium Farms - one of the US' leading producers of eggs, 3.65 billion eggs annually. It has been known since the 90s that this particular farm had workers living in crowded/impoverished conditions. The farm actually owned the crowded trailers. The Farms are ok with hiring illegal immigrants. The "trafficker" in this story was a third party contractor for Trillium Farms. The "traffickers" are simply providing a transportation service to people living in poverty and meeting the corporate demand for workers. The title of this story should be about poverty in Central America that has a significant part of the population desperate to subsist. The title of the story should be about a broken US immigration system that doesn't allow enough legal immigrants to support industry leading to corporations providing impoverished living conditions and illegal immigrants with any rights or power to change their living situations. The story should be about an immoral corporation motivated by a quest for low waged workers leading to hiring teens, firing workers without the proper immigration status, and providing impoverished living conditions for their teen workers.
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A story about a pathetic man's downfall [34 Felony Convictions]
GW Hayduke replied to Francisco 2.0's topic in Cloak Room
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Unorganized militia =/= well-regulated militia.
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It is odd that a substantial portion of the population has developed a flawed value system to the point they prefer dead children over slight inconveniences with obtaining firearms. Imagine holding that flawed value system and then calling themselves a responsible gun owner
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You are a shitty Hunter if you need a high-velocity, high-capacity, high rate-of-fire firearm. Maybe try fishing
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That’s cool. Do note that the history and science that you describe in those books doesn’t appear to be inconsistent with with what Sawbonez is saying and isn’t inconsistent the Diamond’s take.
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This was an interesting conversation to read. Morality and science. The two of you are not having a disagreement on the facts of history. It seems the disagreement is about the application of moral judgement and whether it is good/bad for civilizations to conquer (assimilate, displace, eradicate) other civilizations. I understand you feel the history of North America is immoral. Sawbonz and Jared Diamond (in Guns, Germs and Steel) from what I recall are describing the phenomenon and are not applying moral judgement. The separation of morality from science is normal and required. People can understand a situation without applying moral judgement, or they can choose to both try to understand a situation and judge at the same time. The downfall of applying morality is that it clouds our understanding of science. Plus moral systems change over time. The downfall of only applying science is that it can be used to hide from today's moral system and promote immoral actions today (Israel/Palestine, Ukraine/Russia, current displacement of indigenous populations in SA, lack of health care and education opportunities in today's indigenous populations in NA).
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Let’s ban people. Why didn’t I think of that
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Kind of wild how the morally flawed parts of our population seem to perfectly align with Putin’s Russia.
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Shooting at Austin protest tonight, 1 dead
GW Hayduke replied to clapclapclap's topic in Daily Texan
Perry's brain was rotted by hate-filled propaganda. Hopefully people begin to recognize that hate-filled rhetoric that dehumanizes "others," promotes division, and promotes violence should stop and then decide to make personal changes. Turn off fox news. Turn off political talk radio. Stop voting for assholes who promote hate. Leave facebook and twitter. Stop browsing breitbart. Leave social media echo chambers. If your friend parrots hate, call him out. If you see hate on social media, call it out. Understand anecdotal evidence is not representative of a sample, often cherry picked, and used by propagandists against you. Try and understand your cognitive bias. Understand tribalism is in your DNA and propagandists are using it against you. When you experience anger, fear, or anxiety when consuming media, ask yourself if you are being shaped by a propagandist. Teach your children and those around you how to understand and protect themselves from propaganda.- 1773 replies
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In order to accomplish most of those things, the Texas GOP would either need to be removed from power (lose elections) or get to the point where it becomes obvious to them that they will lose elections if they don't change their polices. In order for that to happen, the Texas voting population is going to need to shift from voting for the GOP to the Democrats. In order for that to happen, we probably need a mix of a) curtailment or regulation of misinformation and disinformation, b) increase in education funding, c) reform the education system to address critical thinking and propaganda susceptibility and instill basic moral values (citizenship, compassion, lying is bad, breaking the law is bad, adults acting like children is bad, adults insulting others is bad, etc.), d) mobilization of progressive donors, e) reform the Dem's party apparatus to increase effectiveness, f) increase voter turnout (remove barriers and increase motivation)... there are probably several other things but those are at the top of mind. It sucks but elections have consequences and the Texas population and their voting habits are very flawed.
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A prohibition on selling high-capacity, high-velocity, high rate-of-fire firearms with grandfathering isn’t expected to immediately solve the problem. It would need to work with other firearm control measures. It would however immediately be a sizable barrier for the acquisition by the young - those just turning of age - or those just experiencing a crisis and wanting to act out. Over the course of time, that benefit would slowly increase as those type of firearms naturally decay. We can increase the speed of that benefit with either voluntary or mandatory buy-back programs. The speed could be further increased over time with requiring a registration and permitting system (for those grandfathered) and prohibiting inheritance transfer absent a permit. We could also tack on required training to the grandfather permit. No single measure should be expected to fix our problem. We would need an array of measures.
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A story about a pathetic man's downfall [34 Felony Convictions]
GW Hayduke replied to Francisco 2.0's topic in Cloak Room
The misinformation that this guy was "in charge of the trump russia investigation" has already been debunked. Note that that declaration isn't in the abc article but just something Sojourner Truth pulled out of his ass. -
A story about a pathetic man's downfall [34 Felony Convictions]
GW Hayduke replied to Francisco 2.0's topic in Cloak Room
Nobody fucks with Mike Pence and walks away from it. https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/11/politics/mike-pence-gridiron-dinner/index.html Nobody fucks with Mike Pence and walks away from it. https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/11/politics/mike-pence-gridiron-dinner/index.html -
Yes. Those videos of cops intertwined with the protestors, the videos of cops opening barriers, etc. is not evidence of complicity. Those videos are used by propagandists (Tucker, Twitter trolls) to make it look like they are complicit and to sow discord and division. Barriers were opened and abandoned when protestors had breached behind the barriers. There isn’t a point in battling protestors if they can just walk around. It would have been extraordinarily dangerous to try and do that. Once an area had been breached, once a part of the capital was breached, the cops were outnumbered and all they could do was keep the peace - I.e., be present and wait for the clear out activities to commence.
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Because the police weren’t being complicit. That is just a dumb narrative pushed by Tucker Carlson, right wing trolls, and those gullible to their propaganda.
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Republicans get owned in their Weaponization Hearings
GW Hayduke replied to Satchel's topic in Cloak Room
Ok. The Stop the Steal folks also don't have evidence. I perceive that theory to be anti-democratic, dangerous to the US, and exactly what our foreign adversaries want. Is there a reason I shouldn't perceive your theory as the same? -
Republicans get owned in their Weaponization Hearings
GW Hayduke replied to Satchel's topic in Cloak Room
Is there evidence supporting this theory? Seems dangerous. I understand Hillary was considered the favorite and she lost the electoral vote. Other than that, is there anything else? I understand the 2016 nationwide results were mostly within the margin of error. 538 gave Trump an overall 3/10 shot at winning. I don't discount the Russian meddling at all and believe their involvement contributed to Trump's narrow win - but that would likely have been generally captured in polling. I also wouldn't discount Comey's unprecedented meddling when he publicly announced his investigation 11 days before election day, which was during early voting. The polling leading up to that time wouldn't have factored Comey's meddling. Here is a good video on how "wrong" the polls were in 2016 - i.e., not very wrong. https://fivethirtyeight.com/videos/polling-101-what-happened-to-the-polls-in-2016-and-what-you-should-know-about-them-in-2020/ -
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