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What belief do you have two-sided opinions on?
  • Death penalty

    On one hand, I don't believe capital punishment has any place in civilized society.
    On the other, there are some in-human people (serial killers mainly, but including e.g. CEOs who have caused thousands of deaths to increase profits), where it just seems a waste of everyone's time, to lock them away in a cell for decades. Some people are just completely beyond rehabilitation, and if they are proven guilty with 99.9+% certainty, what's the point of locking then up and waiting for old age to do the job?

  • Elon Musk’s X engaged in a ‘pattern of election interference' to help Trump
  • The? Rupert Murdoch has been running a huge propaganda network playing 'defense' for republicans for decades.

  • ‘The Wild Robot’ Sequel In The Works At DreamWorks With Director Chris Sanders
  • I'm so out of the loop, and far behind on movies & series, I had never heard of 'the wild robot' until now. Sounds like a pretty good movie though.

  • Solution Rule
  • I'm not saying we should grind any living beings into pulp, but I'm pretty sure those meat grinders they throw male chickens into, already exist in very similar and much larger versions in various industries.

  • This is a real tweet by Walz
  • Citation needed.

    But let's humor your point. That is pretty awful, but what the fuck is the alternative? Voting Trump/Vance who will let Israel dial their genocide up to 11; shit they will probably actively encourage it, if there is votes/power or money in it for them.

  • So you don’t like Trump or Harris – here’s why it’s still best to vote for one of them
  • A third party gets campaign funds, and then what?

    First past the post voting, or at the very least the US version of it, strongly favors two dominating parties. CGP Grey - Minority Rule...
    A third party doing anything but fuck things up, is a delusional fantasy. Change starts with election reform. For instance https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/

  • Tim Walz calls for scrapping of electoral college to decide US presidential race
  • Rural states have a large advantage in the house, huge advantage in the senate, and of course significant skew in the electoral college. And much of it comes from compromises with slave owners.
    Abolishing the EC would not mean rural regions get completely ignored, not only would they have reps and senators still courting their votes (and campaign donations), civilized countries with functional democracies have multiple parties. A rural party would show up, which could court voters in all rural areas, instead of only in swing states.

  • Walz: ‘The Electoral College needs to go’
  • Congress of going to need to expand a little bit, if all 3,330-6,660 reps should be able to gather at the same time.

  • Kamala Harris 'is in control of this hurricane' using 'weather weapons': Alex Jones
  • Well, they are called unrestrained continuous pollution, or 'man made climate change' if you will.

  • Great job Republican scum!
  • They have been doing it for 50 years, it has just expanded and grown increasingly sinister:

    First, the Two Santas strategy dictates, when Republicans control the White House they must spend money like a drunken Santa and cut taxes to run up the U.S. debt as far and as fast as possible.

    This produces three results: it stimulates the economy thus making people think that the GOP can produce a good economy; it raises the debt dramatically; and it makes people think that Republicans are the “tax-cut Santa Clauses.”

    Second, when a Democrat is in the White House, Republicans must scream about the national debt as loudly and frantically as possible, freaking out about how “our children will have to pay for it!” and “we have to cut spending to solve the crisis!” Shut down the government, crash the stock market, and damage US credibility around the world if necessary to stop Democrats from spending money.
    https://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/thom-hartmann/two-santas-strategy-gop-used-economic-scam-manipulate-americans-40-years/

    Wreck the government, then point to the Democrats and loudly claim everything is all their fault...

  • Trump Reiterates He Wants to Be a 'Dictator' for 'One Day' at Wisconsin Rally
  • Mixed in-between the word vomit, he validates their hate. Unfortunately their lives are so miserable and empty, being told it's okay to hate, is more important to them than anything else.

  • J.D. Vance Lashes Out After the Smallest Fact-Check in V.P. Debate
  • Original headline captured 3 hours ago:

    "J.D. Vance Freaks Out Over the Slightest Pushback in V.P. Debate"
    https://web.archive.org/web/20241002034127/https://newrepublic.com/post/186602/jd-vance-vp-debate-fact-check-migrants

    How is anyone surprised a weird little freak, was freaking out on the debate stage‽

  • What's an obsolete or incredibly obscure word you think people should know?
  • The are all great, but tawdry is fantastic!

    Rolls of the tongue, and we all come across several tawdry things/people in a given day.

  • Alabama illegally purged voters too close to election, Justice Department says
  • If I'm not mistaken, residents can vote in local elections in many places.

  • Is Google Maps getting worse?
  • I hate that "feature" so much. For a while it has used the speed of other's phones for your ETA. As in, if everyone is doing 10-15 over the speed limit, you're expected to go with the flow.
    I don't want a more accurate ETA. I want to arrive when it says I will if I follow all speed limits, and shave off a couple minutes if I am going faster than that.

  • I've been procrastinating calling the doctor for a week now...
  • I didn't go to the dentist for 4 years, moved & Covid & postponing making an appointment 50-100 times. I severely regret not going sooner.

  • MAGA is straight up losing it after Taylor Swift’s Harris endorsement
  • Yes, technically it could have come from anyone.
    So let's give the wannabe fascist republicans the benefit of the doubt, because that has historically been a very double plus good idea to do for authoritarians, and only good things will come from doing so...

  • Almost 1 in 4 millennials and Gen Z-ers say they won't have kids due to finances
  • Just guessing but "everyone is addicted to hookup culture" could come off a bit vaguely incel or the problem is everyone else, nothing wrong with me.
    Personally I have several friends & family members, who met their significant other through one "hookup app" or another. Most of them are married and have children nowadays, and are seemingly in very loving and caring relationships.
    Don't get me wrong, datings sucks or rather I sucked at it; on top of that the scene could be even worse than it used to be. But you know, Michael Jackson told us all to start by asking the man in the mirror, to make that change.

  • Automation be like
  • Doesn't even have to be the case. A 2min task done every (work)day, takes up a bit over 7 hours/year. After 2½ years it will be a benefit to have automated it!