Eatspancakes84

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[–] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

The youth is already paying for the elderly. It’s called Medicare. The real question is whether the young people who are healthy pay for those that are less lucky.

[–] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That’s without joking exactly what they do. Now if that one millennial voter is a different one in each cohort of participants you get huge swings in the survey that are not very predictive of election outcomes, and that error is poorly represented in the margin of error.

[–] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Both are incredibly incompetent. However, I think if Bush had not become president he would have been seen as somebody who is a bit stupid, and easy to influence, but otherwise a pleasant personality. Trump on the other hand was a criminal long before he saw the Oval Office.

[–] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Which planet were these pictures taken on? On my planet the sun looks much bigger.

[–] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

If men only date women below 30 (or 27 apparently??) for their youthful appearance, what incentive do those women have to take dating seriously? Those men won’t stay anyway. This is the main contradiction in incel rhetoric. If you don’t like to look at women past 30, women shouldn’t date you “seriously “ while in their 20s.

[–] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I never really get why those types of subsidies should go through the corporate tax. Want to subsidise domestic production? Provide a wage subsidy to companies that employ American workers. The corporate tax code should be as clean and simple as possible.

[–] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

That’s a very interesting poll because in the end HRC got 48 percent of the vote, or 2 percentage points more than in this poll, while DT got 46 percent, 11 percent more than in the poll. One explanation could be that undecided, Johnson and Stein voters changed their minds and (mostly) voted for Trump.

[–] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don’t believe that, even in the face of a full coup, (gun) violence will solve any issues. There’s just no way that a majority of people support a violent militia taking over power of the government, no matter how illegitimate some think that government is.

As examples, look at the recent coup attempt in Turkey, or the Wagner uprising in Russia. In both cases the violent uprisings were used by the dictator to cement his power. Guns will not help you.

[–] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Why?? Every time someone uses political violence the would be dictator becomes more popular and he can make the state more repressive. Even right now, there will be idiot undecided voters that will change their vote to him because some idiot tried to kill him. There are really no upsides to attempting to remove tyrants with guns.

[–] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

People don’t realize just how close presidential elections are. In CA during the last election 35 percent voted Trump. Clearly that’s a landslide win for Biden, but it still implies that even in the most liberal state in the US 6 million people voted for a facist.

[–] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Here’s the issue: think about how happy you will be when TX leaves the union. The GOP feels the same about CA.

[–] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

He is also making such a bs argument. Does anybody believe that Maduro lets out criminals in the hope that they will cross the Dorian gap to go to the US? That makes no sense. It’s much more likely that those criminals, once let out of prisons, remain in Venezuela.

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