Re:US Gross Domestic Product, Second Quarter 2022 (Advance E...
by tptacek on Thursday July 28, 2022 @07:39PM
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It's understandable that someone would reach that conclusion if all they observed was the J6 committee hearing videos. But on a day-to-day basis, people are behaving essentially the way they always have. People still call in zoning violations expecting issues to get resolved, and they still jaywalk. Nobody's asking for a bribe to install the cable.
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Re:US Gross Domestic Product, Second Quarter 2022 (Advance E...
by rayiner on Thursday July 28, 2022 @10:01PM
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We’re not there yet, but we are well on the way to becoming a third world country politically. Trump is a politician fit for a third world country. But we also had members of Congress recently abandon their institutional roles and get themselves arrested at protests. I think even Sanders had more dignity than that.
Re:US Gross Domestic Product, Second Quarter 2022 (Advance E...
by pvg on Thursday July 28, 2022 @11:34PM
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John Lewis was arrested at protests five times as a member of congress and the republic was fine and likely better for it.
Re:US Gross Domestic Product, Second Quarter 2022 (Advance E...
by tptacek on Thursday July 28, 2022 @11:28PM
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Like many thousands of people, Sanders was arrested at civil rights protests. I don't like Sanders, at all, but he certainly gained "dignity points" for that. The logic you're using to flatten things down isn't working; it's equating things that can't reasonably be equated.
Re:US Gross Domestic Product, Second Quarter 2022 (Advance E...
by selimthegrim on Thursday July 28, 2022 @10:50PM
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Surely this happened in the 60s (getting arrested)