Eatspancakes84

joined 2 years ago
[–] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (8 children)

I feel like this post doesn’t give enough credit to Europeans who also killed millions of native Americans before the US was even founded.

[–] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Seriously, Facebook was not even the first Social Media of it’s type. Truly bizarre that this guy has earned so much.

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

Yeah, just to add, per capita the difference is even starker. The low population density in the US makes it extremely costly to build a high-speed railway from east to west coast, but there is no good reason why there is no railway between LA-Bay Area-Sacremento, and a high-speed rail connection along the East Coast is a no brainer.

[–] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Hard disagree. If he goes on trial and is acquitted (or the jury is hung), that puts a target on all their backs. This is potentially much more dangerous than Epstein.

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

Raising the debt ceiling requires only 50 votes I think. Besides the article is about the house. I don’t see any reason why Dems help out the GOP if they can’t stop defectors.

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

I don’t really get this. They don’t need the Democrats to keep the government open, since they have a majority in both chambers. Completely up to the GOP to get the votes lined up.

[–] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

There are dozens of obvious ways in which Trump and co destroy the government. However, what worries me even more is the things they destroy that are not immediately obvious. For instance, say they remove building construction code, and in 30 years we find out that every building constructed since the Trump government has a fatal construction flaw.

[–] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Clearly you can do stuff to bring agricultural prices down, BUT with the bird flu going around don’t expect miracles in egg prices. If somehow, magically, high egg prices are the only negative effect we will encounter related to bird flu, we are extremely lucky.

[–] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah I think it’s very interesting that doctors and surgeons follow so much of the same curriculum, when they actually need completely different skill sets.

[–] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

That’s a fantastic quote. This is how you can still run campaigns today!

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

In both situations the problem is that congress is not acting when it should. When Dems controlled congress we wanted it push through bills. Now that GOP controls congress we want them to stop Elon. In both cases congress does nothing (and this has been the steady state for decades).

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