***Official Political Discussion Thread***

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[dmbrhs]

Do people, like, not know that everything is on camera now?

 

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But the financing

 

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[rexanglorum]

I’d add, that as far as I know, no one got “cancelled” over past jokes or past articles or past books. People like Louis CK and Bill Cosby and JK Rowling “cancelled” because of sexual improprieties, sexual assault, and bigotry.

I suppose Rogen is talking about certain comedians who were unable to book
college shows to the same extent that they were able to 30 years ago and interpret that to mean that they were cancelled. By that criteria, they were “cancelled” over old jokes but not as social censure. They get a smaller audiences, especially at colleges, because comedy is perishable and it’s damn near impossible to be a top tier comic for decades.

 

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[blastercombo]

That’s real

That’s pedo support

 

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[gry60]

In theory, Cantwell filed her amendment to the bill because she genuinely wanted competition in NASA's efforts to build a landing system to send astronauts to the Moon, beginning as early as 2024. In reality, Cantwell's amendment is probably more accurately interpreted as an effort to support Blue Origin, which is based in the state she represents.

NASA genuinely wanted to have a competition for the lunar lander. But it selected only one company—SpaceX—in mid-April after Congress appropriated just a small amount of money in the fiscal year 2021 budget. SpaceX's total bid was only $2.9 billion, less than half that of its competitors, including the Blue Origin-led national team.

However, the way Cantwell's amendment was written would likely have slowed down NASA and its return to the Moon. Were the Cantwell amendment to be signed into law, NASA would have to reopen the competition, thus delaying work on the agency's return to the Moon and putting an already difficult target of 2024 into further jeopardy. Her amendment also ignored NASA's own plans to both create a lunar-lander competition as well as keep the possibility of a 2024 landing on track. Under NASA's plans, SpaceX would work at full speed toward the 2024 landing while a second company would be brought on to compete for subsequent landings.

I understand the need to foster competition for government contracts and I agree with the idea. Stuffing our overlords' pockets at a time when we have bigger priorities (like the erosion of our political system) is just very tone-deaf.

 

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dwalk31

 

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[biggie62]

Feel bad for the kids who will sufferand die from all this BS. But to all the parents who lose children, **** em.

But you know, the party of pro life and family values right.

 

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[RustyShackleford]

These ************* really are a death cult.

They really don't give a **** about the number of deaths they cause as long as they can score points in their culture war.

 

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[blastercombo]

All this so I can’t watch Kraft bust one on an Asian prostitute? white people I tells ya

 

[gry60]

Texas gov knew of natural gas shortages days before blackout, blamed wind anyway

Official's phone logs offer blow-by-blow account of the disaster as it unfolded.

arstechnica.com

 

[aepps20]

He handled that question perfectly.

 

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dwalk31

Why are people wasting their time with this?

 

[Wargames]

Can’t say white privilege, but we all know he means white privilege.

 

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