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Ranvier , to U.S. News in The Red State Brain Drain Isn’t Coming. It’s Happening Right Now.

Excellent article. I personally know multiple doctors who have taken significant pay cuts, uprooted everything, and moved across the country to escape red state politics just as the article reports. Doctors just want to treat patients as well as possible, not be thrown in jail for practicing good medicine.

Xariphon , to Politics in The Supreme Court Doesn’t Care That the Gay Wedding Website Case Is Based on Fiction

Anything that supports their bigotry, doesn't need to be true.

"I'm not interested in reality" really sums up their entire position at this point.

dd97843 ,
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Much like the MAGA twits, I mean individuals.

some_guy , to Work Reform in Companies That Try to Union-Bust Will Be Forced to Recognize Union, NLRB Says

Best news all summer!

13zero , to Politics in The Supreme Court May Preemptively Ban a Federal Wealth Tax

Ok, then force capital gains to be realized annually, and make the capital gains rates more progressive.

RadioRat , to U.S. News in The Red State Brain Drain Isn’t Coming. It’s Happening Right Now.
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The only silver lining I can find is a bit selfish, but it’s really nice that the trans population of MN is growing explosively. Can’t even leave the house in the metro without seeing other GNC folks.

PunnyName , (edited ) to Work Reform in Companies That Try to Union-Bust Will Be Forced to Recognize Union, NLRB Says

Fuck yeah

Col3814444 OP , (edited ) to Politics in News: Mask Off: DeSantis Staffer Reportedly Shares Video of DeSantis and Giant Nazi Symbol

Holy fuck, it’s not even mildly subtle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sun_(symbol)

Also, how dare those Nazi fucks bespoil Kate Bush’s wonderful music like that. I hope she sues the living fuck out of them.

-edit, notice also; ‘Make America Florida’. and ‘God’ superimposed over DeSantis.

Laffytaffer ,

It’s subtle only in the sense that most regular people don’t know what the black sun is. My wife got me this keychain that had some pagan symbols on it with a black sun snuck in as well, she had no idea until I told her.

be_excellent_to_each_other ,
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I admit I got all the way to the end waiting for the swastika, and figured, "eh, well it must be that thing."

Thing is, while I find this entirely plausible, unless there's an archive.org of the tweet before deletion, I don't think we can credibly tie this back to anything DeSantis wanted or approved.

He's in my top 5 list of people actively trying to destroy the US, but unless the provenance of the linked video can be proven I don't see this going anywhere. Folks who hate him aren't surprised, folks who don't will ask for more proof, DeSantis will deny if he acknowledges it at all.

Jaytreeman ,

My only pushback is how much evidence do you need? He's anti-latin, anti-gay, anti-teans and uses neo-nazi imagery.
Anyone that's willing to ignore one of those because it's not explicit enough, is highly suspect.

be_excellent_to_each_other ,
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I completely agree with you, but that still leave the minds that will be changed by this existence of this video at zero, the way I read it. Yes it's appalling, but he was appalling before the video too.

Jaytreeman ,

The people that can't have their minds changed are fascists. You should thank them for making it clear

be_excellent_to_each_other ,
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Absolutely fair point I'm just saying I don't think the existence of this moves the needle in any way in the current environment. It can't even be used in a campaign smear against him without being verifiable as to its origin and his approval of it.

TL;DR: Entertaining, but not whatsoever the immediate career destroyer that it could have been, or that we all would have hoped for.

crowsby ,
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The NYT is reporting that it was actually produced by the DeSantis campaign, which is doing nothing to disavow the notion.

p03locke ,
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Wow, using Kate Bush’s music is ironic as hell.

Col3814444 OP ,

Song about a man and a woman changing bodies, no less.

p03locke ,
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Fortunate Son isn’t a national anthem to use political campaigning, either, but Trump and other dumbasses use it, anyway.

nicetriangle ,
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Yeah my first thought as well

dragonflyteaparty , to Work Reform in Outdoor Workers Are Climate Victims

God, I hope so. Something has to give.

ATQ , to Politics in The GOP War on Wokeness Could Shut Down the Government

That’s what they want. The Sedition Caucus was elected to break the government so the rest of the ‘Pubs can campaign on how government doesn’t work.

DigitalTraveler42 , (edited )

Just like they’ve been doing for the last 40 years.

Aesthesiaphilia ,

And it works because Americans don't pay attention and our media is full of traitors and cowards.

BurnTheRight , (edited ) to Politics in The Supreme Court May Preemptively Ban a Federal Wealth Tax

We need to re-seat this illegitimate court.

Conservatism is a plague of oppression, deception and death. It always has been. There is no such thing as "good conservatism".

phoneymouse , to Work Reform in Companies That Try to Union-Bust Will Be Forced to Recognize Union, NLRB Says

Any workplace with more than 50 employees should automatically be unionized

carl_dungeon , to Politics in Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Trump Prosecutor Should Go After Rapists (Who Wants To Tell Her?)

It’s too bad we don’t have better healthcare for the mentally retarded.

P1r4nha ,

What are you talking about? Doesn’t the US provide the best healthcare to congress people?

carl_dungeon ,

Nah, mental health[care] is taboo in the US.

Madison_rogue , to Politics in Pay Attention to What You See: Donald Trump Is Losing His Marbles
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He posted Barack Obama’s current address...Shortly after Trump’s post, Tyler Taranto showed up with a machete, two guns, and 400 rounds of ammunition.

Friday morning came the related news that federal prosecutors working on the classified documents case against Trump are facing threats from MAGA-heads.

The playbook all along. Rhetoric that Doxxes prosecutors...Obama. Something organized crime would do. How can we think that prosecutors are going to work impartially if their lives are threatened, or that someone isn't going to act against a politician? Trump is unhinged.

Bipta ,

He's acting pretty rationally trying to get people killed. If Obama was killed, what sort of message would that send to his followers, to his opposition, and to prosecutors?

The single death that could have supercharged his stochastic terrorism.

root_beer , to Politics in The Supreme Court May Preemptively Ban a Federal Wealth Tax
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Thomas can’t have his sugar daddy cutting him off now, y’know

keet , to Work Reform in A Death at Walmart
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Foodservice, Food Processing, and Retail NEED mandatory paid sick leave. The fact that they don't, with the inevitable public health consequence, is gross to say the least. Aside from that note, any corp with as much power as Walmart needs to be broken up and/or unionized, pronto.

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