Posts by BobApril@c.im
(DIR) Post #AVDU3DDyFpxAQ2U5Ka by BobApril@c.im
2023-05-01T12:47:36Z
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@stellarator @williampietri One problem on this issue is the different incentives for individuals vs the community. It is (IMHO) bad for the community at large to segregate Black users onto their own servers - but for an individual Black user, moving to a Black-run server is the quickest, easiest, and probably most effective way to reduce their own burden of dealing with racism on Mastodon. It's no surprise that the individual solution is the first thing many of us come up with.
(DIR) Post #AVlE04JcYSgfukeNRw by BobApril@c.im
2023-05-17T15:58:03Z
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@paninid @thehill @edgeoforever We all make mistakes along the way. I dabbled in the folly of the Libertarians and then the Greens before finally deciding to work within the system we have instead of an imaginary better system.
(DIR) Post #AW1Wq2r5s3XX4kvXfs by BobApril@c.im
2023-05-25T19:50:43Z
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@StrugglingGuitarist @StillIRise1963 If the left wingers were equally corrupt, I feel sure news sources would be finding those stories, just as they found Thomas' and Kavanaugh's. In fact, right wing media is probably looking desperately for anything they can even spin to make it seem like this is a bipartisan problem, and they've come up with nothing.On the other hand, they ARE complicit for failing to call this out and for signing on to that letter. https://abc7ny.com/supreme-court-justices-scotus-ethics-code-clarence-thomas/13192491/
(DIR) Post #AW89TL9QkB1aJrQaeW by BobApril@c.im
2023-05-28T23:28:42Z
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@TonyStark @GreenFire This is probably true (sigh), but it just galls me to no end that the Republicans can pull this utterly unprincipled hostage-taking with absolutely NO legitimate justification, and in direct contradiction to their actions when they hold control...and not only get away with it, but get rewarded for it. Less than they wanted, but rewarded nonetheless. It's an indictment of the ignorance of our populace that this works.
(DIR) Post #AWGNz7xfnWaIBmZSdM by BobApril@c.im
2023-06-01T23:54:05Z
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@KimPerales The footage literally belongs to Congress, so DoJ has no authority. I do have hopes for an eventual good result from the lawsuit other media have filed to get it released more widely, but apart from that, I think our only recourse is to retake the House.It does seem like Senate President Kamala Harris and/or Pro Tem Patty Murray ought to have equal authority over the footage, though, so I don't know why THEY aren't releasing it.
(DIR) Post #AXSg673oxxObIQvK3U by BobApril@c.im
2023-07-07T19:54:52Z
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@Moon @carnage4life No, it's a time-saving cognitive shortcut. We can't possibly parse out the true motivations and philosophical bent of everyone we meet - so when such an easy and accurate tool for weeding some of them out is offered, it only makes sense to use it.
(DIR) Post #AXSgmXzXECGGz29Y9I by BobApril@c.im
2023-07-07T20:12:14Z
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@Moon @carnage4life @besserwisser Hey, whatever cognitive shortcut works for you. I don't see those increased social connotations to using the term "woman" instead of "female," though.
(DIR) Post #AXSujrKmFrYBSlhY6i by BobApril@c.im
2023-07-07T22:49:13Z
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(DIR) Post #AXzfCBzRqYwYzPGcQi by BobApril@c.im
2023-07-23T01:58:26Z
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@mjf_pro @Teri_Kanefield That seems overly dismissive and demeaning. How about "fix it NOW before the bastard gets back in office and pardons himself"?
(DIR) Post #AXzfCDLomsQpD4jzw8 by BobApril@c.im
2023-07-23T12:23:34Z
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@mjf_pro @Teri_Kanefield A "top-down AND bottom-up" strategy for the investigation was proposed by DoJ prosecutors and rejected by Garland and other top DoJ officials. That expanded investigation would have been faster, without breaking our rule of law. It *might* have been less effective in the end, or it might not - but it was certainly a legal option without falling into dictatorial territory.
(DIR) Post #AXzfCFDjpt9n0ayZcW by BobApril@c.im
2023-07-23T17:42:22Z
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@mjf_pro @peteriskrisjanis @Teri_Kanefield A successful and healthy democracy depends on an informed electorate. Our justice system is the way we have developed to determine the truth in questions of fact, criminality, and so forth. That makes it a quite appropriate place to put our hope. I want it to work faster and more efficiently than it has, faster than Ms. Kanefield wants to believe is reasonable, fast enough to reach those conclusions BEFORE the next Presidential election. That's a far cry from making it "someone else's problem.
(DIR) Post #AYK4HysTRGKKUkw3RQ by BobApril@c.im
2023-08-02T14:16:26Z
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@gmcgath I noticed that in particular with T'Pring's parents. Was there another example that drew your ire?
(DIR) Post #AYK6ZQNWe0YGcPuAme by BobApril@c.im
2023-08-02T14:42:00Z
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@gmcgath It hardly matters, since T'Pring spilling the tea to non-Vulcans is an even worse "traditional Vulcan" characterization than Spock doing so. I think the new version of the Gorn supports your thesis, too. I'm not sure how these slavering monsters achieve space travel, much less finally reach a tentative accord with Kirk. SNW is still in my top three series, but yeah, there's major flaws.
(DIR) Post #AZAfw00nv8jk2uAzGy by BobApril@c.im
2023-08-27T22:15:06Z
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@TruthSandwich @HeatherFromTexas @michelestrider @aburka @futurebird Your insistence that these candidates/elected officials are not Democrats is a category error. We can quibble about liberal/progressive/socialist/whatever all day. But if a candidate registers and runs on the Democratic ticket, they're a Democrat (until and unless they explicitly leave the party, like Sinema did, or is expelled like Liz Cheney was by the GOP.) Likewise, even though Bernie Sanders caucuses with the Dems and might even be less extreme than some of them, he is NOT a Democrat.Nancy Mace and David Joyce are part of the same Republican Party as Jim Jordan and Marj Greene, and therefore we can and SHOULD use the extreme positions against the moderate candidates. Their party may have shifted out from under them, like it did for Kinzinger and Cheney - but it's still the one and only Republican Party. In the same way, so too are Joe Biden and Ocasio-Cortez, and even Joe Manchin all part of the same party. They share resources and strategies. They have the same (D) next to their names on the ballot. They are Democrats. And if you're right, and AOC is an infiltrator bent on changing the Democratic Party, then her success would mean that the party as a whole has changed - not that it has become a new party. You don't get to decide who is or is not a member of the party - that's up to the candidates and the party structures.
(DIR) Post #AZAfw1PeiED4OGoLeC by BobApril@c.im
2023-08-27T22:51:44Z
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@TruthSandwich @HeatherFromTexas @michelestrider @aburka @futurebird I would think you would know better than to take PR as fact. They can claim all they want to not be Democrats, but that doesn't change the facts. (Sanders is an edge case, but only because the Maine Democrats allow it.) You've said that the DSA is the left equivalent of the Tea Party - but the people elected that call themselves the Tea Party ARE REPUBLICANS, right? They caucus with the GOP, share money and mailing lists with the GOP, run in the GOP primaries, they're literally part of the GOP.Likewise these folks. They can say whatever they want to attract their base. But at the end of the day, being a Democrat is a legal status that is important because of the ways our state laws are structured to favor the two main parties. They are Democrats just like Sam Ervin was a Democrat while he was railing against Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Act. The party changed out from under him. If AOC and her friends succeed, the Democratic Party will change again. What you're doing (and for that matter, what THEY'RE doing in those images you keep sharing) is a No True Scotsman argument. They may be bad Democrats. They may be harming the Party. They may be infiltrating to alter it into something unrecognizable. But it doesn't change the simple, legalistic facts. They're Democrats.
(DIR) Post #Ab6tZVxDApjqJGrIY4 by BobApril@c.im
2023-10-24T23:21:25Z
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@realcaseyrollins @chiclet Your contention here seems to be based on the assumption that Trump is, in fact, innocent. The evidence already available to the public does not seem to support that assumption. Taking the public statements of lawyers who are vigorously defending their clients in the media at face value seems a risky way to reach any conclusions. We already know that several of the lawyers who have been indicted made broad claims in the media but then sharply limited, dropped, or even contradicted those claims in court, while under threat of perjury. It seems likely that the lawyers those lawyers have now hired might do the same sort of thing. https://archive.ph/ve1Oo
(DIR) Post #Ab8H34UyJETZwvflOi by BobApril@c.im
2023-10-25T15:19:12Z
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@realcaseyrollins @chiclet You acknowledge that Grubman could be lying...but then you seem to be basing your entire argument on his statements to the press. I personally don't find it at all obvious that Trump and the rest of those covered in the RICO indictment are being unfairly persecuted. By all means, though, feel free to keep rooting your analysis in that as a foundation. It will be all the more entertaining to see how far you're willing to go into a fantasy world to maintain that illusion.
(DIR) Post #AdgVBBFgNlBvrzSu4O by BobApril@c.im
2024-01-09T23:21:52Z
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@dave He's been trying to incite more violence ever since Jan 6th, and has failed every time. The number of his supporters actually willing to riot for him is a tiny percentage - and most of those got rounded up in the last few years. The rest would be happy to cheer from the sidelines, maybe even join in at the end of a successful revolution - but are far too comfortable to get up from their couches to start something.The same is true on the left, of course. Lots of people eager to talk about violent revolt as the only path for change, but far fewer actually willing to put their lives and freedom on the line.
(DIR) Post #AjtmEfcNVEUgwcwP7Q by BobApril@c.im
2024-07-13T20:16:47Z
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@stux @FallsMom Trump is a symptom and front man. The real sources of the problem are those like Leonard Leo, David Koch, Kevin Roberts, etc.