• DFX4509B@lemmy.org
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    7 hours ago

    You mean firing everyone in power, repealing Citizens United and blocking corporate money from elections, and then electing young leaders who don’t have an ulterior motive and actually want to drive progress and improve things?

    I’d be down with that but good luck actually pulling that off.

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    In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the… Anyone? Anyone?.. the Great Depression, passed the… Anyone? Anyone? The tariff bill? The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act? Which, anyone? Raised or lowered?.. raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government. Did it work? Anyone? Anyone know the effects? It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression.

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      Give it a few months and we can probably settle for a necromancer. And not because congress reminds me of a mausoleum. Although…

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    11 hours ago

    I don’t think that’s the problem. This new 20.25 patch is filled with Russian malware and is failing to integrate with our legacy free market democratic systems. I suggest we roll back to version 20.21 until they manage to provide a functional upgrade.

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      No taxation without representation? We can still throw the T into the ocean … I’d feel bad if it was all those teslas: it’d be like a poison reef… so we’ll have to settle for the “other one.”

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    11 hours ago

    Someone did unplug it a few decades ago … no one has bothered to plug it in again … I think they set fire to the plug to make sure no one plugs it in again … ever