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figmentPez
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Not sure if funny, or terrifying:
figmentPez
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That is a pretty sick burn, really.
I wonder what the precident would be to re-do a census that was openly and publicly mishandled.
Bonus dilemma if the robot carries a drone inside. Would it then get classed as a pregnant robot?Not sure if funny, or terrifying:
This is a false equivalency.
Rather is using undocumented immigration as an allegory to show why the idea of slowing coronavirus testing in order to generate better numbers is ludicrous because he knows UI is something Trump’s administration thinks is important enough that they actually WANT to find every individual. He is calling out their double standard and at the same time intimating that the administration is being overzealous in their enforcement of UI.
Excluding undocumented migrants from the census rolls, however, is a move deigned to punish sanctuary cities and the like by forcing them to underreport the number of people actually living there, which will result in cuts to the amount of aid and services the federal government will be required to render. It is yet another attempt by his administration to financially starve opponents that he could not coerce by other means. The intent is completely different.
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Which, of course, would hit Arizona the hardest, and California and Texas right after.
EDIT: as @PatrThom just pretty much explained. The thing is, at least with Texas and Arizona, Teh Donalde would be hurting his own damn base.
But that won't stop the "WOMEN FOR TRUMP" bus shilling merch at the open parking lot about 1/2 a mile north of me.
Sorry not sorry.
I mean, many agencies have been told they’re not allowed to indiscriminately collect LPR data without a court order, so now they’re just buying access to privately created databases.
—Patrick
I mean, many agencies have been told they’re not allowed to indiscriminately collect LPR data without a court order, so now they’re just buying access to privately created databases.
—Patrick
I want to take a moment to revisit this comparison to point out just how outrageously insidious this Census thing really is. I already explained how it is from a bureaucratic point of view, where underreporting a population will result in a reduction of assistance, representation, and so on. These are unfortunate, but they are not the real tragedy.
No, the biggest deal here is that the purpose of the Census is not to get a count of the number of citizens, it is to get a count of the number of people. A directive not to count undocumented immigrants for the national Census is literally a directive to not count them as people, and instead reduce them to the status of... I don’t know—pets, or wildlife, or something. In other words, it is yet another attempt by this administration to inject official codification and legitimization of their nationalist, exclusionary agenda, and it should be universally decried as such. And anyone who continues to support such a measure after being informed of this fact deserves to have their motives questioned.
—Patrick
I think the traditional approach is pests, vermin and /or social disease.
figmentPez
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Look, they're called Fun Size, not because it's fun because you're eating less, but because they're meant to be shared in a social setting and make the interaction more fun, see?
*zip*
They’re thin, empty, and bitter. The 3 or 4 times a year I actually ask for a beer, it had better either have some serious heft to it, or else it had better be dessert. Or both.
—Patrick
This. I have that gene and it makes most beer taste like absolute shit. If I have to drink beer, I'm usually doing Imperial or Milk Stoats.
Ever tried their cucumber sour? Pretty refreshing.
Not yet, but I'll definitely keep an eye out for it, thanks.
Should say JK Rowling instead of Harry Potter
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