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Something I read a couple years ago (so memory fuzzy) was that most of the guards were 3rd world immigrants or something that had no qualms with using brutal force on them.
The conditions of the prisoners should constitute cruel and unusual punishment and I hope trump will investigate and prosecute the DOJ and prisons.
 
What empyrically required that the definition of what a planet is be changed, and why was it so important that everyone had to be re-educated? I'm not saying it had absolutely no backing, but that it really had little and most of their reason for doing it was to feel as if they had more authority than they should. It opened the door for all the other bullshit, I don't care if the science was a little more trustworthy at the time. The kinds of people making the decision at the top weren't astronauts, they were pencil pushers. And the people who forced the ideas spread through the education system were even further divorced from it. This kind of open acceptance of changes from any authority figure is how we got to the point those who are supposed to be teachers legitimately believed that "science had proven gender was a spectrum" etc.
I never really felt anything was forced on me. Is there a NASA pencil pusher behind you with a gun enforcing it? People use the word "force" far too liberally for my taste.

But shitposty answer aside, I would like to ask for some examples of that, if you don't mind? I was pretty much finishing up my education by then, in a different major than anything related, and so maybe it never felt forced on me because I just read it in an article or something. I am more than willing to adjust this worldview, but I request evidence of this traumatic coercion before I do so.

And why would I want an astronaut to make that decision, anyways? Its not like he's been to Pluto. The New Horizons probe has been. We learned new things, we adjusted our perceptions accordingly. I'm at a loss of where the Pluto PTSD comes from. So, the best I have is "Did your parents tell you the Tooth Fairy was real when you were a child? Do you believe it now?"
 
I am so glad that the Trump team pushed this fucking nerds shit in before any damage was done.
Only because the H1B issue cropped up and he thought Trump was behind him 100%.

If it wasn't for the unending rain of shit that came down on Elon and Vivek, Trump wouldn't have bothered. Vivek knew as much and merely miscalculated how much goodwill he had earned/how useful he was to Trump's people. This was someone getting ousted for not fitting and not being useful enough to ignore their problems so they got the boot. I think it's very, very important for people to remember that rather than thinking Vivek would've been ousted if it hadn't happened.
 
It cannot be understated that this cocksucker is a blackhole around him and to others. I am so glad that the Trump team pushed this fucking nerds shit in before any damage was done.
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That isn't a thing that happened. There were only about 30 or so invitees in the section behind trump in the rotunda and Vivek was one of them.
 
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Damn, if shit's looking this good already I shudder to think of what the Kamala timeline held for us...
Kamala inauguration:
  • Star Spangled Banner by an all black choir
  • Another poem by Amanda Gorman, this time on black women and achievement
  • Reverend Al Sharpton gives a message on MLK and how historic the day is
  • Meghan Thee Stallion sings America the Beautiful
  • Lizzo plays a flute solo of Imagine by John Lennon
  • Speech by Michelle Obama
  • Speech by Beyoncé (she still isn’t paid enough to sing there)
  • Prayer by a trans Episcopalian priest
  • Kamala gives a speech on defeating fascism and being the first woman president (starts out speech with “I’m speaking”)
  • Closing and opening music provided by a HBCU marching band
 
That's a good point. My question wasn't rhetorical, I genuinely wanted to know why that wouldn't work. I suppose you can't really compare it to Biden's last minute pardons
I think most of us would like to see him pardon them back in 2021 as a last fuck you but he played it out and waited to build his credibility back. I'm surprised he was pardoning him this early, I thought he'd wait till 2028 or midterms.
 
Kamala inauguration:
  • Star Spangled Banner by an all black choir
  • Another poem by Amanda Gorman, this time on black women and achievement
  • Reverend Al Sharpton gives a message on MLK and how historic the day is
  • Meghan Thee Stallion sings America the Beautiful
  • Lizzo plays a flute solo of Imagine by John Lennon
  • Speech by Michelle Obama
  • Speech by Beyoncé (she still isn’t paid enough to sing there)
  • Prayer by a trans Episcopalian priest
  • Kamala gives a speech on defeating fascism and being the first woman president (starts out speech with “I’m speaking”)
  • Closing and opening music provided by a HBCU marching band
You forgot
Did i mention i am working class*cackle*
 
Why do you say that? Elon owns X/Twitter, which is part of Big Tech in the social commerce world. What, Tesla? It's practically a meme than anything else.
BigTech the faction, the consolidated group of interests. Yes, Musk owns Twitter and Tesla but he is not part of the BigTech faction. This is like saying "Because Donald Trump is a republican he and Mitch McConnell are part of the same faction"

I mean, technically yes but only in the loosest, broadest, and most useless possible way.

On what marks him as different:
The creature you're looking for is called a 'sociopath'.

He's a globalist which defacto marks him as their ally.
Musk isn't actually a globalist. He has pushed several ideas that are very much America First. What he -is-, is a Transhumanist. Someone who believes that anything which brings us further away from our human limitations is for the better. Again, this overlaps with the globalists but doesn't make him one. Stop thinking of the world as a series of "Either ors", people can have similar ends, reasoning's, and policies as a faction without being part of that faction.

Mind, to both you and The Last Stand, this is not a defense of Musk but rather making sure his actual positions are more clearly noted. It is, in this specific case, why Musk was willing to backtrack and aknowledge issues with H1-Bs while Vivek doubled down and got ousted. Musk,. in the end, was more willing to bend because he was not part of the same factions as Vivek.

Trump already put in that 30 days deadline in his eo. While Barrett is the emotional woman, she's going to let it pass through as none of it is retroactive. Plus it fits her hard-line conservative angle too.
I do not trust her. She has proven willing in the past to put aside her claimed views on law when her emotions were played on well enough. Frankly, I trust -Roberts- more than her because that man, as odious and repulsive as his "Judicial Philosophy" is, at least is consistent in its application.
 
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