Mr Bee

That's too vague to really tell us anything. Given the specific points mentioned, I think it would all net out in the end (though thinking about it mo...

Between the defunding of social security, healthcare, daily mass shootings, and uncontrolled climate change (all Republican priorities), I kind of dou...

I was referring more to the legislative process, which especially holds true for the current makeup of congress.

We'll see, but there does seem to be an growing appetite for it among the Democrat base. Of course, all it takes is for a few bad actors to ruin the w...

Hopefully less than that if the Dems can finally get their act together and gut the filibuster. Obviously they won't be able to do it this cycle, but ...

Honestly I'm more concerned about the SCOTUS's upcoming ruling on the West Virginia v. EPA case which could seriously hinder the US's attempts to regu...

To be fair, Manchin at the very least supported reversing the Trump tax cuts (or at least that was his public statement). Sinema opposed those same ta...

The Dems can get rid of the filibuster on a party line basis, but the senators from Arizona and West Virginia thought it more important that congress ...

It's not that the Democrats in power can't make sense of the reason why Trump came into power, it's that they don't like the implications of the answe...

Cause that's the way that things are designed in the US. It's the policies with broad support that are usually the most difficult to pass.

Honestly I don't disagree. The firearm obsession in the US has gotten to the point where I personally avoid engaging the issue for the most part, know...

https://aphyr.com/data/posts/261/deaths-vs-guns.png Or maybe the US should ask the other countries to the left which seem to have it all figured out.

Or alternatively she could've just vacated her position, being in her 80s and having survived cancer multiple times. It was arrogant of her to not con...

Yep, Russia is gonna become completely reliant on China now if it doesn't want to collapse, just like North Korea. That's really the best possible out...

Looks more like Russia is going the way of North Korea so this isn't gonna be the US vs. the USSR part 2. Hell at this point a lot of former Soviet st...

This is probably gonna be the start of the downfall of Russia overall if I'm being frank. No matter how you look at it, the long-term outlook of this ...

It seems like objecting to change as being temporal is precisely disregarding ordinary use, but hey what do I know.

Honestly I have more faith that Elon Musk will come in and save the day and I wish I were joking. And I'm sure that politicians like Joe Manchin will ...

Yep. Turns out Manchin never wanted anything in the first place if he's gonna close the door on even talks about a bill which meets his remaining dema...

Meanwhile: Senate passes $768 billion annual defense bill, sending measure to Biden

I'd say 50/50 depending on whether Manchin is acting in good faith or not. Progressives are gonna cave to whatever he wants like they always have and ...

Don't even think he'd make it to court to be honest since he'd likely be killed by the police before then. Fact is there are racial disparities in how...

My guess based on his profile is that he just wanted to pull a political stunt more than anything, and fortunately for him he got just what he wanted ...

Rittenhouse was 17, lived in another state, and came to Kenosha with a gun knowing that things were gonna get ugly. I've felt since last year that he ...

Like actual war? None. Every country has too much to lose in today's globalized society so something along the lines of a WW3 is simply not gonna happ...

Can't really say nothing, but it's more half-measures that are woefully insufficient to solve the problem at hand. At the very least it's more than I ...

That was gonna be the story regardless of how this day went. The progressives have already signaled that they were gonna give up the hostage a few day...

Well, we'll see what happens this week since their plan for a vote on both bills (in the House) apparently hasn't changed.

Jayapal has already signalled she's gonna continue with the plan to get a vote on the BIF and they'll take a "leap of faith" on Biden's word that he w...

In recent news, Manchin has once again called for a pause right before the BBB bill can be agreed upon citing his concerns on the debt and inflation. ...

Just for context: Manchin originally wanted $4 trillion for infrastructure. If we were generous and put the price tag of both bills together (includin...

Not that they mean anything but alot of people are, for good reason, pessimistic about climate change. I try to be hopeful about it all because I feel...

Publicly, the issue is the cost. Privately, the issue is what it will do, particularly with regard to taxes.

I think there'll be a compromise but what kind of compromise depends on the leverage that progressives have. There are currently no negotiations going...

Yet for some reason these people are painted as radical Castro-loving communists by the right.

Any left-wing uprising that exists in the US has been consistently quashed by the establishment "left" in recent years. If you followed the 2020 Democ...

Eh, I will just say what I said in a similar thread months back on a like/dislike system, which is that I think such a system would be counterproducti...

B.C. heat wave saw 719 people die in one week, says B.C. coroner

Well, carbon capture is also an option for the right (and oil companies) to run on too since it doesn't require a big change in the current status quo...

Having lived through the northern heatwave just now of 40+C temperatures, pretty much yeah. Most conversation isn't even about stopping climate change...

What exactly do you mean by "time" here, and furthermore what are you referring to when you talk of it being an illusion? The article you linked broug...

Since it seems pretty clear you're talking about this in the context of US politics (the only politics that really matters nowadays apparently) then I...

Why would the origins make the argument false? Most would say that our thinking depends on neurons firing in our brains in our physical bodies, but th...

My use of relative and absolute is in line with concepts like relative vs. absolute motion. For instance, are you at rest right now? According to Gali...

I think Descartes would disagree with you. The answer doesn't have to conform to our language. It just has to exist, at least that's my point.

But you can certainly see from your own point of view that you exist. And from your POV there are states of yourself that you were and have yet to bec...

I think he's referring to Weinstein's TOE that he announced 8 years ago before going completely silent and not publishing anything about it. Well appa...

QM literally has dozens of interpretations all claiming things like multiple realities, nonlocality, and indeterminism. So you have to be more specifi...

I won't be. That's the great thing about this post-Trump era.

You're still here? Trump is no longer president man.