Agreed. The salary increase, all else staying the same, is a good thing.
If anything, I’m disturbed by the previous government that actually reduced the salary. You can only do that if you can afford to do it. Meaning that they are almost certainly getting more money out of the government through other, corrupt, avenues.
This is not a defense or attack on any particular politician. But you need to pay politicians a competitive salary or corruption is completely inevitable.
Just in case anybody has doubts, I gave an unserious answer to an unserious question. It was mostly just a turn of phrase.
I believe that violence should basically only be used to stop violence.
Those that voted for those that voted for it.
With a few exceptions, no MAGA knows what they’re doing, but they assume that the others know.
This is the sort of authoritarianism that George Orwell imagined.
I think that if you know a person who eats a hot dog every day, you will have many other reasons to suspect that they’re unhealthy.
Standley said he remembers Roley left high school in the middle of sophomore year. He said he believes Roley was expelled “after some trouble with a girl.”
I found this part interesting. Also the part where they said they were scared of him… although that might just be tinted by the fact that they’re trying to remember this guy they didn’t know very well.
If you looked at my Duolingo, you’d think I was pretty fluent in Japanese. But if you look at me talking to a Japanese person, you’d think I knew very little Japanese.
It’s meant to strip citizenship from those who may have lied about their criminal convictions or membership in illegal groups like the Nazi party, or communists during McCarthyism, on their citizenship applications.
While I disagree with denaturalization, I’d accept it if it meant that this reasoning became universal. If you lied while taking an oath that gives you special status, then your special status will be revoked.
Since virtually all Republican politicians lied in their oaths of office to defend the constitution, we could sue to have them removed.
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At some point, somebody convinced people that unrealized gains were not actually income because you don’t know for sure that you’d make that money, and I think that was a bad idea. Maybe unrealized gains aren’t 1:1 the same thing as income, but the calculations of an income equivalent aren’t going to be complicated.
Sheafe said the attack was part of what he claimed was a divine mission to punish religious leaders who, in his view, were misleading followers.
Religious on religious violence.
My biggest beef with Sweet Home Alabama is, if people are ever singing along with it, or if they’re singing it at karaoke. I should mention that I live in the South, so these people singing it are from the South, and even though the song itself isn’t racist, the way these people emphasize certain lyrics, it sure sounds like they want it to be racist.
The whole thing makes me uncomfortable.
God I hope so.
It’s an old grift. If you don’t want to actually do something, but you still want credit for doing it, then just say that you’re doing it. Many people will be tricked.
It’s the same reason the Nazis called themselves “socialists” despite never supporting socialism.
Great point. Trump has never once showed a hint of empathy and only sees things from his own perspective.
Whether he’s talking about sexually assaulting women or using the military to assault another country, it’s all very similar to him.
Trump’s many obvious deficiencies make him one of the least qualified people to negotiate peace with other countries.
OP is talking about booking flights where you can choose between nonstop or layovers. If it’s not possible to get a nonstop, then it’s just as bad for comparison as if it’s not possible to get a layover.