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  • Now with [source][source] and ::: spoiler better structure

    Category 1: 13 Bills Passed By Democrats in The House but blocked by Republicans in The Senate

    1. “The Women’s Health Protection Act”: Should women have a right to have an abortion in America?
      • Dems: YES 218, NO 1
      • Reps: YES 2, NO 208
    2. “The Right to Contraception Act”. Should Americans have a legal right to purchase contraception?
      • Dems: YES: 220, NO 0
      • Reps: YES 8, NO 195
    3. “The Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act”. Should the oil industry face penalties for price gouging?
      • Dems: YES 217, NO 4
      • Reps: YES 0, NO 203
    4. “The Assault Weapons Ban”. Should military style assault weapons be illegal for sale or purchase?
      • Dems: YES 215, NO 5
      • Reps: YES 2, NO 208
    5. “The Bipartisan Background Checks Act”. Should we expand background checks to cover all gun sales?
      • Dems: YES 219, NO 1
      • Reps: YES 8, NO 202
    6. “The Paycheck Fairness Act”. Should women receive equal pay for equal work in America?
      • Dems: YES: 216, NO: 0
      • Reps: YES: 1, NO: 210
    7. “The Marijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment and Expungement Act”. Should cannabis be decriminalized federally and have past non-violent arrests and convictions expunged?
      • Dems: YES 217, NO 2
      • Reps: YES 3, NO 202
    8. “The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Enhancement Act”. Should we enforce the provisions of The 1965 Voting Rights Act ensuring equal treatment for all voters?
      • Dems: YES 219, NO 0
      • Reps: YES 0, NO 212
    9. "The Respect for Marriage Act". Should the Constitutional Right of same sex marriage declared by The Supreme Court be codified into American law?
      • Dems: YES 220, NO 0
      • Reps: YES 47, NO 157
    10. “The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act”. Should there be consequences for police for discriminatory and illegal policing?
      • Dems: YES 219, NO 2
      • Reps: YES 1, NO 210
    11. “The American Dream and Promise Act”. Should “Dreamers” who came to The US when they were young have a path to earn citizenship?
      • Dems: YES 219, NO 0
      • Reps: YES 9, NO 197
    12. “The Affordable Insulin Now Act”. Should the price of pharmaceutical insulin be capped at $35?
      • Dems: YES 220, NO 0
      • Reps: YES 12, NO 193
    13. “Child Care for Working Families Act” (part of "Build Back Better") Should the government subsidize the cost of child care for certain working mothers and families?
      • Dems: YES 220, NO 1
      • Reps: YES 0, NO 212
    14. “The Violence Against Women Act”: Should the government have and fund comprehensive responses to domestic violence, sexual assault dating violence and stalking?
      • Dems: YES 215, NO 0
      • Reps: YES 29, NO 172
    15. BUILD BACK BETTER: In addition to Affordable Insulin and Child Care (above): Hearing Aids for Seniors, Child Tax Credit, Universal Pre-K
      • Dems: YES: 220, NO 0
      • Reps: YES 1, NO 212

    2022 Midterm Election Note: Most of the above bills WILL pass in early 2023 if voters re-elect a Democratic Majority in The House and #JUST2MORE Democrats in The Senate. None of these bills will be brought up for a vote in The House if Republicans regain the Majority and either Kevin McCarthy or Donald Trump is Speaker of The House. Republicans need #JUST5MORE Republicans to regain the Majority.

    Category 2: 3 Democratic Bills that became law with UNANIMOUS support by Democrats and minor support from Republicans in The Senate

    1. "The Honoring Our PACT Act" Should Veterans receive health care for serious injuries received from “burn pit” pollution while fighting in our wars?
      • Dems: YES 222, NO 0
      • Reps: YES 34, NO 174
    2. "The Invest In America Act" (Infrastructure Bill). An historic, massive infrastructure bill for America
      • Dems: YES: 219, NO: 0
      • Reps: YES: 2, NO 201
    3. "The CHIPS and Science Act". Should we invest heavily in an American micro-processor (Chips) industry to compete with China?
      • Dems: YES 219, NO 0
      • Reps: YES 24, NO 187
    4. “The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act”. Should the government fund mental health, school safety and crisis intervention programs and incentivize states to include juvenile records in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System?
      • Dems: YES 220, NO 0
      • Reps: YES 14, NO 193

    Category 3: 1 Democratic Bill that became law with ZERO Republican support in The Senate

    1. “The Inflation Reduction Act”. The largest bill to fight climate change in history, reductions in prescription drugs, a 15% minimum tax on major corporations (and many other things)
      • Dems: YES 220, NO 1
      • Reps: YES 0, NO 212

    2022 Midterm Election Note: Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and other House Republicans have openly declared that THEIR legislative priorities include none of the above. Instead they will say they will focus on:

    1. Impeaching President Biden,
    2. Impeaching Merrick Garland,
    3. Investigating Hunter Biden and
    4. Making all abortions illegal throughout the United States.

    The Republican and Democratic Parties are NOT the same. There is an almost total difference in policy. ::: [source]: https://www.wamc.org/commentary-opinion/2022-11-04/house-votes-highlight-stark-differences-between-democrats-and-republicans

  • just stop right there. you’re an adult. try to talk like one.

    So you're saying "can't say 'so you're saying' anymore"? That's some weak shit.

  • DEMOCRATS FAKE & BAD
    VOTING BAD
    EFFECTIVE OUTREACH BAD
    NEWSOME BAD
    NO CONSTRUCTIVE EFFORT GOOD

    Where's your better candidate doing shit to beat MAGA? Where's your hard work to get them onto & through primaries onto the ballot?

    Getting more progressives in office doesn't start with "not voting". It ends with voting for them when you produce a better candidate & get them on the ballot.

    Bitching alone doesn't magically get better contenders to materialize on the scene to beat your opponents & win your causes. Show us a better alternative worthy of a coalition, and do the hard work of building that coalition around them.

    MAGA did the hard work. They infiltrated all levels of government, all legislatures, executive posts of several states. They built coalitions from the bottom up.

    The left will need to do at least as much work.

  • Prayers

    Jump
  • I wouldn't be embarrassed: it was cringe structure. ::: spoiler based structure 8. May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership. 9. May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow. 10. May his children be wandering beggars; may they be driven from their ruined homes. 11. May a creditor seize all he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor. 12. May no one extend kindness to him or take pity on his fatherless children. 13. May his descendants be cut off, their names blotted out from the next generation. 14. May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD; may the sin of his mother never be blotted out. 15. May their sins always remain before the LORD, that he may blot out their name from the earth. 16. For he never thought of doing a kindness, but hounded to death the poor and the needy and the brokenhearted. 17. He loved to pronounce a curse—may it come back on him. He found no pleasure in blessing—may it be far from him. :::

  • While that's cool, I meant that OP should make the posted image accessible, because right now no blind person can read that or follow a link to a source they can read. It's also not fault tolerant (in case the image breaks) or searchable, so it makes the web less usable. A link to the source of the image or alt text would fix all that.

  • It's freedom from legal (or government) sanction, censorship, or retaliation for expressing opinions or ideas.

    Because we live in a fascist oligarchy

    corporations simultaneously are controlled and control the government

    That's a stretch. Where was that government control of private companies during the Biden administration or previous administrations dating back to the beginning of the Epstein crimes? Is the government controlling MSNBC, New York Times, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS? Private companies aren't legal authorities, and they aren't legally obligated to repeat or broadcast anyone's speech: that's how social media nowadays defends deplatforming. Would your claim mean that deplatforming suppresses free speech?

    Trump supporters saying STFU doesn't amount to legal sanctions. I've only seen the Trump administration evade, deny, or deflect. Where are the legal sanctions suppressing the speech of Epstein victims?

  • If anyone can pretty much publicize whatever they want online, then are billionaire media owners gagging their freedom of speech? I'm genuinely confused at your confusion.

    The view that major, billionaire-owned journalism companies can gag anyone from exercising their freedom of speech like they're the only game in town seems outmoded when independent online media & journalism (where practically anyone can call themselves journalist) has disrupted that order since a while ago, and anyone can publish their words online in social media. That claim that may have made sense decades ago doesn't fit online media today.

  • someone can also sue you for any reason at all

    That's always been the case. That doesn't mean the suer will prevail. I'm pretty sure there are motions (especially with anti-SLAPP laws) defendants can file to recover all fees of baseless lawsuits.

    I'm not sure how you plausibly get that interpretation from the comic: nothing about lawsuits or disparity in economic power is indicated. This other reading of the comic seems more plausible.

  • Define freedom of speech. This is not a hard question.

  • You can read up, can't you? I didn't claim

    billionaire media owners will [gag victims from exercising their freedom of speech], mostly

    So, I'm asking how that (apparent counterfactual) works. Does it withstand scrutiny?

  • Because the reporters did their job? You know these reports started before social media was mainstream, right?

  • Because it was frequently in the press? There's no shortage of links to news reports & stories in the wikipedia articles on the victims, cases, topics.

  • Thanks, that's a reasonable interpretation. Then not really about the suppression of freedom of speech?

  • What stopped them from posting claims publicly on social media or online?

  • They’re covering for pedophiles. I’m sure you’re ok with that

    Consequentialist fallacy: outcomes have no bearing on whether a conclusion logically follows from premises.

    Circular reasoning: the outcome assumes your conclusion (that STFU can suppress freedom of speech, which is unsupported) is true.

    Freedom of speech means you can tell anyone to STFU, and they're free to speak regardless.

    Moreover, as widely reported in the press, the communities who promoted rightwing conspiracy theories about Jeffery Epstein (extracted from more general conspiracy theories that a shadowy cabal of deep state elites runs pedophile rings to harvest adrenochrome) are the Trump voters. They're the Trump supporters with a longer record than anyone of pushing for the release of those files. Top officials like Kash Patel & Dan Bondingo sprang right out of that community.

    It’s ok, adults are talking

    Condescension, and we should expect adults to respect logic. Are you an adult? If so, that's unfortunate.

  • Telling them to STFU obligates them not to exercise their free speech? I don't see where that gags anyone.

  • Weren't they just aired quite publicly on the media?

  • Someone translate: the victims are gagged from exercising their freedom of speech? How so?