PugJesus

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PugJesus,

The progressive policy on immigration has been repeated for about a decade and a half now - path to citizenship for those who’ve grown up in the US, looser immigration restrictions, higher quotas, more judges to address backlog, etc. There have been a few attempts at implementation but all of them were ultimately shut down by Republican intransigence.

PugJesus,

Yes, CNN is a liberal news source.

That wasn’t true even back in 2010, when I still watched CNN.

I figured Dems love CNN (when it attacks Trump).

Mask is slipping.

PugJesus,

I’m not a Democrat.

Oh, that much I believe.

PugJesus,

And while anarchy has some great ideas for making our lives better it’s not a state we’re ever going to achieve in a good way.

And while anarchy has some great ideas for making our lives better

it’s not a state we’re ever going to achieve

anarchy

not a state we’re ever going to achieve

Sorry, I know you meant state as in “state of being” and not “political state”, but I found it too funny to pass up.

PugJesus,

Pebbleyeet is a Nazi

PugJesus,

34 hamberders please. And a criminally hot cup of covfefe.

PugJesus,

I’m already criminally hot. 😎

Shame about my personality!

PugJesus,

Sadly, no. I’ve been a caretaker for pugs, and I love them to death, though. Someday, when I live in an apartment where pets are an option, I’ll adopt me a puggo or two.

PugJesus,

Difference is, Debs was actually persecuted by the government for his beliefs. Oh, and not a repugnant fleshsack excuse of a human being.

PugJesus,

Sure you could justify it. There are plenty of biblical verses backing up bondage, slavery, and debt coercion.

PugJesus,

I had to look up the first guy

On May 15, 2024, Harris joined a Zoom call court hearing from his phone while he was behind the wheel. Since June 2023, Michigan’s “hands-free” state law makes it “illegal to manually use a cell phone or other mobile electronic devices while operating a vehicle on Michigan roads.”

Presiding Judge J. Cedric Simpson straightforwardly asked the defendant, “Mr. Harris are you driving?” To which Harris replied, “Actually, I am pulling into my doctor’s office,” adding, “so just give me one second, I’m parking right now.”

Nearly a minute later, Harris informs the court that he is stationary.

After looking through the paperwork, which includes Harris’ record, Simpson says, “Okay, so maybe I don’t understand something, this is for driving while license suspended?”

“That is correct, your honor,” the defendant’s lawyer, Washtenaw County Assistant Public Defender Natalie Pate confirmed.

“And he was just driving. And he didn’t have a license,” Simpson said. He appears to smile and hold back a laugh.

Moments later, Simpson shook his head in disbelief, saying, “I don’t even know why he would do that. So, defendant’s bond is revoked in this matter.” He added that Harris must turn himself in to Michigan’s Washtenaw County Jail that evening.

C’mon, man, it would’ve been better to be late by a few minutes than to show yourself driving with a suspended license to the goddamn judge.

PugJesus,
  1. It very much is possible, and this coming from someone who walks with a cane.
  2. That doesn’t excuse driving with a suspended license, unless you’re at the level of “Abolish driving licenses” Libertarian Party style; licenses are a basic safety precaution and suspending one is supposed to reinforce the seriousness of the offense of unsafe and illegal driving.
  3. You can drive in the US without livestreaming it to your judge (shocking, I know).
PugJesus,

Do you live in Michigan where this guy lives

No.

or do you live somewhere with sidewalks and some level of public transit?

Fuck no.

Who asked for your judgement? Do you know why his license was suspended?

No, but the purpose of licensing and suspensions is to ensure safety on the road; “It was okay that he was driving on a suspended license because living in the US without driving is hard” completely ignores the point of licenses to begin with. If you’re a proponent of no licensing, then at least you’re consistent - if you aren’t, then this was still quite clearly a fucking stupid move on this guy’s part.

I had mine suspended once because I dared to buy car insurance in a different state than the car was registered. Does that make me an unsafe driver just because I didn’t know you had to register the cars before transferring insurance?

Yes, actually, since insurance is part of safety on the road, considering you’re driving a multi-thousand dollar (at minimum) piece of machinery with the speed and weight necessary to crush a human being like a bug if your attention is distracted at the wrong time, even if through no fault of your own. Most states mandate that your insurance, well, cover the car you’re driving in order to be allowed on the road.

While true it’s completely irrelevant to the question you’re answering.

Oh, in that case, I suppose the question I answered is also irrelevant to the original comment I fucking made, which was about not livestreaming breaking the law to your court appointment.

PugJesus,

Another great demonstration of missing the point.

PugJesus,

You are correct in that ‘recovering’ is a strong word. ‘Enduring’ the lasting effects would be more accurate.

PugJesus,

but M-Ls didn’t irreparably damage the Russian economy.

They’re why it has one. The human rights abuses weren’t necessary to make it, but their current problems simply aren’t the fault of the Soviet industrialization programs, they’re despite it.

I feel like we could have a long argument about this, but at the same time, I’m not in the mood and it’s not the main point of the meme anyway.

I disagree that the centralized, extractive system of the Soviet planned economy and its hyperfocus on heavy industry and neglect of basic civilian infrastructure in the Stalin and Brezhnev years were anything except absolutely ruinous to the long-term economic and physical health of what is now the Russian federation, with or without the collapse and ‘shock therapy’ of the 90s and the continued oligarchy of the 2000s and 2010s. You can refute that if you feel that’s objectionable, but I’m gonna leave it here.

PugJesus,

I hate that “soviet MLs” is used as a label here, because the failure of the USSR is down to the undermining of the soviets.

I mean, yes, but when most people use ‘Soviet’, especially in context of Russia and its history, they mean ‘The Soviet Union’, not the people’s soviets it got its name from and then subsequently neutered. It’s an unfair quirk of etymology or language development or whatever, but ‘Soviet’ as in ‘Of the Soviet Union’ is in far wider use than ‘soviet’ as in ‘of workers’ councils’.

PugJesus,

Fine, I’ll repeat myself:

“MAGA hats have no real reason to mistake the Nordic countries as socialist, but do; and every reason to mistake Russia as the product of ‘socialism’, including a number of still-nationalized industries and high public sector employment, a former KGB member as leader who constantly praises the Soviet Union, and a still-active Communist Party, yet (correctly) identify it as the kind of non-socialist traditionalist shithole they’d love to live in. To them, ‘socialist’ just means ‘gives LGBT people basic rights’.”

PugJesus,

But to cite Russia’s past socialism as a reason to call it socialist now is by far the most absurd thing about this meme and your argument.

Since reading comprehension is apparently in short supply on your end of things, let me help you out one last time:

every reason to mistake Russia as the product of ‘socialism’

yet (correctly) identify it as the kind of non-socialist traditionalist shithole they’d love to live in.

To them, ‘socialist’ just means ‘gives LGBT people basic rights’.

PugJesus,

So… you’re owning the right by pointing out that they don’t misinterpret something you think they should?

To them, ‘socialist’ just means ‘gives LGBT people basic rights’.

Sorry, buddy, if you want any more help figuring this out, you’re gonna have to go ask a teacher; I don’t have the patience for it.

PugJesus,

Ah, the “But you have to give it to the Nazis” argument.

PugJesus,

I can celebrate the invention of synthetic fertilizer while also condemning Fritz Haber and Nazis in general.

Fritz Haber? The man who invented the revolutionary process in 1918, long before the Nazis even existed, resigned immediately once they came into power, and tried to emigrate to Palestine to help the Jewish people there?

Don’t slander his name by associating him with the Nazis.

A Red Sea blockade in protest of the Gaza genocide is a great idea. It’s a shame that the only group willing to do it is doing it recklessly and doesn’t have a moral leg to stand on otherwise either.

I think those might be important factors to consider.

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