MyBrainHurts

Same two party system has been in place since before the civil rights movements.

The last VP's marriage would've been illegal in multiple states and Kamala wouldn't have been allowed to campaign in any diner she wanted.

Kids got conscripted to die overseas.

Today, we have unfettered capitalism murdering sick people for profit.

You think this got worse since Obamacare? Super curious about how you decided that.

You're making some pretty wild claims. Yes, there's a lot to worry about. But to say everything is hopeless and there's been no progress is just as childish as when conservatives complained that America was now a decadent liberal hellhole because Obama improved healthcare.

The whole plan came from the heritage foundation - the purpose of the affordable care act was to prevent universal healthcare.

This goes against the entire notion of the ratchet effect.

If things got steadily more right wing, this wouldn't need to be a consideration. But, taking your words as accurate, it means that America went from a less progressive healthcare system to a more progressive one, even if it is imperfect.

On gay marriage, it's worth reading about. It.was a fairly complex move that was pushed by the administration pretty hard. And of course there's a bunch of legislation around it and other gay rights now.

This is still not what the meme is saying. Healthcare was even worse pre Obamacare. Gay marriage was not legal 20 years ago.

Both are in a more progressive place than they were twenty years ago, which is completely contrary to the notion of ratcheting.

I had no idea there wasa season 4 coming, this is amazing!

How does this theory apply to say, gay marriage or healthcare in America? Both of which have gone from a less Left position to a more Left position?

Weird take. Yes, the consumer carbon tax sure. But look at housing, Carney has one of the most ambitious plans in the developed world, the cons' is more of the same with minor tweaks. Admittedly, Polievre borrowed Carney's removal of duplicate reviews... But other stuff, like expanding resources East West have been pursued by both parties for years but mostly died against opposition from the provinces.

It's why Polievre is reduced to cheap stunts like provoking a constitutional battle to extra punish murderers or stupid sound bite policies like 3 strikes which have been repealed in most (if not all) places they've been tried.

It was going to be announced at his retirement party on Monday... You know the dev likes surprises.

Honestly, a lot of days make me feel satisfied. I work on the comp side of a fundraising department for a large public university. I'm good at what I do, enjoy it and have earned enough of a reputation that people generally let me tackle whatever comes my way however I want.

So, if I have a good productive day, I feel like maybe more students got scholarships because of my work that day. And I work from home so if I did well at work, found time to do my "old man refuses to stop playing sports with kids in their 20s" exercises AND had a couple good homecooked meals, well yeah, I feel pretty accomplished and satisfied.

But yeah, doing something I like for a cause which I ferverently support, I have more good days than bad. Working from home is a heck of a cherry on top though.

I'm streaming games.

Though, arguably depending on the network, that may actually just be hurting Canadians.

NHL revenue is based on merch (okay, easy to boycott) gate sales (again, easy enough) and tv licensing which has already been paid this season for the next however many years.

Watching a game on a Canadian owned network like TSN mostly just helps Canadians, possibly some minor adjustment in the next licensing deal but pretty goshdarned marginal as most of the movement on those is driven by anticipation of growth in foreign markets.

I've wondered and never thought to ask. Thanks, the resulting conversation has been awesome.

Holy hell, had no idea about Reuters. Wild!

Hmmmm, do we want to be closer with crazytown or basically reasonable people? I'm torn!