Before the cuts, the IRS generated $0. After the cuts, the IRS will generate $0. Getting rid of the IRS can’t cost the US government any amount of US dollars because the US government has infinite US dollars.

To be clear, I think it’s a bad idea to cut the IRS. We should be beefing it up and tasking it with going after the rich, because taking money away from rich people is a good thing. But buying into the framing that the US needs to take money from people because it can then spend that money on something else is a mistake, and not just because it’s false. It’s bad politics. Conservatives don’t actually give a shit about government efficiency or fiscal responsibility, they just hate taxes. If it makes the deficit 10x worse they still want to cut taxes however they can. But they are happy to weaponize concern trolling about the debt and deficit to cut government programs that benefit the poor (or prevent such from coming into existence), and liberals are very susceptible to these arguments.

Your karyotype doesn’t determine what kind of gamete you produce.

See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androgen_insensitivity_syndrome

AFAIK we don’t have any way to determine this before sex differentiation actually occurs. When sex differentiation occurs it happens as a response to hormones, not karyotype. It’s possible that environment could be the determining factor, as is the case with freemartins.

So no, it’s not an exaggeration nor embarrassing to say that nobody meets the order’s definition of male or female.

what point it that exactly

That it’s a mirror for the way white liberals behave. Obsess over language while ignoring structural racism & denying material benefits to black people.

This reply is not for the person I’m replying to; I thought someone else stumbling on this might want clarification but I’m not continuing a discussion with someone who throws insults at me.

F.d. signifier talks about this in one of his videos. Don’t remember which and can’t find it. But as I recall his take was that it’s weird to be OK with playing a hyper-racist slaver right up until you have to say the n-word. Not to say DiCaprio is a bad person or whatever, but it’s a good point.

They used to have to pretend. Now they don’t.

This assumes Democratic leadership thinks winning is more important than bringing the left to heel. Given their behavior that’s not a great assumption to make.

migrants were capturing the geese from the local park pond and eating them

This is totally fine by me, I don’t see the problem

Oh word?

I got so much concern trolling for saying Biden was bad and should step down. People accused me of wanting fascism. They insisted I was naive and we should be standing behind Biden.

I just want to say to those people: you were wrong. Dumping Biden has wildly hurt Trump’s chances, and you were the ones arguing against it.

Why not? They’ve been boosting a far-right, anti-Muslim Israeli extremist for years

They do have a point. She hasn’t even been a game show host!

I’m like 80% sure Trump doesn’t want to end democracy.

Hmm. Interesting idea. I’m sure the next sentence won’t be completely consistent with Trump wanting to end democracy.

He just wants more attention, power, and to protect himself when he goes out after 4 years.

Oh.

Trump voters are the victim of a con, but the con is bigger than Trump. Conservatism in general is a con that needs misinformation networks like talk radio, fox news, facebook groups, etc. Without having been steeped in that bullshit for 40+ years, Trump would never have succeeded. It’s the whole ecosystem that’s doing the radicalization, not just Trump.

CW: animal cruelty

Well, no, but there’s a big gap between “not helping” and “wounding”, and this is much, much closer to the “not helping” end of that gap.

What wound?

I mean the critique behind “why didn’t he do it when he had the majority” still applies: calling for a constitutional amendment is ineffectual. There’s no way a constitutional amendment is going to happen in today’s political environment.

Also the court reform he’s proposing isn’t a constitutional amendment, but since he waited until he didn’t have a majority, that can’t happen either.

It’s almost like he doesn’t want change.

This is … good? Fuck Trump, don’t vote for him, but diplomacy is good. Progressives should be advocating for an end to our economic warfare against the people of NK, and attitudes like this are moving in that direction.

She should be bankrolled by the state for the grievous harm it did to her, but she’ll probably get nothing.