• Tidesphere@lemmy.world
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    I read somewhere that the same provision that forbade bestiality also disqualifies people who have been found to have paid for sex three or more times in the last ten years. I think that what’s actually happening is that Patel, or a buddy of his, got caught hiring prostitutes a few too many times, and now want to repeal the rule so they don’t get kicked out.

    But someone saw ‘bestiality’ and decided to make it about that to distract people.

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      Then they could have removed the prostitution clause and kept the bestiality one.
      Also he literally defended removing the latter in front of Congress.

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    16 hours ago

    Understanding this immediately as a European makes me realize I’m wayyy too chronically online. USA is the only reality TV show I need.

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      Right?

      I’m constantly amazed how many foreigners are aware of what’s going on in US politics and even details about how our government works.

      1. It shows how much our shitty politics affect the world. I’m sorry.

      2. It highlights how bad Americans are at paying attention and doing their homework because most Americans have no fucking clue what’s going on or how their own government works.

      To be fair, I’m barely aware of what’s going on in other nation’s politics, but that’s largely because I’m hyper aware of what’s going on in U.S. politics and, unfortunately, that takes up a lot of my time and patience and sanity.

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        That’s by design. It’s the same reason you aren’t required to take Statistics in high school. If people knew the actual odds of winning the lottery they wouldn’t play. Since the poorest Americans and typically only high school graduates play the lottery religiously it make sense.

        I don’t think it’s just not knowing their rights and such. It also needs to get worse before it gets better. Ever maybe change in government across history wasn’t done with protests or signing petitions. It was done with a physical revolution. Until we got that point it will be the same shit.

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    10 hours ago

    I’d like to measure my love for dogs on some z-axis which is unassociated with the dog-murder-to-dog-rape spectrum please

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    15 hours ago

    It’s easy to forget about traitors like Kristi Noem once they’re out of the spotlight. Hopefully this country doesn’t forget to dispense justice to that particular traitor when this is all over. Same goes for traitor Greg Bovino.

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    16 hours ago

    So are we putting Hasan Piker at like 3 or 4 then? And what about Michael Vick? If we’re talking about celebritiea with dog stories.