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The NIH is being slashed and burned, not "reformed"

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Re: The NIH is being slashed and burned, not "reformed"

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Post by dude187 »

amanaplanacanal wrote: post #261
Jimmc414 wrote: post #159

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I wouldn’t call Kamala extreme per se. The extreme position is the doubling down on positions that don’t resonate with the electorate and labeling the opposition racist or traitorous instead of working to find common ground. One example of an extreme position dichotomy would be the choice between an unnecessarily porous border without transparency and mass deportation when the people would likely all agree on a stead…

> allowing professional male combat athletes to unfairly dominate female participants Had this actually happened somewhere, or is it just a hypothetical? Like trans women assaulting cis women en masse in women's restrooms.

Both of those are real things that have real examples

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Post by [deleted] »

conicsl wrote: post #312
amanaplanacanal wrote: post #309

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So now we have people inspecting women's genitals to see if they are really female, women being called out because they don't look feminine enough, and all the worst misogynistic instincts on full display. The thing is, the best athletes frequently have genetic privilege that others don't have, whether it be extra long or extra short limbs, being extra tall, having higher than average testosterone levels, etc. There…

Screening for sex can be done with a cheek swab. It's much, much less invasive than the anti-doping tests that require blood to be extracted and a direct visual on the athlete passing urine. And it only needs to be done once in an athlete's career. In most cases though it's very obvious when a male is in a women's event. For example, no-one is going to mistake this male, who competes in women's cycling, for female: h…

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Re: The NIH is being slashed and burned, not "reformed"

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Post by bigfatkitten »

bryant wrote: post #2

Practically speaking, when the majority of people who decided to vote voted for the person applying these policies, what mitigations are left? The courts are themselves slow and ultimately roll up to allies of the despot. People say that the midterms are crucial, but the midterms are only likely to be won if Democrats truly unify and apply winning strategies. Sadly the only winning strategies now seem to involve tell…

Courts can't just step in when Congress decides not to do its job.

Someone needs to sue to bring a matter before the courts. And in a lot of these cases, there just isn't a party who has standing to do so outside of the narrow scope of say, employment law.

Re: The NIH is being slashed and burned, not "reformed"

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Post by bigyabai »

afpx wrote: post #270
jghn wrote: post #229

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The point is that the media immediate glommed on to a "popular mandate" with Trump. Yet, it was very much not true. He arguably won a popular vote. That's barely a pop;lar vote mandate.

I couldn’t get half of my liberal friends to even vote. And, it wasn’t because they didn’t like Kamala - I sensed that they were just tired of globalism.

> I sensed that they were just tired of globalism.

With what, a compass? This is an absurd statement, I bet they weren't wearing clothes manufactured in America, or using a phone that was built domestically.

The easiest way to fatigue a nation of nationalists is to let the world move on. The Axis forces might have been tired of globalism, but the globalists sure as hell weren't.

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Post by EdwardDiego »

llm_trw wrote: post #215
EdwardDiego wrote: post #108

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Britain ran a global empire using this model, why wouldn't it work for the US? Maybe read up on how it works before rejecting it out of hand? Britain has a bicameral parliament, with the leader of the majority of the lower house forming the executive, but the head of state retains the constitutional ability to dissolve parliament and order new elections if the current government is unable to function. Having an apoli…

Britain had two parliaments in the home island - Scotlands and Englands. The only people who can possibly think the British empire was centralised are those who have never opened a history book about it.

Oh mate, I am feeling Fremdschämen / vicarious embarrassment for you very hard right now.

You obviously haven't opened a history book either, but at the very least, go to Wikipedia before making confident statements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Parliament

Subtle hint - 1707 to 1999.

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Post by SV_BubbleTime »

sterlind wrote: post #198
SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #152

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Seriously, what is with this!? Why are so many liberals pretending to be offended Trump supporters online? It’s obviously fake. My company is majority conservative, not one single person I’ve even heard of is mad at Trump - except that he isn’t going far enough fast enough for them.

I think you're right. I've seen so many conservatives online relish in hatred as illegal immigrants are shipped to Guantamo, as trans people are purged from government and the military and stripped of HRT, as Trump called Zelensky a dictator and threatens to seize Greenland and annex Canada, as agencies are gutted, and puts out AI slop of Gaza turned into a billionaire's resort with golden statues of Trump and Bibi,…

You’re an extremist. This may be news to you.

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Post by giardini »

lazide wrote: post #295
giardini wrote: post #288

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As they should! Everything you see around you was provided by Biden. Trump is only starting to make changes.

I’m pretty sure Biden had as little to do with gas (or Egg) prices as Trump has.

Biden was producing lots of gas in the later part of his term!8-))

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Post by giardini »

lazide wrote: post #295
giardini wrote: post #288

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As they should! Everything you see around you was provided by Biden. Trump is only starting to make changes.

I’m pretty sure Biden had as little to do with gas (or Egg) prices as Trump has.

Cherry-picking!

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Post by sterlind »

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #336
sterlind wrote: post #198

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I think you're right. I've seen so many conservatives online relish in hatred as illegal immigrants are shipped to Guantamo, as trans people are purged from government and the military and stripped of HRT, as Trump called Zelensky a dictator and threatens to seize Greenland and annex Canada, as agencies are gutted, and puts out AI slop of Gaza turned into a billionaire's resort with golden statues of Trump and Bibi,…

You’re an extremist. This may be news to you.

What, I'm an extremist for not wanting the US to conquer our allies? For opposing indefinite detainment of immigrants in concentration camps? For opposing the purge of trans people?

If that's extreme I'm happy to be an extremist.

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Post by torstenvl »

bbor wrote: post #56
torstenvl wrote: post #41

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> there is a strong legal argument that overruling congress via impoundment and/or the actions discussed here violate the constitutions most basic precepts No there isn't. The text of the Constitution says the opposite: it makes appropriation a necessary condition for expenditures, but omits any clause making it a sufficient one. And the only case law on this issue is Train v. New York, which assiduously avoids rulin…

What is the role of congress, if its enumerated powers do not imply that any of those things should actually happen...? Honest question. Are you honestly saying that there's an implied 100% veto available to the executive for anything done by congress?

Congress has many enumerated powers. Spending money is not one of them.

The Founders had just fought a war over unjust taxation to support the head of state's pet projects. Thus they required all funds to be appropriated by Congress. But it is still the head of state that actually spends them. The Treasury has always been part of the Executive branch, ever since Alexander Hamilton led the Treasury under George Washington.

Our country is built on checks and balances. The Executive controls the Treasury and spends money out of it, but is checked by the Congress, because the Executive cannot spend money without it first being appropriated.

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