Hate perturbs the mind; poisons it. What you focus on becomes what you grow to become. That's why I look at feet so much, so I can be the princess I always wish I was!

Daily reminder that these voter counts are still the minority of the country doing things.

There are way too many stupid people, but it's still not the majority

Apparently it is not whether they will benefit, more so that they are afraid someone else will. Our national motto is "Fuck those guys." Deceptively simple with it's darker meaning where those guys is not defined, only that the slightest perception of a variance in world view will put one into that category. Divided we fell.

now that's what i call legacy

I think anyone who sponsors a bill should have 12 seconds to explain why their bill benefits the PEOPLE and if they can't in that 12 seconds they get fried/electrocuted and the bill dies just like the sponsor did. If they suggest it benefits a corporation instead of the people then they get tortured before they get fried. But they still die, and it still fails.

Hey! That's not fair

Some of it was Nixon too

Aka chudservatives

The 2009 fillibuster-proof majority was a lot shorter than people think. They needed 60 Democrats in the Senate to override fillibusters from the GOP, and Al Franken was engaged in a legal fight to take his seat in the Senate that took months.

By the Time Franken was seated, Ted Kennedy had stopped showing up and lingered for months until his death. His interim replacement wasn't seated until right before the Christmas holidays. And then in January the Tea Party had replaced Kennedy with a Republican in a special election.

It's a miracle they managed to rush through the ACA, but that's also why it was a broken mess. It should have been fixed in reconciliation with a House version of the bill, but then it would have had to go back to the Senate. The House passed the exact, broken language of the Senate version so the GOP couldn't fillibuster it.

And the GOP spent the next 7 years blocking any progress. Moscow Mitch sponsored a bill that the Dems backed, then fillibustered his own bill just to stop any progress.

It's not weird at all, they're beholden to billionaire donors, not voters.

It would be quite strange. "Here is all the research that being gay is something you are born as. You can also just choose to not believe that and think they are demons." Like how would you both sides half of the current "discourse" without just saying actual lies? There is no proof of immigration being negative but if you hate brown people that's a negative?

It was also targetted at public broadcasters, it would not have affected Fox as a cable-only channel

and yet still better than the absolute cesspool that yall have right now… both sides is better than basically 90% propaganda because at least it shows that not everyone thinks the same

Whatever flaws the Fairness Doctrine had, it was clearly preventing what we're experiencing now.

Bring it back.

The FCC is currently trying to apply Fairness Doctrine to late night shows in retaliation for them having James Talarico on.

The biggest detail I think you aren't seeing is that the fairness doctrine made 'Opinion Pieces' on air much less attractive as a host, as a producer, etc. So generally they just WOULDN'T present anything that wasn't just news unless it was a political debate and the two sided conversation would be natural.

The main reason it's overrated is that it only applied to broadcast networks. It wouldn't do anything to hold Fox News accountable, since Fox News is on cable.

It might have helped with the Sinclair style bullshit in local news but they've lost a huge amount influence to the internet anyway.

Exactly.

And who determines whether it's "news" or not when it's something seen as controversial? Oh, the corporations that own the channels/shows? What could go wrong?

It's really true. He was packaged and sold and is now touted as some hero.

It's a good thing he was an actor. If he hadn't came down with Alzheimer's he may have gone to prison for selling drugs and missiles.

I mean I get that not kicking babies in the face might seem like a clean cut issue, but have you ever discussed it with a pro baby face kicker? Obviously there's two sides to the story here!

Not only that, but it gives the other side a dangerous amount of legitimacy if we treat "both sides" as equally valid.

There are a lot of beliefs and opinions that are just bad and should only be ridiculed.