@BroDrillard@sickburnbro “The system is broken” is a weak shelter anyway, a way to admit that it’s bad without admitting that it’s working exactly as intended.
@sickburnbro@SpurgAnon I think the other piece to that too is "employs user tracking", i.e. it's hard for PornHub to hide behind a "privacy" excuse when they themselves are tracking the living hell out of their users.
@HonkHonkBoom@Terry@pepsi_man $174k isn’t a lot when they have to have two houses with at least one of them being in the most expensive real estate market in the country. Traficant got around that by basically living like a hobo in DC, but most lack that level of discipline.
@Jewpacabra@HonkHonkBoom@Terry@pepsi_man Like I said, Traficant found a way to make it work, but, arguably, they murdered him over his independence. It's like the ol' Chinese saying "the issue isn't corruption in the system, the issue is the corruption *is* the system"
@Jewpacabra@HonkHonkBoom@Terry@pepsi_man Well they need someplace to live in D.C. I'm not an expert but I've heard that D.C. business is structured as such that living an hour away in some iffy neighborhood in Baltimore isn't really workable. They also need an address of where they live back "home". Games can be played with that but they would be back into playing some sketchy corruption game to pull it off.
@Terry@pepsi_man It pains me to say it but (ugh) Crenshaw isn’t wrong about the stock thing; AOC complained about something similar when she noted that congresscritters are basically forced to supplement their pay through corruption so that the system can have them over a barrel. In fairness to (ugh) Catturd though this pay hike wasn’t accompanied by other reforms to get rid of said corruption so it probably was just a money grab.
@Xenophon@Humpleupagus@The_Almighty_Kek I wish that weren’t true; it’s less an office PC than a server hosting a half a dozen management/spyware tools. The end Office users get the remaining 20% of resources the pajeet bloatware allows them to use.
@TrevorGoodchild@Svantovit A lot of this sh!t I don't know how much to care about as Trump is going to face a series of fairly awful crisis so the delta between what he might find personally acceptable and what will be politically necessary is going to pretty wide, methinks.
@dictatordave@Wtdrisco@Wyliesau Yeah, such a discussion might be at least amusing to hear if the right people were the target of such a plan, though I'm sure the result would be that the $30 grand my grandmother left (split 15 ways) would be expropriated while the war chests of the like of Soros would remain untouched.
@sickburnbro >"According to-" I love how they think that their appeals to such flawed authority don't even win the factual claim let alone the moral one.
@VIcFury@WayoftheWorld Decent 24x7 personal security is crazy expensive which is why typically only the Zucks and Musks of the world have it. But leave it to "healthcare" execs to make their companies (and thus customers) pay for it rather than, you know, working to make American healthcare slightly less sh!tty.