Itsamemario

joined 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Me first and the gimme gimmies (Sorry real band)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Hypothetically speaking, the conservative Supreme Court justices could be included in the official order from Biden... Wouldn't have to worry about the conservative justices making the wrong decision then...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

"Look, all of you are basically here because god wanted to give you me." - trump, probably...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Start holding a pregnant teen miss Texas pageant, ages 13 (at due date) to age 17, nationally televise it. Have questions concerning what they plan on doing for education, work, where they'll live, if the father is in the picture, also basic life experience questions and knowledge questions... Make it as uncomfortable for the viewers as possible.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You mean ethanol welfare, a subsidy is just welfare for a business...

[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago

The way that he is opting out is by refusing to spend the ~$300k that is the federal government's requirement to be part of the grant program. I wonder if it would be possible to do an end run around that waste of oxygen, and have a charity raise the ~$300k and accept the $18m the federal government is offering, to be distributed by the charity instead...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I think the best course of action would be to reframe their thinking, instead of allowing things to keep in being called subsidies, force them to try to clarify the difference between a subsidy and welfare. Ie, farming subsidy? You mean farming welfare. Banking subsidy? You mean banking welfare. Did you know that Boeing Corp has received $15 Billion in subsidies not paid back? You mean $15 Billion in welfare, they in fact, received nearly $75 Billion in welfare, most of that welfare being received since 2000, and of that ~$75 Billion in welfare received, they actually paid back ~$60 Billion. So they received $15 Billion dollars in welfare from the US taxpayers. They are by no means the sole corporate beneficiary of welfare from the taxpayers, just the first one I stumbled upon. Point being, force the language to reflect what they hate so their hypocrisy can be exposed and other people's eyes can be opened. Most people don't know exactly what a subsidy is, they think there is some sort of justification for it that makes it beyond criticizing, a subsidy is just welfare for corporations or farms to keep them in business, we want them in business, sure, but we also want kids to be able to eat over the summer, and if farms and Boeing and banks are deserving of welfare from the government, and hence from the US taxpayers, why aren't kids?