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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • That’s a bullshit argument, when Harris clearly supports raising the minimum wage.
    I agree it’s long overdue, like decades overdue. But Harris has clearly stated she wants it increased.

    Harris at Aug. 10 Nevada campaign event:

    When I am president, we will continue our fight for working families of America, including to raise the minimum wage and eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers,

    I’m not personally a fan of the tip thing, that’s a stupid idea IMO, but the minimum wage, absolutely needs to be way higher.

    At her campaign 2020 Harris supported increasing minimum wage to $15,-.










  • When only 2 parties take turns ruling the country, the checks and balances don’t really work well when stressed. Because the party that needs to be checked, control half the apparatus, and can disrupt large parts of the other half.

    Countries with maybe 10+ parties in parlament like many European countries have, will never have a single party with control of half the apparatus responsible for the checks and balances.

    This is a huge reason first past the post is bad for democracy, apart from also not representing the population as fairly as is possible with numerous parties of influence.

    This problem permeates throughout the entirety of the system, including the judicial, where judges belong to one or the other party, enabling an imbalance with total control for one party in for instance the supreme court.
    With a multi party system, a single party would NOT be able to take control in the way we have seen happen in USA, which obviously shouldn’t be possible, and also doesn’t help to prevent corruption.







  • Contemporaneous news reports in Nebraska indicated that Mr. Walz was still in his home state during the spring and did not leave for China until August.

    That doesn’t sound like certainty to me. So how strong are those indications?
    Maybe Walz remembers it wrong, the incident would still be very recent, and the warning sincere about not going to mainland.
    But it could also be he remembers correctly, and the “indications” are wrong.

    No matter which, it doesn’t really matter if it was 2 months later or not. It was definitely at around that time.