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Cake day: October 15th, 2023

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  • Close but not correct.

    It’s an established marketplace, where legislated “middlemen” buy from the utilities and then sell to the consumer.

    You can’t actually buy directly from the utility generating the power without going through the marketplace.

    It is sold as a “free market” that would drive competition and keep prices down. In actuality, it just allows leaches, who don’t actually produce anything, to sit in the middle and suck money out of the economy.

    Sure some of them will lose money, while others will make a billion, but the system works just fine as a regulated controlled monopoly.

    Texas is a perfect example of Republican hypocrisy. The Governor, Lt Governor, State AG, etc… are quite literally the worst kind of politicians.

    I seriously dislike Sheila Jackson Lee, but I feel bad about her situation.

    I would laugh if that wheel chaired, piece of shit rolled off a cliff.

    I would laugh if Dan Patrick caught on fire.

    On second thought, I might use Ken Paxton to put out the fire, by that I mean, push him onto Dan, hoping he would catch on fire too.

    Shit, that went a lot darker than I intended.


  • Think of free market capitalism. In an ideal world, where people played fair, this system would work. But it has been clearly shown that any and all abuses of a free market will be made in order to gain an “edge”.

    You are clearly so naive that you think the meaning behind a vote somehow makes that vote more important.

    I wish you were right, but you are not. I am a registered Republican and I have been voting Democrat, down ticket, as a protest for the last two elections because the GoP has become taken over by fundies and fascists.

    Project 2025 scares the shit out of me. It should scare the living shit out of you too.

    But here you are, arguing that Biden doesn’t deserve to be President because he did horribly at the debate, ignoring that Trump was 90% full of shit.

    I don’t want Biden to be President either. JFC, he was a corporatist asshole 30 years ago, but at least this country has a chance to move forward with him in the oval office. If Trump gets elected, this is the fucking end of our Democracy. Do you not realize the point of project 2025?

    I wish you would just shut the fuck up. The time to talk about different leadership was three fucking years ago.

    I’m trying my best to change the local party but I’ve been blacklisted from every local GoP event. What the fuck are you doing, besides watering down opposition to literal fucking Nazis?



  • So you are arguing that cost plus has been the way to go?

    When clearly Boeing’s performance has shown that they’ve been sucking at the tax payer teat for decades.

    Meanwhile SpaceX took on the risk of the development cost without using the tax payer as a bottomless ATM. They did it quicker AND cheaper.

    So yes, they have done it WORLDS better and you are a fucking idiot to argue otherwise.

    Musk aside (yes the man has proved himself to to be another narcissistic moron with more money than sense), but SpaceX did highlight the gluttony of the what the space industry has become.

    You CANNOT argue that any program can come close to SpaceX.

    You make a comment about that one program, (moon-whatever) that got cancelled, and while that sucks, it was because priorities changed. Both sides admitted to it and you are using it falsely as some sort of earmark of failure of the overall program.

    Yet you say the other guy is arguing in bad faith.

    Fuck Elon Musk, but you are kind of a douche too, to downplay what those engineers have done. They literally turned the industry upside down and here you are, talking shit.

    What the fuck have you done?