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One-Pumpkin-1590 t1_ja18m0z wrote

Well, some of the documents found were from when Biden was VP. So he did have them when he was not in office.

That said, it looks like an oversite on Biden's part, they informed the required parties and returned them immediately after being discovered. trump deliberately took, and refused to acknowledge he had them, refused to return the classified documents, and the government had to go get them after he was in office. And they keep finding more and more. A pretty big difference.

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Not_invented-Here t1_ja15y5x wrote

There was one about ten years or so ago that was around 4 - 4.5 I think, it happened in the middle of the night and I found myself on my feet as what felt like the whole world shook for a brief while, and then I went back to sleep when it stopped. I thought tbh it was a very strange lucid dream I had had in the morning until I saw the news, because there was just no frame of reference for my brain to really process it, especially from sleep in the dead of night.

In the daytime I maybe would have guessed but it would have been more scary also because of it.

Using that as a frame of reference I genuinely think that the big quakes some countries get must be just unbelievably scary. The idea the mass of the earth can just shiver, is something you can think of intellectualy but not actually viscerally understand until it happens to you.

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Thomb t1_ja13lym wrote

Regardless of how prohibition laws ultimately played out, how can you say that not a lot of thought went into them? Can you predict the future and only make decisions that pan out? Prohibition laws also went through a lot of thought, discussion, and public participation. The US is a country supposedly governed by laws, and in a democracy those laws can evolve over time. Did you think of that?

Also, you do know that legislative funding bills for programs are separate from the program's basis, right? It appears that you didn't know that. Funding bills usually occur annually and can change with the political winds.

Are you suggesting that one person came up with these laws and implemented them, rather than what actually happened?

>Politicians are not philosophers, and the only thing differentiating them from diapers is the amount of shit inside.

Nobody said that politicians are philosophers. Also, I can tell the difference between a politician and a diaper. If you can't, perhaps you don't have a lot of thinking capabilities.

Where am I, at the Elks Lodge?

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