Hacker News: sympil

New comment by sympil in "A Letter to the American People"

sympil — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 04:24:37 +0000

What more evidence do you need than a WaPo article talking about federal workers that declared they would resist Trump’s policies?

A single article is evidence enough for you. And some people think you are a brilliant lawyer.

New comment by sympil in "Wealthy Americans fuel half of U.S. economy consumer spending"

sympil — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 04:19:54 +0000

Why should control of 50% wealth equate to 50% of all consumption? Why not 70% of consumption or 40%? What is the reason that the two percentages are expected to be the same?

New comment by sympil in "Wealthy Americans fuel half of U.S. economy consumer spending"

sympil — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 04:18:31 +0000

I said food consumption not amount spent on food. The two are different. The top 10% don’t consume 50% of the caloric intake of the nation.

New comment by sympil in "Wealthy Americans fuel half of U.S. economy consumer spending"

sympil — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 03:44:26 +0000

Why “of course”? It’s not clear to me why that would the case. For instance, we wouldn’t expect the top 10% to account for 50% of all food consumption simply becuase they control 50% of the wealth.

New comment by sympil in "A Letter to the American People"

sympil — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 23:31:47 +0000

You think Citizen’s United was a good ruling. You think the Voting Rights Act hasn’t been gutted despite thousands of polling stations shutting down. You think there was some bureaucratic state plotting against the executive despite no evidence. Your link is an article about people taking Project 2025 and Trump at their word and trying to plan accordingly. You have no objecticity. Your logic is horribly flawed. You are the problem.

New comment by sympil in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

sympil — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 20:09:15 +0000

I get the sense that Vance and Musk are the ones really in control.

New comment by sympil in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

sympil — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 19:46:04 +0000

What is most interesting is the presence of Vance and that he started the argument. Yesterday he was with Trump and the British PM and accused the UK of being against free speech. I don’t recall VPs being active in such meetings before now. It says a lot that Vance is taking such a prominent role in areas that VPs traditionally do not publicly venture in.

New comment by sympil in "Save Act would require all Americans prove citizenship when registering to vote"

sympil — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 01:58:10 +0000

I got my certificate of citizenship a few days after birth. I believe anyone can get this but almost no one has heard of this.

New comment by sympil in "Elon Musk Is the Richest Man. Why Is He Sleeping on an Office Floor?"

sympil — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 15:51:36 +0000

He is a deeply lonely person. He has no real friends and appears to be incapable of forming genuine emotional connections. He needs friends but doesn’t have any and the pursuit of adulation from strangers is a poor substitute but it’s the best he can do.

New comment by sympil in "[dead]"

sympil — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 15:32:34 +0000

It's time for total control…

You want one person to have total control? Did you applaud his $30 billion crypto bribe?

New comment by sympil in "Save Act would require all Americans prove citizenship when registering to vote"

sympil — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 04:48:38 +0000

The person I responded to thinks a birth certificate is sufficient to prove citizenship. My birth certificate can not be used to establish citizenship even though it was issued by the U.S. government and I’m a natural born U.S. citizen.

New comment by sympil in "FDA meeting to pick next winter's flu shot is canceled, in ominous sign for US"

sympil — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 02:14:21 +0000

We never really addressed the issues of the Civil War. Desegregation caused white men to destroy the social fabric of the nation. We used to have municipal pools that were free to use. Ambulances used to be free as well as trash collection. The idea of communities running services ended with desegregation and white flight from the cities. Now we have become an “i’ve got mine, fuck you” nation.

New comment by sympil in "Save Act would require all Americans prove citizenship when registering to vote"

sympil — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 02:09:41 +0000

My birth certificate prominently has this written on the top: Can not be used to determine citizenship. I’m a natural born U.S. citizen.

New comment by sympil in "Post owner Bezos announces shift in opinions section"

sympil — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 21:59:31 +0000

I voted Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bob Dole. Unlike you I have a sense of ethics and I apply them consistently.

New comment by sympil in "Post owner Bezos announces shift in opinions section"

sympil — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 21:39:15 +0000

I hope someday you get the help you need.

New comment by sympil in "Post owner Bezos announces shift in opinions section"

sympil — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 21:19:51 +0000

Trump annoys people that I dislike.

It says a lot about you and your morals that you dislike people annoyed by a child lusting rapist.

New comment by sympil in "Post owner Bezos announces shift in opinions section"

sympil — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 20:43:22 +0000

What’s your stance on Trump’s $30 billion crypto thing? His 30 felony convictions and being found by a jury to have committed sexual assault? When he lusts after Invanka does that cause you concern? Do you find it dignified that he hawks products from the Oval Office? Do you think it is statesmanly to engage in a Twitter feud with a 15 year old kid? When he used a sharpie to change a NOAA hurricane map to fit his own uneducated view did it make you proud of him? When he mocked a disabled person’s disability did that feel good to you?

New comment by sympil in "Democrats Need to Clean House"

sympil — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 20:37:58 +0000

You are forgetting why it ended, it seems. You appear to me to be Cicero clinging to the way things were and not realizing they’ve changed.

New comment by sympil in "Democrats Need to Clean House"

sympil — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 20:36:16 +0000

In my opinion the system needs an overhaul. The number of Representatives hasn’t been updated in over 100 years. It is absurd that North Dakota has slightly less federal power than California. The rules of the Senate need to be overhauled and so does our entire representative system. The system set forth by the Constitution is outdated and no longer works.

New comment by sympil in "Democrats Need to Clean House"

sympil — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 18:59:18 +0000

The speed run is here. Nothing will stop it. There is no status quo ante that we can realistically go back to.