That’s United States property and cannot be modified in any way.

The given reason is that you can’t see the security features on the card if it’s laminated.

Punks have outstanding morals.

Umm, True. I’ll go true. That was easy. I’ll be honest, I might’ve heard that one before though. Sorta cheated.

He was wrong. Jobs aren’t social programs, they’re things you do to contribute to society. I know that probably isn’t your point, but the quote is just anti-poverty fear mongering that doesn’t even make any sense when you think about it for more than two seconds.

Like, at best, you could read it as “people with jobs are better off than people without jobs” and like, yeah, no shit. Turns out you get paid for working, which tends to help the ol’ budgeting thing, but that isn’t what social programs are for. They’re supposed to set a baseline for everyone so that we don’t have things like rampant crime, desperate people stuck in dead-end situations, and people who are so unable to fend for themselves that they become a major burden on society.

Kyrptonite and chloroform

By making them the same thing, you encourage gerrymandering. In the US, there’s no way for a third party to gain any representation. A national, proportional election would force the issue and allow for more diversity in political thought.

The house is Local Representation. You don’t vote for what party you want to see control the house, you vote for a local representative to represent you and your neighbors.

Merging the two houses won’t help. We need proportional representation. Make the senate 600 seats, and a national, proportional election (seats are given based on % of votes for the party). They’re still 6 year terms, with elections every two years. Seats are given to any party that can clear 0.5% to start, then the threshold is increased to 2% after 12 years. Then expand the house. Now you have local reps and proportional reps. Much better than giving “states” reps, which makes almost no sense.

This is amazingly high def. Holy Hannah

Nah, he’s describing the observable universe. That’s scientific!

They were unsound, due to the use of fallacy, but that doesn’t mean they were untrue. Ginger might’ve been a cat, and Alice might’ve been English. The truthfulness of the argument has no bearing on the soundness of the argument (and vice versa)

Hank couldn’t be the ring bearer. Way too into propane, it’s such an obvious in.

Our politicians are owned by corporations. There’s very little money in public transit compared to car infrastructure. Of course that’s what gets all the money.

Misunderstanding the movie for 500, Alex

Holy shit! This is it, the actual comic I read was a copy of JLX. I thought I had temporary insanity as a kid, reading a comic about Mr. X, leader of a teenage group of mutants, whose actual identity was the Martian Manhunter.

Huh. TIL

But the right is wrong as well. There need not be restrictions on who wish to purchase tobacco, that we can agree on, but there do need to be on those who would sell tobacco. Tobacco kills and is addictive, to allow it to be sold without restrictions (on advertising, or the sale to minors) would be a cruelty to those who would’ve never started smoking with those restrictions in play. Only those who can understand the decision they make, with an adult mind unswayed by propaganda (advertising), should be able to make that choice.

The difference being that those are naive solutions to complex problems, but correctly identifying the problems. The right has no solutions, only scape goats that block them from some “perfect” past that we’ve progressed away from. There’s no irony here, just a misunderstanding, on your part, of what divides the left and right.

There’s a lot of money to be made telling people who are afraid of things new things for them to be afraid of. You could also use it to grab power.

Yeah, because you’re giving up federal power for… a bigger state budget? Not really a great trade.

9 out of 11 jokes aren’t funny