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  • TallonMetroid@lemmy.worldtoMemes@sopuli.xyzSocial Contracts
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    2 months ago

    So, the characters at the top are from the game Among Us, in which players are crewmen on a spaceship, except one of the players is an impostor trying to sabotage the ship. After every round of play, all the surviving players vote on who they think the impostor is, and the loser of the vote gets spaced. The blue player is saying that he thinks the red player is the impostor, but is voting on spacing the black player despite that.











  • Oh, it gets worse. The whole thing was his idea, even if he was too chickenshit to vote for it.

    Most commentators, including me, concluded that the Tuesday election victory saved Democrats from capitulating to Republican demands to pass a simple continuing resolution to reopen the government, in exchange for vague assurances of a vote on Affordable Care Act subsidies that amount to nothing. But my reporting finds that at the Thursday meeting of the Senate Democratic caucus, two days after the election, Democrats very nearly capitulated once again.

    Here’s what occurred. It has been widely assumed that the group of eight mostly centrist Senate Democrats, who have been looking to broker a hollow deal on Republican terms, were freelancing. In fact, they were acting with the express approval of Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and were reporting to him daily.




  • No, the shutdown is because Congress didn’t pass a budget to allocate new federal funding. Which means that government agencies don’t have any money to pay employees. For most, this means they’re furloughed (essentially mandatory unpaid leave), because being forced to work without pay is also called slavery. Some positions, though (like ATC), are considered too vital to shut down so they do it anyway, and in the past provisions would be included in the budgets to give backpay as appropriate. There’s some worry that El Taco isn’t going to do that this time around, though.