RCID is one step closer to being dissolved

My issue was the headline made it seem like the district was nothing but a tax shelter. There’s a lot more involved than just that, and reporting like that is lazy in my opinion.

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Someone needs to make a save RCID t-shirt.

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Totally agree!

The NYT article was not worth using a feebie on. Nothing new to add and limitednon details.

As you and another user pointed out, Eisner needed Wells to ground him. Eisner may not have been very creative as an artist, but he was an incredibly passionate creative executive for the company. He built more parks, and resorts than any other CEO, had a passion for architecture and theming that rivaled Walt. And turned around the film studio and animation department.
The wheels started falling for him on the creative side when he had to juggle the business side and be creative because he didn’t have the stomach for making those financial calls (on top of being extremely unhealthy after Wells passed).

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Someone did

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Hahaha … Pretty much!

I know I shouldn’t care but the thing that grinds my gears the most with American politics is the cheating that goes on.

The most obvious example is gerrymandering, which is so blatant and so obviously unethical yet, to use that vile phrase, it just seems to be priced in.

Or the discovery by the GOP of a new principle in which Supreme Court justices cannot be appointed in the final year of a president’s term. Except when they can be. Even if you are a Republican, you have to accept that this was unambiguously the wrong thing to do.

And now DeSantis vs Disney. He’s not even trying to hide what he’s doing. Presumably because he knows that the terms of the bill will never be effected and it makes him look good to his supporters. (But really? His supporters like it when he acts at best unethically and probably unconstitutionally.)

We’re seeing a little of this in the UK with Boris Johnson’s refusal to resign. It is pretty uniformly agreed that any other person would have done so under the same circumstances. I am at least reassured by the fact that this has made him wildly unpopular.

Meanwhile, DeSantis marches towards Washington on the back of using his office to punish those who speak out against him. This is not America Being Great.

(I’ll repeat what I’ve said here before. I actually think Disney is in the wrong, too. I don’t think corporations should be making public statements about politics unless it very clearly affects their business. And they certainly shouldn’t be writing checks to politicians. Citizens United was catastrophic for US democracy and ordinary people.)

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American politics are embarrassingly terrible.

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And yet you wouldn’t believe the mental gymnastics I’ve seen my R friends go through to justify that lunacy. Following their logic felt like listening to this guy.

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If I may bring homosexuality into this — and I think that I may — what annoys me about people who are against gay marriage is not that they are against gay marriage per se but that they are dishonest about their reasons for it. They oppose gay marriage because gay sex grosses them out. Which is fine. It is kinda gross. (I mean all sex is pretty gross, really.) I wish they’d be honest about that rather than cherry picking passages from the Bible, or from their dictionary.

In the interests of balance, I should add that Roe v Wade was probably wrongly decided for similar reasons, i.e. mental gymnastics to achieve a desired end that could otherwise not be achieved.

The real failure of US law and policy-making is that you people insist on clinging to a document that is over two hundred years old and whose framers cannot possibly have imagined the questions it would be asked to address, not least because many of those questions didn’t even exist when it was written.

Similarly, for example, lifetime appointments to the Supreme Court may have made sense when the life expectancy of appointees was — what? — twenty years younger than it is now.

The solution would be to amend your beloved document, but your beloved framers made that almost impossible to do.

So you’re stuck asking a two hundred year old document to answer questions that it is impossible for it to answer.

How’s that working out for you?

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Always impressed by your depth of knowledge of US politics, albeit through a leftist lens. But you are more fair and bring up examples of issues with the left too more than many American leftists. You don’t just parrot MSNBC talking points but have real knowledge. I respect that.

US politics have become very toxic and both parties have had a hand in escalating that.

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This is what the founding fathers feared and predicted, of course.

Both sides have allowed themselves to be pushed to the very extremes almost in order to make compromise impossible.

Take abortion. Why must the right demand that abortion be unlawful even in cases of rape and incest? By going straight to 10, it’s impossible to find common ground.

As for “Don’t say gay” — I haven’t read the full text of the bill, but I’m not sure I’d necessarily disagree with all of it. Some of the language I have seen does seem reasonable and proportionate. Perhaps the objection is that it is also accompanied with a load of crazy Defcon 1 stuff.

We had our own version in the UK for about a decade and a half. It was explicitly offensive.

People on opposite sides of the aisle have to talk to each other and — crucially — listen to each other. Or we really are all doomed to tear each other apart.

But with people like MTG getting elected to Congress what hope is there? Ordinary people have to reject the politics and language of division. They are not currently
doing so in sufficiently large numbers.

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Boy this hits the nail on the head

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As a recovering Christian and Republican, I can safely say that I was never “grossed out” by gay relationships. Not saying that the majority of people who use the Bible to oppose them felt the same way as me, because I know that’s not true. But there are honest actors in the game, I still know a few of them.

I was raised in a Church that indoctrinated a belief in me that homosexuality was an offense to God, and used the Bible to support those teachings, which I then parroted until I couldn’t in good faith evangelize those teachings anymore.

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I do not agree w/ this. Also, this suggests a false equivalence that is part of the problem. :zipper_mouth_face:

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Amen sister!

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The Native Americans we treated so well :roll_eyes: that we got our state name and thereby our motto from?

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Not really, it’s been amended 27 times. The real issue is that the country is just gotten so polarized that it’s impossible anymore. It’s only in modern times that it’s gotten impossible to do.

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Both parties? Hard disagree. But one party has certainly convinced the media that if they don’t give equal weight to both sides (no matter how extreme), they aren’t being “fair.”

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Agreed. Especially when R’s push further right while fear mongering about the D’s “radical left” agenda and the impending socialism that will destroy our nation lol.

When in actuality, D’s are pretty firmly a right wing party, just not as far right as R’s.

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