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[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 64 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They see the writing on the wall. The younger generations understand technology and are much less hesitant about regulating it.

In 15 - 20 years the majority of Congress won't be made up of people who say 'I don't understand it but it's making money so let's leave them be' — it'll be made up full of people who say 'this shit worked better when I was a kid, let's go back to that'.

[–] cuck4mai@lemmynsfw.com 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not really. It will still be made up mostly of people who say "thanks for the donation" to lobbyists.

[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

🎶 because democracy here is just a curtain 🎶

[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 49 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Who? The couch fucker JD Vance?

[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I heard the "JD" stands for "Jackhammer Davenport," according to his book.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

He probably tells people that. But it sounds like over compensation to me

[–] Myxomatosis@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Those stains on all the couches at Mar A Lardo aren’t just from Donnie’s incontinence.

[–] MermaidsGarden@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Are people still talking about JD Vance having sex with a couch? We need to put to bed the idea of JD Vance having sex with a couch. It’s not appropriate for people to think of Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance having sex with a couch. JD Vance has gone on record to deny that he has had bare skin contact with a couch within the last 5 years. It’s absurd that JD Vance was banned from a Cleveland area IKEA after making sweet, passionate love to a KIVIK Sofa Chaise.

Once again, there is no evidence of JD Vance having sex with a couch. You need to stop calling JD Vance a couchfucker.

[–] razorwiregoatlick@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Exactly! I’m so tired of hearing that JD Vance fucked a couch. We literally have no evidence that JD Vance fucked a couch. For all we know JD Vance fucked a Lazy Boy, or JD Vance fucked a pound of ground beef heated in the microwave and wrapped in cellophane. Why does everyone assume it was a couch. There really is no way of knowing.

[–] Myxomatosis@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Their Trojan Horse has failed miserably so far. Gotta hand it to a weirdo like Peter Thiel to put up someone so repulsive and totally uncharismatic.

[–] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Couches with tissue dispensers built in everywhere, for all the people