House Republicans moved to reduce Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s salary to $1, as lawmakers debate spending bills ahead of the government funding deadline next week.
The salary cut for Buttigieg was put forth by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and adopted by voice vote as an amendment to the 2024 Transpiration and Housing and Urban Development spending bill.
“Pete Buttigieg doesn’t do his job. It’s all about fake photo ops and taxpayer-funded private jet trip to accept LGBTQ awards for him,” Green posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “I’m happy my amendment passed, but he doesn’t deserve a single penny.”
The underlying bill needs to be approved by the full House and is unlikely to be approved by the Senate.
Prove it, then we’ll talk.
Can’t prove a negative. The burden of proof is on you to prove your absurd claim that your invisible sky daddy is real.
No, the burden of proof is upon the person making the unprovable claim. I claimed nothing.
Just because a claim fits your bias makes it no less an unsupported belief than anyone else’s unsupported belief.
Again, you can’t prove a negative whether it’s true or not. The positive claim, which is unproven and therefore to be deemed false, is the existence of your magical master being.
Try brushing up on the nature of proof and the scientific method before you embarrass yourself further.
Then it is a belief. And you can prove negatives, just not grandiose ones. I can prove there is no salt in a solution. But until I prove it, that is a belief and not a given. The fact that the scale is the entirety of Reality makes no difference in the applicable Scientific proof required from the claimant. Negativity or affirmity is irrelevant. A claim which can’t be proven is a belief and nothing more.
Try brushing up on the argument you are attempting to make. Your desperation to argue against a claim you assume I believe has you floundering. There was no positive claim. The negative claim made was made in an attempt to reinforce their weak faith by forcing it upon others. Just because your equally weak faith can’t survive others not agreeing makes the negative claim no less a belief. It remains nothing more than your belief no matter how hard you stamp your feet and demand others must prove you wrong or accept your unsupported claim. Simply not how it works.
Or more precisely a delusion
Nope. That’s simply not how proof works. You can statistically prove something to be unlikely, but you can’t prove without a doubt that something isn’t the case.
No. Not believing in your invisible sky daddy is by definition the opposite of belief. A lack of belief is a kind of belief like no car is a kind of car.
And that’s how much I’m gonna entertain your lunacy. I was about to adress all your other falsehoods, but life’s too short to spend too much of it arguing with religious zealots who think they’re making logical sense.
Your insistence upon arguing against what no one claimed is insurmountable. Perhaps when you’ve got enough faith in your own belief system, you’ll be able to engage with others. Until then go ahead and stamp your feet all you need.
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Aww, so edgy.
Yeah that can’t happen - BUT: it’s been theorized that humans are born with the ability to language. Like, talking good be wired up in there to start. Which. I dunno, seems like something.
Seems like evidence of fucking evolution, yeah. Turns out language is favorable for survival and cooperation.
And Evolution is a process which started why? Where’d all the energy come from? Seems your belief system is no less full of holes than anyone else’s.
I don’t know how the universe began because it happened 13-26 billion years before I was born. However it is fair to assume that there were some factors that we don’t understand, and it is healthy to understand the limits of our knowledge, as well as how far centuries of meticulous science has helped push our collective understanding.
Pretending to understand all of our universe’s questions through a story made up by ancient bandits, whose answers directly contradict those we have undeniably proven through science, is just stupidity in this day and age.
Maybe, hypothetically, there was some creature of another dimension that was able to create our universe in some kind of container. Maybe all the energy of the universe really did just appear out of nowhere. But we have no evidence, and your story is still made up.
You’re not wrong, you’re just focused on ancient bandits. Which is cool. They suck.
True. Yahweh was just another tribal god which represented one small group, conflicting with hundreds of similar gods, and just happened to rise to prominence which caused those with faith to write fanfiction. Highlighting the origins show the absurdity of the whole belief, and that’s why I focus on it as a talking point.
You keep going after that strawman and eventually someone may question your desperation to defend your faith based theories no one cares about.
I don’t have a faith, you’re projecting
I seriously question whether you even have “the ability to language”, as you so eloquently put it, this far into your life let alone be born with it.