marx

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Who's feeling bold? in c/memes@lemmy.world
[–] marx@lemmy.cafe 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Have a look around

Family of victim in Trump drug boat killings files first formal complaint in c/world@lemmy.world
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[Louisville Courier-Journal] Charles Booker to take another run at replacing Mitch McConnell in Senate (www.courier-journal.com)
 

Charles Booker, the former West End state representative who ran Senate campaigns in 2020 and 2022, announced Dec. 3 he plans to seek the Democratic nomination to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, whose final term will expire at the end of next year.

YSK that Apple makes millions of dollars with personalized advertising. If you have an iPhone or iPad, you should turn it off. in c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world
[–] marx@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 weeks ago

God we need Ubuntu Touch to take off already. So tired of this corporate bullshit.

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[Reuters] Trump’s push for more AI data centers faces backlash from his own voters (www.reuters.com)
 

The residents came in camouflage hats and red shirts signaling unity, more than 300 of them packing into a rural Pennsylvania planning commission meeting to protest a proposed data center they feared would carve up their farmland and upend the quiet rhythms of their valley.

Most were loyal supporters of President Donald Trump, who carried their home of Montour County by 20 percentage points in the 2024 election. But they bristled at Washington’s push to fast-track artificial intelligence infrastructure, which has driven data-center growth in rural areas around the U.S. where land is cheap.

On a recent November evening, residents in this county of 18,000 people stepped to the microphone, questioning Talen Energy (TLN.O), opens new tab officials about how their planned data center might raise residents' utility bills, reduce working farmland, and strain local water and natural resources.

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[Reuters] US manufacturing stuck in doldrums as tariff headwinds persist (www.reuters.com)
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U.S. manufacturing contracted for the ninth straight month in November, with factories facing slumping orders and higher prices for inputs as the drag from import tariffs persisted. The Institute for Supply Management survey on Monday also showed some manufacturers in the transportation equipment industry linking layoffs to President Donald Trump's sweeping duties, saying they were "starting to institute more permanent changes due to the tariff environment." They added "this includes reduction of staff, new guidance to shareholders and development of additional offshore manufacturing that would have otherwise been for U.S. export."

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"We can see no sign in this report of a surge in manufacturing in the United States since the tariff regime was unveiled last spring," said Carl Weinberg, chief economist at High Frequency Economics. "The manufacturing sector is sick."

Anti-Trump groups urge holiday boycott of Amazon, Home Depot, Target over DEI backtrack in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] marx@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It will hurt them regardless of where they try to shift the blame. Their share prices will still drop if their earnings miss expectations.

But medium to long term you're right, and specifically people should be buying from local and small businesses as much as possible. Not just for holidays but in general. No corporations are our friends. The economy needs a rebalancing toward localism. Corporations have captured our political system. Aside from regulation and strong antitrust, our best weapon against them as consumers is to deny them our money. One of their weaknesses is that the market demands perpetual growth. Deny them that growth and feed it to small/medium-sized business and their grip on us will begin to loosen.

Of course that requires sustained mass action, not one-off boycotts, but individual choices add up to something real over time.

“Pathetic”: Dems Tear Into 8 Senators Who Caved to Trump on Shutdown in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] marx@lemmy.cafe 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, I did in fact call both of my senators. Neither was one of the eight, but I told them to strongly urge their colleagues not to make this deal.

Your cynical assumptions about what people did or did not do are pointless. Go do something yourself and quit making up shit to chastise others for.