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I was just joshin you dude
I actually have seen quite a few stories similar to this one
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Holy shit! I haven’t seen anything about this on Lemmy today or on any other day like for the last 2 weeks.
I would think that for such a big story they would have posted something. But I didn’t hear a peep. Like not even anything similar.
It’s weird how much silence there’s been about it. Usually there are like 4 or 5 accounts that are all over posting particular types of stories that make Biden or the Democrats look bad.
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Blocking on social media is a free speech issue, because it prevents you from broadcasting certain types of things in reference to that elected official, so they can't do that
Telling you you can't call them is way different. IDK how much legal weight they may have but it may be quite a bit. Also calling them once they've said they will take legal action is unlikely to influence them to solve the safety issue that is the the original issue.
I would contact the news or a lawyer; it sounds unlikely that following up further with the elected official is a good idea. To me. NAL
As in many things, it is easy to look in from the outside, and lob criticism because of problems or failures you can clearly see. Fun, too! You get to look like a genius and the guy trying to get things done looks like a chump in the harsh illumination of your piercing insight.
It is much more difficult to step into the situation and help achieve success. And yet, the second one is what's needed. The first one is valuable too, sure, but we've got enough of it at this point, I think.
1.5 degrees is what we were supposed to be carefully avoiding because it was the level at which the real bad shit started happening (emphasis on started; it gets significantly worse going forward from here, also).
It is weird that not a lot of nations have said anything along the lines of “hey this is getting serious let’s plan to stop burning more fossil fuels every year than we ever have before”
There's a whole class of "consultants" who work in Washington who are some of the most deluded, corrupt, and dishonest people you could ever want to meet. It is almost impossible to succeed in politics without making a Faustian bargain with them, even if you started out good (which, mostly, you didn't), and once you do, forever will they control your destiny. They will decide that particular people are allowed to run. They will swing massive amounts of money and (more crucially) media attention in favor of the corporate candidates and away from the popular candidates.
They are some of the most dislikable people you can imagine. They're all fake, like a Ken doll or a church mom, and they don't care if you know it. And their priorities are wildly out of step with anything that will produce progress for America. They run the RNC and the DNC, and by the time decisions make it down to the level of the American people getting to pick one of the options, it's mostly a disheartening array of bullshit that no one really has any stomach for selecting any one of, which is only further depressive of any interest by any large segment of the population in making any of that better.
Sometimes fuckups happen. Bernie was almost a massive fuckup, but they were able to kneecap him in time. Biden was actually pretty good for the working class, within the parameters of what they find to be acceptable, but I think he is 100% unable to, for example, take meaningful action against Israel, or they would throttle him in the night (figuratively speaking), and he would never recover, and Trump would win.
None of this is to say that voting doesn't matter. Voting for Biden in this particular election will be necessary if you don't want the world to end, chiefly because of how horrifyingly worse than even the uninspiring norm Trump is. (Trump was a fuckup, too, by the way; they didn't want him but they were faced with a fairly authentic popular movement that just hates all politicians with a fiery passion and wants to throw them all in the river and was able to identify that he wasn't one, and that was enough.)
But the overall system is so inbred and corrupt that people with genuinely new ideas are commonly ejected from the system, as a matter of course, before they can gain traction that might threaten anybody's paycheck. And so, you get two old, old men who both have significant drawbacks (though not of the same kind or degree), competing to see which one can run the most powerful country in the world. It's like if 1960s NASA had all the same engineering, all the same genius and money and manpower, except, the president's idiot nephew was in charge of picking astronauts, and there were only like 10 random people in the world that were willing to play baseball with him that he liked, so they had to just go with a couple guys out of that lot that were acceptable to that guy for some fuckin reason and hope it went okay.
Ask me if I am bitter about it
He's definitely not going to be able to do much good if Trump get elected, and he along with everyone else in the media who's left of Charlie Kirk gets brought up on charges of lèse-majesté.
Here's the part I like: Biden said "if they’re serious they ought to 'announce for president, challenge me at the convention' or rally behind him against Trump".
He's got a point. I thought the debate was a massive fuck-up, but deciding who to replace him with and then mounting a viable attempt at the replacement with that person makes a hell of a lot more sense to me than just leaning into GOP talking points about how Biden's fuckups, however bad, are definitely worse than Trump's objectively much worse fuckups.
Replace Biden? Sure, let's get fuckin busy, find a good replacement, and if doesn't work, get behind Biden or whoever the nominee is. I still think Jon Stewart is the way to do it, but that is probably a non starter of an idea. Kamala Harris is the highest polling option and realistic. Be aware that everyone who was super panicked about Biden's unsuitability will instantly pivot to panicking with concern-trolling about Kamala's unsuitability, and if you fall for it right away again and start trying to replace her, I will not have a lot of respect for you or your intelligence or pattern recognition abilities.
Keep Biden? Sure, that sounds good too. Let's get fuckin busy, and start rallying people to help him beat the end of the world in November.
Keep running in circles flapping our hands in the air about how something must be done because we're definitely going to lose in November, without offering any good alternate strategy or way to get it done? That is the option that seems unlikely to cause anything good to happen. It is, however, what a lot of the Republican aligned media seems very very committed to encouraging the Democrats to do, and for some mentally challenged reason it seems like it's winning over quite a lot of them.
Here's the part I like: Biden said "if they’re serious they ought to 'announce for president, challenge me at the convention' or rally behind him against Trump".
He's got a point. I thought the debate was a massive fuck-up, but deciding who to replace him with and then mounting a viable attempt at the replacement with that person makes a hell of a lot more sense to me than just leaning into GOP talking points about how Biden's fuckups, however bad, are definitely worse than Trump's objectively much worse fuckups.
Replace Biden? Sure, let's get fuckin busy, find a good replacement, and if doesn't work, get behind Biden or whoever the nominee is. I still think Jon Stewart is the way to do it, but that is probably a non starter of an idea. Kamala Harris is the highest polling option and realistic. Be aware that everyone who was super panicked about Biden's unsuitability will instantly pivot to panicking with concern-trolling about Kamala's unsuitability, and if you fall for it right away again and start trying to replace her, I will not have a lot of respect for you or your intelligence or pattern recognition abilities.
Keep Biden? Sure, that sounds good too. Let's get fuckin busy, and start rallying people to help him beat the end of the world in November.
Keep running in circles flapping our hands in the air about how something must be done because we're definitely going to lose in November, without offering any good alternate strategy or way to get it done? That is the option that seems unlikely to cause anything good to happen. It is, however, what a lot of the Republican aligned media seems very very committed to encouraging the Democrats to do, and for some mentally challenged reason it seems like it's winning over quite a lot of them.
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And with a tiny minority of exceptions in the world, no one gives a shit
Dude, this clearly isn’t gonna be the fifteenth time that is the charm. Just deliver him to the fucking ICC in a rubber sack and install someone else that’s easier to deal with. You said your support for Israel is ironclad. Well, right now that means getting rid of Likud. You can have some covert agency do it, and just tell the voters you're as shocked as anybody about what happened but you support the new president-elect and their roadmap for peace. Literally everybody wins.
You sit atop the world’s most powerful military, economic, and (for certain definitions) intelligence apparatus. Y’all can do this stuff no problem when we need to buy oil or papayas or whatever for cheap, but all of a sudden when killing Arabs is the issue at stake it’s all “oh boo boo we could never fuck up another country’s machinery of government, that would be ever so crude”
(I am joking, clearly, about how easy it would be, but not about the broad strokes of the absurdity of claiming America is helpless in this and we just have to keep asking and getting chumped for it, over and over and over.)
You missed a fairly hilarious one
How Trump Can Make NATO Great Again
The subtitle is “The alliance needs a MAGA makeover for the threats of the 21st century.”
I have already cancelled my subscription to the New York Times, since they are clearly the enemy and they don’t care who knows it, but the Washington Post I still have one to because I thought they were the good guys. I don’t think I can even easily cancel since you pay by the year. But… it’s not even like I’m offended because it’s a malicious article.
It’s like when a parent says, “I’m not even mad, I’m disappointed.” Like bro even if you’re doing propaganda I would expect you to have more sense than for THIS to be your strategy for it.