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It's not just fashionable accessories. Biden left in place tariffs too on steel, aluminum, did the new ones on EV cars that everyone knows about, actually lots of stuff

I won't pretend to be qualified to say if these are good things or bad things. I know that generally he's been accomplishing good things with the American economy, and I also know people will come out of the woodwork to say no he hasn't he's the worst thing since Margaret Thatcher, see he's identical to Trump, and as a good leftist I'm voting for Grimace from McDonald's instead to send a message and finally get things on the right track, and you should too

I'm not trying to talk about that. I just want to bring up that China complained about the steel tariffs to the WTO, and the WTO said hey yeah you guys can't do those, we order you to take those tariffs away, and the Biden administration told them to go fuck themselves and then did a bunch more tariffs

Like I say I have no idea about the issues, but anything that involves openly giving the middle finger to the WTO from any American administration is, to me, a rare and wonderful surprise

And it's gonna keep getting worse

Every year, for quite some time going forward, is gonna be worse than the year before, and no safety limit or anything like that until we actually start doing something about it

I actually really like it how the historically helplessly oppressed places are starting to get woke

(Meaning, like, the old definition of woke)

Parts of Georgia and Michigan are turning into these activist hotbeds + I'm here for it

He was. His participation in MK-Ultra is documented and I think it’s a safe to conclude that that means the CIA probably fucked up his brain and/or traumatized him, and made him that way in the first place.

A family member of mine once ate an entire slice of apple pie off a plate that was on the belly of his cat who just sat there observing and being chill the whole time

Debian is mine and has been for decades + I’m a little bit happy to see it’s still well represented / well thought of in the community. Everything works, and you can choose new + exciting with headaches sometimes, or old + stable with no headaches but old.

Only real issue is the package management hasn’t kept pace with node / python / go / everything else wanting to do its own little mini package management, and so very occasionally that side is a little bit of a mess

NixOS I would like to try at some point as the core philosophy seems a little more suited to the modern (Docker / pip / etc) era, but I never messed with it

I am

I am lampooning a certain population on Lemmy who like to come up with an endless variety of specious reasons not to vote for Biden. Some of their reasons are pretty much exactly as I stated, and to me they are outweighed by “Trump wants to kill anyone who disobeys him, so we shouldn’t put him in charge of the military” among other issues, and so hence the lampooning.

A person distantly affiliated to me called the FBI on Kaczynski back when he was in society, saying this guy is FUCKIN dangerous and you really need to look into him. They said, well, he hasn’t actually done anything, so honestly there’s not much we can do.

But Biden is old and, according to this poll I found, unexciting

How will I decide whether voting is even important at all; I’m not motivated

New goalposts I do not have time for but fortunately there are a couple of articles which go into why this is wrong pretty comprehensively.

Edit: TL;DR in addition to normal interest-rate stuff and etc, he raised corporate tax by around a trillion dollars which he then sank into among other things domestic manufacturing and infrastructure, and he staffed the NLRB with actual labor people which enabled them to support a lot of these union fights which have been winning gains recently

I keep saying I don’t have time and then you keep suckering me into swinging at wherever the new goalposts are. That’s really it though

Thanks Obama

Dude you're putting up a spirited drive towards this conclusion you are trying to bolster. Sure. One more message maybe.

I don't actually disagree with anything you just said. There are two ways to look at that bleak reality.

1. One way to look at it is, hey, let's look at which direction things have been moving recently, and try to do more of the things that produce gains and less of the things that produce losses, because it's pretty fuckin urgent to fix all that.
2. The other way it to move the goalposts allllllll the way from "wages never caught up with the giant price jumps from the pandemic" to implicitly blaming Biden for everything that's happened throughout generations of neoliberal betrayal of the American dream, as a way of disagreeing with an article which is accurately describing some notable successes for the people most in need of help right now including wages catching up and exceeding the giant price jumps from the pandemic

I'm not into the idea of indefinitely disagreeing with every new location you wanna move the goalposts to. I will agree with you about how fucked things are on a generational time-scale, and the urgency of fixing it.

Which is why I like identifying honestly when and why things are moving in the right direction