If only someone had linked to some articles
mozz
joined 2 years ago
Let’s take all that “how DARE Biden let there be inflation, doesn’t he understand my grocery bill” energy and apply it to this here comment right here
Honestly, in terms of my own personal beliefs, I agree with you. I think if the workers that make the US economy operate decide to bring it to its knees until it starts treating them like humans again, fuckin God bless ‘em and I’ll start eating ramen and eggs until they’re done. I just think it’s a little much to ask a US President to commit the political suicide that would be allowing that to happen (in particular because, given how eager people are to blame him for inflation that wasn’t his fault, I don’t think they would react well to a big economic disruption and lots of inflation that actually was squarely his “fault”).
I think a certain grouping is trying HARD to insert it into the discourse. Case in point, this article, which wraps up a core of an original fair statement (that Biden is being ignorant and stubborn in refusing to acknowledge reality and that that's a problem) in layer upon layer of interpretive dance so as to make the phrase "blue MAGA" fit that situation, even though they acknowledge at the end of the article that it doesn't really make any sense at all.
calls for Joe Biden to step aside have been met not with thoughtful critiques or reasoned counter-arguments but with furious accusations of treason, disloyalty, and betrayal.
Holy shit fuckin TREASON? I mean, honestly that's a fair point. Trump actually does want to put people to death for disagreeing with him, so if Biden's gone that far, that actually does make it a pretty fair analogy. Maybe I was wrong to say that the people saying "blue MAGA" are laughably full of shit.
And so, eager to hear how wrong I was, I clicked the link and read the rest of the article, looking for where treason came into the picture. It turned out that mostly what they mean is that people on Twitter wrote hostile comments, and that sometimes Biden says things in interviews that they don't think are accurate.
FUCKIN
UN
PRECEDENTED
Basically no different than shooting protestors I tell you
I love when someone tees up this stuff
So one of Biden’s FIRST actions in office was to fire the piece of shit that Trump put in charge of the NLRB, short cutting the normal procedure for it which actually caused a little bit of a fight, and then to put in a whole bunch of actually pro-labor people. They’ve been backstopping all these pretty remarkable union gains that have been happening the last few years.
The Teamsters, for whatever stupid/corrupt reason, are pretty much the only union that hasn’t come out swinging hard for Biden in the election, because unlike the media they are aware of how much things have been changing for them in the last few years and want it to continue instead of Trump putting Margaret Thatcher in charge of the NLRB of whatever the fuck he wants to do instead.
Oh, and also he broke a rail strike that would have caused some inflation (which I know the media and the people on Lemmy would have been super understanding of the full context of and wouldn’t have caused any problems), and then once no one was paying attention anymore, his administration kept working the issue and got the workers the sick days they were striking for in the first place. So you I guess you do have a point that he’s horrible. I take it all back.
It is the cycle of life
- Mods are power tripping I hate this
- I’m gonna make my own community with decent moderation
- Jesus Christ these users are the worst thing I’ve ever seen, just a bunch of racism and spam and it never stops
- That’s it if anyone gets out of line they’re fuckin banned, I don’t have time for this thing which has become a part time job and it never stops and everyone on all sides is always mad at me
- Cry some more I don’t care
- “Mods are power tripping I hate this”
(That is not even taking into account where someone is being a transparent dickbag and then whining when they get moderated for it, which I suspect is what’s going on here and why they don’t want to go into any details)
if by some miracle the country is saved from an own-goal and trump is not crowned god king by January, it will due solely to the American public - in spite of the Democrats.
As is traditional
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Overcoming this bullshit is how humanity gets to become what it needs to be
Right now we’re like a teenager living on our own, in way over our heads, with a couple different paths we could wind up going down
It was “due to their admitting, in a public comment, that their engagement here is in bad faith.” The frequency was a factor but by no means the proximate reason for the ban.
I don’t really agree with that being the metric, but that was what it was for.
Yeah. If later on I can think some adjectives I could use as nouns or vice versa, to make the point, I’ll keep all that stuff in mind.
I am gratified to see how upvoted this is