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In Southern California. Reply more than I post. On the left, but probably either more left or not as left as you want. I freely block right wingers.
Pic is California delta smelt, a far more noble creature than it's critics.
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I tend to attribute the fecklessness of the Dem party to the constraints imposed by money in politics rather than personalities. But there may be levels of fecklessness that go beyond that.
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In what radical way should he be obstructing fascists in DC? The Senate is on recess so surely you can't mean that.
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that's what his wives said (fired for performance reasons)
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or demoralizing them, because people who know nothing of nothing, suddenly thinking they can micromanage your work, yea that's sounds plenty demoralizing to me.
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There is seldom a harm noone option when it comes to the u.s. presidency.
It's still ok to care about one own self, one's loved ones, one's city, one's country, and vote accordingly. Obviously I think that was stopping Trump.
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It's kind of an American thing, not that cars don't kill people elsewhere, but America has very high rates of deaths from cars. Think about it like maternal mortality or anything else we are ahem exceptional in.
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You'd think it would only increase the property value though
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oil companies, who also were a huge funder of Trump
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All so avoidable if they would just let us have affordable Chinese EVs!
(this was Biden's 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs, it's not specific to the current regime)
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no representation as now have a king (or two), no IRS with all the people they have laid off, and them trying to steal our personal data like low rent hackers. I don't know.
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It's not very practical. Neither is staying in the failed state that is the U.S.. No good paths left.
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supposedly real damage not going to hit until March jobs report
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side pieces
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"man" is not one of the terms that had to be removed from research, however "woman" was.
However I am told this is not because they are literally erasing women.
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no, Mexico maybe.
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I think there could be reasonable disagreement on how bad it would get (it's VERY bad obviously), it was never going to not be bad for Trump to be reelected.
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It's still a questionable source at this point (anything originally from the L.A. Times) being how much he wants to ingratiate himself with Trump. But it's probably true, for now, I guess (I hope! save our national parks!)
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It's difficult because I suspect even the corporations aren't fully in charge now. Never thought I'd be nostalgic for corptocracy. But maybe it's buying a Trump pump and dump crypto coin.
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only if there are the votes to remove him. An attempt at a symbolic impeachment by Dems, when there have already been 2, would otherwise be more of a distraction than anything.
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do you know they are real people? Because if it's just arguments with bots, no.
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www.medicaidplanningassistance.org/dual-eligibi...
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Books on how to be your own doctor. But I don't want to be my own doctor, I want a functioning medical system.
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Seems like it as Congress is empowered to establish the post office per the U.S. Constitution.
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this means we don't get vaccines next year likely for flu or covid
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But they never pick the right targets, there are 100 school shootings for every Luigi.
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you have to really do something to top the social media company that is literally owned by a Nazi promoting the far right. Congrats tik tok.
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the family owned business inherited by a kid, that did not build it and has not the slightest idea how to do anything, while the much maligned, abused, and deeply demoralized employees keep trying to keep it running despite all that.
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Obligatory Amtrak plug: trains run to many of those cities!
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he's targeting Wisconsin at this point, of course that is part of the U.S. but pretty small target.
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He did and Biden reversed it.
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this administration hates life itself
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I don't think the theft of OUR national parks is one of the least bad things.
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I can't be the only one who just assumed ASMR was some kind of government agency they have never heard of (derogatory I guess). Because what the heck are these people even talking about?
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There is probably some vindictive targeting of California just because here (because we didn't vote for him)
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the argument for a purely symbolic head of state (modern royalty) seemed persuasive to me. As we're projecting far too much onto heads of state, we need royalty for that.
But that was of course assuming a democratically elected government that actually runs things (UK,Denmark etc)
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Never using sunscreen. People have been warned!
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Nobody won, just like everyone always said would happen.
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waiting for that sea level rise
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Trump take our vacation
(granted that one is tricky as many may not even have vacation time, but many do)
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it's really why we need EVs (no not hitler mobiles, not those EVs), to break everything being about the price of gas
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Musk might be an easier target (also a bigger one). Noone likes billionaires to begin with, and he's an especially disgusting example.
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This was the intended outcome. The right very much used Citizens United as part of their plan to take over the country. It was Republican SC judges who did it! It made much progressive policy from Dems difficult to implement, EVEN IF they had wanted to. And the right has taken over, now by full coup
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It's almost like people who have real jobs in government, like attorneys, like even prior heads of the Treasury, will fight as best they can.
But politicians that have been softened by years of their life being just about lobbying won't.
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he's a scab
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shit hole country?
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this
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And if we tried to rewrite it prior to now in the u.s. it would be done by the extreme right wing, it's not like the right wasn't trying for a constitutional convention. So not wanting that was strategic. But they have now couped the government itself, and that's a faster route to their goals.
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it was a metaphor for ....
oh never mind it wasn't a metaphor after all
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and social media fine sure one can avoid. But do those who tune out still get news? (even if they miss something and it's not a firehose). Well then news: AHHHHH!!!!!! 😱
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it gives us too much credit, some of us are very political people (we are on bsky). Many of us are fairly decent people (not including Trumpers)
But I don't think most people follow politics all that much really. But yea there are also people like the president who would harm any critics if he could