Wasn’t Israel literally demolishing the homes of innocent Palestinian families, causing small children to become homeless overnight? Terrorist groups usually form in response to something. Like, I don’t know, an apartheid state killing them if they don’t leave their homes
And headlights that blind everyone around you
I read that Denmark releases a list every six months of the skills and degrees that are allowed to immigrate, or get priority or something like that. From looking at the last one I assume they value education, the liberal arts and humanities a lot more than the US.
It ends up being a catch 22. When you want to leave the US because of a lack of upward mobility, social services, jobs in your field, and you can’t save because of healthcare, rent, and debt, then how can you have enough money to move to another state, much less another country?
Nobody really cared about the long term impacts of hurricane Katrina, and the rich just used it to privatize a bunch of shit, and then they got richer. I wish something like that would be enough to make people give a shit, but we’ve just been there before.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/06/naomi-klein-how-power-profits-from-disaster
Proletariat revolution only works when all or most people are on board. One or a few people doing it will just land them in jail basically. This system is structured so that if we do something like that, we will be on the street within a month or two and not be able to care for our families. Please don’t make assumptions about the situations that millions of Americans are trapped in. Especially if it is not something you’ve lived under yourself, or aren’t formally educated in. They don’t call it “manufactured consent” for nothing. We’re born into it and we have to participate in it if we want to survive. Literally.
We’re really caring about student loan servicers’ feelings? Like Nelnet? If that’s what they want to do, then it does show solidarity regardless of how privileged they may be.
How does that work
When I couldn’t just purchase a season of a tv show (Drag Race). You should just be able to buy a show or movie if you want to watch it.
The most recent season was exclusively on Paramount +. I guess they had exclusive right because it wasn’t available anywhere else. It was 3.99/month with a discount so I figured I’d keep it as long as the season aired. I was fucking amazed that there could be twenty fucking commercials in an hour show. If I wanted to skip backward or forward I had to watch three more ads first. Two weeks before the season finale they raised the price to 5.99 so I cancelled it. I didn’t need to watch it that badly. Their other content was shit, all nineties MTV and made for tv movies. When I signed up they advertised Yellowjackets so I was going to watch that. But no, that’s another subscription to Showtime.
It was the cheapest subscription I’ve had but the most aggravating experience, because it’s not about the money. It’s about feeling like I’m getting fucked over with every goddamn thing I buy lately.
“Republicans did something fucking stupid that’s bad for their constituents.”
“Oh but but the dems…”
This is why there’s those posts asking how many Russian bots have made it to Lemmy.
athletic advantages/disadvantages diminish after ~2 years of HRT
This is what I keep thinking whenever I hear about this “debate.” But I guess if the bigots admitted they know how hormones work, then they wouldn’t have an outlet for their transphobia.
She probably has her credit card info on Amazon and the seller got it and has been automatically charging her. It’s harder and takes longer to get charges reversed than to just not respond to a bill in the mail
Yes, ageism is horrible and too common especially against women. But it’s really disingenuous to say there should be no age limit whatsoever, especially when it’s acceptable in every other industry. No one is “preying on her dementia” as some kind of distraction. They have a political advantage to having her stay in office, it’s really not that hard. The choices are bullshit, as usual, because it comes down to keeping her in office the rest of her life or open it up to some fascist conservative.
Of course reasonable Californians are mad. But do you have time to organize and get the signatures for a special recall election? Not many people do.
Yeah, it’s really fucked up to keep seeing comments from non-Californians blaming us for voting for her, as though we have any kind of real choice.
Regardless, it’s yet another case of Americans blaming other Americans, as usual, instead of blaming a system that allows this shit to happen and doesn’t give us viable choices of candidates in the first place.
I thought there were laws against false advertising in the US? How can these PACs and campaigns say shit like “children will be able to get dangerous sex change operations without parental consent”?? It is so far from reality and yet it’s in every piece of conservative rhetoric at every level of politics. There’s always been “spin,” but it used to be that they’d go out of their way to pick their words very carefully, ie. dog whistle racism.
So there’s laws against lying in commercials about fast food but none that control influencing elections with misinformation? How is this kind of blatant lying even legal?
“Equal rights means equal lefts” or whatever tf it was, especially during the Depp/Heard thing. Basically condoning hitting women. But then if you disagree with it, it gets spun into endorsing women abusing men. Reddit comments can be fucking gross.
I love how there’s never any elaboration on these kinds of comments
Maybe I’m wrong but I thought the only thing the constitution says about it is “there shall be a supreme court.”
Regardless, the constitution was created to be amended, and it’s the states that vote on those. You know. That whole democracy thing.
So republicans are somehow against a program that provides HIV/AIDS medication to people in poor countries because it checks notes promotes abortion??
Republicans will say anything and do anything to make sure they hurt as many vulnerable people as possible.
Also two-spirit people in Indigenous cultures
California is doing a hell of a lot better than any other state. That’s why it’s always people who don’t live here who want to say shit like this.
No state is perfect. This is the US after all. But major California cities are the best you’re going to get in terms of anything even resembling progressivism. If people who don’t live here or have never been here want to make the choice to believe conservative propaganda about homelessness when it’s a nationwide problem, or about crime when it’s decreased nationwide, then that’s their own problem.