i don’t agree

Doesn’t change the fact that you’re wrong.

What intellectual compromises must people who thought that a felon, rapist, pedo, bankrupt, fraudster would do good work on the economy ? or is it more likely he’s a racist trans hater like they are ?

History tells us that when the majority are starving, change is the most important factor. They had four years of knowing definitively that Biden and Harris, with all their stupid happy speeches, didn’t care if their families starved. Of course they voted to get Democrats out. So wild that Democrats insisted they couldn’t win if they ran on affordability, and then Republicans ran on affordability and it became a red wave in 2024.

it was because he promised to hurt brown people and because the brown people who supported him thought it would be other brown people. That and the trans and gays thing is why he was elected.

No, it wasn’t, and that Donald has lost so many districts he won in 2024 since unleashing the Gestapo proves that. People wanted illegal immigrants deported. They didn’t want legal immigrants to be terrorized, and the voters proved that at the polls.

you’d have to suffer some sort of mental defect to think he was going to do a great job on the economy, he’s about what’s good for DT, not what’s good for the US

You’re being awfully cavalier about other people’s mental defects when your point of ignores basic, verifiable facts.

after his year long backstabbing tour.

It’s wild that someone with his status hasn’t figured out that maybe we shouldn’t bully every single country in the world, if only out of self-preservation and our own self-interest.

I really hate that we as a people no longer care if our presidents have functioning brains.

I remember these discussions being had in the 90’s, and the excuse was always: “But it’ll cost a lot and take decades.”

And now here we are. Decades.

No one tell RFK.

Christ, I hope it happens. Someone’s metaphorical head needs to roll for this embarrassing, murderous rampage.

This is not news.

This, more than any other issue, is why Donald is going to lose big in November. Because he’s never done his own shopping, or opened his own medical bills, or had to take his own kids to day care, he has no concept whatsoever of what it means to live in America right now.

Affordability is also the only reason why he was re-elected, and he’s doing the Biden/Harris thing and trying to gaslight people into thinking things are better, which is not only going to backfire, but he will be so much more unpopular by election time that even the dirty tricks they want to pull won’t be valid tactics by then. They’ve even stopped the gerrymandering push because Donald’s own coalition has become so hostile to him that they can no longer rely on voters who pulled the lever for Republicans just a year and a half ago.

Now, if only we could get thirty Kat Abughazalehs elected at the federal level so Dems might actually oppose something.

Ugh.

The service has been quite good for ten years.

Guess it was good while it lasted.

I hope she sues and makes it hurt.

ACAB

If the shit hits the fan, and oil prices move up, it’s too late to complain… especially if your own president started an unnecessary war.

Wrong.

Every American has a right to complain here. Not only has our president broken his campaign promises on war, he had a record of disentangling us from foreign wars in his first term. (Most notably Syria and Afghanistan.) So, unlike some of his other promises, this one carried weight.

He did not run on warmongering. He ran on peace.

And as for gas prices in particular, people are barely scraping by and any drastic fluctuation in the cost of essentials threatened stability.

Absolutely. Also why I want to throat punch every person I hear make jokes about egg prices.

An important note, to be sure. In Afghanistan we displaced tens of millions of people, and all we heard from our government and most Americans was: “Welp, they must just hate us for our freedom.”

For a while there was a VR app for Google Earth that allowed you to visit museums virtually. This is a wonderful use of modern technology.

I hate that our country is run by the dumbest people and they’re also massive douche bags.

LLM’s have been proven to manipulate their users into doing terrible things. That’s what happens when there isn’t any meaningful regulation of a harmful product.

OpenAI will settle, NDA’s will be signed, and people will forget this ever happened.

100%

When this becomes more common, and I’m certain it will, it’ll be interesting to see how many Americans kinda just ignore that it was us and our allies who radicalized these people.

Who is ‘we’ in this?

Both the Iran War and high gas prices are wildly unpopular with the majority. Problem is our federal legislators are largely pro-war zionists who are heavily invested in euphemistically-named defense stocks and oil stocks, and they are profiting handsomely, just like they did when their classified briefings told them the country would be shutting down in a few weeks in February 2020.

They’re probably also all making money on prediction markets.

No need to quit Lemmy.

There are sub-lemmies that are dedicated to only positive things, like cats. Sub to a bunch of them and then go into your profile and set up your default home page to be only channels you’re subbed to, and you’ll see all happy stuff when you log on.

I think we’ve seen with cops over and over again that, to them, the rational thing is making sure the victim doesn’t survive, and thus, taking away their ability to testify.