Both sides arguments are only ever used to deflect from something awful R did, or lessen the value of something good D did.
The moment you see the both sides argument come out you can know immediately that the person is purposefully or obliviously pushing a conservative agenda.
I think this is the point you are implying, but I just wanted to say it explicitly.
So based on how things have gone so far with the fascist in chief, we can expect no consequences at all, or that he will die of old age before any such consequences can be agreed upon. Sound about right?
R doesn’t even take legislative action that helps their own voters. Meanwhile, all the shit they fight against Dems doing would help plenty of R voters, too. Their entire platform is taking things away from people, culture wars, vilification of education, and making voting as difficult as possible.
If you are voting R at this point, it can be for no reason other than one or more of these labels applies to you: Bigot, Unrepentant Misogynist, or can’t think any further than your own team winning.
Pic unrelated, because they didn’t just allow, they helped. They insisted.
An upside-down flag, adopted by Trump supporters contesting the Biden victory, flew over the justice’s front lawn as the Supreme Court was considering an election case....
Pretty much the conservative argument against civil rights in a single panel. To be clear, I don’t think anyone is interested in “ruling” those poor stooges of the republican grift machine, but I think nothing scares them more than the idea of black folks (or women, or “the gays”) in positions of equality or authority.
They fear that their own transgressions will be revisited upon them. That they might actually reap what they have sown.
Yes yes, I knew someone would bring up the southern strategy. Thank you. Changes nothing. It’s the same sorts of people being shitty in the same sorts of ways. Where they congregate at any moment in history is independent of that. They are always conservatives, and today they own our republicans.
I am one of the “tech savvy people” and I appreciate the future that machine learning and generative AI can help us usher in, regardless of whether my understanding at the detail level is imperfect. I don’t want it forecefully integrated into anything I use really, and I certainly don’t want it forcefully integrated into everything, especially (glances at headline) to the detriment of other aspects of human life and happiness. I want it available to me as a discrete tool when needed.
While I respect the reality that others may have different desires than I do, I remain skeptical that a large number of consumers literally want it to be on every damn thing like angry birds, to the point where its usage needs to be heavily factored into the environmental impact of corporations.
If that’s somehow a stepping stone period of development that we must pass through to get to the good stuff, then I hope they (in the field generally, not specifically MS) are turning all that horsepower to coming up with innovative climate-positive measures that we are capable of implementing as a near-term goal.
Weeks after winning a school board seat in her deeply red Texas county, Courtney Gore immersed herself in the district’s curriculum, spending her nights and weekends poring over hundreds of pages of lesson plans that she had fanned out on the coffee table in her living room and even across her bed. She was searching for...
They are the party of taking things away. It’s literally the core of any legislation or policy positions which come from their party. The fact that they claim to be against government interference in the lives of citizens or fiscal responsibility are laughable details at this point. Even states’ rights are something they believe in only when it suits them.
They are the party of hypocrisy and regression, and all their most visible leaders are a laughingstock to the world.
I do feel like states rights gets trotted out as needed, if not as often as in the past. Isn’t it their primary non-religious defense for overturning Roe?. Otherwise, I think you have a point. I suppose I don’t hear those sorts of claims often like I used to.
I really want to like Ska, and I really like nearly the entirety of this album, but whenever I try to branch out from there I come up dry with anything I really enjoy.
Yes unpopular, but your final sentence indicates a deep lack of understanding regarding the origins, purpose, and breadth of the genre.
You are welcome to your opinion, and I’m 100% sure that no one coming in like that is going to look any deeper. I’m just sharing my opinion that yours is uninformed and superficial.
Louisiana is about to force the Ten Commandments in every classroom (www.friendlyatheist.com)
A bill sponsored by GOP State Rep. Dodie Horton would shove Christianity in students’ faces...
Nope. No. (lemmy.world)
“Out of control”: Legal experts call for recusal, reform over Stop the Steal symbol at Alito home (www.salon.com)
Legal experts say its time for the Supreme Court’s ethics code to grow some teeth...
Slack users horrified to discover messages used for AI training (arstechnica.com)
Four US daycare workers charged with spiking children’s food with melatonin (www.theguardian.com)
Four New Hampshire daycare employees allegedly spiked children’s food with the sleep supplement melatonin and were arrested on Thursday....
bUt BoTh SiDeS dA sAmE (lemmy.world)
At Justice Alito’s House, a ‘Stop the Steal’ Symbol on Display (www.nytimes.com)
An upside-down flag, adopted by Trump supporters contesting the Biden victory, flew over the justice’s front lawn as the Supreme Court was considering an election case....
In Self-Defense - 1876/10/28 (lemmy.world)
From Harpers Weekly
Brother Ali - Uncle Sam Goddamn (youtu.be)
Lyrics genius.com/Brother-ali-uncle-sam-goddamn-lyrics
xkcd #2933: Elementary Physics Paths (imgs.xkcd.com)
xkcd.com/2933...
Double Standards (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Microsoft’s AI Push Imperils Climate Goal as Carbon Emissions Jump 30% (www.bloomberg.com)
https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/1f9907a9-b8a9-4ba2-a05a-c4886fa1a0ac.webp...
A GOP Texas school board member campaigned against schools indoctrinating kids. Then she read the curriculum. (www.texastribune.org)
Weeks after winning a school board seat in her deeply red Texas county, Courtney Gore immersed herself in the district’s curriculum, spending her nights and weekends poring over hundreds of pages of lesson plans that she had fanned out on the coffee table in her living room and even across her bed. She was searching for...
Alabama: companies that voluntarily recognize unions barred from state economic incentives like grants, loans, tax credits (au.news.yahoo.com)
I have to teach my daughter different things than my son (lemmy.world)
it really do be like that tho (lemmy.world)
What's your most unpopular opinion about music ?
For me : Trippie Redd’s “!” Is actually a great album