This is the future that the GOP is offering Americans.
Climate Chaos. Huge national debt. Huge income inequality. Nuclear proliferation. Medical industry profiteering. Putin’s Evil Empire. The end of democracy.
This is the future that the GOP is offering Americans.
Climate Chaos. Huge national debt. Huge income inequality. Nuclear proliferation. Medical industry profiteering. Putin’s Evil Empire. The end of democracy.
Even when golden opportunities present themselves they choose corporations over the people. Every single time.
This is completely wrong. They way to look at the objectively is to follow the money. The first thing Biden did was raise the minimum taxes on corporations from 0% to 15%. Even if that was the only thing Biden did it would still be more significant than every other thing combined. But he’s done lots of other things corporations don’t like.
If Vietnam has billionaires then why the f*ck were they fighting against capitalism in the Vietnam War? North Vietnam might as well have just asked to join South Vietnam and they could have skipped 20 years of wars. Looks like all they were really fighting against was democracy.
So much of that was wrong. The last government was not “openly fascist” Thanks to the USA, it was democratically elected. North Vietnam was 100x more repressive than South Vietnam in 1975.
Under pressure from the US, they held elections for president and the legislature in 1967. The Senate election took place on 2 September 1967. The Presidential election took place on 3 September 1967
The freedom to run their own country whether that’s into the ground or into prosperity its the right of the vietnamese to self govern.
Huh? Both North and South Vietnam gained independence in 1954. The South Vietnamese had an elected government by 1968. North Vietnam had a dictatorship so the people couldn’t run their own country. Then North Vietnam robbed South Vietnam of the ability to run their own country.
North Vietnam was literally fighting to deny the people to run their own country. To this very day nobody in Vietnam gets to choose their own leaders. The people are not allowed to govern themselves. But South Vietnam got to elect their own leader in 1968.
How you don’t know that French colonialism ended 10 years before Americans arrived is bizarre.
Even in that last election, 57% of the voting age population voted
That was actually better than most countries.
The big picture is that the Vietnamese dictatorship did exactly the wrong thing. Creating a billionaire class proves that they ditched socialism. But they kept the dictatorship. They should have instead entrenched socialism and become a democracy. That would have been a very interesting thing to see. That they did exactly the wrong thing proves that North Vietnam’s entire reason for fighting the war was a farce.
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How the fuck did Convicted Sex Offender Treason Trump spend $58 million on a web site comparible to mastodon.social or lemmy.world? This is the same moron who once said he could build websites comparable to healthcare.com for $3. Lemmy alone has about 2/3 of the number of users as LiesSocial without losing, or spending, $58 million.
The Yahweh character in the OT is a science illiterate. He freaked out when the Babylonians build a 50 meter tall ziggarut and thought they could reach outer space (100,000 meters for sub-orbital).
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Dems should make a deal with Johnson. They will throw him a few votes in exchange to allow Jeffries the ability to schedule votes. That way both parties decide what things to hold votes about.
Well he would mostly just be the GOP’s speaker. Dems would have their own unofficial speaker and it would be Jeffries, not Johnson. We could mostly start ignoring Johnson with this arrangement.
“Whatever is causing gravity to work differently at a galaxy scale than at a solar system scale”.
Nothing is. Gravity works the same. We don’t just infer dark matter from gravity fields. We can detect and map the exact locations of dark matter thru gravitational lensing.
‘Sleepy Don?’: Trump Nods Off During Trial of the Century (www.thedailybeast.com)
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The less you vote, the more you back Trump (abcnews.go.com)
Truong My Lan: Vietnamese billionaire sentenced to death for $44bn fraud (www.bbc.co.uk)
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I can't believe these things are still being published (lemmy.world)
There’s this whole Jack Chick knockoff world that has been around for decades despite having the worst arguments.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene files motion to oust Mike Johnson as House speaker (www.nbcnews.com)
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Best Buy plans to close 10 to 15 stores by 2025 (www.usatoday.com)
Threads’ fediverse beta opens to share your posts on Mastodon, too (www.theverge.com)
Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent (arstechnica.com)
Study: Dark matter does not exist and the universe is 27 billion years old (www.earth.com)
Heh