kent_eh

@kent_eh@lemmy.ca

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kent_eh,

Is actively being thwarted by Republicans at every turn.

Plus, things take time to happen, even under ideal circumstances.

kent_eh,

If your happy with Biden you’ve given up.

Given that either Biden or Trump will be the president after the next election, voting for the obviously less harmful one is still a positive move.

Not voting only gives the votes of Trump’s insane clown cult more power.

kent_eh,

I only take offence when others are forced to be exposed to it.

People such as the staff who have to work in the smoke filled environment?

kent_eh,

whatever “monster of the week” they pick as an enemy

Right wing outrage farmers have been doing exactly that for my enture life.

D&D was the biggest evil ever, back in my teenage years.

And before that it was the Satanic Panic.

There’s always something they want us to be scared of.

kent_eh,

Trump is only too happy to repeal that shit so fast. Not only that, but big boi Trump also has alluded to glassing Iran

I’m convinced that he really doesn’t care one way or another. He only cares about telling his base whatever he thinks will get them worked up.

He wants power, and will tell people whatever he thinks will cause them to give it to them.

kent_eh,

The problem is that there isn’t a left to vote for

In the current American political spectrum, there isn’t really anything that most other countries would recognize as “left”.

But given the current binary reality, whatever the Democrats are is viewed as left of the GOP rightwingnuts.

kent_eh,

It’s like half of the general population supports him, and the other half supports Biden.

Less than a quarter support Trump.

The bigger problem is that almost thalf of the population doesn’t vote at all.

kent_eh,

“it’s tradition” isn’t much of an explanation

It’s not a moral answer, but it is an accurate answer.

kent_eh,

I can almost guarantee you that very few (if any) service industry jobs are paying $34.95 per hour.

And if they are, those aren’t anywhere near full time hours.

kent_eh,

It does also show Russia that Ukraine is capable of bypassing their defenses and successfully attacking infrastructure (or military installations/encampments) several hundred kilometers inside Russia.

And doing it multiple times.

‘We will fight with our fingernails’ says Netanyahu after US threat to curb arms (www.theguardian.com)

Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that Israel will stand alone and “fight with our fingernails” in defiance of US threats to further restrict arms deliveries if Israeli forces proceeded with an offensive on the southern Gazan city of Rafah....

kent_eh,

Thats something that a lot of people seem to forget. This fight has been going on in one form or another since the creation of the modern state of Israel. And there is an almost unlimited amount of blood on the hands of both the Israelis and Palestinians. (As well as the colonial countries who set up the borders in the first place)

kent_eh,

It sure would be nice if we lived in a country where policing was actually a civil service and not a damn street gang.

The cases you hear in the media are the ones that provoke outrage.

On a day to day basis the police have hundreds of interactions with the public that aren’t remarkable or noteworthy.

kent_eh,

Unable or unwilling?

kent_eh,

They had intense disagreements about how to build the country, and no single design or designer had enough influence to get exactly what he wanted.

The difference is they were willing to give-and-take to eventually come to a mutually tolerable compromise solution.

Contrast that with today’s “if you are from the other party, I will thwart you even if it is a good idea”

kent_eh,

Oh goodie, you did the bare minimum and voted.

Have you involved yourself in actually improving the process?

kent_eh, (edited )

As a citizen of one of those “more Northern countries”, that is one of the things that concerns me.

kent_eh,

The good things about his campaign promises is you know it’ll never happen if he gets elected.

Except you don’t really know what he will actually do. Some of it will be even more crazy than this idea.

kent_eh,

This.

There is a difference in how Canada Post treats “unaddressed admail” and addressed mail (even if it is an advertisement).

kent_eh,

Want to go farther? Fine! DC fast charging is, in fact, fast

Sure, but those need to exist at the appropriate locations, and be maintained in working order - neither of which is the current reality in a lot of places.

Add to that the lack of availability of affordable EVs and you are going to have the slow adoption we currently see.

.

I was planning to get an EV of some sort the last time my vehicle needed to be replaced, but there were none available at the time that fit my budget and my needs.

I still intend to have one relatively soon, but the practical realities are still an impediment.

Transgender activists flood Utah tip line with hoax reports to block bathroom law enforcement (apnews.com)

Transgender activists have flooded a Utah tip line created to alert state officials to possible violations of a new bathroom law with thousands of hoax reports in an effort to shield trans residents and their allies from any legitimate complaints that could lead to an investigation....

kent_eh,

Not only “trans activists”.

It’s also just average people who are frustrated with the stupidity of these kinds of discriminatory laws.

kent_eh,

It has already started.

kent_eh,

What’s your point?

Just because someone else is being bad doesn’t obligate us to do nothing about our own contribution to the problem.

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Pull your weight and set a good example for others.

kent_eh,

We could have both.

kent_eh,

but complicated since most jails don’t have remotely the capacity or security of a real prison and you’ve still got to figure out how to work his Secret Service detail into the picture. And also the protests from his cult if/when that happens.

Which are all things the judge acknowledged in his statement ashen he handed down the most recent contempt ruling.

Like it or not, there’s a lot more considerations to this than simply “lock him up”.

Just how far is Pierre Poilievre willing to take the notwithstanding clause? (www.cbc.ca)

In January, the Federal Court found that the Trudeau government’s use of the Emergencies Act to respond to the protests of the self-styled freedom convoy in 2022 was not properly justified — a decision the federal government is now appealing....

kent_eh,

I was really hoping the next election would feature a normal Tory leader

Given the state of conservatism globally, I don’t think you will get your wish for quite some time.

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