Isn’t air travel and large ships far worse for the environment? I don’t mean to derail a conversation, but I suspect that air travel and ocean liners have a significantly bigger impact and I don’t see as much coverage on that issue.
We can talk about both issues, as I think they are both important, but I suspect that the larger issue is being ignored because it threatens establishment interests.
Former president Donald Trump disseminated on social media on Friday an image of President Biden with his hands and feet tied and his mouth gagged, the latest example of the Republican candidate’s use of increasingly violent rhetoric and imagery this campaign season....
Biden has funded a genocide and oversees an government which completely sold out to corporate interests, the military industrial complex, and the prison industrial complex. They watched big pharma kill thousands in the opioid epidemic. They bailed out the banks after the great financial crisis, while the middle class was left to die.
Every congress member relies on corporate funding for campaigns. They can literally hold stock in the companies they regulate. Those corporations’ interests are completely opposite of the interests of the working class.
I couldn’t care less if some feckless oaf posts a picture of a US figurehead in such a position.
There’s a lot to respond to here. I’ll go point by point.
You really don’t care that the guy who has empowered racists and bigots again, idealises Putin and is clearly going to try to overthrow the government a second time is now VERY clearly setting things up for the next coup?
You don’t care that this is clearly a COMPONENT of overthrowing the election
There are so many issues to unpack here. Trump’s base is a reactionary, anti-establishment movement, clearly. This should be expected in a society that is ran by and for an elite class.
I’m online quite a bit and I haven’t noticed many Trumpers idolizing Putin, but I wouldn’t care if they did. It’s within their rights. The notion that Putin is trying to overthrow our government is unfounded at best. I have yet to see any credible evidence of Russian interference. This strikes me as a McCarthyism Revival that only seems to work on liberals.
As for the claim of not only a coup, but a second coup: I don’t think that a reasonable person believes that an angry mob storming a government building would have a snowballs chance in hell at actually carrying out a coup. This isn’t the 17th century. You don’t just take over a building today and expect to be able to control the country.
Trump hasn’t only made things bad in the US, he’s made thing bad INTERNATIONALLY
Yeah, I wasn’t a fan of what little foreign policy decisions he made. I did like that he pulled out of Syria, however.
Trump also is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths in the US due to COVID
Okay? Biden is too. It feels like you’re under the impression that I support Trump, which I never claimed to.
Remember when he used to call it “China flu”, explicitly as a shoutout to racists? Every time he even says the word “China”, he says it in some weird way. His own staff has also been fairly open that he was making up stuff during covid on the spot (and it was obvious)
Oh, and he is a fan of China permanently electing someone though (ie, dictatorship).
Yeah, I agree that Trump is racist and a generic fascist strongman. This isn’t a revelation. I assume that the subtext is that Biden isn’t a fascist? We’d disagree on that. Biden and Trump certainly have different styles, but they both seem to embrace the deep state and the dictatorship of capital.
The bank crisis was a problem, and internationally, they were all seemingly bailed out. It’s a whataboutism, but you know what helps the economy and workers? Yes, the rich paying taxes, and not lying to banks when getting a loan.
I’m not even sure how you got to this thought process. “Whataboutism” has completely lost its meaning at this point. I don’t think you appreciate the gravity of our political situation. Politicians work for the ultra wealthy. We don’t live in a democracy. They aren’t going to do anything that would jeopardize the elites’ position in society.
They’ve also created a war against Trans people. And it is starting to spread to other countries. I have plenty of Gay, “Woke” and Trans people in my meetup groups. And lots of foreigners. And I honestly have a higher level of respect for them than other people. They’re really good people
I agree. I like the LGBT community as well.
People like Tate have gained power by Trump’s actions.
I it’s difficult to draw a line between Trump and Tate directly. I personally think it’s a larger reactionary movement in society, and Trump and Tate are symptoms of a larger societal sickness.
He’s already attacking our international relations expert / Ex PM (Kevin Rudd) here in Australia in advance. And Kevin Rudd was basically the guy who saved us during Covid because of his negotiating skills and set up AUKUS. Rudd is more qualified than Trump (and, was actually fairly well-liked when he was Prime Minister)
No comment here, I’m not familiar with this topic.
Speaking of big pharma, sure, what about the guy who is negotiating the price of drug costs to lower them?
Reducing drug prices, especially at the paltry scale Biden negotiated for, is a measly concession that doesn’t challenge the underlying power structure of Big Pharma’s racketeering. Drug production should be nationalized.
What about the guys who pushed medical coverage for all (same as we have here in Australia).
Ah, you’re Australian. I was thinking “this person must have been born yesterday” for many of my responses lol. I mean no offense. I can’t say that I know another country as well as you the US, even with the corrections I’ve offered.
Yeah, medical coverage for all should be table-stakes.
What about the guy whose own son was ALLOWED by the president to get prosecuted. If you need to see honor, there is likely no harder thing to watch as a parent. In contrast, Trump gave his family members positions of power.
I think this was about Hunter Biden? I honestly didn’t follow that story too closely. I recall it dealt with the Biden family’s racketeering, selling political favors, etc. The court system is highly politicized in this country.
Nepotism is everywhere in our society. We are a far cry from a meritocracy.
Also, if you’re referring to fentanyl, they are targeting now fentanyl now to try to attack it. they’re not “watching”. Fentanyl is a serious problem worldwide.
The opioid epidemic in the US predated the Fentanyl crisis. The opioid epidemic came from the systemic over-prescription of opioids to treat pain. The industry was aware of the dangers, but ignored them and profited as 500,000 Americans died of overdoses over a couple of decades. Doctors eventually stopped prescribing opioid which caused people to seek opioids off the street, which was far more dangerous, even before fentanyl made its way into the streets.
The great financial crisis can also be attributed to the rise in opioid use as many Americans lost their houses and livelihoods. It was an incredibly dark time for the working class.
The government didn’t do anything to help citizens and families who were suffering. The Sackler family owned the main drug company responsible for producing the prescription opioids that killed so many people. They also bribed doctors to prescribe the opioids at a massive scale.
The Sacklers got a slap on the wrist and that was it.
What about the guy who vetoed legislation which would remove protections for some endangered species
I don’t know about this, but it doesn’t sound significant, especially considering the amount of oil he allowed to be drilled in Alaska.
What about the guy who is actively saving people’s health (and generating jobs), by pushing EV’s.
EVs make sense in some climates, but they come with their own environmental and socioeconomic problems. The minerals used for batteries are extracted by slaves in Africa and the mining process isn’t good for the local ecosystem. I need to read more into this.
And he’s trying to make US safer by more Gun controls, which he is having trouble getting through.
IMO this is a case of treating a symptom instead of a root cause. Mass shootings are happening because our society is fragmenting. People are overworked, precarious, and have no access to healthcare or mental healthcare. Fixing healthcare and worker’s rights would alleviate the crisis. I’m not even a gun-owner, but I never want to be in a situation where our fascist government has guns and citizens can’t own guns.
He’s trying to eliminate tax subsidies for Gas and Oil companies, and instead spending that money on renewables
Allowing for substantial oil-drilling is a funny way of going about this.
He’s reduced inflation…
He reduced the rate of inflation. He still printed 30% of the US’ money supply, which has predictably led to significant inflation.
The fact is, is Trump wins, things will go from ACCEPTABLE to REALLY BAD internationally. From where I’m watching here in Australia, Biden is doing plenty.
“Acceptable” is subjective, I suppose. I don’t find our government acceptable in the slightest. Anything short of democracy is tyranny.
Please understand that our media companies (CNN, FOX, MSNBC, etc.) are state propaganda. Our elites fall into factions that struggle for political power, which is evident in the ostensible differences between, say, Fox and MSNBC, but both companies are merely propaganda mouthpieces for the ultra-wealthy.
**AND DEFINITELY VOTE PEOPLE, FOR THE GOOD OF THE ENTIRE PLANET. **
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Do not listen to these Right-Wing nutjobs who are relying on discouraging people from voting next election.
I hope you don’t think I’m right-wing at this point. Notice my username.
It’s incredible. The build is excellent and the neck is pretty thick. I got a bone nut and a roller bridge installed to help with tuning stability. I might like it more than my sg and strat. 😀
It came that way! The pickup controls are interesting. The middle p90 is reverse wound and independent of the 3-way switch. You can get some interesting tones similar to positions 2 and 4 on a strat.
Besides Lemmy which I love a lot, I’m also enjoying a microblog platform called Catodon, which is much less basic than Mastodon and has a very nice interface. Pixelfed is also fantastic if you like photography rather than just being Instagram influencer nonsense. Where else are you hanging out? What have you liked and not...
I got back on Lemmy for the first time in 6 months and it’s way more active. I’ll be using it more. I tried Mastodon a while ago, but it didn’t stick. I’ll try again.
Yeah, I prefer Twitter. I have a suspicion that Mastodon will only get a chance at relevance if something at Twitter pushes people off the platform. Reddit’s 3rd party API ordeal seems to have boosted Lemmy quite a bit, so it shouldn’t take too much, but maybe I’m too optimistic.
Good points, I was unaware of both of those controversies. I honestly expected to have seen something as serious as this pop up in my news feeds, but I generally try to avoid hearing about drama around right-wing propagandists.
This is fantastic! Just started switching over to Librewolf and Mull. I discovered xBrowserSync in the process, which is a great way to sync browser bookmarks. www.xbrowsersync.org
Beef produces 85 kg CO2e per kg of food. Tofu produces 2.9 kg CO2e per kg of food. (ourworldindata.org)
RFK Jr. argues that Biden is a bigger threat to democracy than Trump | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)
You can’t afford to buy a house. Biden knows that. (www.vox.com)
Discord to start showing ads in the coming week after resisting for almost a decade (www.neowin.net)
I don’t think people on this sub use it, but it’s great news for us. The worse it gets the likelier people move on.
Given Reddit's fall, what's an alternative to /r/BodyWeightFitness and its Recommended Routine? What bodyweight routine is scientifically valid, updated when needed, and aimed at strength?
Would you rather live in a big city or a small town?
Donald Trump shares image of Joe Biden bound and gagged (www.seattletimes.com)
Former president Donald Trump disseminated on social media on Friday an image of President Biden with his hands and feet tied and his mouth gagged, the latest example of the Republican candidate’s use of increasingly violent rhetoric and imagery this campaign season....
NGD: Epiphone Riviera P93! (imgur.com)
What other parts of the fediverse are you using?
Besides Lemmy which I love a lot, I’m also enjoying a microblog platform called Catodon, which is much less basic than Mastodon and has a very nice interface. Pixelfed is also fantastic if you like photography rather than just being Instagram influencer nonsense. Where else are you hanging out? What have you liked and not...
Candace Owens’ Ex-Boss Rips Her ‘Antisemitism,’ Shrugged At Anti-Blackness, Sexism And Homophobia (newsone.com)
What lesser known free and open source software do you use daily to improve your life?
For me it is the note taking/PKMS tool SilverBullet.
Just arrived, Vox Virage (lemmy.world)
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/bc754d99-7f2c-45a4-bf77-2c877f104017.jpeg...
I use Debian BTW (lemmy.ml)