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Makes me want to buy some campaign signs…
“Oust RINO Ted Cruz, vote All-Red for senate this November!”
Makes me want to buy some campaign signs…
“Oust RINO Ted Cruz, vote All-Red for senate this November!”
You don’t even need “power hungry mods” for that to go wrong, you just need mods who don’t care. That’s EXACTLY where Facebook and Twitter are right now. Getting content removed there is basically impossible, I’ve reported people for death threats and was told they never violated community standards.
If the platform isn’t going to moderate itself, the users should be able to.
While it’s true that the downvote often gets abused as a way to stifle otherwise-good discussion, without it it’s hard to deal with discussion that truly should NOT be happening.
There’s a reason election denial is more common and looks more legitimate on Facebook and Twitter. It’s because they don’t have a mechanism for people to nuke that discussion out of the top of the thread.
The US dollar is never worth less nor more than than 1 US Dollar. If you owe a debt in USD, the size of that debt does not change based on the purchasing power of the dollar.
That’s beside the point, because you don’t pay taxes in denominations of “loaves of bread”, you pay them in US dollars. If you pay with an asset that is wont to change its value in US dollars on a whim, that’s a gamble for the government. There’s a reason people don’t regularly pay taxes with stock options.
The GameCube was pretty mediocre as a console, but SO MANY of its games have aged like wine.
Some useful simulations for understanding many proposed voting styles, and the potential drawbacks of each.
Brief moment when the black vote mostly got ahead of voter disenfranchisement efforts.
This wasn’t too long after MLK’s assassination, and Montgomery was a major target of his efforts to increase black voter registration.
“Likely” is a huge stretch. “Possible” I could buy in some states.
Not sure if it’s my specific app or lemmy as a whole, but that spoiler tag isn’t working. Sometimes they’ll break if you put a space between the tag and your text.
… >! Testing with spaces on both ends !<
… >! Testing with a space at the front!<
… >!Testing with a space at the end !<
… >!Testing with no spaces!<
Looks like reddit spoiler tags just don’t work in general
Not sure if it’s my specific app or lemmy as a whole, but that spoiler tag isn’t working. Sometimes they’ll break if you put a space between the tag and your text.
! Testing with spaces on both ends !<
! Testing with a space at the front!<
!Testing with a space at the end !<
!Testing with no spaces!<
There was some social commentary in that golden casino planet where the rich lived in excess while the poor barely got by (pay no attention to the Jabba behind the curtain)
And, of course, they cast minorities in leading roles!
Prob aren’t getting severance nor unemployment if you get fired for 2 weeks of no-call-no-show.
alarmist, cost, growth, “India and China,” innovation, and resilience
“China is the worst polluter on the planet and they need to do better”
[China invests heavily into green technologies]
“NO NOT LIKE THAT!”
Because unemployment isn’t really that low. When we talk about “people here now who could use those jobs”, we’re usually talking about people in dead end jobs that could use a career job.
So great, pull them into our elder care system, give them a career level up…now their old jobs are still unfilled. And while we’re super shitty as a country towards entry level service workers, we also as a country really want those jobs to be filled. So we’d need to fill that gap in the employment pool somehow.
It’s the “all your eggs in one basket” problem.
Just in case you misread the title (because I did at first), Namibia is explicitly not looking into other people’s pants now.
Why did it take until 2024? Humans being humans, I guess. Gotta go after some “other”.
While I agree with the sentiment here, this is pretty 1-dimensional. For one, US support of Ukraine actually has little to do with democracy and everything to do with national sovereignty. One nation with imperial ambitions invaded another nation without pretense, US provides aid to stave off that invasion.
Hypocritical given US history of imperialism? Sure. But it’s NOT imperialism under the mask of democracy.
Similar arguments apply to various points on this list. Supporting NATO is about maintaining a military alliance against common enemies, not spreading democracy.
Fuck, you can probably go all the way back to Sumeria with this one.