@no2hater @canderaid It’s not hard to avoid and that’s what I do most of the time. I think it’s unlikely you seen none of it though, it’s been on network news.
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Manos OfFate
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@brohammersbot @canderaid People always say this and I literally never see any of this supposed footage so I think it’s probably a you problem
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Agreed that Dems should ignore foreign policy distractions and focus on the kitchen table issues Americans care about such as Gaza
Cassie Pritchard@hecubian_devil
Yeah this is totally the message voters care about, dude. Really got his finger on the pulse of America
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@brohammersbot @canderaid Skill issue, I watch Ukraine footage without a flinch
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Leftists: GAZA GAZA GAZA ISRAEL ISRAEL ISRAEL ISRAEL AIPACCCCCCCCCCCCC!!!!!!!!!
*random Dem makes a single comment about a foreign country getting invaded*
Leftists: Omg shutttt upppp. Nobody cares. Get a clue. Focus on our own country, like the voters want you to.
Cassie Pritchard@hecubian_devil
Yeah this is totally the message voters care about, dude. Really got his finger on the pulse of America
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@antiguocascas @Cinsinnatus @ShitlibSupreme I mean, the transistor was invented in living memory, computers are not a fundamental life necessity
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@antiguocascas @Cinsinnatus @ShitlibSupreme I don’t know how much computer we actually need, but I know the distance between the current planned buildout and what would be “crippling” is monumental. We can scrape by with a hell of a lot less computer
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@brohammersbot @JeremiahDJohns They are not forced to work for the government.
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Public sector unions are bad.
These unions are not negotiating against billionaires or some convenient cartoon villain. They're rent seeking and negotiating against taxpayers, and they'll shut down vital infrastructure if we don't humor their tantrum.
sam@sam_d_1995
I am usually pro-labor but the LIRR strike is absurd they’re already the best paid agency in the country, with average total comp of over $200K, and now they’re refusing a 4% raise? This is a perfect example of why US transit is so inefficient!
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@brohammersbot @JeremiahDJohns They shouldn't.
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@Chan_man0 @JeremiahDJohns Not saying I should get no say, but definitely not the _same_ say
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@Chan_man0 @JeremiahDJohns Problem is that give me the same agency, and I don’t work there
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@notistotny @Cinsinnatus @ShitlibSupreme Because these are three completely different situations in three different parts of the world.
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@brohammersbot @Cinsinnatus @ShitlibSupreme The Russian government got it into their heads that their Slavic brethren in Ukraine would automatically welcome them and that an annexation would be a walk in the park; since then it’s created a conflict at least as bloody as Palestine’s. Why would Taiwan be different?
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@JeremiahDJohns (You don’t have to answer, I know you don’t think they should have agency over their working conditions)
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@JeremiahDJohns How do you propose public sector workers exercise agency over their working conditions?
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@notistotny @Cinsinnatus @ShitlibSupreme No I do not think that at all, I don’t think there’s any possible reason to think that. I think it’s ridiculous to think that.
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@brohammersbot @Cinsinnatus @ShitlibSupreme Do you think a forced ‘reunification’ of Taiwan wouldn’t also involve the most abject horrors most of us have ever seen?
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@pfau To be fair, the political economy they are working in looks like space aliens compared to what we’re working with
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As far as I can tell, "socialism" to American millennials means nothing but vaguely screw-the-rich vibes, because if a European social democrat tried to balance their budget by reducing pension payments they would be burned at the stake.
Austin Berg@Austin__Berg
Seems notable that the single largest lever in Mayor Mamdani’s proposal to close New York City’s budget deficit is not a new tax on the rich or new state funding. It is simply lowering the city’s contributions to its pension funds (saving $2.3 billion). And that move was made possible due to higher-than-expected investment returns over the last several years. Capitalism was the mayor’s saving grace.
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@JeremiahDJohns Actually Puerto Rico is the better example here because then PR not being a state before (even though it should have been) becomes an angle for our adversaries to insist on MAGA Rico autonomy
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@JeremiahDJohns I want you to imagine a world in which we beat back the MAGA tide and all the MAGA hardliners flee to Florida, set up a government there and say “Florida is REAL America now”. The tell me what your feelings on Florida are.
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Leftists (usually correctly): Imperialism and militaristic nationalism are bad. Don't invade weaker countries, it's evil.
Leftists about China: Unfortunately the Tibetans are savages in need of civilizing, the blood of the Taiwanese is necessary to achieve Xi Jinping thought.
Cassie Pritchard@hecubian_devil
Liberals (usually correctly): “that’s zero-sum thinking…Just because there are tradeoffs doesn’t make it zero-sum…Um that’s a zero-sum fallacy…” Liberals about China: unfortunately we have to be enemies because there can only be one hegemon and it must be us. Arm the nukes.
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@Cinsinnatus @ShitlibSupreme Palestine is the site of the most abject horror most of us have ever seen and Taiwan is what, strategic to the economy or something? I dare you to make me care.
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@ShitlibSupreme Taiwan is like 10,000 times more important to the US than Palestine or Israel will ever be as well
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I'm a China dove, but it's obvious that the vast majority of leftist critics of China hawkery are more or less the exact same as the Cold War era leftist critics of Soviet hawkery: ie, people who cynically support dove policies to hurt American interests and help our enemies.
hasanabi@hasanthehun
democrats. do not try to engage in china hawkery. please do not repeat your mistakes. the best and only path forward is peaceful coexistence and cooperation.
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@jlippincott Let’s learn the difference between investment and extraction
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"Big tech needs to invest in middle America!"
>Big tech invests in middle America.
"Ew, no, you're bad."
City of Cleveland@CityofCleveland
Today, the City has rejected the permit application for the data center proposed at 3560 E. 55th St. in the Slavic Village neighborhood.
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