[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 hours ago

First two years of Obama's first term the dems had 60 in the senate and a majority in the house. Instead of removing the filibuster and doing what people voted for them to do, the dems threw up their hands and said "Joe Lieberman won't let us give you free healthcare" and instead we got Obamacare. They then proceeded to lose the house and senate because that's what happens when you betray your base.

Then in 2020, the same thing played out, instead of whipping the vote and taking Sinema off committee assignments and/or prosecuting Manchin's family for corruption unless they played ball, the dems chose to throw their hands up and said "we're powerless!"

When they couldn't use that excuse due to must-pass bills like budget reconciliation, they blamed the Senate Parliamentarian. Who they appointed. When the Senate Parliamentarian wouldn't do what Bush wanted, they replaced them with someone who would.

The dems aren't powerless, but there's a conflict between the people who vote dem and the corporations who fund them so pretending they are allows them to have their cake and eat it too.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 0 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

the Left

I'm not criticizing the left, look at the specific things I've criticized and who implements them. Liberals are not the left.

All we ask is to help us win this election

The dems would rather lose than do what their electorate demands, hence the year long genocide they're supporting.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 day ago

Then give those parents homework.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Concessions they didn't need to make because they had a majority, and republicans aren't going to vote for it anyway.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

West Wing has done irreparable brain damage to libs across the country. It's why Obama's advisors told him to give republicans half the discretionary budget when they had a supermajority and didn't need a single republican vote, compromised/means tested every bill he promoted, and went with the bloodiest possible option in every foreign policy decision. In an episode of West Wing, all that compromise and appealing the the better nature of the opposition would reward you. In reality, it just demotivates your base and lets the opposition demand even more.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Apparently in some cities in China, they park the cars on elevated highways before a flood to avoid water damage

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 days ago

I’m sure the next country the US wants to proxy into oblivion will learn from Ukraine, right?

That would be Taiwan, possibly alongside Korea and Japan, right?

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

2 weeks ago they were 15 years behind! At this rate, they'll catch up by the end of the month!

TSMC had 7nm in 2018, SMIC had 7 nm in 2022, TSMC hit 5nm in 2020, SMIC hit 5 nm in 2024.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

What kind of headline is that?

Did he also deny beating his wife and kicking puppies?

Nowhere in the article does it say who is alleging the guy was a Hamas leader in Lebanon.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Iran's soft power is only as good as its word.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 32 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Everyone in Europe killing each other every generation predates capitalism. Capitalism did increase the scale though; after the fall of the western roman empire, we didn't see armies of that size until Napoleon managed to draft a million men in a country of 30 million.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 75 points 4 days ago

Elementary school students when they learn the teachers don't live at the school

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Looks like it's having a measurable effect.

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The bill in question is the one Biden tried to pass, but was blocked by republicans after Trump called it a bad bill, despite containing only things the republicans want.

It would enable the president to shut down the border and gives billions to ICE, CPB, US Marshals, etc to increase detention capacity, train additional personnel, etc. It also gave billions to Israel and Ukraine.

Kamala gonna have the immigrant vote locked up.

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Among other changes to immigration law, the measure would make it more difficult to gain asylum in the United States and increase detentions and deportations of those crossing into the country without authorization. It would also effectively close the border altogether if the average number of migrants encountered by immigration officials exceeded a certain threshold — an average of 5,000 over the course of a week or 8,500 on any given day. The bill also would give the president power to close the border unilaterally if migrant encounters reach an average of 4,000 per day over a week.

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