[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 16 points 5 hours ago

Or just the MIC, like raytheon and boeing have enough money that they would buy enough senator to have Trump removed.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 13 points 7 hours ago

My argument isn't a prescription of "the left shouldn't vote", it's observations that "the left has absolutely nothing to do with the dems moving to the right" and "when the dems move to the right, they perform worse"

The dems go to the right because left policies hurt their corporate benefactors. Everything else is a post-hoc justification.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 hours ago

Here’s the thing. If the Left doesn’t vote, they look at the people who do vote.

That's just gaslighting. Black people are the single most reliable dem voting bloc, and get fuckall from the dems, but are still blamed when they lose.

Meanwhile, republicans vote for republicans. 5% of dem votes in 2024 came from registered republicans, down from 6% in 2020.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 21 points 8 hours ago

One where the 2026 election gives the Dems control of both Houses.

We've got lib media trying to argue that the 2024 election indicated a rightward shift of the electorate.

It remains to be seen if the dems are just going to keep doubling down on trying to be republicans from the previous election.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Where do you see frequent trash cans and people regularly throwing trash out in the street?

Typically trash in the street means you don't have enough trash cans, or a bunch of youth or homeless people whom society is failing.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Despite being a video-essay channel, this channel has good economic analysis of the conflict.

tl;dr current indicators suggest they will continue to increase production as they build domestic production to deal with sanctions, but if it continues for more than a couple more years, it will decrease 10 year growth projections.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 16 points 22 hours ago

Dick Cheney, aghast that Americans could allow someone as Islamophobic as Trump to represent them.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

If you understand it as a trial where a president who has done something wrong is held accountable according to the law, then no that's idealist nonsense.

If you understand it as a mechanism that allows 50+ senators to replace the president with the VP if they want to, yes.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Just show them the video evidence.

Also explain that associating the actions of Israel, which include bombing children, with jewishness is just blood libel with extra steps.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 day ago

Did the UK not electrify their rail network??

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 40 points 1 day ago

Starbucks is both more expensive than and inferior to any local coffee shop.

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Back during the Bush and Obama years, I remember hearing so many right-wing conspiracies about FEMA camps.

Why didn't anyone ask "If FEMA has the ability to set up camps and transport large numbers of people, why aren't they doing that every time there's a big hurricane or wildfire?"

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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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