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I would think chronic leukemia would make you much thinner than he is

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national guard members, tired of getting used and screwed out of your benefits? Welcome to the resistance.

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where are the complaints of media bias now that it's not (and maybe never was in our lifetimes) liberal bias? Because this is clearly bias, this is not even pretending to be neutral.

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one can even be sympathetic, if they want, to why BLUE cities and states made that decision, they took one look at their budget in freefall and made economic choices. Businesses generate profits AND TAXES. States can't print $. They tried to keep hospitals from overwhelm, but ultimately failed.

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So the response to covid just made me more leftist I guess, enforced priors. The reason why bars were open & schools not, or shops open & beaches not, is because one generates money & taxes and the other doesn't. Like I don't know why these people can't see the bleeding obvious. Follow the $

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Probably more of these landlords got the money they got to buy rental properties through breaking the law than we suspect (they profited off crime, poured it into rental property)

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for a hypothetical too. Not even have you cut all contact with one or more family members due to politics? Reduced contact? etc.

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I don't think a company looking strictly at the bottom line would necessarily do that. Because Trump has ordered the shut down of wind plants already under construction. I think such a company would conclude wind may be a risky gamble in the U.S., where Trump could just halt the project.

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fuck off

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the entire world solved scarcity in like the 70s, but it's just poorly distributed.

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degrowth may take issue with the very term abundance, how about sufficiency instead? But it's pure strawmanning to say that's most of the critique. Most of the critique is afraid neoliberal deregulation of all sorts, regardless of consequences, is going to get smuggled under the word abundance.

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Saw a complaint that people are only reading headlines. Not ideal, but almost noone has time for a deep dive for every form of chaos going on in this country every single day.

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imagine thinking Trump would keep a deal ... But what if it was a law? LOL. He illegally impounds spending.

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but she did force the white house to fire her.

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the state of CA needs to be on better financial footing for that, although several blue states coordinating might work better

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and noone can even buy the land and build apartments, because no upzoning allowed.

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dumbmentia

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it had no effect on the fires at all, it was absurd. I lived through those fires. Because someone somewhere might think these policies make sense and they definitely don't.

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I do tend to check what other countries are recommending, granted U.S. is exceptional in many ways (bad ways). I still don't know why they are pushing hepitatis vaccines here so hard.

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guidelines are to be over 50 to get the vaccine though

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the impression I get from Russian ex-pats is: you discuss world affairs (this was in the U.S., not Russia) but you don't put hopes in it. Pragmatic pessimism. Not to criticize, I like Russian ex-pats better than Americans who tend to BELIEVE in the system even though it's been broken for years

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narrator: it turned out they didn't actually care about whales

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PPP recipients are probably the actual Trump base.

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pretty soon we're getting to checks are more popular than programs that help people like all those getting cut. This won't even make up for say ACA premium hikes much less medicaid and medicare. Sigh voters, what can you do, dumb as rocks. 🤷

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it mostly just seems a graph of: how not to do data visualization.

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yes it is wrong to care at all what the President of the United States does when unfortunately you live in the fuckin U.S.. The idiocy that is the U.S. also affects the rest of the world to a degree, but it really affects those in the U.S.

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oh it would be pretty cool if it is just meeting European approval standards. FDA has long been too strict, but now we are run by complete lunatics of course.

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we will but you need to meet certain qualifications for the covid vax, over 65 will have access, under that age, good luck proving medical need.

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the anti-war candidate /sarcasm

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facts don't care about your feelings

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anyone who votes that over their material interests will gain neither.

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yea the rich get some of what they want, but they don't really want BLS inflation and employment figures destroyed, tariffs on and off, the Fed threatened. There is some of this that noone wants, except maybe an insider trading inner circle.

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yes that we could get vaccines in other countries always seemed largely delusional. First off many other countries ALSO don't make them available even to their own citizens unless they are seniors, and much less so to foreigners. But if anyone knows anywhere ...

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some stuff like that was in BBB (paid family leave for one), but they just couldn't pass it.

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oh geez for most of the first ladies it's libraries, or encouraging children to be healthy or something. With this woman of course it's just more grift.

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no we get to lose what healthcare we have

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actually great advice much better than saying "avoid ALL news", which hasn't exactly led anywhere good for society. Got my staring at waves fix recently, the Pacific ocean

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it seems the plan

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I guess one can be glad at least *some* assholes are driving EVs? Looking on the bright side. I guess I am taking the existence of assholes as a given.

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I've heard he can't win because he's fat. I don't get it, but I don't get the electorate in general. Get him Ozempic stat if that's the issue.

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but I was told plants need CO2 /s

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Palantir Fash-itis

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with Newsom I think it's more than his main opposition Villaraigosa was caught up in endless corruption scandals. And he faced no serious opposition at all the second time. And noone thinks we would be better off with Republicans.

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oh yes I've made that mistake.

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although he probably didn't actually need it, I mean when you are rich you can pay the cash bail no? If you are poor, that's another story.

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to end the failed experiment known as the United States of America

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not by Americans, but maybe elsewhere?

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Don't most people associate Russia with Europe? I mean I get the point it's a big country bordering Asia too, but I don't think the assumption that Russia is Asian as opposed to European is a widespread one.

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things that took like a year of back and forth to even pass (the story of build back better), bill got more and more watered down as time went on, and time went on and on and on ... What they managed to pass was ok, but does anything remain?

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maybe we should start doing crimes, uh if we don't already, just to make sure crime goes up during the Trump admin. 😄

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I was thinking what watches do we even mean? Because almost noone needs them to keep time. Is this meant to be some riff on rich people and Rolexes? (speaking to the common man). Or maybe they mean the fitness watches that count steps (apple watch and all it's competitors)?

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kitchen table issues: how to avoid dying today in the apocalypse.

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being the parliamentarian stopped some of the Republican damage this time, though most continues, I'd probably just keep them. It's kind of stupid of course, but so is everything at this point.

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crypto, the evils of women, vaccines killing more people than they save ...

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But they are also BAD at figuring out what kind of candidate would be unpopular. Maybe everyone is, but we ended up here.

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I don't know how to keep the 2 party system and eliminate the Republican party. Vote them out for awhile, yes sure, if elections are fair. And we should. But the party needs to be dissolved. I know some took the tack that the Republican party could be turned back from fascism. How did that work?

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the u.s. does bailouts all the time, it just doesn't take stake in the companies. Airlines have been bailed out again and again. Car companies have been bailed out. In the great financial crisis the bailouts were massive.

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the pizza we will eat after the revolution

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he probably gets all his royalties from that song with sheryl crow

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Their husbands? Many women are not married.

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I suspect it really is evangelicals dragging almost every demographic down. Even some of the age range splits might disappear with evangelicals removed from the dataset.

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wait don't we have extremely high cigarette taxes in the U.S. too? Maybe that's a state level thing though.

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It might care more about a few things like preventive medicine, but you are wishcasting. The U.S. government doesn't care about some things like climate for other reasons. Countries that are big fossil fuel producers don't have a good record there, single payer healthcare or not.

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I'm not sure I'd put much stake in the pave over the rose garden folks's definition of beautiful. It is likely to be the ugliest thing you have ever seen.

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it's almost like the lack of accessing limits, and actual useful applications of technologies and products, from pointless ones that are a net negative for the world, and instead going full steam ahead on everything, is kind of what got us here in the first place.

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and with it it is also out of reach. Like basically need to stop emissions is what I'm saying, when the without first part of the sentence is irrelevant to the truth of the statement.

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market incentives, as flawed as they may be, can not work when the market gets destroyed with every change of admin. The political risks become too much for profit maximizing corps to take. We need to go full new deal. They destroy all possibility of markets, only to counter is government building

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Ugh if we get back in power and have to rebuilt these things it's going to have to be with federal money or directly by the federal government. I have no problem with private industry or the fed gov doing this. But the profit motive isn't going to work with this level of U.S. political instability

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his whole candidacy was also backed by fossil fuel money (among other unsavory backers). He promised them whatever they want.

misanthropocene (@stopburningthings.bsky.social) reply parent

he's also very much backed by fossil fuel money, so it's both that Trump is insane, and this is pay to play.

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I don't think it's a GOOD coping technique, but I can't help it. I have just come to terms with Trump admin will destroy EVERYTHING THEY CAN destroy And 40% of people will approve. They LONG FOR THE SWEET RELEASE OF DEATH. Or they are too dumb to know ANYTHING going on. I don't know which is worse

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Fascists do not respect debate, they only respect force.

misanthropocene (@stopburningthings.bsky.social) reply parent

oh it was sarcasm we should continue, as it clearly didn't work, but again the dismantling is really just the Trump regime's lawlessness. IRA wasn't sufficient anyway, but so much has been pushed at one point, carbon taxes, IRA, I'd say maybe not GND but that was meant for recession not inflation

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Jerry Brown

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Against the politics of hygiene you must stay on twitter, even if it makes one miserable, or scared, or angry 24/7, sifting through bots and nazis for less and less worthwhile stuff. You must make yourself miserable to take a symbolic stand against "the politics of hygiene" altho it changes nothing

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we should continue with approaches like the IRA which was unconstitutionally gutted by Trump. They could not have misread the Trump admin more. Although it's not that the approaches were bad exactly, it's that there is no approach that works against a fossil fuel backed dictator trashing the laws

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yea this isn't even popularism, most people were never on twitter and certainly not now

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Many things led here They were "the beginning of the end" But this is the end of the end And from here the beginning of the end seems such nostalgia, such beautiful days Afterall the beginning of the end is a better time than the end of the end

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It's a true statement, of course so is this one: WITH artificial-intelligence technologies, balancing human-caused greenhouse-gas emissions with carbon removals by 2050 is out of reach

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oh it must be, I have already received anti-redistricting mailers before the referendum was even official.

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yea that Georgia case, forget Epstein, that was a sex scandal, destroyed the entire country for an affair.

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you know what restricts choice? 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs. I want my BYD.

misanthropocene (@stopburningthings.bsky.social) reply parent

if it's going to be the folks that ban half the words needed to discuss anything (the above list) versus the Trump folks who have banned the word "woman" (from scientific research anyway). Ugh, what a choice.

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There are no stores that focus on household stuff like BB&B anymore. Target maybe? Mind you BB&B was never all that great either, it carried a great deal of junk.

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yes much of it is through Medicare and Medicaid and some partly though subsidies through the ACA. But all that is being cut by Republicans.

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yea Medicaid wrecked, Medicare going to get hit hard, ACA taking a blow. What healthcare?

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yea I don't think most people that don't vote or even swing vote are actually vocal. They are just people that don't care about politics much for the most part (to their determent unfortunately)

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this is Gen X erasure

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orderly society include the NWS, the FDA, the SEC? Or nah, who needs that, let's burn everything down. Party in the bonfire, jumping over the flames.

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what if the economy doesn't go to crap entirely? It might, but it might not. And I'm not sure other things that aren't the economy going to crap will be sufficient to bring him down. If I had a lever "economy goes to crap and it takes down the regime and the R party", I'd pull it, but may not happen

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plant identification

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Like crypto? Crypto doesn't even have a use case really. Criminality? Gambling? Fraud? Unlike LLM which have *some*. It's still too big to fail.

misanthropocene (@stopburningthings.bsky.social) reply parent

many of the "old hippies" probably have more hair.

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call me what you will

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and not really having the time to really follow current events

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I take this is sarcasm or an attempt at "humor", not a serious response to anything.

misanthropocene (@stopburningthings.bsky.social) reply parent

Therapists may have an ethical obligation, but it doesn't mean they always do it. And one could say "but what promotes well being is subjective and a judgement call". Sure. But sometimes the advice is really out there. A test: would most people regard this advice as bad advice?

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the "at least Repubs are honest about their evil" is always the worst argument Because I don't think those who voted Trump and Rs actually were informed about all of the policy they would implement (although the base are in a cult, so we won't convert the base).

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He's garbage. Like if one wants to say some good things about Ezra Klein. Whatever. But MY, please, he's just pure badness. And though he may technically not be of this or that philosophy (or is he just a grifter? no comment) What do we even get out of all this ideological hair splitting? He's bad

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wow is that a question noone has an answer to, predicting the job market.