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  • AA5B@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldThe gender wars continue 🥹
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    10 hours ago

    Wow, that’s crazy.

    I wonder how much of that is demonization of unions. If a big piece of Democrat support for working class is support for unions, does that actually matter when so many people of all incomes are taught to hate unions?

    Then there’s the student loan fiasco. By all rights the Biden administration should have gotten kudos for finding so many ways to attempt student loan forgiveness, and for focusing it on lower income people (for example, people in income based repayment with less than $10k left). However the right succeeded in making that seem elitist or not independent and the left seemed to blame Democrats for not being more successful in the face of Republican obstruction




  • AA5B@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.worldTrump wins.
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    12 hours ago

    chose to ignore the devastating effects of inflation on normal Americans, instead of providing a concise plan of revamping the economy

    Come on. The party in office when inflation came back down. Inflation rate is near normal now. Blame them for not communicating effectively or blame voters for looking at cumulative inflation over four years, rather than resulting inflation



  • AA5B@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldProject Insight
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    13 hours ago

    Why do they even need runways for taking off? Yeah you want to make sure your engines start but it’s not like you need to reach a specific speed to get in the air nor do you need to be generating lift.

    Imagine how much more quickly you could react by just dropping all your aircraft off the side at the same time (with engines running) rather than be bottlenecked behind individual runway use



  • Do they have patience for this? Everything you’re suggesting is a long term change. No President can do this during their term. The constant search for change just means any progress gets thrown away every four years. And as you said, much of it has to come from the bottom up, from the very people who are frustrated with the status quo

    Are he just doomed because people don’t have the patience for long term societal change, or don’t see that they need to be part of it?

    Are we doomed because people can’t get beyond outrage media?

    Are we doomed because complaining about a problem is easier than fixing it,or easier even than learning the truth about it?









  • I’m most afraid of all the hangers on plotting how best to expand their agenda. At least his first term had the incompetence to prevent some of his worst ideas but that may not be true this time.

    My biggest fear is for the environment. Only the EPA and California are allowed to set environmental standards and the rest of us can only pick which to follow. Hopefully my state politicians will remain steadfast, but I have no way of supporting California when they come for the environment. If California can hold and the dozen or so that follow that remain true, maybe there’s still a hope for the environment my kids will live in





  • The more conservative you are, the less likely you are to travel. The less likely you are to be open to experiencing “them”.

    When I went back to my high school reunion, I tried reconnecting with an old buddy of mine. I found it a little odd that his life seemed exactly the same as in high school, but eventually he admitted that he had never been more than about 50 miles from the town we grew up in. Never left the state, much less the country. Never left the surrounding rural cluster of towns. Never flew. Not even a road trip to a coast, amusement park or city. No changes in food from what he grew up with. No people different from him. What the everliving fuck?