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@ queermunist @lemmy.ml

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/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!

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  • Far be it from me to argue against the US being a backwards shithole racist country, because it obviously is and death to Amerikkka, but I don't like the narrative that he had some kind of mandate to govern because he is so popular. He really doesn't. He's started without a majority and it's been down hill ever since.

    By the by, that's just of the people who bothered to vote. If we counted non-voters, he got 32%

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  • Trump only got 49.9% of the vote. He has never been popular, even by capitalizing on disgust with liberals. It really wasn't his election to lose, he's not actually a strong candidate. He won by playing against an opponent that doesn't want to win.

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  • The only other reasonable explanation is that they're too stupid and don't know how to win elections.

    If you think that the Democratic party are stupid, you are delusional.

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  • By the numbers, yes. Trump's turnout increased by 1 million from 2020 whereas Democrats decreased by 2 million, and the loss of Democrat turnout was what pushed Trump over the edge. He still only got 49.9% of the vote, after all.

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  • Sure, but federal taxes are just dollars being taken out of circulation. It doesn't actually fund anything, they print money for that.

    States have to actually use taxes to fund themselves since they can't print money, but like I said, if everyone in the US stopped paying federal taxes it wouldn't actually deprive the government of money. They'd just print.

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  • The reason Harris lost is because people who voted for Biden in 2020 stayed home and because fewer young people voted than in previous elections, not because they voted for Trump. Democratic turnout fell by 2 million votes.

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  • Not to rain your parade, but taxes don't fund anything for governments that print money. At most you could deprive your city/county/state of funding. The federal government would be totally fine if 100% of people stopped paying taxes.

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  • Harris chose to lose the most winnable election in history because Democrats know they can punish voters for being disloyal simply by allowing Republicans to win. If you demand too much from Democrats they will throw the election. It's essentially a hostage situation, you must give unconditional support to the Good Cop or the Bad Cop will beat you to death. You don't want the Bad Cop, do you?

    If we don't abolish this system we're all going to die.

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  • Reject modernity.

    Retvrn to ASCII

  • How do roofs really get on houses now that we know that they can't actually fly?

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  • A Life-Saving Vitamin for Babies Is Getting Swept Up in Vaccine Backlash | There’s a growing resistance to anything that’s injected into babies, vaccine or not.

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  • Actually, I think anti-vaxxers are one group we could blame for all this.

  • Gork is this true?

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  • no way they could name more than two philosophers anyway lol

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    Why is the herd mentality so common on Lemmy?

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  • Ask me how I know you've never seen an argument about Russia.

  • ICE operations increasingly resemble Israeli occupation. That’s no coincidence

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    We live in the future!

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  • Why shouldn't they be assholes when they have to deal with piece of shit riders like you?

  • Will a Pan-Arab Communist Party ever be possible?

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  • Yeah, oil and gas basically make solidarity impossible.

    I think that's going to change if/when the world moves away from fossil fuels (and so the material basis for imperial extractivism erodes), but it might not be possible until then.

  • As Dem Voters Seek a 'Fight' With the Superrich, AOC is Now Their Favorite Candidate: Poll

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  • And yet, people voted for candidates who pledged to cut them. That has to be reckoned with.

    There's definitely a problem with Democrats being unwilling to improve these programs, because ultimately the Democratic leadership hates government programs too, but there's also the problem with people voting to take government benefits away form undesirables. Again, policies aren't popular on their own, they need to be promoted and advanced. We have a role to play.

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  • If I was cooking chilaquiles or tacos I'd probably try the palm shaping method, but it seems really unworkable to make big burrito tortillas that way - at least at my level of skill!

    I also had a problem of not getting the pan hot enough at first, I think, and so actually getting the little browned bubbles to appear was challenging. The tortillas I made towards the end of the first batch came out way better than the first ones, thinner and softer and easier to roll. I'm going to be learning a lot doing this for sure.

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  • ... I might have forgotten that step of letting them sit. I was impatient!

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    Surveillance protects people from terrorism, and sacrificing some privacy makes us safer.

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  • If surveillance does not seem to affect their daily lives then they are not bound by the law. They're simply protected. They have nothing to fear because the government's terror regime is not directed against them, they simply benefit from the security it provides them. You can not argue against them, they are simply conscious of their own material interests.

    Privacy is only valuable if the government is a hostile force, but they have never experienced government hostility. They're protected. They're not the ones being dragged out of their houses by screaming masked men or put to work in prisons. They're fine.