takeda @ takeda @lemm.ee Posts 0Comments 569Joined 4 mo. ago
I hope he does that.
The value dropped because of him, so likely would drop even faster.
Because if they would publish it, the other security experts would say "well, duh, that's how it works".
It is just the average people that are unaware of it, or don't seem to care.
If they wanted to shut down the government they could just not present any bill at all.
Now the changes they did are codified.
Are you sure? It was 62-48 I think they only needed 60.
Also freaking Rand Paul voted no.
Yeah, he or Dr Oz, that was really a shitty choice.
The cloture vote required 60 senators. That was the only chance for Democrats to stop this bill. He (and the others) then voted no, so they could say he voted against the bill, but they knew damn well that only in the cloture vote they actually could stop it.
Seems like he did it, because he has a very important book tour https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/14/2310308/-Schumer-s-Book-Tour
And fighting for us would mess up his schedule.
Also X in ASCII table is under 88. That might be another reason he is so obsessed about it.
Heh the choice of colors for the bars really fits this administration.
That's a good point. Looks like both ways are bad, but voting yes, still looks worse.
That way part of the "not vote". There were some that did vote for him.
I think they are gearing that shutdown will shut down the courts too (a branch that supposed to be co-equal)
Republicans created a dilemma though, the bill legalizes and gives trump more power, not then of government is shut down, so are the courts.
Looks like we are fucked either way.
One thing to keep in mind though...
I was outraged a minute ago, but now I'm not sure.
When the government is shut down, so are the courts, and we need them.
How one branch is capable to shut down apparently a co-equal branch of the government?
For them it is easier, because as I understand they didn't sign any contract yet, just were planning to.
It is a typo.
I disagree with you about what everyone picks and chooses. The reason why people complain about Mastodon as an alternative to Twitter is because they have to choose what to see, they are used that the website would choose things for them.
Social media for dangerous, because they build profile about you and they know what topics will trigger you. So people who are pro Israel will get one content, people pro Palestine get different, but both of them will tell them to vote for Trump.
This is so much more dangerous than TV, which of course could manipulate people to make them react in certain way, but at least it couldn't target individuals like social media can.
Oh I see what you mean. Yeah that's an important detail which would make the title more clickable and they still didn't put it there.
No it doesn't, it says it
But this is great that Jewish Voice for Peace is doing this.
Right now he was arrested as a pretext for antisemitism. This is why I'm glad a Jewish group is protesting this, because this is really testing the water what the reaction will be and if we don't react they will go after test of us.
Seems like next target is trying to arrest people protesting in front of Tesla dealerships.
The book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder is must read for current situation.
If you can't get the book I found an audiobook on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OUWwdflJsU&list=PLJfmMQGc3lnIQFSxEHyCrenv4e9GiZfpx
Looking at the disinformation on social media I don't think they could do much.
I saw people being convinced that Harris had positions that were compete opposite of her actual stances.
I even saw people have complete opposing view. For example about situation in Gaza, I saw:
- pro Israel people being encouraged to vote for trump, because Harris was supporting "Hamas terrorists"
- pro Palestinians being encouraged to not vote or vote for trump in protest, because Harris was strong supporter of Israel and it won't make any difference
When narrative is already controlled by social media that already is biased toward specific candidate, it is impossible to win.
I don't think Harris, Walz or even Biden could do anything when everything was attack against them.
We either need to make sure that non far right is also represented in social media.
Alternatively Democrats would have to use a celebrity, for example somebody like Jon Stewart of whose popularity could cut through the disinformation.
Progressives like Bernie and AOC, they are after what we actually need, but they are not immune from this disinformation, only people who actually pay attention to politics know them the rest of population can be easily persuaded that they are just "commies that want to kill America"