Fact: absolutely none of this would have happened if Kamala had won.
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Shame she decided to support wildly unpopular policy and messaging instead of winning.
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I hated that she sounded like a politician dodging questions with nonsense answers. She should have been direct and stopped worrying about being a different direction than Biden.
But yes with all those flaws she would have been better than Trump by miles.
But she was going to kill Palestinians with her bare hands!
But uh but shes a woman. A brown woman. The horror,!
fun fact: i think it has nothing to do with it. it's just that trump is a reality tv star and tv stars and entertainers tend to get elected in democracies (see england, italy, USA) because they know how to present themselves to the people in an "entertaining" way and also because harris refused to focus on the real buying power of people.
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Good, it is completely unnecessary. It's a bad solution to an old problem that already has much better solutions out there that are much more accessible too. They only made it so people will rely on them for everything and stop trusting others, but thankfully it failed. Canonical should be ashamed of themselves for ever trying this snap thing.
Risky joke, woosh is very likely.
I don't get it.
It's a joke on how "Snap" is also an application distribution system for Linux. Ubuntu (by the company Canonical) uses it.
Wrong. It's a system for killing half the people in the universe to decrease overpopulation
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Fuck... I was squinting so hard up until I read that last sentence.
God, and I can't say this with my entire chest, fucking dammit. You got me.
This is just outrageous. I'll have you know there are many single-mothers who depend on snap day-to-day. You can't honestly expect them to just switch distros.
Hah. I was ready to rage comment until I finished reading your whole comment.
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This administration needs to be concerned about what happens when you have millions of people with nothing to lose anymore.
They want that
yhea they want escalation.
but that doesn't mean the best strategy is to do nothing.
Totally. But they have been begging for "Civil War". Like it's some Hero's Journey and people won't die. It's so short sided and dumb I can't believe they actually believe it's for the better.
You can only get your civil war if there are two clear sides, divisible by geography and cultural lines.
When you just have a widespread, starving population, you get mobs and mass riots and government leadership dragged out of their homes and offices.
I am not sure at all what their game is. I know they want the chaos but surely they can't be so dumb that they think this will.... oh yeah, lol caught myself there. They're that dumb.
DT is probably just thinking back fondly of his last visit to North Korea.
"Hey, what if I did that?!"
mate, it's fascism, would you tell the french resistance against nazis to chill, because nazis want an excuse to escalate?
It's mostly red states that get food stamps. ....
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So about those government contracts for immigration, you would think some of those states that raked in a lot of money, could perhaps use that ill-gotten money to at least benefit the residents of their states.
Funny that Florida got more than half a billion dollars from the government the day before the shutdown, but they just can't find it within their hearts or their budget to use any of that money to feed families relying on food stamps in their state. Wonder where it's going instead?
Wonder where it's going instead?
Alligators with freakin' laser beams attached to their heads for Alligator Alcatraz.
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This will destroy the US economy. I hope you like standing in bread lines...
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It's mostly going to be the elderly who suffer. People just forget about old people. They can't get out and go stand in line at food pantries.
Sometimes they don't have anyone checking on them very often.
Most don't know how to get online and find services and such.
If you have an elderly neighbor or family member. Try to check with them and see if they need help.
If only it was the elderly people in the government that suffered.
Yeah kids and disabled people too. I just always think of the elderly cause they get forgotten about.
this is a disaster for the people affected (and also every society is 3 days without food before violent revolutions and all that) but also IMO these programs should ideally be paid for by the states anyways, not the federal government. i also think that taxes should go to the states instead of the federal government, and the states then forward whatever amount is appropriate to the federal government. that would make the states more resilient against these kinds of federal fraud.
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Both sides.
BOOoOoTh SiIiiiiIIiiiiiiDESssssssssSsS!!
Biden is old, you see, and there was also a woman who wasn't exactly adamant about Israel, so you have to starve now. But don't worry, if you starve enough, something will surely happen. And if not, at least there will be a civil war, isn't that great? You get to die in a random shootout, isn't that wonderful? So glad we didn't vote so this lady didn't win.
True, but as for the last part -
we didn’t vote
We actually did. The even more depressing reality is the last three presidential elections had the highest turnout of registered voters and young voters in American history.
What's fucked up is that exit polling showed that most people were entirely tuned-out and saw no difference between the candidates because most people don't watch the news or politics, most people are uninformed on basic science and reason, most people have curated social media feeds that push attention-span erosion and right-wing propaganda, and a good QUARTER of the adult population of America is functionally illiterate. Meaning studies have shown that 22% or more of adults in the US cannot read more than a couple words strung together or have to piece together sentences contextually. They can work, they can answer text messages, but are incapable of assembling paragraphs and forming complex abstractions.
We're fucked on a level that is hard to convey.
the highest turnout of registered voters and young voters in American history.
This is one of the problems with how we've pushed the messages like "rock the vote", that you should vote, no matter what, or you're being a bad citizen.
If you can't be bothered to actually try to be informed, then you shouldn't feel pressure to vote. Sure, you should be allowed to vote no matter what, but no one should be pressuring you to vote even with lack of interest.
We should be emphasizing you should get to know the candidates up and down the ballot, not just getting your mark on a ballot.
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This is what dump wants. He's already mobilised his incels and provided ample firepower.
Let them eat cake !
“Let them behold my beautiful new ballroom.”
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