And remember they need all 3 of presidency, house of representatives, and senate to pass pretty much anything
The odds of Democrats keeping the Senate seem dismal. So it sounds like we’re giving the party license to do nothing for another two years
Not understanding the concept of the Secret Ballot and it’s consequences
If this is the quality of Atheist memes…
Unfortunately, conservatives are just going to try conversion therapy and we all know that shit doesn’t work.
Plenty of people like Lemmy.world
It’s one of the easiest instances to join, thanks in no small part to the focus on growth over doctrinaire censorship. Consequently, a lot of people who don’t like .world end up joining it just to get access to the other more tightly administered communities.
someone comparing .world with .ml in politics
Everyone to the left of me is a psychotic delusion America-hating Tankie.
I’m a rational, centrist clear-eyed moderate making fact-based decisions using my extensive expertise on the subject matter.
Everyone to the right of me is a Russian bot or a troll.
Going back to Carter, the black vote has been instrumental for democratic wins across both coasts and throughout the urban metropoles of the Gulf Coast and Midwest. But the current Dem strategy has been to move away from their civil rights craving voter base and courting whiter, wealthier professional suburbanites. We’ve seen that most distinctly in MO-1, NY-16, MN-5, and MI-12, where democrat megadonors sunk millions to unseat popular minority incumbents for bucking the party line.
Far more worrying than these voters turning to Trump, in my mind, is for them to simply stay home. We’ve already seen an enormous chunk of Uncommitted Voter send shockwaves through the midwestern primaries in what should have been an uncontested coronation for Biden. With margins this thin, Dems are putting a lot of faith in wealthier, whiter conservatives filling in the gaps that these spurned younger poorer blacker voters are leaving.
Wow. Pretty serious accusation. Any word on when the DOJ will be indicting him?
Sam Harris Energy.
A/B headline testing in action.
Which one will get you to click through to the ads?
Adding anyone reading this to the Victims of Communism memorial.
24 downvotes telling me actually this never happened.
Also, nobody talk about Grenada in 1983. Or Iran Air Flight 655. Or the MOVE bombing in 1985. Or the police response to the LA Riots. Or the police response to the Iraq War protests. Or the police response to OWS protests. Or the police response to BLM protests. Or the police response to the campus protests in defense of Palestine.
That’s Whataboutism.
You can’t just talk about ACAB or discuss the broad problems of a heavily armed carceral state looking for heads to crack. Only Foreign Countries are Bad.
Given the long and storied history of American war crimes abroad, my first impulse is to label this “based” and “incredibly cool”.
On further analysis, it appears Trump is not suggesting Milley be court-martialed for the decades of atrocities committed under his command in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo … jesus fuck this guy was in charge of Fort Bragg? Summary execution on the spot.
But no. Apparently the hook he’s supposed to be hung on is checks notes taking a call from a Chinese senior military leader. Fuck it, sure.
The soundtrack for this game is incredible.
You wanna know the best part? Biden is the best option (out of 2) for Palestinians
Real “Cake or Death, but we’re out of cake” tier of options.
Not everything needs to be political.
Visiting the Murdoch-owned Sun was your first mistake. Everything they do to you after that is your own fault.,
Might as well hand your credit card to the MyPillow Guy next and complain about how much money just got charged to your account from the nearest strip club.
Does anyone else read this and feel like its a euphemism for prostitution?
not just in the US but it happens in the UK and other places too
Damn. Can’t believe New Labour is getting tarred with accepting soccer tickets, fancy clothes, and vacation packages from British Peer Lord Alli. Seems so unfair. Wish people would stop accusing the Labour government of being corrupt, when they are very obviously following the rules of accepting gifts and definitely not operating on any quid pro quo.
the new Labour government immediately found a £20 billion hole in the economy
New Labour has a set of accounting rules that count investment in capital as an expense and insists on running daily budget surpluses for their operating expenses.
Popping open your household account, making cartoonish bug-eyes, and announcing “We owe $200k on our 30 year mortgage but we only make $80k/year! We’re bankrupt for the next three years until we pay this house off!” This is New Labour accounting. It’s laughable and only ever used as an excuse not to spend any money.
On the flip side, this is the same party that insists on privatizing everything. From Thames Water to British Gas to UK Rail, every once-public service has to be turned over and rented back from the private sector. The Brits pass out these privatization contracts as sinecures, guaranteeing their financial friends huge piles of free no-risk revenues at the expense of the British taxpayer. And then they complain that the country has no money.
That New Labour slid directly into the driver’s seat the Tories left and gunned it isn’t something you can ignore, simply because the party leadership has changed.
Sorry 50M Californians, but 40k West Virginians decided to go a different way. Guess this means no civil rights for another two years.