I mean, if we genuinely had a significant amount of local, state and federal law makers that cared about protecting their constituents instead of whatever the fuck they are doing now, we could have some accountability.

Because to many people politics is a team sport - their team is always right the opposing team is always wrong.

So if the refs call a foul on their team then it was a bullshit call, but on the other team then it was fair.

I was thinking of appealing my parking ticket to the Supreme Court by using the defense that the officer that issued the ticket did it to keep me from voting and … uh … freedom.

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I’ve got nothing to add other than, Alex Jones is a big piece of shit

I’m a little biased but I do look down on men that lack any handyman skills

That is a lot biased to the point that you can’t even see that other men’s lives may have put them in a position of not learning those things or even wanting to learn those things. It’s great that you know how to do those things but just because someone has a penis doesn’t mean they have to learn how to be handy. That doesn’t make them any less of a man, just different from you.

PBS Space Time explains it…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHiyQID7SBs

But I still don’t understand it

BTW use Piped for this link - just getting ahead of the Piped bot

It’s good to know that this administration is doing something to help directly or indirectly. And if there is a constant in the world of American politics its Democrats don’t have a clue how to sell their agenda or legislative wins to the public.

But it doesn’t have to be that way. There has to be smart people that would want to work with this reelection campaign that can craft sound bites and advertising that promotes what they have done. And do it in a way that isn’t scary to the donor base.

This is a good write up thanks.

What bothers me is that in his state of the union address he spent time talking about junk fees with Ticketmaster et. al. (which is a problem) yet never really touched on the bigger problem of housing costs. Nor is there any real push by his administration or the Democrats to address this issue any time soon. Like you I don’t know if this is intentional or ignorance due to his advisors.

It’s a frustrating place to be because I know that Trump gives even less of a shit about the “poors” and would make things even worse. So a large part of this country’s population will sit in the status quo for a minimum of 4 more years hoping that the next round of elections will bring in something new and progressive.

Damn at just 5 ft most of southern Louisiana is completely submerged. And these are probably not the wealthiest people so where do they go? Do they live in FEMA trailers further in land? Do we as a country have a contingency plan for this ? I doubt it but I hope I’m wrong.

I mean there probably are enough homes to help these people but that may cut into Blackrock’s rental profit so that’s out of the question…

The more I look at this map the more overwhelmed I get at the number of people that will be displaced at just 5 ft.

Where does Florida Man ™️ go when his trailer is underwater? Is he now Georgia Man or Mississippi Man?

This is a migration that I don’t think people want

I’ve been on both sides of this meme

The interesting thing was she was/is a middle school teacher. You’d think she would encourage questions, not just look it up.

But I guess she was trying to help me not be ignorant because I was just killing time … at a party

reminds me of a story:

Got invited to a dinner party of people I didn’t know well, they were friends of my then girlfriend.

So we were sitting around before dinner chatting and drinking and I brought up a question about something that we were all talking about. I don’t remember what it was but the point was just to keep conversation going and to interact with people. BUT one lady just looked at me and said “why don’t you just Google it?!” Shut down conversation completely.

Sure I could Google it Karen but that doesn’t make for good conversation!

The power of location in voting is just weird.

Welcome to Lemmy Here from a permanent ban last year for … Fuck I don’t even know just pissed off the wrong mod

I don’t understand the connection between my post and your response?

It’s weird that you think that tax money goes directly into the pockets of individual citizens…

But when the government gets more income it can be used to fund public programs like WIC, CHIPS, Free lunch program for children, help the homeless, improve infrastructure, etc. You know, government working to support it’s population and not let the country become a shit hole.

If you don’t like how the government is spending the tax money then that is an election argument (vote someone in that supports your views). My way of seeing things is that if this country has given someone the ability to make a 3 comma amount of wealth then arguing that paying back into that system is evil then that person really doesn’t care about anyone but themselves.

So if it’s not a perfect solution it shouldn’t be done?

You may be right that a 90% tax on certain amount of wealth may not solve all the problems but that is a ton of money this country is leaving on the table that could really help people that need assistance.

I think this is Boeing’s philosophy