Yep. At least have the balls to kill somebody in your false flag. Ideally somebody more notable than fucking Big Balls lmao. And make the supposed perpetrators somebody more official and organized than a bunch of 15 year old carjackers or whatever. Fucking lazy cowards.
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MrVilliam@sh.itjust.worksto politics @lemmy.world•JD Vance’s Latest Epstein Claims Lead to New Calls For Trump to Release All the Files1·2 days agoYep, that’s more or less why I said I don’t put him on a pedestal. But as DOT secretary, he recognized the need for collecting tax dollars and using them effectively, plus things like the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment resulted in him directly, loudly, publicly raising awareness to the need to regulate these essential industries and sectors more stringently to prevent future disasters.
I think he’s learned a lot in the past 5 years. I’m open to people having the ability to learn and grow if they’re showing actual evidence of it, and he is imo. I can’t hold his McKinsey roots against him forever. I worked at Walmart for a few months nearly 20 years ago, and that has very little to do with who I am now.
MrVilliam@sh.itjust.worksto politics @lemmy.world•JD Vance’s Latest Epstein Claims Lead to New Calls For Trump to Release All the Files3·2 days agoMy bad, I didn’t know anything had changed recently with the DNC. Idk anything about the new people, but I imagine it must be a good start if you’re so excited about it and since the changes all happened pretty much immediately after losing 2024.
Alright, my hope tank just got up to like halfway lol.
MrVilliam@sh.itjust.worksto politics @lemmy.world•JD Vance’s Latest Epstein Claims Lead to New Calls For Trump to Release All the Files5·2 days agoYep, it certainly was.
Who are you hoping will be the progressive Democrat that runs in 28 that proves that neoliberal policies are just a thing of the past?
It just seemed like overconfidence to proclaim any sense of achievement in that arena without yet achieving anything or even naming names. I want you to be right, but fascism is very much on the rise and the opposition party isn’t doing much to signal any real opposition aside from leaving Texas to withhold quorum for the absurd redistricting vote and I guess not blocking Mamdani from winning the NY mayoral primary.
Just feels a little like Bush’s premature Mission Accomplished banner 20 years before giving up and pulling out of the conflict.
MrVilliam@sh.itjust.worksto politics @lemmy.world•JD Vance’s Latest Epstein Claims Lead to New Calls For Trump to Release All the Files302·2 days agoMeanwhile the DNC finally bucked neoliberism…
In 2028 we can have a progressive with no neoliberal baggage
I’ll believe it when I see it. I fully expect the superdelegates to crown another milquetoast neolib as nominee. Newsom or Harris probably. There will almost certainly be some silliness in 26 and 27 to get some lesser-known names propped up some so that they can have a chance, but we’ll have a stage with 15 people on it and only about 3 will be taken seriously. Idk who specifically to even hope for right now. There are some good younger Dems, but they need more time in the oven before even attempting a presidential run. Fox News has done a good job demonizing certain names such that even people who aren’t plugged into it have heard and believe the attacks.
For example, I don’t think AOC could get elected for anything other than her current district or maybe Senate. She might even hurt a ticket as a VP pick. She might be good on a cabinet, but that’s not elected, and that’s probably the end of her political career.
Buttigieg has been doing the work of getting on right wing media to surgically dismantle attacks and explain how his policy positions benefit everyday Americans, and I think he usually comes off as intelligent and compassionate, not condescending. As with all politicians, I don’t put him on any sort of pedestal, but he’s putting in the work and proving he has effective communication, and that’s an incredibly important skill for a president to have.
Idk. There’s still a little hope in the tank here, and I’ll vote in my primary to try to get somebody who isn’t ass garbage, but I expect something like Newsom v Youngkin/Vance if trump isn’t still alive and cancelling elections to cling onto power.
MrVilliam@sh.itjust.worksto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Any credible right-leaning news sources out there?4·5 days agoThe question you’re asking is actually very complicated. Pretty much every for-profit media company will have a bias to the right since their goal is to profit today and survive to profit tomorrow. Lowering the taxes for the company and for the wealthy who own large portions of the company are obviously something that the company and the people running the company want, and the platform of the right is consistently to lower taxes on businesses and the wealthy.
The wild thing is the way that the right has shifted in the past 30 years or so. Politicians would stir bigoted voters up with dogwhistle rhetoric while maintaining some level of deniability so that non-bigots would also still feel okay voting for them. This all changed with trump. Suddenly, it was possible to say the quiet part out loud and still get elected. Rather than using mild bigotry as a tool to get into office and then make bank off of bribes and carving out loopholes and conduct insider trading, now moron bigots themselves are running and winning, and they don’t actually know what to do or how to do it, so they mostly just shitpost and grandstand because they don’t actually know shit about governing.
We’re now coming to a point where these companies are hopefully starting to realize that the right is so bad at governing and so damaging with their shitposting that they’re actually hurting these companies’ bottom line. I wouldn’t dare call Democrats “the left” because they’re factually a center-right party; the Democrats were posturing to be a sane, safe, profitable alternative. Like it or not, Biden steered our economy back in the right direction, and Harris would’ve continued on that track while also letting these companies continue to amass wealth. Media companies who saw the forecast and reported with some bias towards Democrats are absolutely not left-leaning. A real left-leaning media company would not be structured like a corporation or traded on the stock market. A real left-leaning media company would be advocating to eradicate the systems as they are and remake them with equity in the foundations. We live in a very right-wing America, and any positive reporting of capitalist America, or gentle criticism of small details of the colonial capitalism of America needs to be understood as right bias. Every time somebody puts the stock market or companies or government contracts or “the economy” over feeding the hungry and housing the unhoused and treating the sick, that is right bias. RATM hit on this perfectly in Bulls On Parade:
Weapons not food, not homes, not shoes
Not need, just feed the war cannibal animal
I walk the corner to the rubble that used to be a library
Line up to the mind cemetery now
What we don’t know keeps the contracts alive and movin’
They don’t gotta burn the books they just remove 'em
While arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells
Rally 'round the family, pockets full of shellsTL;DR: the litmus of whether your news is biased to the left cannot be determined by whether they nudge for the center-right or the far-right candidate.
MrVilliam@sh.itjust.worksto A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•California slave labor: Jailed pre-trial detainees work for private firm—for nothing41·7 days agoYes, but also these are pretrial detainees, as in not yet convicted of any crime. Article 1 of the 13th amendment says “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” (emphasis my own)
MrVilliam@sh.itjust.worksto politics @lemmy.world•Maxwell told Blanche she never saw Trump do anything concerning with Epstein: report12·7 days agoEnigmas never age, have you noticed that?
“I’m putting together a team. The best team. The best people–look, there’s a lot of, shall we say, bad folks. Can I say bad folks? The woke don’t like that too much, you can’t say anything nowadays, but if they had it their way, I’d just say that I disagree, but I don’t just disagree, they’re bad folks with bad ideas and they’re very low IQ. The sleepy Joe Biden people were just so incompetent and they left me with nothing and it’s horrible, and they should be arrested for what they’ve done, and I’m gonna look into it. But with these South Park, have you seen this? It’s unbelievable, but the left got to them and now they don’t do Obama anymore, and they make things up about me, and it’s actually not small, not even, like, it’s really quite large, but you won’t hear that because I’m very humble, but I have to tell you that I’ve heard many girls say that it’s not small, and more than they want, and not just from the very young and small girls either, but I shouldn’t talk about that. My lawyers say ‘Sir! Sir! Don’t talk about the young girls!’ but I have a very popular, they can’t keep their hands off me, and what am I supposed to say? ‘No’? ‘Wait until you’re 16, 17, 18’? There’s no, and it’s very unfair how they’re treating me, and it never would’ve happened to any other president. The Clintons were very bad people, both of them, and they don’t even hide it, but it’s always me that gets attacked by the fake news media, and I’ll never get any credit for the deals…
But which one are you? Kanye or R Kelly? Because I want you both, you could really help me out with the blacks, and I could really help you with the pardon. And perhaps there could be a little get together at the southern white house, and we could talk about things and meet some young girls together, and it’s not gay so long as the balls don’t touch, they say. Many people say that.”
Mallards are notorious for doing a lot of rape. So I guess Donald is a duck.
MrVilliam@sh.itjust.worksto politics @lemmy.world•Rep. Lauren Boebert’s troubled eldest son Tyler charged with child abuse5·17 days agoYou know what? You’re right. But it shouldn’t be. I’m wrong to assume that things are as they should be and that politicians’ families are not dodging consequences.
MrVilliam@sh.itjust.worksto politics @lemmy.world•Rep. Lauren Boebert’s troubled eldest son Tyler charged with child abuse203·17 days agoI’m not OP, but I’m guessing that they’re referring to the news story more than the law enforcement. I don’t think that this is newsworthy. Criminal charges happen all the time, but this one is only getting attention because his mommy is in Congress; I have no reason to believe that she’s involved in this crime in any way. I also didn’t give a shit about Hunter Biden’s drug addictions or gun crime or whatever else was going on with him. It would be newsworthy if these people weren’t charged because that would indicate that there are no consequences for family of politicians.
By this logic, why not buy 200,000 tomato plants with the million dollars?
$50 in a few decades will be worth very little compared to now because of inflation. Take the lump sum and invest more on the early side. That’s how smart people successfully implement compounding.
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Also, that $6,250 times 52 weeks in a year is not $46M; it’s $325k. Not to mention that the $6,250 takes a year from initial investment, so it takes 2 years to hit that $325k. And that’s revenue, not profit. And it assumes dependable harvest. It’s a joke shit post that I’m taking way too seriously, right?
MrVilliam@sh.itjust.worksto politics @lemmy.world•ICE agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded them.3·18 days agoYou’re 100% correct, but when the new way of doing things is to deny you your right to due process, then you will never get that day in front of a judge to argue that you were detained illegally. We have a police state that is kidnapping people and shipping them off to another country without their day in court, possibly in a prison for the rest of their lives. I would argue that the threat of that is no different than the cops threatening to shoot them; either way, they’re dead with no hope for justice. At least getting shot would be a relatively quick way to go.
If the secret police break down my door to kidnap me, somebody will be dying that day, and it’ll almost certainly be me, but hopefully also a couple of them as well. If I can’t save myself, I’d like to at least help to reduce the number of kidnappers, and hopefully deter others from carrying out their fuhrer’s orders for fear that it could happen to them too.
I think that the country is now at the point where it wouldn’t take much of a spark to blow the doors off this bitch. Of course the Epstein files thing matters, but it’s really heartbreaking that that’s what’s galvanizing the masses instead of when he started literally disappearing people to concentration camps.
MrVilliam@sh.itjust.worksto politics @lemmy.world•Trump ‘clearly furious’ that summer victory tour has been swallowed by Epstein saga9·20 days agoAre you not enjoying your victory gin and victory cigarettes, comrade? And now that chocolate rations have increased from 30g to 20g, we have even more to celebrate.
We can’t lay all of the blame on trump.
The problem is conservatism in general. Every Republican president of the past 50 years has caused economic turmoil. When Republicans get power in the legislature, the only notable thing they work towards is tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, and gutting things that help people in order to pay for it.
Trump isn’t singularly the problem here, but he is so fucking stupid that he’s speedrunning the economic crisis. A Republican with a halfway functional brain would know to move slowly enough that the economy falls apart as they’re heading out the door, not within the first 20% of their term.
Start selling trump “I did that!” stickers of him pointing up at the eclipse. You’ll start seeing them everywhere soon. Gas pumps, grocery store shelves, car dealerships, etc.
MrVilliam@sh.itjust.workstoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•Donald shouldn't have ran around talking about Epstein13·21 days agoIt doesn’t, and that’s the point. He’s throwing lots of random shit at the walls in desperate attempts to distract from the Epstein files. And it’s not working.
MrVilliam@sh.itjust.worksto linuxmemes@lemmy.world•wHiCh DiStRo ShOuLd I uSe FoR gAmInG??20·20 days agoLegitimate question as I’m gonna move from Windows 10 within the next couple months. Is there something wrong with Bazzite or Nobara? I had narrowed my decision down to those two since they seem to be an easy transition, they do the things I need, and they’re popular enough that I can probably find fixes to any issues I experience. I pushed off my plan to build a desktop, but I still have an aging laptop that is losing security support in a couple of months.
Also, my wife needs Excel specifically for school. Can Excel work on these distros or are there just good alternatives? She might need to keep a Windows 10 partition just for Excel stuff if she can’t run it in Bazzite or whatever she picks.
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Thanks everybody for responses! School is not flexible about using Excel specifically, and she has to share her screen during exams to show that she’s just using regular Excel. It’s not a hill we’re willing to die on lol.
We aren’t super interested in doing anything beyond gaming and basic browsing type stuff with our computers, so I’m not sure that Bazzite being immutable really means anything to us. There were some good tips like a /home partition to easily swap distros when needed without losing everything, plus some people pointed out that some of these distros come and go over time so it would be harder to find fixes and continue getting updates if we get too entrenched in something that won’t be around much longer.
Overall, I don’t think we’ll be too picky. We just want a pretty simple process to get something that’s like an unbloated Windows, and we don’t want to rip our hair out looking for a new distro and starting over every six months. Most people are not power users. I can do pretty much all of my computer stuff on my phone and all of my gaming on my PlayStation, so I really won’t notice the difference between most of these recommendations probably.
MrVilliam@sh.itjust.workstoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•I know he was impeached for lying but still.50·21 days agoYou forgot “insurrectionist” too. Remember, a Colorado judge found that Trump had engaged in insurrection, but kept him on the ballot in 2024 for some stupid fucking reason. The argument was that, although the 14th amendment bars “officers” who engaged in insurrection from holding office again, does the chief executive officer of the country, the person holding the office of President, really qualify as an officer? And the answer to that question should obviously be yes. Per the 14th amendment, he should’ve been disqualified from running, and I have no idea how anybody could seriously interpret the intent of the law in any other way.
They’re making their site inconvenient so you’ll download their app. Every fucking website and product has an app now.