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Give it time.

Distribution cost of games has gone down to almost zero since then.

lying is almost never justified - not even white lies

We could NOT be friends. "Absolute truth no matter what" people are freakin exhausting.

Off the top of my head,

• Yes, this is an explicit step away from the authority of the federal government
• It is FAR from California's first step (recognizing gay marriage; sanctuary state; legal weed; etc)
• It is not a complete defiance of federal law per se. I suspect that the way California is going to try to negotiate will be by offering breaks on its own state and local taxes. California has a decent slew of state level taxes on many things. The state may be willing to reduce its own state taxes to offset the federal taxes as part of a separate deal with foreign nations.

This is lemmy. All these people are like 14. They have no idea who Dawkins is.

opposition to your vjews

lol

Freudian slip?

The biggest difference is that Liberals want to address the fundamental, existential problems with Socialism and Leftists want to paper over it and not face the reality while still pretending they are part of the solution.

Taking in infinite immigrants and providing food shelter and healthcare for them and their lineage until the end of time ALONG WITH all of the disadvantaged citizens is not economically sustainable.

I disagree.

You’d effectively be turning the U.S. into the world’s homeless shelter.

Fuck yeah we would.

Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

Here's the thing about immigrants: they start businesses. They get degrees. They make money. They pay taxes. They drive the economic engine forward. They're not helpless fucking children, they are smart and driven and capable adults who happen to not speak your language and may have browner skin than you.

I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sounds of thousands of starving Ukranians. What was that again? Something about Capitalism being the root of all evil and Socialism being perfect in every way?

But they pretty much called it a day

Maybe if you fuckers would give them back the same majority that allowed them to make the initial law, they could actually fucking do anything.

You idiots keep NOT VOTING DEMS IN and then complaining when Dems don't have the numbers to accomplish anything. They're not sitting with their thumbs up their asses intentionally refusing to pass legislation because they just love being assholes to their own constituents. I can see why you'd make that mistake if you're not paying attention, because that IS the Republican method. But Democrats are people, not ghouls, so on the rare occasion that you dumbshits vote enough of them in, they accomplish great things.

Ok, I'm sorry, you're right, literally every bad thing that Republicans do is actually Democrats fault.

Try harder, comrade.

2 months is what? Are you on crack?

Correct. And even then, there's vanishingly little CP on lemmy.

This ain't the early 2000s. The unwashed masses have found the internet, and it has been cleaned for them. 97% of the internet has no idea what Matrix channels even are.

It's fucking AI, the face is actually like 3 days old because it is NOT A REAL PERSON'S FACE.

They had the presidency and both halves of Congress for the first two years under Obama

They had a majority that could override Republicans for all of like 2 months

And again during the first half of Biden’s term.

Never had a supermajority, even though they did get a few epic bills in through some brilliant legislative maneuvering.

and all they gave us was Mitt Romney’s health care plan

Obamacare has saved literally thousands of lives and saved countless more from poverty inducing medical costs and you act like that's nothing. It's the single best piece of legislation in the last 50 years at least. And we did that with just a few months of power.

Anyway. For your actual specifics

The Democratic leadership keeps actively stopping attempts to corral the ability of congressmen to get rich off inside trading

Biden calls for ban on congressional stock trading - never taken up by Repub led Congress

Democrats make last-ditch effort to ban stock trading by lawmakers

• Opposed/blocked by Republicans in Congress

Trustbusting has basically been forgotten

FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power

United Health Lawsuit Named Among FTC's Biggest Wins

Big Pharma Braces for More FTC Suits Over M&A Bound for Approval

Gaza I'll give you. That's really the only hugely popular (among non-republicans) issue they refused to support.

Fair enough. I think a lot of Liberals view socialism (like no shit real "own the means of production" socialism, rather than European capitalist-lite socialism of today) the same way as me: it sounds nice, it just doesn't seem to work very well in practice. But hey if we can get it to work, neat. In the mean time, let's get capitalism under control.