btaf45 @ btaf45 @lemmy.world

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They can claim any part of Greenland. Although they would likely be violating international law. But be aware that Traitorapist Trump has already gotten away with committing many domestic crimes.

The democrats have settled on a strategy of slowly shuffling right and being yesteryear Republicans on many fronts

No. That was their strategy 20-30 years ago. They are actually trying to make progress now, but I agree they need to become much more aggressive in doing that.

when they do get the occasional small W.

You are forgetting that these "small wins" are HUGE WINS to somebody. I had ACA health insurance for several years. Dems did that. Would I have rather had medicare for all? Of course. But I would have had NO health insurance for YEARS without Dems creating the ACA. That was huge for me. And before the ACA people on the internet were always telling me there was no chance at all that health care would ever be reformed.

Greenland houses an important NATO base

Then just claim the base. No need to take over the handful of towns.

that would be needed in a fight against Russia. This os why Trump wants Greenland

Trump is on the same side as Putin. Trump "wants Greenland" for no other reason than to get attention. He's a narcissist. Everything he does can be explain by Trump's hunger for your attention. He's not actually worth people's attention.

We know how stupid Traitorapist Trump sounds. We know he is a notorious liar and we know the rest of the world knows that Trump is a notorious liar.

Trump is a notorious bullshit artist. Nobody with common sense believes any of his bullshit anyway, so he should just come out and say "I want to invade and annex Greenland for the same reason Putin invaded Ukraine. Pure imperialism".

the DNC campaign brought on Liz Cheney and said nothing will fundamentally change.

(1) It was the Harris campaign, not "the DNC". Why would Harris give a shit what "the DNC" thinks about anything? Harris was giving money to the DNC, NOT the other way around. You know that the DNC is not a person right?

(2) There were many proposed significant changes. A $3000 per child tax credit isn't a huge thing? The billionaire owned media didn't want you to learn about them so that Trump would give them gigantic GOP tax cuts. So the media buried it. You could and should have made the effort to learn what they were but you didn't. You could have read her 82 page PDF of policy proposals.

(3) As long Harris didn't change any of her positions to get Liz Cheney's endorsement, why would she NOT want a free endorsement from a Republican? Especially since everyone knew that Cheney only endorsed Harris to highlight that Traitorapist Trump committed treason against our country.

. There’s all kinds of people that don’t vote because they’ve accurately assessed that the system resists changing to reflect their needs.

That makes no sense. The system can only "reflect their needs" as a result of voting. By not voting you are setting yourself up to being a lifetime loser in political affairs. In the long term the system will always reflect what the majority of the VOTERS want, and not necessarily what he majority of the CITIZENS want. If Dems were routinely getting large victories, then politicians would be routinely competing against each other to demonstrate who is going the farthest and the fastest in achieving progress.

and bear in mind that when I say fix, I mean fix, not take a few small token steps towards addressing it (maybe)-

Your position amounts to saying "We cannot move left until we have moved much farther left".

not “fix the housing crisis”, not “fix the student debt crisis”-

Biden and/or Harris pretty much tried to do everything that was politically possible on both of those things. If you were holding out because you thought it would be possible to immediately do MORE than what they tried/proposed, you were merely setting yourself up to be a lifetime loser in politics.

t should cost the same or more than domestic to hire H1B and an H1B employee should be able to have the same worker rights as domestic.

There should be a 50k tax per H1-B worker. That would cut out the bullshit ensure that only workers who actually have needed skills are hired, rather than using foreign labor to lower American wages. I'm pretty sure that companies would suddenly "realize" they don't really need very many foreign workers.

I think that simply making H1B visas easier to get will reduce the extent of the problem

Fuck that. They should be abolished completely. There are tons of Americans who can do those jobs. Businesses do not need to have government bailouts via the immigration system.

Most Americans don’t know but tech jobs pay between $200k-$1m

No, they do not. More like $50k-200k. But the rest of your comment is pretty much right.

So tbh it was indeed a flop imo

Not a flop at all. I used ACA for several years and was extremely glad to have it.

Before the ACA, I didn’t have medical coverage at ALL.

The health care insurance companies literally created a shared database of blacklist victims who they denied health care to. It was at mib.com, which is now a completely different site.

In retrospect I don’t believe for a second that he had any intention of doing much of anything. Just empty campaign lies.

We literally got everything Obama campaigned on in health care except the public option. This is what Obama promised you. If you say he promised something else, that's your lie, not his.

https://www.kff.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/obama_health_care_reform_proposal.pdf

No one I know who voted for Obama had any serious expectation that we were getting Single Payer.

Because that was never his proposal.

https://www.kff.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/obama_health_care_reform_proposal.pdf

We elected Obama with the hope for single payer healthcare and received Romney Care in a rebrand effort called the ACA.

Dude if you didn't read Obama's 2008 campaign proposal for health care reform that's on you. The only thing we didn't get was the public option, thanks to Joe Lieberman.

https://www.kff.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/obama_campaign_position_on_health_care.pdf

https://www.kff.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/obama_health_care_reform_proposal.pdf

Democrats passed ACA

So they got healthcare for tens of millions of people. That's fantastic. I used it for awhile myself.

God our government is so fucking useless for anything that might actually help people.

More specifically: gop.gov

I’d move there if they had half the benefits they do in the PRC. Universal healthcare,

Taiwan has universal healthcare. China has a crappy employer based health care system.

Treason Trump ran to stay out of jail.

Nothing was "thrown at him". If you break the law, you bring down the law on you. The jury system insures that you can only be found guilty by a random 12 person panel of citizens. Why are you pretending that our 200+ year old jury system doesn't work? It worked for 200 years....