crusa187 @ crusa187 @lemmy.ml

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The Sheriff in Kerr County was interviewed the day after the floods, and his first comment was about “when I woke up this morning, I could hardly believe it!…”

This fucking guy slept through the flooding all night as kids were drowning in his county he was elected to protect.

They could have helped us by including the public option in the bill, as it was originally designed to include by republican Mitt Romney. Instead, they simply used it as an opportunity to shovel 25 million Americans right into the pockets of insurance companies. Then-senator Biden dropped the public option before negotiations even began, as a “show of good faith to his esteemed Republican colleagues.” They left the insurance requirement in though, and even tried to add a system where we had to report it with taxes if we wanted refunds.

The part BBB is fucking up is honestly a travesty to begin with. It’s what allows Walmart to operate without insuring their employees, specifically training them to earn under certain amounts and work limited hours so that they can go on Medicare instead of the giant multinational corporation paying their fair share for their employees’ health.

Do you see the pattern here? Fuck these corporations for buying our government and using it against us to rob us blind. Both parties do help them with this, and it has got to stop because we’re at a breaking point.

Dems constantly let republicans get away with “causing more damage,” yet never seem capable of helping the working class when they get voted back into power. It’s so disingenuous, at least Republicans are honest about their evil intentions. But sure, vote harder next election sweetie, and if you vote hard enough the still not prosecuted Orange Traitor will just cancel the election altogether.

Swasticar, now with 50% more Nazi!

Gross, hate that my tax dollars get used for this crap.

Perhaps you shouldn’t. At this point, it’s likely the majority of users are bots.

Investing millions in main st businesses

Obviously a commercial real estate investor, weak gaslighting attempt though.

She knows those who schlepped into offices before Covid realize how much better remote is for everyone, so tries to target kids who are fresh out of school and didn’t necessarily experience that dichotomy.

Hey now don’t forget Nick Fuentes and Stephen Miller!

At least he didn’t say Mr Roboto ?..

Yes, this is a problem much better solved on an institutional scale best served by government regulations, not by individuals doing their part. These companies you mention attempt to shift the burden of responsibility onto those with the least power to affect any real change. It’s diabolical.

It’s common sense, but obfuscated by those still spending millions to deny climate change while the world literally burns around us. Gaslighting is a hell of a propaganda technique.

I strongly suspect this is conservative persecution complex. Sometimes I wish these types of users would go back to Reddit, but Reddit is such a hellscape now I wouldn’t even wish that on condescending .world users. Rather them stay here and bolster lemmy numbers, even with their shit takes included.

His dad introduced modern computer voting

Ah yes, the now infamous Diebold voting machines. Manufactured by… drum roll… Dick Cheney‘a Halliburton, a company with every intention of getting us into forever wars for them to profit off of. Certainly nothing fishy about that, nor the countless reports of the machines glitching and flipping votes. This was the precursor to the refined technique which made news for allegedly swinging the vote for Biden and cost Fox all that lawsuit money, but if you ask me that’s just classic Republican projection. They know what they did to get Bush in office.

Glad you’re still here in the US, sorry it’s still tejas though. Such a mix of amazing and terrible things in that state. Politics is so frustrating there…it’s far more purple than Repugs would like to admit, but they gerrymander it like crazy and exploit people’s religious beliefs to keep the state turning blue seemingly perpetually out of reach. I was lucky to escape to one of the coasts in the aftermath of the pandemic, but not sure it makes much difference given the current socio-political landscape. Summers aren’t quite so brutal though so there’s that.

I do think there are better ways of doing ballots digitally, and yeah even old school methods like you described can work well. The states you mentioned use a type of scantron, very clear what you circle in but still subject to the same type of partisan nonsense as the hanging chads (eg, look they only filled in 90% of this circle, clearly we have to toss this vote.) speaking of tossing votes, that’s the other thing about paper ballots…they can literally just dump them before dropping off at the county election centers, and we had several cases of that in the ‘24 election. I think a permanent record that is a verifiable source of truth for election results is quite feasible, can still be anonymous, and provably non biased, but it has to be built that way and neither party can be trusted to do that.

Yep, do this every time. Unfortunately voter turnout in primaries is so abysmal that the ad spends seem to often work. By the numbers, the candidate who spends more money wins over 95% of the time. It’s a depressing reality that has led Dems down a very dark path of chasing donor money and abandoning their constituents in the process.

I’m apparently a freak of American politics and do basic due diligence to research beforehand if the primary is contested and find the most progressive contender possible, but I think most people just don’t give care enough to do this sort of thing and usually just vote for the name they see more on TV. So, I think increased civic engagement is another very important part of solving these issues.

We should invest in our electoral process and make it the envy of democracies around the globe, and as Americans, should be damn proud to do so.

It sounds like you were politically active in TX around the same time I was, during GW era, based on prior comment. But this reads as if you are an expat now. Did you leave?

One of the reasons I think paper can be problematic is actually part of the same debacle that got W elected - the hanging chads in FL. After numerous recounts, it was in fact confirmed that Gore won, but by then fucking Fox News had declared the winner and the corrupt SCOTUS went along with it.

What conspiracy theory? Dems are bought, for just one example look at how they lick Israel’s boots and eagerly spend our money on killing Palestinian babies because their AIPAC handler pays them to do so. That doesn’t help us at home, and it doesn’t resonate with the voter base, yet they still collect the money and do the donor bidding every time.

I want actual representation, by stark contrast.

There is no conspiracy here other than the apparent belief that Democrats have democracy and the American people’s best interests in mind. Sure, there’s Bernie, but he won’t call himself a Dem - the reason why is no conspiracy, and that should tell you a lot about the Dem party.

Agreed we need much better voting protections and a complete overhaul of the system, with national standards the states should be required to meet. I think there is probably a more modern solution available that would satisfy the requirements you’ve laid out, but would be happy to start with paper ballots if that’s all we can muster. Eventually I’d like to see something like a 1 way hash that can be combined with some of a voter’s PII to publicly verify votes cast and results while protecting voter identities.

I’m glad we have some agreement at least.

I’d just like to remind you that we’ve voted Dems into a super majority 3 times in the past 25 years, and every time they find some excuse to do nothing. It’s infuriating, until you realize that they are controlled opposition in an oligarchy, and the point of modern American government is to help the richest people in the world exploit and rob vulnerable Americans for everything they’re worth. Then it’s just sad to see people continually going to bat for them.

Dems are a pressure relief valve and a fundraising organization, nothing more.

We the people aren’t afraid of this, but if the establishment dems catch wind of a primary challenger who’s left of center, they will come down so hard on them with millions in DNC attic ads and literally try to cancel the primary if they have to to keep them out.

The Dems are also fascists. I’m not saying support republicans, I’m saying support a new party altogether. The establishment has been screwing us for over 50 years now, and helping the Dems inevitably leads to more of the same.