Not voted Yes on anything Republicans want, for starters.
No cabinet picks. No poison pills. No sneaking in expansions of power in yearly budgets. No tax cuts for the rich.
It costs as much energy to vote no as it does yes. But it doesn't look good for the lobbyists' bank accounts when they pay for Trump's demands, so why even bother fighting for what's right?
Like they were elected to do. I sure hope they're doing more than the people trying to balance rent and food as they worry about if their senator is going to vote yes on Trump's wants.
It's always amazing to see the media of the 80s just shitting on Japan. "Cheap mass market products that never work." "They're going to take all the American jobs."
In Back to the Future 2, McFly is seen as weak for having a job with a Japanese boss and getting fired for it.
Cyberpunk has Japanese decorations and cosmetics because it was invented when Japan was the yellow peril.
At the same time, Japanese-Americans were asking for reparations from the internment camps, charged with the crime of being Japanese and having all their assets sold off without any consent.
Japan was able to help get a start on the next generation of writers with the mass production of anime into Western audiences. Now if someone doesn't watch anime it's seen as weird.
Right now China is that "other" nation. I wonder if in 30 more years we'll look back at it and go "What the fuck were we smoking in hating people we never even had contact with? No Chinese person ever deported me. No Chinese person ever called me slurs."
At this point I think if anyone loves America they've bought into Republican brainwashing. I don't think I could love this country. Anything good has been stripped away.
The best parts are the natural wonders and some of my best friends. My friends can come from anywhere and aren't beholden to their birthplace. The wonders are only wonders thanks to conservation, and Republicans want to strip mine Yosemite for oil and coal.
I'm on the oldest edge of Gen Z, 27 year old here.
I can maybe handle my parents promising a good life for me before rug pulling that. Well, I can't and that's one of the many reasons why I have mental health issues.
I don't think they could have predicted 3 economic crashes in my life before I turn the age they conceived me.
It's just profoundly sad that there are people who were raised for this planet and the planet has changed fundamentally in the last 20 years alone. The technology, the temperature, the expected job market, the ability to own even basic things, the political climate.
Most people on Lemmy were raised with a bright future that has been dimmed each passing year. The only light we have are those we are close to.
There should be a libgen, sci-hub, internet archive, and a massive torrent of ISO standards. Standards aren't great if they are gate kept by money. Now someone will reinvent it without a profit motive, and there's 2 standards.
"I bought this before he was crazy" is what they put on to have a thought-terminating cliche of giving money to a fascist.
For years he was batshit insane. I can forgive not knowing he sued to be called the inventor of PayPal and SpaceX, I only knew that like 2 years ago. I can't forgive him doing/saying:
"We'll coup anyone we want"
Suing for the right to call someone a pedo because they didn't like his bad idea to save children stuck in a cave
Selling the Hyperloop to help destroy the California High Speed Rail
Coming from a family legacy of slave-ran emerald mines in Apartheid Africa
Some of these are a few years old, to being something he's always been part of. And depending when they bought a Tesla, they willingly gave this man money. And then slap a sticker, thinking that ignores being a walking billboard for as fascist's brand, and how moronic they are as a person to give him the money, because I guess he said something funny on twitter 10 years ago.
The right wing spin of "Please stop doing what Trump wants you to do"?
Or the right wing spin of "Stand up for the people who voted you in to stop Trump"?