gAlienLifeform @ gAlienLifeform @lemmy.world

Posts

1,889

Comments

2,062

Joined

2 yr. ago

Nah, more like a quarter on this issue (arc)

Plus, this is going to be extra unpopular with people in rural areas especially, lots of small towns have no news coverage or any kind of media focusing on them besides public stations, so if they go away nobody's going to tell you what's going on at the school board or what the score of the high school football game was or other local stuff like that

Between this and the cuts to Medicaid, people in Trump voting country are getting fucked by this administration, and even they're starting to realize that, which creates an opportunity for taking these fascist pricks down a notch

"He's brown, they're brown, whatever. Say thank you and give me money." - Trump (if he was honest and more coherent)

Partially because I believe in democracy and the right of voters / non voters to make bad choices,

Partially because I think complaining about non-voters isn't going to change their behavior at all and might just make them more stubborn,

But mostly because I have spent my entire adult life watching asshole morons get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to advise Democratic candidates to do stupid shit like campaign with Liz Cheney, and then when they lose try to blame everything on trans people for existing or whoever's the new scapegoat of the day, so I want to see all those fuckers lose their jobs and get shamed out of professional politics almost as badly as I want to see Republicans and their financiers in proson

"You can't prove that if we delete all of our records!" - Nebraska's Department of Corrections (basically)

"Cool story, still crimes against humanity." - Nuremberg style tribunal we'll need to sort all of this out someday

Lol, I voted for Harris

"Because people are, by and large, spectacularly awful" is a terrible message for getting people to vote for you, and you can tell a lot of actually awful people in the Democratic party believe it based on the stupid shit they campaign on (for example - nobody is going to buy it when you say you want a lethal military, your party likes treaties and peace and UN hearings, you're just pretending to be a Republican because you think we're all stupid).

Maybe if we run on what we actually believe and stopped trying to bullshit people they'd stop being so spectacularly cynical about their country.

I think it was a no show problem because we had practically the same decreased turnout in 2012 compared to 2008 without pandemic voting weirdness to explain it, but either way 100% vote by mail is an excellent idea (both the underlying policy and campaigning on "let's make interacting with your government less of a pain in the ass" type ideas)

Idiocy caused the "no show" problem. If you couldn't see that the Biden and Harris campaign were creating the exact conditions to make this happen by fighting with their own supporters over Israel (who turned out to vote against Trump anyway but made the Democratic party look like the chaotic shitshow it is with their protests) and telling everyone else that the economy was great actually and they were just too stupid to see that, you're a fool (who was probably being paid six figures for campaign consulting).

At least they have the option of voting in better judges, Americans like me are just condemned to look at John Roberts stupid face for the next few decades

[The letter from the Tennessee Preparatory Christian School] goes on to read, “Morgan will not comment about the school or people associated with the school. If online slander continues, records of posts and messages will be forwarded to colleges and universities as part of a comprehensive student file. If the above are not adhered to, Morgan Armstrong’s diploma will be withheld and not mailed on June 15, 2025.”

Especially if they can't give any other examples where use of vulgar and disrespectful language off campus and outside of school hours led to a student being expelled (which is what withholding a diploma is effectively)

Except it's licensed by the state of Tennessee as an acceptable place to send your kids that won't have them or you catching a truancy charge. Constitutional protections against government overreach apply to licensed agents of the state in a lot of other situations, not sure why this one should be different.

Fair enough, definitely not trying to say they aren't going to try to intimidate her or minimize how fucked up they're being, just saying I think/hope that will be a fight she'll win in the long run

I feel like before it even got that far she could just go to whatever job or college she's trying to apply to with a news story about her high school being stupid for proof of education and a few letters of recommendation for proof of character and just skip the diploma altogether

People confuse being a dick to poor people with being "good for the economy"

True, but they were already there anyway

In related news, here's who he's in second place to at the moment,

"The ‘Democratic Party’s Own Donald Trump’ Is Getting Another Chance - As Andrew Cuomo emerges as the front-runner in New York City's mayoral race, several women who accused him of sexual harassment just three years ago say they feel betrayed and forgotten" (arc)

It's probably better than we could have reasonably hoped for with this court, but a 4/4 split that doesn't create any nationwide precedent to enforce the super unambiguous "shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" language in the first amendment is still pretty bad. We dodged a bullet but the gun is still loaded.

Because the Supreme Court divided evenly, its decision is not a binding precedent nationwide and sets the stage for the entire court to reconsider the issue in a future case, perhaps from another state.