this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2024
237 points (96.8% liked)

News

23258 readers
2812 users here now

Welcome to the News community!

Rules:

1. Be civil


Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.


2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.


Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.


3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.


Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.


4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.


Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.


5. Only recent news is allowed.


Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.


6. All posts must be news articles.


No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.


7. No duplicate posts.


If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.


8. Misinformation is prohibited.


Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.


9. No link shorteners.


The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.


10. Don't copy entire article in your post body


For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
top 21 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 55 points 2 months ago (1 children)

you can tell the average working class GOP voter that the people they're voting for actively fucking despise non-billionaires--and yes that includes you--and they'll say "yea but muh guuuuuuns and muh jeeeeeeeessus"

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

But drag queens! /s

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I bet JD Vance ruthlessly tears the tags off his furniture.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

The couch has been a naughty girl. It needs to be punished.

[–] Protoknuckles@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

That's just foreplay.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

Before he buys them

[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No surprise there.

More precisely, undoubtedly, the people and corporations that have given him big piles of money want to gut consumer protections.

It's really very simple - the billionaires and the corporations want to take the US back to at least the 1950s, and preferably the 1880s. Their goal is to institutionalize a plutocratic autocracy under which they'll be free to strip mine the mountains and clearcut the forests and drill baby drill and spew pollution everywhere with no expectation of social responsibility, so they'll be entirely free to keep all of the profits to pay for their lives of grotesque privilege while we'll be reduced to just being additional resources for them to exploit, with no liberties, no freedoms and no say in anything.

That's why they bankrolled Project 2025, why they bought the Supreme Court and why they're backing Trump and Vance (and the MAGA Republicans broadly). Each one of them is intended to play a role in destroying democracy and implementing autocracy, all toward the same goal - the plutocratic dream world in which everything is bent toward enriching the few at the expense of the many - of elevating the few on the backs of the many, and not just essentially by happenstance, as is the case already, but officially and by design.

Class war isn't coming - it's already here. The rich are already fighting it, and they're winning.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago
  • the billionaires and the corporations want to take the US back to at least the 1950s, and preferably the 1880s.

Some of them are gunning for pre-1860, before the War of Northern Aggression....

[–] Cadeillac@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If only he listened more to Mamaw, he might not be so fucking weird

"I'll never forget the time I convinced myself that I was gay. I was eight or nine, maybe younger, and I stumbled upon a broadcast by some fire-and-brimstone preacher. The man spoke about the evils of homosexuals, how they had infiltrated our society, and how they were all destined for hell absent some serious repenting. At the time, the only thing I knew about gay men was that they preferred men to women. This described me perfectly: I disliked girls, and my best friend in the world was my buddy Bill. Oh no, I'm going to hell."

When he brought up the issue with his grandmother — known to Vance as "Mamaw" — she replied bluntly: "Don't be a fucking idiot, how would you know that you're gay?"

When Vance explained his reasoning, she laughed.

"JD, do you want to suck dicks?" she said, according to the book.

The young Vance, apparently "flabbergasted," said: "Of course not!"

"Then you're not gay. And even if you did want to suck dicks, that would be okay," she replied. "God would still love you."

[–] toothpaste_sandwich@feddit.nl 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Now that sounds like literature right there. Real solid parenting, too. Wonder if grandma was sitting on a couch during this conversation.

[–] Cadeillac@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

The young Vance, apparently flabbergasted, replied "of course not! I like fucking couches!"

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Amazing how these guys come right out and tell their people "we want you to be cheated out of your money" and those people lap it up.

[–] nifty@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The trucking industry has also been fighting the Environmental Protection Agency’s new emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks — another rule that Vance and his colleagues tried to kill.

You would think someone who wants people to have more children would want to preserve the environment and improve it. But I am sure people like this somehow want to believe that they will be immune to the negative consequences of such decision making. The environment impacts us all, you can’t live in an enclosure safe from the detrimental effects of a hostile or unlivable planet.

[–] RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

He's a fucking Catholic. Guarantee he doesn't even believe in human caused climate change (at least as far as the character JD Vance is concerned, who knows what the person playing Peter Thiel's sock puppet actually thinks)

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Oh he doesn’t want the children to actually be healthy or prosper, just bring them into the world.

[–] RagingSnarkasm@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

~~J. D. Vance~~Peter Thiel Wants to Gut Biden’s Consumer Protections

Fixed.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

weird thing to want

[–] Lexam@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

All consumer protections do is keep dishonest business owners seperated from their customers... money.

[–] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

What an amazing Family Guy™️

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

He's a libertarian. Thinks government gets in the way of a libertarian utopia.

[–] MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

Jacobin - News Source Context (Click to view Full Report)Information for Jacobin:

MBFC: Left - Credibility: High - Factual Reporting: High - United States of America
Wikipedia about this source

Search topics on Ground.Newshttps://jacobin.com/2024/08/vance-biden-gut-consumer-protections
Media Bias Fact Check | bot support