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[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0@lemmy.world 11 points 7 hours ago

a federal abortion ban as president, despite his statements denying support for these things

They straight up asked him the question, and he refused to answer it. So, she didn't tell a "half truth" - he literally refused to say he would veto a national ban when directly given the opportunity to do so.

As for project 2025, it's his playbook. Whether or not he will specifically call it that, doesn't change the fact it's how he wants to dismantle the federal government.

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Deleting X is a violation of his first amendment rights and he’ll sue all of you!

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

That’s exactly why he’s complaining. He knows they’ll pull this shit so they can claim to be fair. He may be an idiot, but he’s an expert at manipulating the press.

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, but she's simultaneously so powerful that she convinced several elected officials in New York to risk prison time by attacking one of her political opponents in exchange for...? Nothing? And oh by the way, he wasn't her actual political opponent when the prosecution started, 4D chess over there.

But also so stupid she couldn't pass the bar exam and can't form a complete sentence without a teleprompter.

Get with it folks!

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago

After the civil war completes, Emperor Walz declares the entire nation will now be known as Minnesota in a show of unification to the rest of the world.

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Go back to mother Russia. Just off the top of my head with 30 seconds of thinking about it and no research:

Obama: Implemented "Obamacare" allowing millions of Americans with pre-existing conditions to get affordable healthcare for the first time.

Biden: Limits on predatory interest rates across the board. Limited Insulin prices.

Both of them have actively gone after people and businesses ripping of medicare which universally helps the working class through better care and lower taxes.

But sure, they've done NOTHING for the working class.

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, because the infrastructure that Proton hosts their service on is "infinite". Everyone knows that Amazon charges the same price to reserve one instance of EC2 as they charge for reserving 10,000.

What exactly do you think the "cloud" is composed of? Fairy dust? It's composed of all sorts of finite things - servers, storage, networking, electricity, etc. etc. etc.

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0@lemmy.world 37 points 4 weeks ago

I sure hope they not only lose, but get further punitive damages for even trying to pull this shit.

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

They aren't really gullible. If you watch the youtube videos, it's pretty much always people that already had their licenses revoked, sometimes permanently. They're just trying to convince themselves there's some way to legally drive again.

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0@lemmy.world 14 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

In the meantime fuck diabetic people, am I right?

Student loan forgiveness with no other action is completely counter-productive. Just like allowing drug companies to charge anything they want for Insulin, and then just having the government pay them is completely counter-productive. The answer to spiraling insulin prices (when not due to a shortage of some key ingredient) is to cap prices, not just pay whatever ransom drug companies are asking.

College costs have spiraled out of control because laws were passed to prevent you from escaping student loan debt through bankruptcy. From a lender perspective there's almost no risk to giving students as much money as they want to borrow. Colleges in turn realized they could just keep raising prices because students could "afford" pretty much any tuition price through loans. If you just "forgive" all student loan debt, you'll just encourage colleges to jack up prices even more. Why not? Come one come all, the government is going to foot whatever the bill ends up being!

If you're going to forgive student debt, it needs to come with 3 things:

  • A hard cap on public university tuition tracking inflation
  • Student loans need to go back to being forgiven as a part of bankruptcy.
  • A long-term plan to make public universities "free"

You want to find a middle ground with conservatives? Make tuition free for the occupations we have a shortage of to encourage people to go to school for a degree in which there will be a job waiting when they're done.

We need more teachers? Teaching degrees are free for the next decade. You want to be a marine biologist? You pay whatever the (reasonable) capped state tuition is.

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Welcome to literally everything? It's called volume-based discount. Just like if you buy a box of cookies from the grocery store, you'll pay a fuckton more than if you buy a pallet of cookies from the exact same company.

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The thing with the F-35 is you'll never actually hear about it being "better" because there is no dogfight. It shows up, you die, that's it. In the real-world it would be like one guy showing up to a boxing ring to fight, and the other guy dropping a nuclear bomb on the stadium. The whole point of 5th gen fighters is that they don't engage, they have so much technology that they blow up the opponent before the opponent even knows they showed up.

Meanwhile, Russia's "5th gen" fighters can't get near the airspace because they both don't have the proper smart munitions, and don't have the physical capabilities to fly into an area blanketed in US AA weapons.

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