No. It’d require them to use NATO funding to defend the rest of the world from us.

I think your original argument just wasn’t fully fleshed out. Seems you don’t like the guy for a lot more reason than the one you gave, which might be legitimate.

I’m not that familiar, tbh.

I was thinking QtPie, who is a much nicer person.

Pretty sure PewDiePie is an ass, but “he said a racial slur once ten years ago” isn’t a great argument against anyone, generally.

You’re going to equate a word with being a Nazi and rape? Using a racial slur is literally a small subset of being a Nazi.

If you think calling people Jews was the big issue with the Nazis, well…

I do think we have a shitton more room for Democratic Socialism. But I also think we need to sell it to the billionaires. And we should be able to sell it to a good number of them. They have a lot of the power in this country, mostly to manipulate you through media, social and otherwise.

The thing is that these polices like medicare for all, education for all, and mass transit are good for the billionaires too. When people are less desperate and have more to lose, they commit less crime. That’s pretty much the entire reason for the racial disparity in crime rates. If you want less of “those people”, all you have to do is make them middle class. That’s within the billionaire’s power with good policy and a couple decades.

I’m hoping the blowback from our literal fascism is enough to get people to understand things like this along with, you know, why laws are important. The billionaires and republicans had a brush with the way they wanted to do things and it was an absolute shitshow. Maybe some of them who were getting too high on their own supply will take some of these lessons to heart, and they’ll allow us to start making this a better place. It doesn’t take many.

And if they could have seen the future, they would have likely made the attempt. At the time, even most conservative judges weren’t big on overturning existing rulings. There was always risk, but there wasn’t as much risk as with a lot of other things that needed attention. And if we had gotten into a state where Roe was overturned, we probably had some pretty damn big issues to deal with.

They’re not complete idiots. Harris did largely run on a lot of “much the same”. But Biden was a damn good president and things were improving at a very nice rate. Of course people don’t like hearing that when they can always find things to be negative about, and their own situation likely hasn’t drastically improved.

It’s hard for people to understand that in normal times nearly every administration really has made efforts to make your lives better. Maybe not in all the ways they should (tax the fucking billionaires). But they’ve largely gotten the low hanging fruit. (Building mass transit isn’t low hanging.) It’s not that easy to just come in and fix everything, especially after half of it gets smashed every 8 years. Biden did a pretty great job of that, and if we had 16 years of Biden-like government, I bet this country would be in pretty damn great shape. This country is an aircraft carrier, not a canoe, and the only way it drastically changes direction in a short time is if someone starts blowing holes in the bottom of it.

I don’t even want to say the things I’m looking forward to from the Biden administration, because it seems like they’re watching social media for things to destroy.

Yeah, I got that. Tried to show that with the “always, every time”. Wanted to expound anyway.

Always, every time. This is Lemmy, after all, and we have a narrative to maintain.

Look, not just this. I’m not fucking happy about the state of the world. I just want to be as practical and effective as possible in fighting for a better world. Often that means you have to work with people like Chuck Schumer, and maybe understand some of the positions he has been in and why he made the decisions he has even if you don’t agree with them.

Everyone loves to chuck rocks from the sidelines without any consideration for how to actually get things done or the actual repercussions of your actions.

I want more Democratic Socialism. I want more Zohran Mamdani. I want more AOC. But I don’t want to throw out the Manchin while we’re at it, because I want the fucking votes to get shit done. And I hate Manchin. But Jim Justice is much worse, and we all knew he’d be worse. There was never any doubt. So why did we spend so much time railing against Manchin while there were clearly more important races that needed our attention?

Posting things against the rules in regards to the IDF might be what they deserve, sure. But it doesn’t serve anyone, and it hurts the platform you’re posting on. It hurts any other messages that might be more effective. It does more damage to your cause than it helps.

I get that you’re angry. We’re all angry. But you’re not yelling into a vacuum. And if we’re yelling, I want it to serve a purpose.

“Death, death to the SS!”?

What would it have accomplish? What does it accomplish?

It gets Lemmy known as a hotbed of terrorism. It may cause legal and/or political trouble for the admins of the site. And what does it do that other words don’t?

Look at all the discussion here and consider how it is or isn’t limited. What’s happening in Gaza is a genocide. The IDF is responsible for it. What do death chants contribute to that conversation?

How could the Dems do this?!?

https://lemmy.world/post/32326227

I’ll write up a post now in !solarpunk@slrpnk.net

more than double what it would cost at market rate

I definitely paid more for labor than for materials. My payoff time is about 13 years with a Tesla Powerwall 3, maybe a bit less now that I have an EV. I had a team of 4 guys plus an electrician here for about five days.

I did go with a slightly more reputable company that charged slightly more, but I would have gone elsewhere if it was a huge difference.

Maybe I should get around to making a post in !Solarpunk@slrpnk.net or something, even though it isn’t very punk.

our city’s solar electric subsidy program

It sounds like there’s two different things there. There’s a solar installation (hardware, etc.), and there’s likely some kind of net metering program (where they pay you or give you credit for electricity you generate). That paragraph sounds like the first, but the phrase sounds like the second.

You shouldn’t have to go through them for the solar installation, if your conditions accommodate it. Granted, the conditions don’t apply to everyone. You’ll want to have a suitable roof that ideally faces south-ish, own your home, and plan to stay there for at least 10 years. In the US, you also kind of need to get it done within this calendar year, which is a rough ask, before the federal 30% tax credit goes away. But maybe you can find an installer that isn’t trying to scam you quite as much.

(It’s early and cloudy today.)

What does this have to do with the Democrats? Or did you just want to shoehorn them in?

It was a really bad movie when it came out. It really needed the real life examples in order to stitch it all together.

Oh, this is all going to affect him. Not in the way he likes.

The guy formerly in the inner circle is soon going to realize that he made the entire government consist of inner circles. Dictatorships don’t run on laws.

Those laws primarily protect the rich.

The country of laws that existed four years ago served Elon more than it served any other individual. But because there were a few laws he didn’t like, he helped to destroy all of it.

We’re all going to pay for that, Elon included most of all.

This Brock Turner?

The caption reads:

Brock Turner, a Stanford student who raped and assaulted an unconscious female student behind a dumpster at a fraternity party, was recently released from jail after serving only three months. Some are shocked at how short this sentence is. Others who are more familiar with the way sexual violence has been handled in the criminal justice system are shocked that he was found guilty and served any time at all. What do you think?

Not that you should have to, but can you get waxed instead? (I’m honestly not familiar with the process.)