The reason why the rachet turns further to the right each election cycle is because non-conservatives in the US have an abysmal voter turnout.
Neoliberalism is the product of leftists deciding not to vote because there's no "good" option, and leftists will perpetuate this cycle by refusing to acknowledge incremental progress as a good thing.
Yeah, I'm on board with making voting easier for everyone. Voter turnout is ultimately the only way short of violent revolution to fix shit in this country.
Voting is difficult enough for people who don't vote conservative, which is why when leftists refuse to vote out of principle because their perfect candidates aren't a choice, they're figuratively stepping on the rake.
I hope you're right, but I'll say that I've definitely seen more people in this election cycle say there's no point in picking between two fascists than any other cycle I've been a part of. Especially here on lemmy
In Louisiana, we have a super majority republican congress, bought republican judges, and a republican governor for the first time in 8 years. We are in a phase of revenge passing whatever right wing bills they can get away with because we no longer have a Democrat governor to turn away the ridiculous crap.
Our legislature absolutely will write in Christianity as the "correct" religion, and our governor is in the process of rewriting our constitution for a few reasons, one of which could very well be naming Christianity.
It's going to take more than a challenge from tst to fix this one... We are deteriorating faster than Texas because Republicans are passing bills out of spite.
Its easy to say Trump makes another presidential option look good, because that's absolutely true. But it's a little dishonest to say that Biden's not a decent president with a list of accomplishments that stand independent of Trump.
I like the royal "we" like as a collective we all are capable of doing better. Look around. We are fighting just so we don't get an actual fascist.
As long as half the nation wants someone like Trump, we have to do what it takes to make sure that doesn't happen, because if it does we may not be able to pick someone better next time.
Ok. Did Biden solicit taking a billion dollars to roll back existing climate protections?
Or did Biden just endorse a 1.2 billion dollar plan to build carbon capture facilities in the area of our refineries with the stated goal of being emission neutral by mid century?
Don't act like your false equivalency makes Biden and trump the same.
Great, you linked an article with a claim about how carbon capture facilities are used by oil companies.
This isn't that. My state, and several others are developing state controlled permanent storage sites for captured CO2 called class VI wells.
I'll grant you that it isn't a permanent or long term solution, but my point still stands that Trump is nakedly and publicly selling our future to oil companies and Biden is at least trying to do something to make things better. They are not the same.
they're testing it under the homes of black and poor communities
That's the concern. Its still very much in the planning stages with decisions set to be made later on in the year about larger scale solutions. The people who that article talks about do have a voice and there's a strong chance the state will bend to those concerns and choose somewhere else.
But yeah, Louisiana is a shitty state to live in in general. It ranks dead last in several metrics of civilized life out of the 50 states. It's also heavily republican and politically backwards. But we're trying to make progress.
Well you see comrade, Russia had to invade Ukraine because .01% of their population are nazis and the east ukranians want to be Russian anyway and NATO is clearly provoking them and it's going to be over in 5 days pinkie promise.
These are all things I've seen actual russians claim.
(Content warning, discussions of SA and misogyny, mods I might mention politics a bit but I hope this can be taken outside the context of politics and understood as a discussion of basic human decency)...
There's a similar concept that has sprung up in discission around here about how basically all women have a sense of danger around men they don't know or the ones obviously being creepy.
Way too many people here think that without a form of physical assault involved, taking measures to distance yourself from someone you get a bad feeling about is sexism and as bad as racism because not all men are bad.
Like, if I'm walking down a sidewalk and the person walking towards me decides to cross the street because I'm a man, I get it. It's not hard to grasp that some people don't want to be close to someone who might objectify them.
But I've been in probably 5 separate arguments on lemmy about how women who do that are misandrist garbage because every man deserves a shot and you should always give men the benefit of the doubt.
There's definitely a higher concentration of man-centric conversation here.
So is this sarcasm or do you really not understand that it isn't your right to decide what other people discern as safe vs unsafe?
Because if it's not sarcasm, I'm really not in the mood to have a 6th argument with another person whose entire position boils down to "well it hurts my feelings because not all men are bad"
We're all pointless opinions here on the world wide web, bucko.
That being said, I hate your pointless opinion with every fiber of my being and I'm fully prepared to sit at my computer and argue about it through the wee hours of the morning
This concept isn't hard to understand and every time someone has a problem with it it's always some variation of being personally offended because they think someone else's safety is actually about them.
You're not different. I didn't ascribe your position, you literally said you're insulted because you've never done anything to justify that behavior.
That's a variation of making it about you because you don't feel like you should be lumped in with other men, even though in the situations this happens in it's because the other person doesn't know you.
You're the exact type of person I was talking about with the exact point the last 5 have all made. I thought it might be sarcasm because you can't seriously be trying to assert the same thing they all did on a comment calling them all out for refusing to get it, but here we are.
Calling me a clown is a cheap cop out to deflect from the fact that your feelings are hurt. Go bait someone else.
I was talking about people who know me and interpret autistic behavior as a sign of danger.
You came into a conversation about unknown men being an implicit danger to women, a subject that's a title post and 3 comments deep, to talk about how people treat you like that because of something completely different, not clarify that you're talking about something completely different, and then you're wondering why I'm thinking you're talking about the subject of the post?
I'm willing to chalk this up to a misunderstanding, but your insistence that I'm a clown for defending a point that you made no indication wasn't what you were even talking about until now has left me completely unwilling to talk to you further.
Bernie doesn't do a ton of grandstanding. He's also one of the only senators who introduces bills that get bipartisan support sometimes. I really don't think he's introducing a bill he means to go nowhere
This is incredibly disingenuous. The US might not be a true democracy, but it's not an authoritarian regime. Xi and putin disappear people who have an opinion on whether they should be forever-rulers.
The fact that independent parties exist and hold seats at all three levels of government mean you are fundamentally wrong in saying there are only two choices.
The US is a flawed democracy. That's still better than an authoritarian regime.
I constantly see angry mobs of people decrying "woke", "critical race theory", ""grooming"", and whatever other nonsense they made up this week. They march around with guns, constantly appending lib as a prefix to any word they can use to denigrate. They actively plot violence and spew hatred in the open....
Politics is fundamentally different for conservatives. They have to have someone to hate. It's drilled into them by their media outlets.
The tactic is a form of fear based control that conservative media has been working on since Nixon, and made into effect with the birth of Fox News in 1996.
Seriously. Nixon's think tank conceived the conservative media outlet as a catch-all, exclusive source of news that as a primary function would steer conservatives to not trust other news sources.
They did this because they did not want another Watergate, where conservatives turned against Nixon because of hard evidence laid out by popular unbiased news, which at the time conservatives still were informed by.
The Frankenstein's monster of a party that that tactic has turned conservatives into requires manufactured rage to fuel the fire. If the outrage ever simmers, you begin to see smarter conservatives recognizing what their party has become and it begins to fall apart.
So there's your answer. It's because the hate is necessary to continue the control. If you don't believe me, turn on Fox news. There's always the manufactured rage-of-the-day filling the air time.
Not for no reason. It's a form of control. If you genuinely believe that the opposing party is going to bring the country to ruin, you're a lot less likely to consider their position in politics.
Look at the affordable care act. Conservatives hated/hate it because "obamacare" was portrayed as giving free health care to the lazy poor that you have to pay for as a hard working conservative. When asked if we should repeal Obamacare, conservatives poll something crazy like 95% yes, simply because it's a bad word they learned.
Many of those conservatives have health care through the ACA and get mad when Republicans take it away because they need it. Those same conservatives mostly aren't even aware that what they have is literally obamacare.
If only they actually would die on that hill. They won't, because they've conditioned their base to support them no matter what. Instead, they'll rot the hill and move on to the next once the one they're on can't be salvaged.
On the topic of "Do I have to identify myself" or "Do I have to sign the ticket":
The default option is jail. A cop can put you in jail for any reason if he determines you might be breaking the law. It's literally their job. Agreeing to be identified gives them a reason to let you go, agreeing to appear in court of your own will for an infraction gives them a reason to not hold you until a forced court date.
I'm of the party that you should only cooperate the bare minimum with the police and I believe they have too much power as it is. But don't refuse to identify yourself and don't refuse to sign a ticket. Not unless you want a tour of the county jail.
people who feel strongly about not being party to butchering children
You think Trump taking the white house is going to change that? The only difference enabling republicans is going to make is how much things are going to get worse.
Conservative voters aren't bound by the same morals. They don't abstain because their leaders are causing suffering.
Is it fair to say that the overton window is only moving right when we are still making progress moving it left?
The overton window isn't a zero-sum measure. It can expand simultaneously in both directions. Given that we have nazis in the street now, I'd say it's not correct to say that it's moving only left either.
Quiet quitting has always referred to the extra bullshit that employers pressure employees into doing.
In America we've fallen into this work culture that implies you aren't really part of a team unless you are constantly putting forth more than what the employer is paying you for.
The undertone of this headline is that managers feel uneasy because so-called "quiet quitters" won't take on extra work or unpaid hours or exhibit overwhelming enthusiasm, but just do literally what they have to at a passable or high quality.
The gaslighting part is that those workers aren't doing anything wrong, but they aren't bending over backwards for their employers, so corporate America wants to paint the picture that those workers are awful time thieves instead of just burnt out wage slaves.
Oh absolutely. In Japan for example if you are unable to work or you get removed from your career, it is socially understandable for you to consider suicide. Lots of Japanese citizens put their job before even their families or the potential of having a family.
It's actually pretty fuckin crazy what Japanese work culture does to their citizens.
The paradox of tolerance applied to this situation suggests that in order to keep a community where choice is preserved, we need to be intolerant of bad actors with the ultimate goal of killing that choice.
They're pivoting the overwhelming userbase of Facebook/Instagram into a sort of federated Twitter alternative that their users as a whole don't understand but do generate content for, in an attempt to steer the federation architecture into something they can control and make money off of. It's not subtle.
Whether it will work or is even possible for meta to do remains to be seen.
But, yes. To answer your question, we need to "deny the choice" of federating with what amounts to a wolf in sheep's clothing to preserve what we have, because that wolf is looking to destroy it.
This post demonstrates that all of the major instances on lemmy but one understand this concept. If lemmy.world doesn't want to acknowledge what meta is doing, then they're also a bad actor in enabling meta to do it.
In addition to the other great points in this thread, Apple has a cost barrier that other operating systems don't.
In an economic climate where everything is getting more expensive, a consumer isn't going to fork out $800+ on a MacBook or an iPhone without first actively wanting to be part of the ecosystem, especially if the hardware they have gets the job done.
The reason Apple isn't growing as fast as it's competitors right now is exactly that. Apple is expensive to get into. No amount of enshitification on other OS's is going to change that.
For people who consider this a sign of social status
Ok well,
Anyone who considers apple products a status symbol already has bought in and won't be swayed one way or the other by windows becoming worse.
Anyone who actually understands technology knows that regardless of how many different apps or environments apple OS's provide, you are always operating in a closed system with the tools they allow. Whereas an operating system like android, or Linux, or (at least for now) windows, your options for the capability of a tool are limited only by what exists or what you have the capability to write.
In short, apple isn't an OS that technologically literate people flock to as an exclusive option.
I mean, he did one better. He defined genocide in describing the explicit war crimes of Israel. I think it's a little unreasonable to be angry that he didn't use the term when he outright stated that Israel killed and injured 100,000, 70% of which are women and children, rendered a million people homeless and created famine conditions.
I'd be more upset if he just said "genocide" and didn't clarify the rest like he did.
It's ironic that you should bring up not having nukes being dangerous because of the US, given that the entire reason Russia is upset about this is because Poland wants to use US nukes as a deterrent to the very real threat of Russian invasion.
Here’s the thing: Lots of Republican leaning business owners see it as their right to retaliate against their workers without the gov intervening. So to them, the only thing they see wrong with this is the “child” part, because retaliation against children makes them look bad.
Hence the “they aren’t children” rhetoric.
By the way, this part of the bill was explicitly included by a congressman who owns some franchises and says his underage workers “don’t even want lunch breaks”.
So this is one dude trying to squeeze 20 extra hours of labor from literal children who’s dictating this for the entire state.
Can confirm. Louisiana is actively getting worse because our congress is in a phase of revenge passing bills that our democrat governor had been blocking for the last 8 years, now that we have a newly elected republican governor.
We just lost the democrat governor who has been blocking stupid bills like this for the last year. Our congress is revenge passing everything they can because the new republican governor blindly rubber stamps it all.
So yeah, a lot of these bills literally are just seeing what they can get away with.
So I sideloaded few apps that are already present in playstore. But whenever I go to my updates menu , I can see all my apps installed via playstore as well as side loaded. Is there a way to stop this?
I don’t know about this anymore, but back in the day Titanium Backup had a “detach from market” feature you might try. Only works on rooted phones but since you are side loading apps I’m guessing that’s a step you’ve already taken.
It has been several years and probably 8 Android versions since I used Titanium Backup but it could still be there
It's okay, tankies love fascism, so they're not put out by the result ( lemmy.world )
Louisiana set to become 1st state requiring 10 Commandments be posted in schools ( www.axios.com )
bUt BoTh SiDeS dA sAmE ( lemmy.world )
OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts ( www.theverge.com )
Get rid of them. ( lemmy.world )
The Great Climate Cover Up ( lemmy.world )
RFK Jr. accuses Biden and Trump of 'colluding' to exclude him from debates ( www.nbcnews.com )
Country music ( lemmy.world )
Moldova defies Russia with EU security pact ( www.ft.com )
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Lemmy is a worse platform for women than Reddit was
(Content warning, discussions of SA and misogyny, mods I might mention politics a bit but I hope this can be taken outside the context of politics and understood as a discussion of basic human decency)...
Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna reveal bill to ‘cancel all medical debt’ ( www.theguardian.com )
Louisiana lawmakers reject adding exceptions of rape and incest to abortion ban ( apnews.com )
TikTok sues the US government over ban ( www.theverge.com )
TikTok is taking the US government to court.
How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals
I constantly see angry mobs of people decrying "woke", "critical race theory", ""grooming"", and whatever other nonsense they made up this week. They march around with guns, constantly appending lib as a prefix to any word they can use to denigrate. They actively plot violence and spew hatred in the open....
Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption ( www.theverge.com )
Sovcit has a problem. ( lemmy.world )
The Kremlin announces nuclear weapons drills on Putin's orders ( www.euronews.com )
The move comes after an acrimonious exchange with senior Western officials, labelled by Moscow as 'provocative threats'....
George Washington University encampment... ( lemmy.world )
source: https://x.com/jmcmaster29/status/1786588095162335328
Exclusive: Bernie Sanders worries young people are underestimating the threat from Trump ( www.usatoday.com )
What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? ( i.redd.it )
The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down ( www.theverge.com )
Gay Republican group is now rooting for Joe Biden’s death ( www.lgbtqnation.com )
Bernie Sanders issues scathing statement directed at Netanyahu ( www.independent.co.uk )
Russia says Polish discussion on hosting US nuclear weapons is dangerous ( www.reuters.com )
Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits ( www.nola.com )
How to stop playstore from showing my side loaded apps in the updates menu?
So I sideloaded few apps that are already present in playstore. But whenever I go to my updates menu , I can see all my apps installed via playstore as well as side loaded. Is there a way to stop this?
What's something you believed to be true but recently learned is actually false?