I thought my dad would have come around by now with everything going on. Last night he was gloating about how much work is getting done in the White House and how everything’s about to get a lot cheaper.
Insanity.
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Kalkarino@lemmy.world 4 days ago
stephen01king@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Then, you should challenge him and make him set a deadline for when everything is supposed to be a lot cheaper. When people starts to get sidetracked from thinking critically, that’s when you need to make them set an ultimatum that either forces them to think critically, or make them set their own limit that you can then point back to later.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
That only works for people who haven’t taught themselves to ignore constant cognitive dissonance.
BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I mean, that’s the real trump derangement syndrome. People who are outside of reality because of their support of the man.
LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Same with my Mom. I told her “yeah, Mussolini did a good job making the trains run on time”. She never responded.
Bassman1805@lemmy.world 4 days ago
(Beside the point, but Mussolini totally did not run an efficient train network, it was a cluster fuck like everything else he did)
hansolo@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Ask your dad why the GOP needs to raise the Debt Ceiling by $4 Trillion in their budget bill, and how many of the now dozens of lawsuits Trump might win based on his performance in 2020 when he lost almost every single court case, even when Trump appointed the judges himself.
limelight79@lemm.ee 3 days ago
I tried that with someone on facebook. They retreated back to “we have to get federal spending under control.” Maybe so, but this group isn’t doing that.
fwdbias@lemm.ee 4 days ago
His only concern is himself, he thinks he’ll benefit so everyone else can suffer as far as he is concerned. This is the broad motivation of the entire movement. As if America first didn’t make it obvious enough, it was really “me first”. What they don’t understand is how the me in that is entirely relative and they quickly become expendable.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
maybe if you explain to him the cause of the great depression being isolationist economic policy hitting everyone really hard, meanwhile japan with its keynesian policy managed to do pretty well, even in the face of global economic downturn.
Some people find facts more reasonable, ironically, even if they will cognitively dissonant themselves from them.
limelight79@lemm.ee 3 days ago
I can’t wait to talk to my parents. Lifelong republicans (though not specifically trump fans, just voting R), so it’s extremely likely they voted for this.
I’m a federal employee. They voted to put my job (and my wife’s job) in jeopardy. They voted for this. They voted to hurt us.
lightsblinken@lemmy.world 3 days ago
make it real for your dad - every chance you get, capture the price of a few things and chart it out over time… actual real evidence that you collected yourself is harder to refute than a graph produced by anonymous sources online.
TheWolfOfSouthEnd@lemmygrad.ml 3 days ago
He’ll just deny it and ultimately get angry.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
wait until everything gets a lot more expensive, and then ask him what happened lmao
minyakcurry@monyet.cc 5 days ago
While all this is going on, I’d also like to point out that grants are being flagged for being “woke” by this anti-DEI nonsense. Grants that have to do with cancer, physics, eclipses, and so on.
DEI is just a dogwhistle.
CastorSulMush@lemmy.world 4 days ago
They want something not that different from the Taliban. Subservient women existing only to make and raise kids.
m532@lemmygrad.ml 4 days ago
Americans doing something americanly in america: “what are we, a bunch of asians?”
zephorah@lemm.ee 5 days ago
The 1950s boom was built on two things. Subsidizing a middle class instead of corporate (awesome). And the notion that a mediocre white male was more valuable in any job role than a woman or a non-white male.
The 1950s was, in part, built on the backs of women sent home from jobs after the war to have those jobs taken by folks who may or may not have been less qualified, as it was based entirely on gender, and to lesser extent, color.
Woman’s minds were squandered. I encourage you to ask about grandma back in the day. How mean was she? How mentally I’ll was she? How many suicides or addictions occurred? The mean stories abound at this time for a reason. Alternatively there’s the paper thin personality-less woman who avoids anything even remotely confrontational.
Ask your family.
Equality before the law is introduced and a subset of men who don’t have coping skills for not having power over other human beings, lack capacity to stand as an individual, lose their collective shit.
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 5 days ago
Three things, don’t forget that American companies got a lot of European contracts to help rebuild after WWII. There’s too many people out there that ignore that influx of money and try to say the economic boom of the 50s was because misogyny and racism worked.
zephorah@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Good point, saying the quiet part out loud. There will always be That Guy from the low coping skills set who will try to make that argument.
anindefinitearticle@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
It happened to me in October 2018 and again in April 2024. Erasure by DEI programs and of the people supported by them kills a part of you.
You never really know how to feel. You just get increasingly dead inside.
At least I have two weeks of food left.
Soup@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Erasure of DEI programs? DEI doesn’t erase I just wanna make sure I’m understanding you properly.
anindefinitearticle@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
DEI programs absolutely erased people.
quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
Now I’m confused, what does DEI stand for? I thought it meant Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
anindefinitearticle@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
That’s what it claims to mean, but that’s frankly not how it was implemented.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are fabulous ideals that result in better science that improves the lives of more people. If properly implemented, they create a better workplace ecosystem that better serves its employees and our nation/planet/community.
I wish that DEI programs didn’t stand for Demonization, Exclusion, and Inequity.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
Never Compromise With Fascists
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Project 2025…
nieminen@lemmy.world 3 days ago
2025realitycheck.com - please review, and if you’re able go to the GitHub link at the bottom and help me fill everything out!
Anegro_Montoya@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
I will feel mad as fuck for you and use this as evidence when people say these EOs aren’t hurting anyone other than illegal immigrants.
Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
Completely unrelated, book burnings
zante@slrpnk.net 5 days ago
Who is following these orders. They are collaborators.
TangoNoir@lemm.ee 4 days ago
This. We need to all agree to not comply.
turtlepower@lemm.ee 5 days ago
You should feel like erasing the people that tried to erase you.
otto@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
I prefer them in the light of justice rather than scurrying around with the darkness.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 5 days ago
Like Riddler “bring him into the light”?
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
Unless the darkness is a really deep pit in some cave and their legs are broken.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
We tried that.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
Justice in the united states? where? how?
anindefinitearticle@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Nah.
I’d rather they see that we have a common enemy in the fascists and extend a hand of solidarity before I run out of the means to survive in a few weeks.
guy@piefed.social 5 days ago
Isn't that the American dream in essence?
Vorticity@lemmy.world 5 days ago
It’s the feel-good story that Republicans talk about when they say “pull yourself up by your bootstrap” but they’re upset because that’s only supposed to work for white men.
Shareni@programming.dev 5 days ago
Gets an article about them removed
Completely erased as a person
RedSeries@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
Try to avoid writing any songs or singing, I fear you may be tone deaf.
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
Even besides that, having an article about you published by fucking NASA is some of the biggest flexes you can have on your resume
HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world 5 days ago
For this community yes, but I think the over-dramatising works against the wider acceptance of DEI practices. Most people have never even had an article written about them, those people still have personhood, so does this lady. From that perspective it comes off as entitled and decoupled from reality. Who wants to listen to someone acting unhinged on social media?
Obviously, removing the section is wrong, and we should have these articles to highlight the achievements of women in male dominated fields. Plus highlighting that it’s been removed by the vile actions of the trump administration is important
forrgott@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Lucky for you, you’ll never experience erasure. Because you’ll never matter.
Shareni@programming.dev 5 days ago
Lucky for me, I don’t value my entire existence on random people knowing my sad origin story.
krolden@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
I’m sure threads won’t remove your posts
parrhesia@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
It’s owned by Meta, so it might ¯_(ツ)_/¯
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I sympathize, but, works at NASA, complaining about the erasure of women through anti-DEI… Still on Threads.
…come on lady, it’s not Rocket Science. Don’t support billionaire funded platforms.
radiohead37@lemmynsfw.com 5 days ago
Complaining about the platform she used completely misses the point.
Soup@lemmy.world 5 days ago
“She should smile more” but for using what it at least not Twitter.
Oh my god shut the fuck up.
zarathustra0@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I find this opposition to DEI somewhat perverse since to my mind it has mostly been a tool to add some limited legitimacy to a cruel system devoid of humanity; it was there to wash away the more obvious biases of an unjust system.
To my mind to remove DEI is to accelerate the collapse of the West.
Infynis@midwest.social 5 days ago
That’s the republican playbook. Do everything you can to destroy the government, and then point at the rotting corpse that’s left as evidence that government doesn’t work
ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
I find this opposition to DEI somewhat perverse since to my mind it has mostly been a tool to add some limited legitimacy to a cruel system devoid of humanity; it was there to wash away the more obvious biases of an unjust system.
A Band-Aid solution to a complicate problem. They’re removing the band-aid and letting an open wound.
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
Even if you’re against DEI in hiring (which I am), taking down pages of women in STEM is ridiculous. We want to encourage people to know what’s possible and we want them to push for it based on merit
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 4 days ago
This isn’t a science meme
houstoneulers@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Wait, I can’t find the order that says to do this. Can someone please link me?
nomoredrama@lemmy.world 4 days ago
She sounds kind of sexist. Why does it matter what sex she is? Shouldn’t everyone be treated equally regardless of sex?
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 4 days ago
Cancel culture ain’t so much fun when it happens to you, is it.
AidsKitty@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Why would your bio be on the NASA website? What does that have to do with the exploration of space or technological advancement?
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Yes, any servant of capital is highly disposable - especially working in the MIC.
oldfart@lemm.ee 3 days ago
USPol toxic spill again
One_Blue_Shoe@lemmynsfw.com 4 days ago
Get your Gus already guy, what are you waiting for?
billwashere@lemmy.world 5 days ago
So how much longer before we get pissed enough to start doing something about it? I’m a white CIS heterosexual male and this is infuriating to me. This isn’t correction of DEI policies. This is blatant sexism and racism. Fuck these nazis.
OneTwoThree@mander.xyz 4 days ago
I watched AOC’s “What’s Happening & How You Can Take Action” video and thought it was really impactful, so much so I decided to write up a summary of the insights, copy pasted below.
TL;TR for what you can do about it:
Additional stuff that may be useful eventually:
However, we’re not currently there yet. We don’t need to wait until things get impossibly bad before taking action. If you think all that stuff like “contacting representatives” & “organizing for elections” will do is slow our collective downfall, then realize that a slowed downfall means more time to organize a resistance and more time for vulnerable groups to escape the country.
Also, feel free to copy-paste this excerpt anywhere if you’d like!
TL;TR End
Insights from “What’s Happening & How You Can Take Action” by AOC:
Executive Orders are not that powerful: For all the Executive Orders being signed, know that they’re not actually as powerful as they might seem. Congress can block Executive Orders, courts can block Executive Orders (you might have heard of this being done for the EO ending birthright citizenship), and they’re essentially more limited in scope/permanence than actually signed laws. In fact, much of the EOs Trump has signed are meaningless or completely unconstitutional, which is not a pointless distinction, because as mentioned before, courts are blocking these EOs.
Fascist dictators thrive on perceived power instead of actual power. They want to “flood the zone,” pump out so much terrible nonsense the populace becomes overwhelmed and docile. Don’t believe them, don’t become docile and don’t consent in advance. The reason Trump is using Executive Orders instead of actual laws is because he knows he only has a slim majority in the House (218R-215D, ie 2R’s could flip a vote, 2 vacancies in FL to be voted on 4/1, 1 R departure in NY-21 to be up for another special election)/Senate (53R-47D/I, ie 4R’s could flip a vote), and he doesn’t want his perceived power to crumble, such as when 3 GOP Senators John McCain, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski blocked an Obamacare Repeal Bill “Health Care Freedom Act” from going through in 2017.
(In this case, by erasing this womans history NASA is doing a little thing called complying in advance.)
Action Being Done by Democrats: Apparently Trump did a bunch of stuff while Congress was on recess, and they only got back in session Feb 5th, which was why there hasn’t been much news from democrats. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries recently released a 10 objectives plan for House Democrats to obstruct the administration
What You Can Do: While I’m sure we’re all positively exhausted with everything going on, at a minimum, you can know your rights regarding ICE Raids: Don’t let them in without a Judicial warrant signed by a Judge, don’t answer their questions even if you are a citizen, don’t talk to them without a lawyer. If you have extra energy, you can:
Additional stuff that may be useful eventually:
However, we’re not currently there yet. We don’t need to wait until things get impossibly bad before taking action. If you think all that stuff like “contacting representatives” & “organizing for elections” will do is slow our collective downfall, then realize that a slowed downfall means more time to organize a resistance and more time for vulnerable groups to escape the country.
Contacting your Representatives: To contact your representatives, you can make a short 2 min phone call to their office, which will either be picked up by a staffer or go to voicemail. Representatives listen to phone calls when trying to get a sense of what their constituents care about, but other forms of contact (email, text, etc) are by and large ignored. Additionally, you should say where you live, because representatives only care about what their constituents think, not outside people. Note that the voicemails only record up to 2 min so be brief. You can find your representatives phone numbers at www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member
To express your views to your representatives, the format goes like this: “Hi, my name is [Name] and I live in [City, State, Zip Code]. I wanted to ask for your support on [Policy, Bill, etc]. [Anecdote if you have one to be more personalized]. Thank you for listening, my phone number is [Phone Number] and my email is [Email].”
I personally have just called my senators to let them know I want them to vote NO on advancing/approving all Trump nominees, and that I supported them continuing obstructionist actions including the 30hr filibuster against Russ Vought, Trump’s Director of the Office of Management and Budget pick. Florida 4/1 Special Elections for 2 House of Representative Members: Summary, trying to elect Gay Valimont (D) District 1 & Joshua Weil (D) District 6. You can sign up to volunteer on their websites (linked) if you’d like.
New York-21 Eventual Special Election for 1 House of Representative Member: Elise Stefanik ® will be vacating her seat to become the U.N. Ambassador for the Trump administration, after which within 80-90 days a special election will be held for a new House member. While it’s somewhat of a pipe dream, if Dems win all 3 of these House seats up for grabs, it puts the House at 218D-217R.
I hope this helped you get a sense of what you can do, feel free to copy-paste this anywhere if you’d like!
other_cat@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Thank you very much for the effort you put into this post.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Well said
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Is it only AOC being vocal?
Yamainwitch@lemmy.world 4 days ago
This is incredible, thank you!
Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
If you someone starts a revolution I’d join the fight. “And just because he’s a worker, no class can free him but his own. The emancipation of the working class is the task of the worker alone.”
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Isn’t that part of the problem? Everyone is waiting for the revolution to start. Everyone is waiting for the next Luigi. Everyone is waiting.
Nothing’s getting better, but someone will come and fix all these problems any time now and I’ll be on their side!
psyklax@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
The problem is, where do we start? We’ve been, er, “taking the L” for so long, when are we going to start giving the L?
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Drop the Democrats and support the Green Party.
Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 4 days ago
Says the guy making no note of anything he is doing about it.
The people in power aren’t going to do anything about it because they want it this way.
Half the regular people also want it this way
Of the people left, somewhere around 50% don’t care either way.
And of the last people left who do care, probably at least half of those aren’t doing anything < this is presumably where you are.
You can’t just sit around and expect everyone else to be as angry or angrier than you and expect everything to work out because THEY’LL do something about it.
Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
Only 28% of adults voted for this and lots of Trump voters just wanted the cheaper groceries that Trump promised them (he lied).
So please don’t spread the lie that Trump has majority support or any kind of mandate. He doesn’t. Over a 100 million people didn’t bother to vote because they have no faith or hope that voting can improve their lives. They aren’t wrong. At best, electing Democrats is just a stay of execution.
StarlightDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
You can’t really assume people aren’t organizing themselves just from a post like that. Its also bad for opsec to just post what you are up to online. Plenty of people are, there just aren’t enough people as people are stuck in the mindset that the systems haven’t collapsed yet so there is no need to build up a safety net.
billwashere@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I said “we” dumbass.
the_q@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Well let’s see… This country has been dealing with these issues for the entirety of its existence, so the time to start doing something about it has long passed.
hitmyspot@aussie.zone 4 days ago
It’s also now. Now is the time. The best time was before. The next best time is now.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
right, let’s just lie down and die then, fucking brilliant reasoning there
NostraDavid@programming.dev 4 days ago
Are you going to storm the Capitol like your granddads stormed the beaches of Normandy? Are you going to only bitch about it on the internet, or are you actually going to do something about it - storming the Capitol not necessarily has to be a part of it - you can plan a better alternative.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Storming the Capitol is what the MAGA morons did. I hope the left is smarter than that.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Typical American response. Yeehaw you gonna kill some people er what!?
Attacking each other is not going to solve this problem because the wealthy have been pitting us against each other for a long time now. It was the wealthy that cause WWII and every other major war where everyone but them ends up dying.
I agree there are better alternatives.
GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
You have to figure out how to reach people and get them off of the social media and bullshit news.
Someone like that I would say, “who told you that? Mark Zuckerburg? That guys a fuckin’ greedy little creep. Fuck that guy.”
LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Look into your local PSL or DSA. Us socialist are on the top of the leaderboard for Nazi killing and it’s not even close. Join the SRA too. This shits not going away with votes. Fascism doesn’t let you vote it out of power.
forrgott@lemm.ee 4 days ago
I do not recognize those acronyms, but would like to know more! Can you point me in the right direction?