alcoholicorn
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- Comment on Futures 2 hours ago:
But the rest of the planet has so much to offer!
- Comment on death sentence 10 hours ago:
But chinese people have protests all the time. Do you think they all get disappeared? Or did the media make that shit up so you don’t feel bad about the US doing the same shit? I remember journalists getting hacked under the Obama admin, random people getting black bagged during 2020. And those were the rare moments where they were effective. 99% of the time it’s unnecessary as the media is quite effective at shutting down criticism of the government. Just look at the coverage of student protests.
- Comment on Futures 10 hours ago:
It’s why I don’t bother traveling. Little bit of different geography and I’m still just hanging out inside for comfort and amenities.
Have you considered not staying at a resort/cruise ship? Like yeah I don’t understand why people who just hang out inside travel, that’s why I don’t do that?
- Comment on Lots of times the restaurants won't even have milk 23 hours ago:
Even if it’s not on the menu, it’s not like you can’t get X neat or on the rocks.
- Comment on At Justice Alito’s House, a ‘Stop the Steal’ Symbol on Display as the Supreme Court was considering an election case. 1 day ago:
A tactic FDR used was threatening to add justices to the court. That’s what’s meant by stacking the court.
The threat was enough to get them to do what he wanted, since they realized they could either go along with him, or go against it and be marginalized since they have no actual power to enforce their rulings.
- Comment on At Justice Alito’s House, a ‘Stop the Steal’ Symbol on Display as the Supreme Court was considering an election case. 1 day ago:
They can stack the court if they get a majority in both, they can marginalize the court by very publicly refusing to enforce their rulings, they can have them assassinated.
The alternative is expecting to win every single election for the next 40 years or so until they die of natural causes.
- Comment on At Justice Alito’s House, a ‘Stop the Steal’ Symbol on Display as the Supreme Court was considering an election case. 1 day ago:
OK, so what is anyone in power gonna do about it?
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 3 days ago:
I mean they each protected capitalism in their own way:
FDR, being old money who’d just seen MacArthur send in the tanks to raze a camp of rebellious soldiers and knew how these things tended to go, invested in guillotine insurance via the New Deal.
Hitler and Mussolini used the other approach, privatizing/selling off state assets and applying colonial methods they’d perfected in Africa back home to buttress capitalism and protect profits.
I’m not gonna get started on Churchill.
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 3 days ago:
The only way to achieve legitimacy in the eyes of liberals is liberal policy, the singular thing we are all against.
- Comment on Are We Really Going to Let Trump Come Back to Fail Again? 3 days ago:
Yes, it’s the white leftists who are responsible for Biden doing every possible thing to avoid reelection, including restarting student loans, a tariff on EVs and solar panels, doing fuckall about the abortion decision, despite having months to prepare, calling the same college students he needs to get elected antisemites, and facilitating a genocide.
Biden has nothing to do with his reelection chances.
- Comment on Are We Really Going to Let Trump Come Back to Fail Again? 3 days ago:
I was just reposting the article since NYT is neoliberal trash that opposed civil rights and has supported every single war when it mattered and doesn’t deserve your clicks.
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 3 days ago:
Freedom to do what exactly? To spend half your income on rent and have no hope of anything better?
America is a democracy for the bourgeoisie, and a dictatorship for us. China is a democracy for the people and a dictatorship for the bourgeoisie.
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 3 days ago:
It’s also the definition used in any serious literature since the mid 1800s.
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 3 days ago:
Good things and bad things are exactly the same. A justice system that enforces the will of the capitalists is exactly as bad as a justice system that enforces the will of the people.
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 3 days ago:
The Israeli flag guy would think freedom means the freedom to exploit others.
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 4 days ago:
There’s no fight.
A space for people opposed to capitalism isn’t gonna have people who are pro-capitalism.
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 4 days ago:
Liberals do not belong in left spaces, left is literally defined by anticapitalism.
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 4 days ago:
It means you support capitalism, hence why “liberalization of the economy” means selling off public utilities, land, and resources.
- Comment on Are We Really Going to Let Trump Come Back to Fail Again? 4 days ago:
For many millions of Americans, time seemed to move differently under President Donald Trump.
There was no breathing room — no calm in the eye of the storm. From beginning to end — from the “American carnage” inaugural on Jan. 20, 2017, to the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — it felt as though the country was in constant flux, each week a decade. We lurched from dysfunction to chaos and back again, eventually crashing on the shores of the nation’s worst domestic crisis since the Great Depression.
For many, if not most, of these Americans, the choice this November is no choice at all. They escaped Polyphemus once; they don’t intend to return to his den.
There are other voters who take a very different view. To them, Trump’s term was a time of peace and prosperity. They don’t register the pandemic or the subsequent economic crisis as part and parcel of the administration. They don’t hold Trump responsible.
In fact, one of the most striking findings in a number of recent polls is the extent to which a large portion of the electorate has given Trump a pass for his last year in office. For example, in an April CBS News poll of key battleground states, roughly 62 percent of registered voters in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin said that when they look back at 2020, their state’s economy was good. In the moment, however, a majority of voters in those states disapproved of Trump’s handling of the economy.
For the sake of additional context, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rates in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania in June 2019 were 4.1 percent, 3.2 percent and 4.2 percent. A year later, in June 2020, the unemployment rate had grown to 14.5 percent in Michigan, 8.7 percent in Wisconsin and 11.3 percent in Pennsylvania.
Unemployment is not, of course, the only measure of economic health. But it is an important one. And it is hard to say that an economy is firing on all cylinders when one in 10 people wants a job but can’t find one.
The assessment of the 2020 economy seen in the CBS survey makes sense, however, if voters are crediting Trump for the prepandemic economy and giving him a pass for 2020. The most recent New York Times/Siena poll, released on Monday, shows exactly this. When asked to list one thing they “remember most” from Trump’s time in office, 4 percent of registered voters said the “coronavirus pandemic,” and 5 percent said the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Twenty-four percent of respondents said something related to the economy or “the stimulus,” and when asked to specify, they said they remembered how good it was. “The economy was a little better than it is now,” one Trump supporter said. “The economy was in a lot better shape than it is now,” said another.
Again, Trump presided over a recession worsened by his total failure to manage the coronavirus. As Covid deaths mounted, Trump spread misinformation and left states scrambling for needed supplies. It was not until after the March stock market crash that the White House issued its plan to blunt the economic impact of the pandemic. And the most generous provisions found in the CARES Act, including a vast expansion of unemployment benefits, were negotiated into the bill by Democratic lawmakers. Editors’ Picks Is Everything A.S.M.R. Now? In the Corporate Joust, Don’t Choose Jealousy What Ethan Hawke’s ‘Wildcat’ Gets Right About Flannery O’Connor
None of this seems to matter to voters. “The economy” under Trump is simply the one that existed from Jan. 20, 2017, to March 13, 2020, when the White House declared the coronavirus a national public health emergency. For everything else after that date, the former president gets a pass.
No other president has gotten this kind of excused absence for mismanaging a crisis that happened on his watch. We don’t bracket the secession crisis from our assessment of James Buchanan or the Great Depression from our judgment of Herbert Hoover or the hostage crisis in Iran from our assessment of Jimmy Carter. And for good reason: The presidency was designed for crisis. It was structured with the power and autonomy needed for handling the acute challenges of national life.
“Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government,” Alexander Hamilton argued in Federalist 70. “It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign attacks; it is not less essential to the steady administration of the laws.” And the most important ingredient that constitutes energy in the executive is “unity.”
“Those politicians and statesmen who have been the most celebrated for the soundness of their principles and for the justice of their views have declared in favor of a single executive and a numerous legislature,” Hamilton wrote. “They have, with great propriety, considered energy as the most necessary qualification of the former, and have regarded this as most applicable to power in a single hand.”
The point and the purpose of vesting a single elected official with the executive authority was to give the national government the ability to respond to national emergencies with alacrity and focus. We have made it a point to judge presidents on the basis of their ability to handle a crisis, whether war or internal rebellion or economic collapse.
Except, it seems, when it comes to Trump. With the notable exception of Operation Warp Speed — which he now disavows as he caters to anti-vaccine sentiment among Republican voters — Trump failed to handle his crisis, and the nation paid a steep price in lives as a result. But memories are short, and nostalgia clouds the senses. The voters who give Trump a pass for his final year in office may well put him back in the White House. Having failed to fulfill his responsibilities the first time, Trump may return to fail again.
The prospect of a second term of chaos, dysfunction and gross contempt for the rights and liberties of millions of Americans makes Trump himself a kind of crisis in the making. Something tells me there won’t be a pass for President Biden if he fails to handle it.
- Comment on this picture is 27kb 1 week ago:
You wouldn’t spend an hour and a half to visit me? That seems like you don’t like me very much.
I have some family I visit for a weekend 2-3 times a year, a bit over 400 miles away. It’s a 5.5 hour trip I can knock out in a morning or after work.
- Comment on this picture is 27kb 1 week ago:
How is 100 miles a long way? It’s like an hour and a half.
- Comment on Anon hates aluminum 1 week ago:
Also LEDs and screens.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 1 week ago:
One of the big problems with HDI is that it fails to consider inequality and non-individual income; a country with 1 person making 1B/y and 999 people living in abject poverty gets the same per capita GNI as a country of 1000 people making 1m/y who have free housing, transport, and healthcare.
The latter obviously has better conditions for more people.
- Comment on Anon hates aluminum 1 week ago:
Beer cans have a plastic liner, otherwise the beer would eat through the aluminum.
- Comment on Anon hates aluminum 1 week ago:
Those “archaic rules” exist to standardise
That may be their objective, but they’ve clearly failed, evidenced by the fact that half of scientific journals use Aluminum.
Of course if you’d like to stick entirely with the academic prescriptions, you’re free to not use “email” in French, singular they in English, KI for AI in Norwegean, or find a use for “coronabebe”, a word that is only used by the Royal Spanish Academy and people mocking how detached they are.
- Comment on Anon hates aluminum 1 week ago:
The IUPAC can spell it how they like. But what is correct in language is determined by the way people use it, not whatever archaic rules your middleschool teacher told you (english) or some central authority publishes (looking at you French and Spanish).
A quick search of lemmy gives >75 pages of aluminum comments, and <35 pages of aluminium comments.
I’m sure that will change when American cultural hegemony fades, but for now, it is what it is.
- Comment on Anon hates aluminum 1 week ago:
There is one i in Aluminum. It is not silent.
All the other elements use an i before the u. At some point we should fix the spelling: Helum, Sodum, Plutonum, etc
- Comment on Morish Morals 2 weeks ago:
Hence why they needed the Meat Shaped Stone and the Jade Cabbage, so they could reverse engineer the ancient technology that allowed them to transmit food into rock.
- Comment on Morish Morals 2 weeks ago:
Are you a geologist looking for a henchman?
- Comment on Morish Morals 2 weeks ago:
Step one of their evil plan? They’re gonna heist the Meat Shaped Stone.