Strong evidence?! Whoa! I’m convinced!
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Boddhisatva@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Stephen A. Smith says Democratic Party needs to be ‘purged’ before he would runEnglish1·2 days agoYep. Standard playbook.
Boddhisatva@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Stephen A. Smith says Democratic Party needs to be ‘purged’ before he would runEnglish4·2 days agoWho fucking cares? He’s an ESPN host that Trump thinks should run for president. Is this the token black the GOP is going to put up in 2028 if they pretend to have primaries?
“I think the kind of impact that I could have as a centrist, as a moderate, as somebody who believes in being sensical and engaging in common sense."
Dear gods, save us from centrists. Sure, you’re the guy that can unite the Democrats and Republicans and get them to work together for the betterment of all people. Right.
By the way, “sensical” is not a word you nitwit.
Boddhisatva@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Trump says 'I don't know' when asked if he must uphold the ConstitutionEnglish16·2 days agoPressed whether his administration is following the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, which says no person “shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law,” Trump said he wasn’t sure.
“I don’t know. It seems – it might say that, but if you’re talking about that, then we’d have to have a million or 2 million or 3 million trials,” he said. “We have thousands of people that are some murderers and some drug dealers and some of the worst people on Earth.”
It might say that? Might? This isn’t something that is debatable you hippopotamic dung heap. That’s what it fucking says.
Boddhisatva@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Medical journals hit with threatening letters from Justice DepartmentEnglish1·3 days agoI don’t think that it’s really that strange at all.
- The uneducated are easy to frighten and coerce. The educated can be dangerous in part because they will likely be resistant to the rest of the methods of control that you listed.
- People instinctively trust people in authority, like a child believing their parents. Denying basic facts and reality lets the authoritarian create a new reality in the eyes of their subjects and keeps the people in blinders about what’s really happening.
- Religions have always been used to control the masses.
- People who are poor have few options open to them. People with lots of children will almost certainly be poor under an authoritarian regime. Such people also cannot effectively resist the authoritarian since doing so would put their family at risk. In essence, it gets people to forge their own chains.
- Like religion, sex in general has long been used to control people. In fact, sex habits is one of the common tools religions use to control their devotees.
Boddhisatva@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•John Fetterman Seems Like a Risk to Himself and Everyone Around HimEnglish1·4 days agoBut other accounts show increased black-and-white thinking on issues such Israel’s massacre of Gaza, which has alienated many of his staffers, and an inexplicable show of support for certain Trump administration polices,
Is this finally evidence that brain damage can turn you into a conservative?
Boddhisatva@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Trump humiliates Musk in speech after White House exitEnglish2·4 days ago“When Elon Musk came to the White House asking me for help on all of his many subsidized projects, whether it’s electric cars that don’t drive long enough, driverless cars that crash, or rocketships to nowhere, without which subsidies he’d be worthless…
Seems like that should be a fine place to save some money then. Trump is basically admitting here that we are cutting school lunches, medicaid, and poverty programs while at the same time we are spending billions supporting failing businesses just so Musk can keep getting richer.
Of course it won’t. It would take years to move manufacturing to the USA. Building factories, hiring and training workers, none of that can happen over months. It’s also a huge expenditure for the business which, along with higher payroll costs, would be passed on to consumers. Costs are going to go up weather they move manufacturing here or not so why not take the path of least resistance and just pass on the tariff costs?