It’s odd that despite having been on Lemmy for a year you’ve never made a single news or politics post. The very best way to make sure posts are from sources you approve of is to make posts from sources you approve of.

No. If people stopped posting from every source someone found objectionable there would be zero content on Lemmy.

Someone I knew was hard-core conservative and thought forcing (other people’s) kids to work was a fucking great idea. When asked about the dangers of working in a industrial kitchen or a meat packing plant he said he wasn’t worried about that at all. Insurance companies would never allow it.

He spouted all kinds of other right wing BS that was almost as disturbing. That kind of nutcase is exactly who the fuck thought this would be a good idea.

I was in the process of replacing a very old, inefficient heat pump system in January.

The DOE efficiency rebate page and all information about it was gone from the website days after Trump took office and replaced with positively Orwellian propaganda: “Restoring Energy Dominance. Trump’s Day One Actions will return the Department to Regular Order.”

Downvote me if you must, but idiots like this won’t internalise the lesson until their parents, partners, sons, and daughters die in ICE custody.

You’re a bit optimistic. IMO most of them won’t ever internalize the lesson. Anti-vaxxers interviewed after their child has died have consistently said that they still wouldn’t allow their children to be vaccinated because they, “don’t trust what is put in the vaccines.”

I see interview after interview with Maga voters who are being destroyed by Trump’s policies and tariffs. Every one of them has said they still love Trump and would vote for him again, but they don’t understand how he could hurt them when he’s supposed to be hurting other people.

Verdi and Rey voted for Donald Trump in the 2024 election, saying they supported his pledge to bring order to the southern border and crack down on immigrants without legal status.

“But he didn’t say he was going to do this, that he was going to go after people who have been here for a long time,” Rey said. “He said he was going to go after all the criminals who came illegally."

Typical Maga BS - “We voted to hurt other people, but Trump’s not supposed to hurt us.” Enjoy all your winning.

https://archive.ph/Mbmcm

He doesn’t know what the Declaration of Independence is — something that’s taught all through grade and middle school in the U.S. The odds are he has no idea what that pesky Constitution says, nor does he care.