ModestMeme @ ModestMeme @lemm.ee

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I had heard the 1918 outbreak affected 20/30-somethings more than other age groups.

Vote them out (if we’re still allowed to vote when that time comes). In the meantime, let them know how you feel. Letters, postcards, emails, phone calls, comments on their social media: all of these things. Be civil, be smart. But you gotta do something.

My healthcare provider had me tested for Measles antibodies because apparently that shit can wear off after 50 years in some people. I was still good with Mumps and Rubella, but was wide open to Measles. So I got an MMR vaccine (available at Walgreens, CVS, etc) and I’m good to go. So if you’re over 50, you might want to get tested or simply just ask your your doctor for their opinion about getting another shot.

Can the “both parties are the same” crowd explain how the Democrats do shit like this?

Harris wouldn’t have done this, you know it.

I remember in the early days of autocorrect, some newspaper ran a story about the “Enola Homosexual”.

She was on par (or better) than all her 90’s indy rock contemporaries. The “novice” criticisms were 100% because she’s a woman.

Removing any semblance of a free press one outlet at a time.

30 million women voted for Trump. 90 million Americans who were eligible to vote didn’t vote. As a nation, we asked for this. As individuals, many of us did not ask for this. But it wasn’t enough. We can call or write our representatives. We can march in the streets. We can do any number of things to reject and correct our hard slide into authoritarianism. But I promise you that passive internet griping is bottom of the list in terms of effectiveness. Well, unless it’s Russian propaganda and conspiracy theories. Holy shit that stuff worked like a voodoo curse….

Ukraine gave up its nukes in exchange for security guarantees. Why would they trust this attempt at pillaging for “security”?

Ah, the willy nilly style of leadership… Oh wait, this is coming from the Russian puppet rapist pants-shitter. In that case it’s exactly what Russia needs. It’s deliberate. It’s expected.

Just wait until bird flu fully crosses over to humans…

Ok the link didn’t load as expected… Fourth paragraph is the relevant part on law. The rest of the article is pretty interesting as well.

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/what-is-an-executive-order-and-how-does-it-work#%3A%7E%3Atext=Statutes+have+to+be+passed%2Cspending%2C+and+certain+war+powers.

Biden can ask of Congress anything on day one -as any president can- but he can not write a law. You can take Biden’s words to mean that he himself was going to decree a change to the tax code or you can accept that his words were confined to his executive powers to ask Congress to do this.

I don’t know why sooo many people confuse the power of the president with that of a dictator. If a president can decree a law then why the fuck do we have a Congress?!

Few people will show up. Things are still abstract and few people are directly affected by four weeks of the authoritarian ramp up. But give it time.

The President can’t write a law or simply decree a law to be over. That’s up to Congress. Not the President.

Congress did indeed have a couple years of the slimmest margin of Democratic control. But Democrats aren’t all the same. There is a range of ideology and ultimately they’re not in lock step with each other. And in some cases, they behave not strictly as a Democrat normally would behave, or as those here on Lemmy want them to behave. Joe Manchin, Krysten Sinema, and those in the so-called Blue Dog Coalition. Russian asset Tulsi Gabbard was another “Democrat” from this time period who wasn’t as left wing as we wished for…

You can blame the broad range of “Democrats” all you want. You can view a president as having direct control over law all you want. But that doesn’t account for individual differences within a party that with such a slim margin, can derail national progress. Vote. Every election. Especially the small ones. Good candidates start at the local level.

How was Biden going to cancel an act of Congress?

Whatevs…. Democrats lost the election and Congress. It’s team fascists now. But sure, gripe about the people who very specifically didn’t do this shit.

MAGA will blame this on Democrats.

MAGA will find this to be funny.