Not_mikey @ Not_mikey @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I'm not saying to always take the high road, play dirty when it actually helps people and will make you more popular. Pack the courts to reinstitute roe, deschedule Marijuana with an executive order, release the epstein list and start prosecuting trump for his connections to it, prosecute and fine the oil billionaires funding the GOP.

Taking billionaire pac money and redistricting just to win elections isn't popular, at best people view it as a necessary evil, at worse people become apathetic and view both parties as corrupt and not worth there vote.

with further gerrymandering in Texas, they'll probably not get a majority

The gerrymandering in Texas is expected to give the gop 5 seats and they currently have a 6 seat majority, so the dems would have to flip 11 seats, that should be dead easy in a midterm with an unpopular president to play off of. For reference the dems flipped 41 seats in the 2018 midterms.

The reason the democrats are worried is because they know they're polling at 30 year lows in approval and that will counteract the inherent advantage of the opposition party in a midterm. Playing dirty with the Republicans will only make them more unpopular while obfuscating that unpopularity with a couple more house seats for bland centrist dems.

It's just like the dems taking billionaire pac money and pointing to the Republicans doing the same and saying they wouldn't be competitive without it. When really they could turn down the money and run on a campaign of getting money out of politics and gain way more voters than they'd get from running more TV ads.

No this isn't them doing what I want. I want democrats to use there power to stop Trump from bombing and abducting whoever he wants. I don't want them entrenching there power for the sake of power. I want them to explain how they're gonna use there power to stop fascism to justify them taking away people's democratic power over disrricting.

I'll give them props for holding out on the shutdown for Healthcare subsidies people need, that's standing up for your constituents, but this redistricting is just a power grab.

doesn't make sense to eat out any more

It does if your overworked and too tired to make food. Yeah you can make a healthier, tastier, cheaper meal at home but it may take you an hour to do. That's a lot of extra work a week especially if you live alone and don't have anyone to share that work with and some people just don't have time for that.

Was going to write a list but I'm too lazy so I'll just go with the first one that comes to mind: all falls down.

Idk, a basement is starting to seem like the best place to put RFK Jr now.

They have to have a degree on the relevant topic. I assume most of those influences have business degrees or whatever that wouldn't qualify them to speak on the dangers of vaccines.

Maybe they did, guess i meant dark web market links

This is missing the island of southern Ontario made by the trent-severn waterway

You can run your own signal server and federate it with others, you just can't on the standard app you get from the app store that just talks to the central signal server.

It's all open source though so you'd just need to flip some conf flags and compile it yourself.

It's absolute, not per capita. Mexico for example has a higher birth rate then the US but less people so it has a lower number.

In the UK (and like many places) there are 2 systems of water drainage

Not necessarily, older systems tend to be combined systems where sewage and rainwater go down the same pipes and are treated before going into the river. London (where this story takes place) is like this as the system was built in the 1800s when they didn't care about treating water before it went into the Thames. This becomes a problem when it rains too much and it overwhelms the treatment system so they just dump untreated sewage into the Thames like the good old days.

Then again maybe they're building a parallel separated system to try and reduce the load during heavy rains. Ie. We were rebuilding this road anyway, might as well connect it to a new storm water drainage system instead of sending it to the old Victorian one, and that's why they don't want people dumping.

Your main point is correct for most people living in places that were developed in the 1920s or later, don't dump shit in the storm drains.

Is this liberty leading the people pre-transition?

Fuck this, the one good thing about self driving cars were that they at least try to follow the rules of the road and don't have the human mindset of hurrying everywhere at the expense of everyone's safety.

Here's hoping this ends up like the last time a king Charles got a little too cozy with the Catholics

i have always found it stupid that there isn't a job for everyone

A lot of leftists, especially African Americans who suffer the worst under unemployment regimes, have been advocating for a jobs guarantee, ie. If no one else will hire you the government will, for a long time.

It just threatens the employer /capitalist class so it never happens. Because if you can always get a job with the government for decent wages and benefits you won't be forced to take a job at McDonald's where they pay you and treat you like shit.

Ben gvir just can't stand not saying the quiet part out loud. It's like he's some weird double agent for the ICJ planted to leak all there war crimes to the public.

Trump hasn't sent troops to sf yet you stupid fuck.

Due process would be great if there was a functioning court and prison system, but Israel bombed all that