And what about the less fortunate? The infirm and disabled? They can rot?
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KnitWit@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Republican Senator tells House not to vote on bill she just voted for19·5 days agoIs she going to try and pull off the triple lundy of cognitive dissonance? Feign disappointment in the House after they pass something she voted for and explicitly had a hand in the final language of? If this were a swimming competition the GOP would be checking for the gigantic cajones she must have. Always been far more impressed with her over collins (and ol’ mittens) in whatever you call that awful thing they do.
KnitWit@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Tennessee Congressman calls for Zohran Mamdani to be deported.7·9 days agoI wonder with today’s SC ruling if they actually are going to try and deport him. From what I understand that would now be an actual option, fucked up as it is.
KnitWit@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•MAGA Enters Racist Meltdown Mode Over Zohran Mamdani’s New York Win22·10 days agoAndy Ogle (R-TN), of ‘had his cell phone seized by the fbi shortly before the election in relation to $320k campaign filing disclosure discrepancies that magically disappeared with the new admin’ fame, has already pushed to have him denaturalized. I’m not linking to racist trash, but you can look it up or I’m sure it’ll be on Lemmy.
KnitWit@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Cuomo will stay on NYC mayor’s ballot after conceding Democratic primary to Mamdani, sources tell CNN25·10 days agoNo, if he runs it will be as an independent, and he would have to meet whatever requirements NYC has for getting in the ballot as a third party/unaffiliated candidate. Theoretically he could even win as a write-in candidate without ever even qualifying for the ballot as that’s really just to keep ballots from being potentially ginormous. It’s only shitty because it’s him haha. The main thing is that by winning the primary Mamdani has secured access to the democrats party infrastructure while denying it to Cuomo. That’s not to say that the insiders in the party won’t be in the tank for Cuomo, but as far as party resources go it should all be Zohran.
KnitWit@lemmy.worldto Games@lemmy.world•Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming DivisionEnglish6·13 days agoWell, perhaps I’m just wrong then. But for me, I see twenty tears of MS buying up studios, sitting on them, and closing them with some sort of excuse about changed plans. It’s always the same though, studio performs well, gets bought, makes no games or games out of their genre, and closes. Call it whatever you want, I call it business as usual.
KnitWit@lemmy.worldto Games@lemmy.world•Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming DivisionEnglish17·13 days agoIt’s how these large corporations operate though. Ignore, buy, or bury, that’s how they all operate. They may have ‘plans’ to use the studio, but for them if all they get are the assets and a less of a threat from the old ip, then that’s enough. I don’t think it makes any sense either, but it also absolutely something microsoft has done for years in their larger business model.
KnitWit@lemmy.worldto Games@lemmy.world•Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming DivisionEnglish30·13 days agoThey know exactly what they are doing, they are reducing competition.
Uh, my time to shine? Back in grad school I used to clone paddlefish (gynogenesis) by heat shocking freshly fertilized paddlefish eggs at the right time so that the egg is activated but the males dna is never incorporated. Paddlefish and sturgeon, while looking totally different, are actually fairly closely related (they had a common ancestor like 200 mya) and so the chemical reactions take place to get everything going. But they are also distinct enough that if the timing isn’t right and the father’s dna accidentally gets incorporated, they create these hybrids. The hybrids are important because its the only way to identify males, which this whole process is designed to exclude. The reason you’d want to do this is the production of caviar in which males are of no value and cannot be easily identified for years.
Now, I was in Kentucky, and we were breeding paddlefish (the colbert report had a segment on ‘kentucky tuna’ that the economics professor terribly tried to promote if you can find it) for the non-existent paddlefish caviar market as opposed to breeding sturgeon like they did in this study, but its the same general principle at play. The inly real difference is that unlike these hybrids that could apparently grow to juvenile or adult status, the paddlefish mother hybrids were very much dead within a week of hatching and were obviously deformed at hatching.
KnitWit@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.ml•Many countries 'privately' condemn US aggression against Iran's nuclear sites: Report6·13 days agoTime for some of them to publicly do so. Ireland maybe?
KnitWit@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Trump floats regime change in Iran, muddying the administration’s message1·13 days agoI’m definitely pessimistic about all of this as well. I think we’re on the same page on a lot of things, or at least in the same chapter. The tearing down is absolutely an issue, and one I am afraid is never going to be solved. I think some of that stems from the fact that the democratic party is comprised of two groups that really don’t want the same thing. So while they both agree that they are against what the conservatives are doing, they are constantly taking potshots at each other.
This gets exacerbated by the fact that the upper levels of the DNC are fully removed from even the liberal side of the party, and are fully captured by the moneyed interests. This means that while the Republican party can move forward as a monolith, on the other side you never get a true fortified position on anything. Which is further degraded because there are always enough captured dems to reach across the aisle when it serves the moneyed interests. This also works the other way, and stops any real progressive momentum so that even if the left succeeds, they will be hamstrung by their own party. Look for this to happen to Zoran Mamdani if NYC succeeds in electing him.
It all gets amplified by the media, who are fully corporate here. Kind of going back to your point in the first post about liberals also being an echo chamber, I definitely see it as well. You’ll get your ‘watch this space’ folks who fall into the same trap, an example to me is all this TACO nonsense. He doesn’t chicken out, he’s a bullshitter and there is a huge difference. And when you call a narcissist a chicken while he’s deciding whether or not he should start an international conflict for now reason, well maybe you are part of the problem. (Obviously not you haha, just the general ‘you’). I do believe that this group is a big reason we can’t have nice things though, because they are also the one’s who will see that Bill Clinton endorsed Cuomo and somehow thing all of that is a good thing.
As for the ‘joe rogan of the left’ I keep hearing about, that’s a pass for me. My problem with him is not that he is conservative. It’s that he is a piece of shit that will push anything to make a dollar. And the money will absolutely pay a POS to spread their propaganda. Anyone on the left doing so will absolutely fall into that trap, it just may take longer for everyone to catch on. And to get to that level of market saturation, you absolutely need the money to be pushing you.
So, where do we go from here? Personally, I’m a doomer. I do my best not to tear things down or spread ‘thought-terminating cliches’ when all of this horror shows up, but I honestly don’t see a way forward from this. More and more I’m coming to realize this is what people want. Obviously not all of them, but like with the brainwashing thing, these people are doing it to themselves. While options may be limited, no one is actually forcing anyone to consume all of this. So why do we do it? (Hopefully all of that didn’t bounce around too much)
KnitWit@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Trump floats regime change in Iran, muddying the administration’s message5·14 days agoWhen the tariffs first started up a few months ago, I heard multiple conservatives who had never met each claim that ‘yeah these tariffs hurt, but it’s about respect, and the world needs to learn to respect us again.’ So no, I do not think they are more informed than me, just that they learn talking points through rote memorization and repetition (the only thing taught by our US education system these days).
Does it get oversimplified, sure. But most of that is because I don’t feel like writing an entire essay explaining the nuance of how these people think that they are actually saving our economy by removing all of these ‘freeloaders and jobstealers’ while in reality they are being fucking racists.
Those top comments linking to posts are the talking points being disseminated. That’s the response you’ll get whenever you try to push against their narrative. If you look into most of them, they are just grievance politics and often rely on partial information to force the wrong conclusion. If you ever manage to get past these talking points with real people, that’s when the conversation ends.
These people cannot be changed. I am tired of engaging with them or about them as n the premise that ‘we just need to figure out where they are coming from.’ They may not realize they are bigots, but that sure as fuck is what motivates them.
KnitWit@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Trump floats regime change in Iran, muddying the administration’s message6·14 days agoIt’s because they are all being brainwashed by conservative media. Seeds get planted early so that when the time comes, they can think to themselves ‘this has been a long time coming.’ Traveling all around the country and interacting with conservatives is wild. People three thousand miles apart will go through the exact same talking points like its lockstep for them. I think people really underestimate how much conservative media drills itself into the thought-space of people who consume it.
KnitWit@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Some Democratic senators regret voting to confirm Kristi Noem as DHS secretary10·18 days agoI swear, this country has one party of ‘no regerts’ and one party of ‘in hindsight it was the wrong choice.’ Really great that you see the mistake, but you keep making it.
KnitWit@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Only a third of Americans are backing the LA protests over the ICE raids, poll finds10·24 days agoAlthough it wasn’t actually Herzog who said it, that quote about americans waking up to the fact that 1/3 of the population wants to kill another third, while the other third watches feels mighty true. I think what really woke me up to that sentiment was back during the 2016 primaries when my sister, a middle of the road democrat, told me ‘but I like my health insurance from work’ when we were discussing medicare for all. She didn’t even have particularly good insurance at the time.
KnitWit@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Trump Says FEMA Phaseout to Begin After Hurricane Season2·26 days agoThey are going to replace it with a worse version and call it TRUMPEMA and it’ll just be the worst.
KnitWit@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Top Republicans threaten to block Trump’s spending bill if national debt is not reduced37·1 month agoChuck Schumer already working in the background on a coalition to help push it through.
KnitWit@lemmy.worldto retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org•How 1990s Magic Eye 3D Images Were Made [21:55] | LGR2·1 month agoA schooner is a sailboat, dummiehead!
KnitWit@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Jon Stewart on CNN’s Biden book: ‘Selling you a book about news they should have told you’10·2 months agoMy thoughts exactly. Lost a ton of respect for him over that.
Agreed, just wanted to see if the OP would admit to it as well. Fully expect either no response or a passing of the buck along the lines of ‘I want to help who need it, but people hypothetically could take advantage of the system so let’s just scrap the whole thing.’