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CharlesDarwin

@ CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world

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2d ago

Trump Is Wrecking His Own Agenda—and for What?
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CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 2d ago
Donmentia.

2d ago

Pentagon refuses payout for soldiers who died in Iran conflict ‘because it isn’t a war’

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CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 2d ago

The most cutting scene in Easy Rider. I reference this often, but for a reason.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gu2ouJNmXc

2d ago

Pentagon refuses payout for soldiers who died in Iran conflict ‘because it isn’t a war’

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CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 2d ago

I grew up in an area where that was absolutely the case. A whole lot of people on things like food stamps and so on.

I don't have exact numbers, but I'd say at least one in four males (and not a few females) went into some branch of the military. They are promised a lot and most of it is not delivered.

My parents were pacifists and extremely suspicious of the industrial military complex, and did everything possible to keep the recruiters at bay, while they scrimped and saved and got loans for my siblings and I to get a secondary education or vocational training. They were not rich, but given they were both gainfully employed and very frugal, we were in a more stable home than most in my area.

Many kids did not even graduate, there was a fair bit of teen pregnancy, too. I have the same suspicion of the military my parents had, but I also understand that many of my school mates did not have a lot of options.

2d ago

Trump unveils Space Force uniform inspired by Nazi-aesthetic film

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CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 2d ago

Godwin's Law was cancelled in tiny-d donnie's first term.

2d ago

Supreme Court backs Republican request to lower TV ad rates

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CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 2d ago

That's the thought leaders. A lot of the base cannot wait to say the N-word without anyone being able to sass them.

3d ago

US only country to oppose UN resolution correcting Africa’s size on world maps

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CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 3d ago

The cons are famous for accusing everyone else of having an ideological agenda, even as they are pushing an extremist one that is extremely unpopular.

Classic DARVO tactics. This is the group that thinks there is some ideological agenda and nefarious things are afoot to merely recognize that people (including gay and trans) have a right to exist. Of course, they don't acknowledge their own efforts to crush the rights of those people as "ideological".

3d ago

Trump Administration Again Asks Supreme Court to Allow Mail Voting Restrictions

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CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 3d ago

Honestly, Democratic messaging needs to lean very hard into how hard the conservatives want to make everything for everyone. Not just making a living, getting healthcare, having access to clean air, clean water, and food without foodborne illnesses. They also want to make it more difficult to even vote. This is in a country that already has a long tradition of making it harder than it needs to be (in many states).

If we don't have online voting, the very least we should have is ballots mailed to us that we can mail back and have trust they will be counted.

That should be the bare fucking minimum in a supposed "free" country.

3d ago

Liberal Zionists Are Evil Shitbags

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CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 3d ago

Wish I could downvote this about 1000x.

This is not the time for "democrats in disarray" nonsense, FFS.

3d ago

'Plan B': There may be a workaround to Trump's mail-in voting restrictions

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CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 3d ago

Unfortunately, this also gives an assist to the conservative plot to get rid of the post office. The fact that tiny-d donnie's plot to also steal an election in the process is a two-fer - reduce trust in an institution like the USPS while installing conservatives into offices that they don't deserve.

But in the short term, I understand why they'd reach for this.

I would hope that every state, including mine, would find a way to allow voters to print their ballot out, fill it out at their own damn leisure, and drop it off at a drop box, also at their leisure.

This will give the cons less of a chokepoint in the future too. The net was supposedly designed to treat censorship as damage and route around it.

3d ago

Country star faces backlash from conservative fans over plea to support immigrants

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CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 3d ago

To conservatives, doing anything empathetic is a bridge too far.

And they wonder why people want to disconnect from them.

3d ago

U.S. Mint Begins Selling Trump $1 Coins. Are They Legal?

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CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 3d ago

That's the one where it spelled RUMP, right?

3d ago

U.S. Mint Begins Selling Trump $1 Coins. Are They Legal?

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CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 3d ago

It's just another way to "own the libs" from the same people that would let tiny-d donnie take a shit in their mouth if they thought a liberal would have to smell it.

They'll punch themselves right in their own dicks if they think it would annoy a liberal somewhere.

3d ago

U.S. Mint Begins Selling Trump $1 Coins. Are They Legal?

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CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 3d ago

No.

But no Republicans will be harmed.

3d ago

Lutnick claims that data centers, known for water consumption, ‘don’t use water’

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CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 3d ago

I cannot tell you how many omnivores have set about lecturing ME on water usage related to almonds when they found out I was vegetarian. At least one time was while they were literally eating a cheeseburger.

For one thing, my household doesn't use all that much almond milk, but I guess many omnivores assume that vegetarians or vegans eat nothing but salad and tofu and guzzle almond milk.

Anyway, being a vegetarian has placed me in the center of some rather very bizarre conversations from people that are completely ignorant about not only nutrition (I mean how many fucking times can one hear the "but where do you get your protein?" question), but about their own diet's implications...specifically to things like fuel and water usage and the pollutants it creates...

Maybe I'll get worried about almond milk's water consumption if meat and dairy becomes a scarce thing. Until then, I'm not really taking the bait on what I consider is a lot of concern-trolling, especially while meat and dairy production doesn't show any signs of slowing down.

3d ago

Rerun or sequel? Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor on end times fascism | How nationalists, theocrats and tech titans turned their backs on a shared future

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CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 3d ago

Thanks. For a fleeting second, when I first saw the headline, I thought it was that other Naomi, Naomi Wolf, haha.

3d ago

Trump wants the midterms to be all about him. Republicans are going along.

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CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 3d ago

I think I remember hearing the Pod Save America guys saying that the more tiny-d donnie is in the headlines, the worse he tends to poll. I assume that drags down others in his shit party, too.

The minute he's out of the headlines, the more brainless Americans tend to forget how fucking awful he is.

If he's in the forefront of everyone's minds all the time, I hope it blows huge holes in Republican support this election. :)

3d ago

JD Vance mocks Joe Biden’s health while leading first press briefing since Karoline Leavitt’s exit

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CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 3d ago

These people are the worst types of people.

4d ago

Panicked GOP insiders beg Trump family to realize 'they’re rich enough' already

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CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 4d ago

Oh, that's right, I forgot all about them being Catholic.

I used to know a radical evangelical that would say all kinds of stuff I would just be dumbstruck by - one was that even though he was raised Catholic and most of his family was still Catholic, he not only thought Catholics were not "real" xtians, but that they were "pagans" (his word for pretty much every person not a Southern Baptist, including atheists and other xtians).

Now, I happened to remember all the invective Jack Chick aimed at Catholics with his comics, but I never thought I'd hear an adult repeat this kind of thing.

Also, I had recently read Robert Anton Wilson's rather tongue-in-cheek comparison of Catholics to paganism, due to all the saints and so on...

I did ask this particular individual if he thought he'd even know what xtianity was if it wasn't for Catholicism....I don't remember his answer. IIRC, it was utterly incoherent....

4d ago

Teary Trump voters regret after brother who fought with US Special Forces dies in ICE custody

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CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 4d ago

I think Loomer has brain damage or something, but Jigsaw should probably know that if they were to actually go that hard, that Jews would be targeted by that point.

They almost always do. Doesn't matter if she considers herself one of the "good ones".

4d ago

‘Homewrecker’ lawsuit against ex-senator Kyrsten Sinema can move forward, judge rules

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CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 4d ago

Don't know about this law, but didn't he work for her?