Probably just the usual provocations and deranged negotiation tactics, but, I'm just gonna go ahead and say it: The US President-elect is a freakin' moron. Not that we didn't already know that, but America walked right into this lunacy with eyes wide open, fully aware. We deserve everything that's coming.

2y ago

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GiddyGap @lemm.ee 2y ago

Abolish capital punishment!

2y ago

Faith-based cost-sharing seemed like an alternative to health insurance, until the childbirth bills arrived

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GiddyGap @lemm.ee 2y ago

Absolutely. It's just infuriating that there are so many great, efficient, and equitable healthcare systems out there in other countries, but the United States refuses to look at any of it because that's "socialism" or "communism" or whatever propaganda label the politicians want to put on it. Meanwhile, the people suffer, go bankrupt because they got sick or even die when they didn't go get treatment because they were afraid of the bill. Crazy.

2y ago

Biden Weighs Commuting Sentences of Death Row Inmates

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GiddyGap @lemm.ee 2y ago

Abolish capital punishment!

2y ago

Trump's shutdown gamble exposes limits of his power

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GiddyGap @lemm.ee 2y ago

It just looks like he didn't get what he wanted. This is what he does. He's doing it the same way you buy a house. You offer something low and hope the seller will meet you in the middle. And they did.

I don't get why people haven't learned this about Trump yet. He got exactly what he wanted and he doesn't care about sounding crazy. Unfortunately, he got a win. Again.

2y ago

What Do Democrats Need to Do? Act Like an Opposition Party.

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GiddyGap @lemm.ee 2y ago

Dems seem to have fallen completely off the face of the Earth since the election. Looks like it will take a while to get over this. They better do it fast, though.

2y ago

Progressives Up in Arms After AOC Loses Key Committee Seat

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GiddyGap @lemm.ee 2y ago

The problem with a winner-take-all system like the Electoral College is that if you do not vote for the Democratic Party, you're just underpinning the Republican Party. The unfortunate truth is that every progressive who sat out the November election for various reasons helped put Trump back in the WH. The Electoral College has to go for a third party to be viable.

2y ago

How Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announced

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GiddyGap @lemm.ee 2y ago

Also, older people were more prone to dying from Covid. That left a lot of room for conspiracy theories regarding what actually killed them. Heard of lot of conservative family members say "oh, it was probably just a bad flu that killed them." And when the vaccines came out that quickly changed to "the vaccine killed them."

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How Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announced

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GiddyGap @lemm.ee 2y ago

Quite the difference from how half the US population reacted to a Covid vaccine. The power of political propaganda and social media conspiracy theories.

2y ago

'Ontario is not having it': Trump reportedly set stage for Canada to cut off U.S. energy

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GiddyGap @lemm.ee 2y ago

What I mean by that is that if OPEC (or any of the other big producers) decided to cut all of their production for a long period of time (e.g. a year), it would completely destroy the world market and the other players would be able to do nothing about it. It would simply take so much supply away that prices would go crazy.

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'Ontario is not having it': Trump reportedly set stage for Canada to cut off U.S. energy

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GiddyGap @lemm.ee 2y ago

Maybe not the same influence they once had, but every one of those producers can destroy the market on their own if they wanted to. That said, oil will overall be far less important over the coming decades as transportation and manufacturing move away from fossil fuels. Europe is very far along the way on that already.

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'Ontario is not having it': Trump reportedly set stage for Canada to cut off U.S. energy

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GiddyGap @lemm.ee 2y ago

True. And there's only so much the US can do. At the end of the day, OPEC can just raise or lower production to destroy any US policy.

2y ago

‘The next recession starts here’: Trump team weighs abolishing bank regulators

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GiddyGap @lemm.ee 2y ago

Unless Republicans choose to abolish the filibuster, they can't do it. Takes 60 votes in the Senate.

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'Ontario is not having it': Trump reportedly set stage for Canada to cut off U.S. energy

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GiddyGap @lemm.ee 2y ago

Won't this just get the orange to push even more for drilling and further harm the environment and climate?

2y ago

Why hasn’t the US been trying to fix its health insurance problems?

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GiddyGap @lemm.ee 2y ago

We need a single-payer, universal healthcare system like they have in every other developed country. It's the only way to control cost and make sure that everyone is covered.

2y ago

Progressive lawmakers say the reaction to the UHC CEO killing is a 'wake-up call'

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GiddyGap @lemm.ee 2y ago

Unfortunately, nothing will ever happen. Especially since Republicans have no interest in universal healthcare and hold every position of power now. It's all about money.