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  • Wash. Post Cartoonist Quits After Bezos-Owned Paper Kills Trump Satire Piece

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  • It's nice to see more people stick to their principles. I wish more WaPo staff/reporters would leave. Oh, and she can add Tim Cook to that cartoon now as well.

  • Texas teen poisoned rival’s goat because she ‘doesn’t like cheaters,’ cops say

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  • Sick. 😠

  • FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court

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  • I think "how we got here" is more because of the massive and powerful opposition to health care reform by the Powers That Be, not because of regular people being grateful that we made a small amount of progress in spite of them.

  • FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court

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  • These limp dick positions just provides political cover for poor policy

    If you want to criticize me for my position on the issue, my position is that we should have universal healthcare at least on a par with the other developed countries.

    My post was me griping about how pretty much impossible it has been to do anything about health care in this country for decades, and even the little we've gained is still under threat of being taken away. It took decades to get even the protections of the ACA passed (not allowing them to deny coverage for pre-existing conditions being IMO the most important one, which IS an improvement that has saved a lot of suffering and my life, among others, followed by expansion of Medicaid, which has also saved lives).

    So yes, I did say things were even worse before the ACA and they were. That's a fact, whether you want to admit it or not. If they repeal the ACA, it will cause more suffering and death. That's a fact.

  • FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court

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  • If you want to see how it was before the ACA, watch Michael Moore's documentary "Sicko". You'll understand how the ACA is an improvement, regardless of its flaws and failure to be The Ideal One True Universal Healthcare we wish for.

    Trying to get something, anything, passed to improve the HC situation took decades of fights. Read the history of it. Did you know Nixon tried to get universal coverage done back in the late '70's, but Ted Kennedy decided to make the perfect be the enemy of the good and led the effort against it, killing it (before he died he said that was his biggest regret). He and the unions calculated that if they killed it they could deny Nixon a win (sound familiar?) and get single-payer next time there was a Dem president, which of course they couldn't. Clinton tried to do it, HRC led the effort and they were inundated with massive opposition. It got nowhere, not even close.

    Next up, Obama. However imperfect it is, it was a significant accomplishment to get the ACA done. It was hoped it could continue to be improved and worked on going forward. Instead it's been a constant battle just to keep it from being repealed.

  • ‘We’re going to rip your face off’ in visa fight, Steve Bannon warns Elon Musk

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  • What is a human behaviour you've never understood?

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  • Except at Aldi's.

  • 68-year-old congresswoman says she's retiring to 'set a better example' amid concern over aging politicians

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  • So, no link to a public record then.

  • 68-year-old congresswoman says she's retiring to 'set a better example' amid concern over aging politicians

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  • Oh, then you mean there is some public record somewhere that he actually joined the Democratic party when he ran in the 2016 election? Maybe a registration form? (link?) Because I don't think he did. From what I read, he didn't actually join or register as a Dem, but the party didn't try to stop him from running as a Dem, and he just verbally said he was a Democrat when asked, which I guess was good enough.

    According to this article, which goes through the timeline of his party affiliation(s), it wasn't until Bernie's 2020 run that the Democratic party formally wrote up a rule that a candidate had to be a member of the party, and only then did they require him and the other candidates to sign a document officially declaring themselves as Democrats.

    This article, as best as I can tell, confirms that in 2016, he didn't actually join the Democratic party, but he stated Democratic party as his affiliation on the statement of candidacy for his political campaign, and also verbally said to people who asked that he was a Democrat.

  • 68-year-old congresswoman says she's retiring to 'set a better example' amid concern over aging politicians

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  • I kept hearing conflicting stories on whether he actually joined the party or only promised to become a Democrat if he won the candidacy.

  • 68-year-old congresswoman says she's retiring to 'set a better example' amid concern over aging politicians

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  • I used to think a candidate had to at least be a member of a party to run in its primaries, but Bernie corrected my misunderstanding.

  • 68-year-old congresswoman says she's retiring to 'set a better example' amid concern over aging politicians

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  • Biden won it. I don't think an incumbent president has ever lost their primary when running for re-election, at least not in modern times when they actually had primaries that people could vote in. It's on Biden for deciding to run again.

  • 68-year-old congresswoman says she's retiring to 'set a better example' amid concern over aging politicians

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  • Which you choose when you vote in the primaries.

  • If you know, you know

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  • Are there Lemmy mobile apps? I don't even know, I only access it via the browser. But if there are, maybe request that feature.

  • If you know, you know

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  • I don't know if there is a way you're supposed to be able to do it, but one thing you can do is right-click the image and pick Inspect from the context menu, which will open a panel with the HTML of the image highlighted, and part of that will be the alt text if there is any.

    Also I have a Firefox extension that adds "Copy Alt text" to the context menu when you right-click an image. I've used that and pasted into a text editor, which usually works as well.

    Both of those are inconvenient, but at least you can find it. But there should be a button on the image to view it easily like there is on Mastodon.

  • 'Are you selling us out?': Trump's new comments met with immediate backlash from MAGA base

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  • He stopped giving his base a second thought the moment the election results were in, when it became Trump First. He has zero fucks to give y'all magats any more now that you've served your purpose, suckas.

  • 'Very troubling': Leader of 'Abandon Harris' movement now anxious about Trump appointees

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  • Of course Democrats called them out on it and tried to pass an amendment to strip it out: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/democrats-stand-up-for-trans-kids-during-senate-debate-on-military-health-care-provision/

    My OP point is, stop reacting to click bait headlines in just the way they meant for you to, Actually read enough to get an understanding of what the bills are and what's in them, what happened during the process they went through, and why various people acted how they did before jumping to conclusions. Stop falling for dirty political tactics designed to keep magats in power and promote their christian nationalist agendas while keeping the rest of us fighting with each other so they can keep getting reelected.

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  • Anyone who could vote and says they care about the rights of trans people better have voted for Harris or you have no standing on this issue.