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  • How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?

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  • No, boomers invented forums (and the internet itself). Millenials invented Web 2.0 (as they called it), the corporate takeover of the internet.

  • Vice Presidential Debate Megapost! Tue, 10/1/2024

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  • The ACA was mostly designed by a republican (Mitt Romney). So it's designed to let companies keep making big profits on health care which should be never be for profit. Then some of the important stuff that would have made it more affordable got kicked out by the courts, such as letting states (including mine) choose not to expand medicaid which left many people unable to get either medicaid or ACA. Still even with all the problems, it's a hell of a lot better than things were before the ACA when millions of people with pre-existing conditions couldn't even get insurance at all. But like you say there is still a lot of corrupt shit going on in health care that needs fixed, such as "pharmacy benefit managers" jacking up drug prices and lining their own pockets 😠

  • Vice Presidential Debate Megapost! Tue, 10/1/2024

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  • Unfortunately, many people do think that, at least about the president. I often see posts on Lemmy complaining that Biden hasn't done various things that he doesn't have the power to do. They don't teach civics/government in schools any more.

  • Trump adviser green-lights 'states that want to set up full menstrual surveillance departments'

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  • I wonder how they would go about all this. Medical records will have to be divulged to the State so it can track who is pregnant. They'll have to outlaw home pregnancy tests, including buying them through the mail. Otherwise women could privately find out they're pregnant and go out of state for an abortion without the State knowing. They'll also have to monitor phone and email communications for everyone, not just the pregnant person, to make sure any attempt to contact out of state health providers is intercepted. Or maybe they'll just slap an ankle bracelet on pregnant women.

    They'll probably also enact laws like the abortion travel ban that Amarillo, TX has on the ballot this November:

    The ordinance, first proposed by anti-abortion activists, aims to forbid the use of the city’s roads and highways to seek an abortion out of the state. It would punish anyone aiding a woman seeking the procedure, including by providing funds or transportation, and be enforced through private lawsuits, similar to a 2021 state law that prohibited abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy.

  • Large Majority of Americans Want to End Electoral College

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  • Ending the electoral college and changing to popular vote for the presidency is a very important goal and young people should commit to make it your life's work, because that's how long it will take to get a constitutional amendment done, and only if a sustained effort is made.

    In the meantime we can also work toward other goals than can help:

    1. Expand the size of the House of Representatives. The population is now way too big for the number of representatives we have, each representing 1/2 to 3/4 of a million people or more, when the founders envisioned a ratio of 1 per 30,000. Obviously we can't achieve that ratio, but there are several good proposals out there to make it more fair.
    2. Statehood for Washington, DC and Puerto Rico (they deserve representation! and it would add 4 more senate seats).

    Then there's our representation in the Senate. Our population is distributed very unevenly among the states which get two senators each. Each Wyoming senator represents less than 300 thousand people; Each California senator represents about 20 Million people (2017 figures). By 2040, 2/3 of Americans will be represented by 30 percent of the Senate, and only 9 states will be home to half the country's population [1]

    What can be done about this? What about splitting the most densely populated states into 2 or 3 states? Highly unlikely to ever happen, but it's an idea. Then there's the idea of population redistribution. This is happening all the time anyway, but people could consciously choose to move into lower population states where their vote would count more (and cost of living is lower). With remote work much more acceptable these days, it should be easier for people with certain kinds of jobs to do, but it would also need investors choosing to start businesses in those states instead of always flocking to the high density states. There is a little bit of that happening but not much. Otherwise I don't know how this problem can be solved.

    [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/11/28/by-2040-two-thirds-of-americans-will-be-represented-by-30-percent-of-the-senate/

  • Jill Stein Is Killing the Green Party

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  • People are asking.

    Nyet, no one is asking, don't be silly. 🙃

  • GOP senator tells Arab American witness at hate crimes hearing to 'hide your head in a bag'

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  • Foghorn Leghorn sure loves to get attention by acting like an ass.

  • Ohio sheriff suggests residents keep a list of homes with Harris yard signs

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  • I keep a list of states I won't set foot in.

  • Pope Francis criticizes Trump and Harris and says voters must choose between ‘lesser of two evils’

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  • Let me just fix that headline: "Head of insanely wealthy organization that has sexually abused children for hundreds of years feels justified in calling someone evil."

  • That Debate Showed Why Dems Shouldn’t Tack Rightward—Ever

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  • edit 2: for whoever downvoted, I would love to hear why.

    Probably because you told/showed them what they don't want to hear.

  • That Debate Showed Why Dems Shouldn’t Tack Rightward—Ever

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  • It is almost half. There's a spectrum on the right (as there is on the left of course). The hardcore maga cultists are a little over a third -- like you say, 35-37%. But then there are the conservatives who aren't extremists like them but are still very conservative, so yes, it's almost half the population. Trump has 42-45% who are definitely going to vote for him no matter what--the rest beyond the maga contingent are the conservatives such as the one-issue anti-abortion segment and the rich who want his tax and deregulation policies; they don't care about his character flaws or even preserving democracy for that matter.

    There are also some conservatives, not many, who previously voted for him and would again, but have come to recognize that trump is so extreme and dangerous that they either won't vote for him or will hold their nose and vote for a Dem this time, hopefully enough to tip the election in her favor.

  • That Debate Showed Why Dems Shouldn’t Tack Rightward—Ever

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  • Almost half the country is right wing and the electoral college gives their votes much more weight. That's just a fact. That means you can't win a national election without tacking toward their views in some areas, mainly the areas of concern to those in the swing states that will decide the election. You can't win by pleasing only your own base. Until we either abolish the electoral college and move to popular vote, or liberals/left wing/whatever you want to call it, reach a majority of the population substantial enough to overcome the electoral college.

    Neither of those things looks likely to happen anytime soon, so the only option is to deal with our current reality and develop a strategy to win under these circumstances, but at the same time we should also be working to create a movement to amend the constitution to decide national elections by popular vote.

    edit to change "half" to "almost half"--gotta recognize there are some more in the middle.

  • GSA says 337K Taylor Swift referrals have come to vote.gov

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  • According to Taylor Swift's post, Trump and his propagandists posting fake pictures of Swift implying she was endorsing him is one reason she went ahead and came out with this statement endorsing Harris now, to refute the fake stuff they are circulating. So their stupid plan massively backfired.

    Maybe Swift would have come out to endorse Harris at some point anyway, but doing it now gives people more time to get registered before the deadline.

  • Make this thread look like it's your first day on the internet

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  • If the sun were to go out it would take 8 minutes for the light to stop but 13 years for the sound to stop.

    Kind of like when you kill an enderman. 🤔

  • Dr. Jill Stein announces Butch Ware as VP running mate

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  • Correct, she's the last thing I'm worried about.

  • Dr. Jill Stein announces Butch Ware as VP running mate

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  • Don't worry about it, very few people will vote for this Russian stooge and those who do were never going to vote for Harris anyway.