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orclev

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  • Biden Says He Would Have Beaten Trump if He Stayed in the Race

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  • If after reading everything I said that was your takeaway I don't think there's any point in continuing to talk as you're very clearly either not actually reading what was written, or else so utterly failing to understand I have to wonder if it's willful ignorance.

  • Biden Says He Would Have Beaten Trump if He Stayed in the Race

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  • Your mistake is thinking this was a binary choice. The reality is that both Trump and Biden were competing to convince people to come out and vote. Not to vote for them but just to vote. Nearly everyone would already know if they'd vote Democrat or Republican, the only question was whether they were going to vote at all. Unfortunately Republican and Democrat voters require different motivations.

    For Republicans all they need is a target. Someone to be angry at and blame all their problems on. Trump gives them that in spades. They just want someone to tell them it's someone else's fault their life is shit but that they've got a plan to fix it by making someone else suffer. Trump was only too happy to do exactly that.

    Democrats meanwhile want to hear exactly how a candidate is planning on fixing problems. Usually not just any problems either, but specifically the problems they care about most. That could be global warming, racism, the wealth gap, workers rights, gun violence, the genocide in Palestine, the housing market, or something else entirely. That is what motivates them to show up to the polls. Biden (and then Harris) largely failed to do that. Instead he put forward plans that either inched towards solving those problems at a snails pace, or like in the case of Palestine outright ignored the problem.

    So yes, Biden is objectively a better president than Trump in every metric except for one. The one that actually mattered. The ability to convince people to get off their asses and head to the polls. Honestly at this point the problem isn't even Biden or even Harris, it's the entire DNC and their milquetoast platform.

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    Protect your home with Sauron

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  • Maybe he thinks a bunch of health insurance executives are hanging out in the technology Lemmy community... for some reason. I mean, I'm like 99.99% sure they aren't (and if they are and they're reading this: fuck you you ghoulish waste of carbon).

  • Dell kills the XPS brand

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  • Well AMD just blatantly copied Nvidia's naming scheme for their new GPUs so maybe they'll copy Intel for their CPUs. I mean, they kind of already did, since the Ryzen 9 is basically i9, and the Ryzen 7 is basically i7 etc. It's mostly AMDs mobile CPUs that have horrendous names, but Intel really isn't much better in that department.

  • Why hasn't a renewable energy blockchain REALLY been successful yet?

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  • How would this generated electricity be transferred to the purchaser? So I generate 1 kW of power and get one of these tokens. I put that token up for purchase. Somebody buys that token entitling them to 1 kW. Now how does that 1 kW go from me to them? If the answer is the power company, now you need to rope them into this scheme and I'm not seeing any reason at all why they would do that.

  • Luigi Mangione Content Is a Challenge for Social Media Moderators - B…

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  • Well there's basically two possible states. Either Luigi didn't do it in which case the one who actually did is the hero and Luigi is just a proxy for this unknown individual, or he did do it in which case Luigi is the hero. Either way doesn't really change the sentiment as at the end of the day someone who was actively making the lives of millions of Americans worse and directly contributing to many thousands of preventable deaths was killed. Who actually pulled the trigger is kind of immaterial.

  • Dem group: Voters in the end did not really care that Trump instigated Jan. 6 attack

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  • It's not really about the GOP as much as those running under the GOP. Republican candidates don't need the GOP to bankroll them because they get tons of funding from foreign nationals and corporations who see an opportunity in them to destabilize the US further and increase the wealth gap respectively. The DNC meanwhile mostly see funding from the same sources as a hedge against a Republican loss and in order for them to keep Democrats from running with progressive economic policies. But to do that they only need to dangle just enough cash in front of the DNC to sway their policies, not enough to make them actually win.

  • Trump complains that US flags will be half-staff on his inauguration day

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  • All of them contributed (particularly Rush Limbaugh), but they weren't pivotal the way Nixon and Reagan were. Nixon (well, his advisors technically) was the first one to really put forwards demonizing some minority group as an actual campaign strategy (in his case it was hippies and black people). It can't be understated how much that concept has shaped the modern Republican party to the point where that's almost the entirety of their modern strategy.

    In many ways though, Reagan was the far more insidious of the two of them though. His long debunked trickle down economics that advocated for reducing taxes on the rich and corporations and eliminating regulations and oversight of businesses as a silver bullet to all economic issues not only set the economic policies of the Republicans, it even spread to the Democrats resulting in the useless "liberal" party we have today. The massive wealth inequality we see in America today is a direct result of Reagan, his policies, and his propaganda.

    Those certainly aren't the only causes of our current problems of course. You've got the people you mentioned as well as people like Rupert Murdoch, and things like the Citizens United decision as well as even older and more fundamental issues like our first past the post voting system, but Nixon and Reagan were significant turning points.

  • Trump complains that US flags will be half-staff on his inauguration day

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  • That's because Nixon is the one who came up with the culture war strategy that Republicans have been running with ever since. Also the one responsible for the creation of Fox "News" and the 24/7 propaganda that's resulted from it. Nixon was one pillar of the shit hurricane that our modern government has turned into. The other two pillars being the economic policies of Reagan and the non-stop shit flinging and scandal of Trump. If Nixon or Reagan never happened we'd probably be in a much better position today than we currently are, Trump likely would never have happened.

  • Taking on Musk, Sanders Says Corporate Abuse of H-1B Visa Program Must End

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  • Generally because he says the opposite of both the Republicans and the Democrats. And he's usually right. Bernie provides a glimpse of what we could have if we had an actual progressive party instead of an economically conservative party and a fascist party.

  • Steve Bannon escalates MAGA civil war with call for ‘reparations’ over H-1B visas

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  • Steve Bannon is obviously a giant racist douchebag, but I do have to say H-1B isn't great. It basically lets companies rent foreign workers for cheap. What I would like to see instead is a program to grant citizenship to skilled workers and fast track their immigration status. Companies would hate that of course because then skilled people would be less willing to accept low-ball offers.

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  • Also we all know Trump isn't going to do shit. He constantly says crazy shit that has no hope of ever becoming a reality all the time. The only thing that should be making headlines at this point are things he's actually done, not just rambled about one time in a brain fart.

  • Matt Gaetz ethics report says his drug use and sex with a minor violated state laws

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  • In theory or in practice? In theory I'm sure a whole laundry list. In practice absolutely nothing because literally everyone in a position to do something is either corrupt or incompetent.

  • Matt Gaetz ethics report says his drug use and sex with a minor violated state laws

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  • Yeah, so basically because he kept his statutory rape to a single state, and that states corrupt governor will never prosecute him then he gets away with it. Ron DeSantis needs to be fired. Preferably out of a cannon into the sun.

  • Matt Gaetz ethics report says his drug use and sex with a minor violated state laws

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  • Pretty sure both of those things violate federal laws too. Not that laws matter with Donvict in charge.

  • Trump threatens to retake Panama Canal

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  • Filling the media with complete BS so they don't write about his YUGE failure just a couple of days ago.

    Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down? Could literally use this comment on any story about Trump and it would be equally true.

  • Musk flexes influence over Congress in shutdown drama

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  • Republicans have always been good at flinging shit around and just in general preventing anything useful from happening, the only difference now is that for the GOP the call is coming from inside the house. In the past they've used their obstructionism as a weapon to hurt Democrats trying to actually make the government function, but now they've got a bunch of whiny toddlers throwing temper tantrums while they're trying to accomplish things and the shoe is on the other foot. There's a certain delicious irony in seeing the same assholes that pulled this crap during the Obama administration suddenly be subjected to the same thing by the monsters they created.

  • Trump transition team has fleshed out its plan to destroy the US EV market

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  • Either way a definite improvement over his current state.

    Edit: also as with any Trumpian statement it's always safe to assume that reality is the exact opposite of whatever was said.

  • Trump transition team has fleshed out its plan to destroy the US EV market

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  • Trump would make the best tree. He'd be 'UGE! Lots of people are saying it, the best people.