Because whenever a religious person or entity does a bad thing internet atheists are quick to say “see? This is PROOF that religion SUCKS! This would NEVER happen in an ATHEIST utopia,” sometimes coupled with a call to ban religion or something equally insane. Sometimes you gotta point out the hypocrisy. I wish I was making this up, but yeah.

What. The. Fuck.

Because Putin was popular enough to build status quo fascism. Trump doesn’t have such luxury, so he needs to get his act in order before domestic opposition finally wakes up. Federal forces, and specifically ICE, are woefully underprepared for enforcing authoritarian rule in a country as big as America, even setting aside the possibility of a civil war.

I live in Japan and honestly, this is the one time Trump is actually making some sense. If there was ever a time to practice protectionism around a staple food, it sure as hell isn’t when that food’s price just doubled in the span of a few years.

Overall the Chinese are somewhat known for pragmatic approaches, why chasing illusions in this case? The total number of readers and writers can’t be that huge can’t it?

Probably enlightened despotism giving way to regular despotism. Facing economic problems, and having shed all pretense of being socialist, the Chinese ruling class likely needs a scapegoat for the country’s troubles.

That’s… hopeful…

I can’t stand that this piece of shit gets to dictate what most of the world does in their own fucking countries…

Eh, the only new thing to most of the world is how obvious he is about it.

Do we really need celebrity gossip here?

At that point you might as well just go full socialism; 1000 people is just a mid-sized factory.

This isn’t the community for discussion-type questions. You have asklemmy and politics communities for that.

Tax wealth, not income.

I’d imagine it’s just the argument for capitalism. You know, profit incentive increasing efficiency and productivity and all that. Now this stuff is true to an extent (though a lot of politically active Lemmy likes to pretend otherwise), but all the good stuff happens before a single person reaches a billion dollars so if that’s the idea it would pretty much fall flat on its face.

Yes, they passed Obamacare, a Republican policy thought up by Heritage Foundation. Also note that they only passed the ACA when they should’ve damn near rebuilt the country from scratch. If this is the kind of policy Americans can expect when the Democrats have a trifecta and a massive grassroots movement, then you’re basically making my point for me, but that’s beside the point. The bigger problem is that they kept the filibuster and keep keeping the filibuster when they could’ve abolished it twice. Keeping the filibuster is a choice, so the whole talk about a filibuster-proof majority is nothing more than “sorry I shot myself in the foot so I can’t come help you even though it’s literally my job, now give me more money”.

I used to call her mama but now I mostly just use her name. My family is weird like that.

In China? No way.

Sucks to be the small minority of anti-genocide Israelis, but yeah you reap what you sow.

The Nazis started as a terrorist organization.

True, but they evolved into something more terrible than that, just like Zionist militias did in 1948. I feel that calling the IDF a terrorist organization, while catchy, is an understatement of the depth and scale of evil they’re committing and have committed. They’re closer to the raping, pillaging and murderous hordes of Genghis Khan.

Mostly yes, but the point is that the filibuster is/was their excuse for not doing shit to help the people when they could. DNC party hacks like to say “but they didn’t have a filibuster-proof majority!!!” when people point out that the DNC has done exactly zilch to remedy America’s long-term problems, so it’s important to remember that keeping the filibuster was a choice by the DNC made for that purpose.

This shit again?

Counterpoint: The IDF isn’t a terrorist organization; they’re the Wehrmacht.