How is libertarian socialism better than socialism with chinese characteristics?
Hmmm… maybe, you know, not having a police state, not having all media, and communications, from places other than china either just blocked out, or highly filtered, not having a single group of people effectively controlling all the power, and strictly determining anything any media has to broadcast, stream, upload, publish, etc.
Let me guess though, these things are somehow not a part of chinese socialism?
Trump is the one who fucked up the treatment I need to live. Literally his orders have stopped it.
The point of saying the pain, etc., is because you were saying everyone here are privileged to the point where they complain about “only” making 80k a year, and live easy lives, with little struggle. There are tons of people on lemmy who are poor, and working class, and marginalized.
Beyond this there is a reason china hasn’t taken all the lands in the waters around them, or the parts of russia they claim heritage to, or other places they have their eyes on, NATO. The US military infrastructure developed with NATO literally is what is locking them out of their south china sea expansion, and so on. And no I am not saying NATO are the good guys, they are just the imperialists that currently have their military super structure in place to keep others from expanding. If NATO dissolves, and the US leaves the area, we will see china start making good on their claims of land ownership not recognized by anyone, the south china sea, etc.
Yeah, that was some baffling shit. Makes me wonder if it’s some sort of bot.
How could I have forgotten the gold rule, no fun on the grad!
It almost feels like some sort of AI bot framed to make people angry, for not being leftist enough, or something, with the underlying intent to create a shame response to criticisms of like trump, I guess… such a weird thing to go off about.
Correct, it is me that kills all the children in your area.
Guess I am just hallucinating my constant pain, disability, and the turmoil I am currently going through with my insurer because of what trump doing, and how it affects a treatment I literally need to live. Clearly his actions haven’t changed anything but people not putting pronouns on their e-mail.
You are the one out of touch here.
It was
So, making a shit post joke about how Trump pledged to bring down the cost of eggs, thus having his cult believe the prices of eggs were going to go down due to him, and they a currently rising, with no end in sight, because the president doesn’t control the price of eggs, is spreading AG prop and trying to cover up the fact that the bird flu is raising the prices?
You must have extremely long arms to be able to reach that far.
I mean, we are talking about a crowd where steroid abuse is super common. Taking some nicotine to get a pump isn’t really anywhere near being outside the realm of an unreasonable health risk, to a large portion of this demographic.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/does-nicotine-affect-muscle-growth
There is data to show nicotine might have a performance increasing effects on people. However, the idea is more that you ingest a safe amount via methods that are not smoking/chewing.
They aren’t refrigerated because eggs naturally have a coating on them that protects them from spoiling due to exposure. In the US we wash it off in an effort to get things like salmonella off the shells, instead of regulate farm side safety measures
Yeah, all our news media sucks, but right wing media has become like a caricature of a dystopian novel’s government’s propaganda bureaucracy
Yes, their office paid for a service they provide that is not their news paper, nor was it just given to them. It also is no where near 8 million dollars. Beyond that, politico offers services that almost everyone in congress, GOP or DNC, pays for, that has nothing to do with their news paper
Turns out, this isn’t true. Shocker.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/06/trump-politico-usaid-subcriptions
Oh I expect most to go elsewhere, but the portion that end up on lemmy, after doing a search for reddit alternatives, will end up here. The greater portion probably won’t end up at a single place, as there aren’t any reddit alternatives in the way that reddit was an alternative to digg.
I mean it literally says whitepeopletwitter under its logo, and name, atop the side bar, so yeah, probably should expect that
Most of that crowd seem to be against the idea of electric vehicles though.
I am not sure which one, the letter just says “under current executive order”, and it killed a program that granted supplemental coverage for a variety of different drugs, and other treatments, that meet whatever requirement, so drugs I take for polycystic kidney disease are now denied to me. Also another long term therapy for complications with my spina bifida might get the axe, the order was blocked, but since this requires there to be secured future funds for them to approve it. Now they are looking at the instability of this situation as a reason to drop it until things stabilize.
Many conservatives around me are now deeply regretting voting for trump, because it has put their lives in turmoil, for similar reasons to mine, I live in an apartment building for people with disabilities. When you vote against basic QOL, even against your own interest, often because you were too ignorant to know anything about what you voted for (many people here are saying they heard that he supported one, or two, things they liked, and wanted to MAGA, and are not “political enough” to know everything else, and didn’t really know what tariffs are), and supported out-right bigots, and numerous other things, well, you deal with the consequences of it. Reactionary party support for shit like this will earn you hate. No I am not defending the DNC, they are corporate own imperialists who are responsible for the disenfranchisement of the working class. However voting for bald faced fascism shows a lack of empathy, and therefore you lose a lot of empathy for your own plight. Trust me, I live in Appalachia near norther WV, it is very poor here, very working class, and very desperate, very conservative. A lot of people here are now regretting their vote because they lost a lot of compensation, at their jobs, due them changing the budget to get a year+ worth of materials before the tariffs. Even the c-suite had to take cuts, and several major employers are eyeing moving to the EU. Some are still doing strong mental gymnastics to justify their support, however, as their income dwindles, and they struggle even more to support heir families, hopefully they will begin to look for alternatives. The tide is shifting back to being in favor of unionization, and general collective bargaining, so there is hope.