usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml
on 24 Feb 2025 20:06
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The state and local is where most of the progress is going to happen in the next 4 years. They control a lot more than you think - even including running elections for federal office. Pay attention to all your local elections - they are going to matter a lot
EDIT: While I’m here, going to mention there are local elections in some localities across the US tomorrow (feb 25th) in parts of California, Connecticut, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, & Maine
rocky1138@sh.itjust.works
on 24 Feb 2025 20:21
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Who cares? The US is over, folks.
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
on 24 Feb 2025 20:36
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Maybe so but the fuckening just began, boy
yeeehaw
usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml
on 24 Feb 2025 20:54
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Don’t do Trump’s work for him by spreading apathy and dispair. He wants us complacent and to forget the power we have. He is far weaker than he seems so he has to project absolute power. Don’t give anything to him for free
rocky1138@sh.itjust.works
on 25 Feb 2025 22:00
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Trump will also harm you. Plus we could use all the support from our friends that we can get
rocky1138@sh.itjust.works
on 26 Feb 2025 23:14
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We will not be friends again until you overthrow fascism.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 25 Feb 2025 15:16
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More likely it will lose superpower status and just become a run-of-the-mill large size developed country like Britain or Germany.
Living in a run-of-the-mill developed country isn’t actually bad - in fact the best places to live in the World in terms of median quality of life are all pretty run-of-the-mill places.
Granted, judging by what I saw living in Britain, the whole post-Imperial hangover does screw things up significantly for a century or two compared to similar countries that were never top dog.
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
on 25 Feb 2025 17:43
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The British pedon has been driven into poverty quicker than American one...
They got NHS at least tho
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 25 Feb 2025 17:58
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True.
That said, British days as an Empire were almost a century ago whilst the US has been entering that phase for a decade or two at most.
IMHO, the closer a country’s past as top dog is, the more wealth is still floating around from the old days and the less the local elites tend to squeeze the local peons to maintain their status, and the riches from the gold old days are a lot more depleted in Britain than in the US, whose currency is still the main reserve currency of the World (though less and less so since maybe 2 decades ago), which would explain why impoverishment of the average person was faster and deeper in Britain.
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works
on 24 Feb 2025 20:24
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Until pedo-prez and nazi-musk determines that it’s hurtful to gafam.
Sorry for becoming a cynical asshole, it’s actually a good news but I can’t help myself these days.
usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml
on 24 Feb 2025 20:49
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Local and state officals can enforce laws on their own without federal involvement
Assuming everything is doomed to fail is exactly what Trump and Musk want from you. They want you to stop fighting or trying because you might realize they are weaker than you think. Don’t do their work for them
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works
on 24 Feb 2025 21:05
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Assuming everything is doomed to fail is exactly what Trump and Musk want from you.
You’re right, my bad.
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world
on 24 Feb 2025 20:54
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Sorry for becoming a cynical asshole, it’s actually a good news but I can’t help myself these days.
Hope you’ll take this criticism as honestly given, and not meant as an attack, but you’re not improving the quality of Lemmy with these kind of posts.
May I suggest, instead of making a comment and apologizing for it in the same comment, you just don’t make the comment at all?
It really sucks having to push through these type of comments.
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works
on 24 Feb 2025 21:02
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Yeah you’re probably right, I’ll try to shut to fuck up next time. It’s just that these asshole a ruining every god damn thing I believe in so I can’t help to think they’ll come for this too. Here I’m doing it again… I’ll go serve myself a huge glass of wine to celebrate this good news, it’s almost 5 anyway.
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world
on 24 Feb 2025 21:51
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Hang in there brother/sister, times will be better again.
Yes it’ll be a long 3 years 11 months, but still, even the laziest people usually figure their shit out at some point and change their course appropriately, and vote differently.
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world
on 24 Feb 2025 21:52
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Have a nice day
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz
on 24 Feb 2025 20:51
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This is also nice because every state doesn’t have to pass this kind of law for it to help everyone else. Companies are often willing to have california specific models of their products to comply with California specific laws, but if enough states have right to repair laws it will hopefully be easier for companies to just have all their products be compliant.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub
on 25 Feb 2025 02:10
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Or pretend to be compliant in the classic Apple way.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz
on 25 Feb 2025 02:57
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How did you come up with that username?
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub
on 25 Feb 2025 03:06
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The state and local is where most of the progress is going to happen in the next 4 years. They control a lot more than you think - even including running elections for federal office. Pay attention to all your local elections - they are going to matter a lot
EDIT: While I’m here, going to mention there are local elections in some localities across the US tomorrow (feb 25th) in parts of California, Connecticut, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, & Maine
Here’s a substack post with more info about those local elections
Ballot measures. Write them if your state empowers them. That’s where the democracy will happen.
My state is gerrymandered to death which is probably one reason the right wants to push everything to the states. Easier to divide and control.
I need Louis Rossmanns input on this.
These parasites love passing laws that hurt the taxpayer looking at you, ACA...
They’re good at introducing them, just not as good at passing them.
There’s room for a lot of politics between introducing and passing a law.
~This~ ~comment~ ~is~ ~licensed~ ~under~ ~CC~ ~BY-NC-SA~ ~4.0~
Who cares? The US is over, folks.
Maybe so but the fuckening just began, boy
yeeehaw
Don’t do Trump’s work for him by spreading apathy and dispair. He wants us complacent and to forget the power we have. He is far weaker than he seems so he has to project absolute power. Don’t give anything to him for free
I am not American.
Trump will also harm you. Plus we could use all the support from our friends that we can get
We will not be friends again until you overthrow fascism.
More likely it will lose superpower status and just become a run-of-the-mill large size developed country like Britain or Germany.
Living in a run-of-the-mill developed country isn’t actually bad - in fact the best places to live in the World in terms of median quality of life are all pretty run-of-the-mill places.
Granted, judging by what I saw living in Britain, the whole post-Imperial hangover does screw things up significantly for a century or two compared to similar countries that were never top dog.
The British pedon has been driven into poverty quicker than American one...
They got NHS at least tho
True.
That said, British days as an Empire were almost a century ago whilst the US has been entering that phase for a decade or two at most.
IMHO, the closer a country’s past as top dog is, the more wealth is still floating around from the old days and the less the local elites tend to squeeze the local peons to maintain their status, and the riches from the gold old days are a lot more depleted in Britain than in the US, whose currency is still the main reserve currency of the World (though less and less so since maybe 2 decades ago), which would explain why impoverishment of the average person was faster and deeper in Britain.
Until pedo-prez and nazi-musk determines that it’s hurtful to gafam.
Sorry for becoming a cynical asshole, it’s actually a good news but I can’t help myself these days.
Local and state officals can enforce laws on their own without federal involvement
Assuming everything is doomed to fail is exactly what Trump and Musk want from you. They want you to stop fighting or trying because you might realize they are weaker than you think. Don’t do their work for them
You’re right, my bad.
Hope you’ll take this criticism as honestly given, and not meant as an attack, but you’re not improving the quality of Lemmy with these kind of posts.
May I suggest, instead of making a comment and apologizing for it in the same comment, you just don’t make the comment at all?
It really sucks having to push through these type of comments.
~This~ ~comment~ ~is~ ~licensed~ ~under~ ~CC~ ~BY-NC-SA~ ~4.0~
Yeah you’re probably right, I’ll try to shut to fuck up next time. It’s just that these asshole a ruining every god damn thing I believe in so I can’t help to think they’ll come for this too. Here I’m doing it again… I’ll go serve myself a huge glass of wine to celebrate this good news, it’s almost 5 anyway.
Hang in there brother/sister, times will be better again.
Yes it’ll be a long 3 years 11 months, but still, even the laziest people usually figure their shit out at some point and change their course appropriately, and vote differently.
~This~ ~comment~ ~is~ ~licensed~ ~under~ ~CC~ ~BY-NC-SA~ ~4.0~
What we need is a gloom & doom venting megathread (I almost misspelled it as “negathread,” LOL).
Hey, that’s not a bad name…
Yeah, my doom and gloom tends to sneak out as sarcasm, and other people may not be as amused. Negathread is a good idea
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Have a nice day
This is also nice because every state doesn’t have to pass this kind of law for it to help everyone else. Companies are often willing to have california specific models of their products to comply with California specific laws, but if enough states have right to repair laws it will hopefully be easier for companies to just have all their products be compliant.
Or pretend to be compliant in the classic Apple way.
How did you come up with that username?
It’s the number to the new emergency services lol
Haha that explains where you got the number from, but still have no idea how you remember it. I suppose they do provide a helpful jingle.
Moss, the character with the fun hair, said it best. “well, that’s easy to remember”.
Granted, he forgets later in the episode…
A monumental win for repair warriors; corporate gatekeeping faces a well-deserved reckoning.
😺😺😺😺😺
Also great for the environment. Replacing a part is significantly better than the waste products and energy used in recycling facilities.
“states rights rabble rabble rabble” -Republicans, usually. But not now it appears.
Except when an EO appears on dumbfuck’s desk barring it because his eunuch demands it
New Trending Term: “Died In Committee”
👀
A classic term for decades
Trump will ruin it with an executive order.
Think of the profit that would steal from the big corps!