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Ferrous

@ Ferrous @lemmy.ml

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  • Trump generously makes up an approval rating for himself, defying reality

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  • Are we looking at the same article? This piece is literally a fact check.

    This idea of fact checks being the antidote to trumpian fascism is straight from 2015. No amount of fact checking or "facts and logic" will slow fascism, and the roaring success of Trump's campaign despite countless debate moderator fact checks, community notes, and politifacts should make that very clear.

    You need to abandon this liberal idea that Americans turn fascist only because they have yet to be shown the "data" or "facts". Liberalism is the idea that sitting a fascist down and showing them facts, logics, charts, statistics, and expert testimony will somehow magically convert them into a leftist.

    The leftists framework is that fascism is the result of worsening material conditions and withering away of social safety nets, and the only way to fight fascism is to change material conditions or kill fascists. This is in direct contrast with liberalism - which posits that the ever-evolving, self-correcting marketplace of ideas is the end-all extinguisher of fascism. Look where that got us....

  • Ocasio-Cortez says Vance ‘lied to the world’ about free speech

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  • I'm not claiming that the owner class orchestrated her election in some clandestine way, or that AOC had to cozy up to special interests to win.

    I'm claiming that AOC's presence in the DNC defangs otherwise radical working people, and the DNC use this to their advantage.

  • Ocasio-Cortez says Vance ‘lied to the world’ about free speech

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  • The DNC deliberately keeps a few token "progressives" to defang otherwise radical democrat constituents. People like AOC give working people the false hope that the DNC is shifting left and aren't entirely bought out by the owner class. No official of the Amerikkkan government will get us out of this mess.

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    Jerkoff

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  • Yep, one has a donkey mascot and one an elephant. They are definitely different.

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    Jerkoff

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  • So an intern can spend all day clearing out a voicemail inbox? Unfortunately I think we are past peaceful phone canvassing. Nothing will meaningfully change until the owner class have fear in their heart.

  • Trump’s Illegal Gaza Plan Is the Logical Extension of Decades of Bipartisan US Policy

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  • Liberals have no problem with genocide so long as the perpetrator is handwringing and "pragmatic". It is only once the perpetrator shows some honesty and goes balls-to-the-walls, unapologetically genocidal that they start to have an issue. Everything to them is just optics, aesthetics, and vibes. American history starts anew with each new president.

  • US should not have made concessions to Russia over Ukraine, says German minister

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  • New bird flu variant found in Nevada dairy cows has experts sounding alarms: ‘We have never been closer to a pandemic from this virus’

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  • Agreed. Start stocking cans and shotgun shells.

  • US approves $7.4bn sale of more weapons to Israel used to ravage Gaza

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  • It's not like Americans will get to vote again. The current system is done for.

    Ah yes, the same type of alarmist rhetoric the dems were pushing during the campaign. If the stakes were really this high, why did democrats sit on their asses for 4 years while Trump gained power? Why was their legal battle against Trump the most limp-dicked effort we've seen? Most importantly, why did Biden peacefully transfer power to Trump if the stakes were truly so high? This is one of the funniest liberal thought processes to me: the idea that it's better to sacrifice your constitution, country, and democratic process instead of sacrificing "civility", "decorum", and "precedent". Yall would rather embrace fascism with open arms than use the most basic tools at your disposal: stacking courts, appointing judges, using executive orders, etc... you know, all the strategies Republicans have mastered these past few years and have shown are extremely effective.

    At the end of the day, the Democratic party's selling point was "harm reduction", but that was generous at best. It has become clear that the democrats simply slowed down the rate at which things were getting worse, and when the position of the party becomes "slow down genocide" as opposed to "stop genocide", I think it's perfectly fair for people to draw a red line. The only logical conclusion to this line of thinking is reaching a point, 20 years from now, when the choice is between a Democrat who wants 9 genocides and a republican who wants 10.

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    Shutdown 315

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  • How do you think fascism arose in Germany? Was it a complex process set forth by the treaty of Versailles, embarrassment after WWI, rapid technological advancement by Germany, instability from the great depression, instability in the Weimar republic, etc...

    Or do you really think fascism just comes out of the aether when somehow millions of voters become "stupid" all of a sudden?

  • Brain Damage Makes You Conservative

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  • Fetterman is a great example of what happens when you put faith into any Amerikkkan government official.

  • North Korean soldiers in Russia: Were they ever there?

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  • Ukraine captured and publicly interviewed a pair of them.

    Which, as the article states, Ukraine has kept from being interviewed by anyone other than the Ukrainian Presidential Press service.

    I don't see any evidence of DPRK soldiers from the grainy videos you've posted. For months now, we've been getting 1080p Ukrainian drone footage of hits on Russians with such clarity that you can make out the soldiers' stubble. Why did this clarity suddenly disappear when Ukrainian and South Korean Intelligence started pushing the idea that DPRK soldiers were actively fighting?

  • Progressive Democrats accuse Trump and Musk of ‘a plutocratic coup’

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  • That's just a No True Scotsman. "The subset of democrats who vote in line with Republicans, thus making all other democrats' resistance moot, are simply not real democrats"

  • Progressive Democrats accuse Trump and Musk of ‘a plutocratic coup’

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  • So, you're essentially saying this is normal for democrats? It's normal for them to go to bat for republicans? How is that a defense?

    It never ceases to amaze me how hard people go in making excuses for democrats.

  • Progressive Democrats accuse Trump and Musk of ‘a plutocratic coup’

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  • The democrats are refusing to employ any of the government-breaking strategies the republicans just proved, over years as a minority party, can bring the government to crawl. Worse than that, they are enabling everything the republicans are doing. They aren't even putting up a fight. They'd rather be "civil" and "the adults in the room" than actually stop fascism. They are controlled opposition.

  • Top Democrats warn Trump tariffs will ‘hit Americans in their wallets’

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  • Literally just show an ounce of retaliation.

  • Costco Increases Pay to Over $30 an Hour for Most Store Workers

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  • If Costco believed that a move such as the one in the headline was a common sense, good for business strategy, then why did they draw it out over months and months of grueling union negotiations, probably spending untold millions on lawyers?

    The union strong armed Costco into making this decision - as they should.

  • Costco Increases Pay to Over $30 an Hour for Most Store Workers

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  • This is literally right off the back of Costco making these negotiations as difficult as possible for the union. https://teamster.org/2025/01/costco-walks-away-from-bargaining-table/

    On top of that, this new move was so lackluster that a strike could still be on the table. https://www.npr.org/2025/01/31/nx-s1-5280640/costco-pay-raises-teamsters-union-threatens-strike

    "Costco is still shorting their workers because nonunion workers lack the retirement security of a defined benefit pension plan and the job protections that come with a union contract," McQuaid said in an email.

    Companies are not things to love. The progress we see in this headline was because of the hard work of unions - NOT the goodness in Costco's heartbeat

  • Ahead of Chair Vote, Progressives Say DNC 'Failing Disastrously' to Learn From Loss to Trump

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  • So you're saying that democrats focused on catering to centrists for 2025, lost spectacularly, and the new strategy needs to be.... catering to centrists?

    The DNC needs to hire you. Something something, the definition of insanity is....

  • Ahead of Chair Vote, Progressives Say DNC 'Failing Disastrously' to Learn From Loss to Trump

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  • Im dying to know: what sort of voters do you think democrats were focusing on grabbing for this past election?