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WatDabney

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  • Debate erupts over role job cuts played in weather forecasts ahead of deadly Texas floods

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  • "Debate" in this case is actually just the blatant and obvious truth vs. evasions, excuses and lies.

    Unfortunately, at this particular point in our history, the evasions, excuses and lies will probably prevail.

  • As women have far fewer babies, the U.S. and the world face unprecedented challenges

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  • Appropriately enough, that bubble of aging people also holds an outsized proprtion of the political power.

    So all they have to do, if they want to ensure that there's a constant supply of young people to do the work, is use their political power to make the country the kind of place into which people would want to bring children.

    And I have to say, cruel though it might be, that if they can't even be arsed to do that, then it's their own problem and their own fault.

  • As women have far fewer babies, the U.S. and the world face unprecedented challenges

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  • So?

    The only downside to a declining population is that the moneyed class will have fewer people to exploit, and at this point, anything that harms the moneyed class is a good thing.

    Oh, and:

    Many researchers believe this accelerating global shift is being driven in large part by a positive reality.

    And I believe they're wrong. I believe it's driven primarily by the negative reality that much of human civilization (and the planet itself) has been warped and corrupted for the benefit of a relative handful of greedy, power-hungry psychopaths, and more people all the time don't want to bring a child into such a shitty world.

  • Thanks to Trump, the clean energy industry is in jeopardy

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  • Which also, ironically enough, pretty much dooms the US into being a bankrupt has-been in the future, desperatly clinging to outdated technology that nobody else wants any more, while China easily saunters into position as the new world leader.

    Trump continuing his lifelong pattern of patting himself on the back even as he blunders into bankruptcy yet again, except this time he's dragging all of us along with him.

    Ah well - it'll be really, really ugly for the US in the relatively short term, but it could be to our overall advantage in the longer term. All of the anbitious psychopaths will go somewhere else to make their fortunes, and the US could be left to just sort of toddle along, quietly decrepit and generally broke, which might actually give us a chance to do some good for ordinary people for once, instead of being warped to serve the greed of psychopaths.

  • Why is the Secretary of Transportation Begging Americans to Take More Road Trips?

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  • Yes.

    Corrupt as it was, it still maintained some degree of independence. It does no longer.

    Think of it as something akin to the difference between the period when two separate corporations were part of a cartel in which the larger of the two was by far the dominant partner, and the situation after the larger one has bought out the smaller, fired the entire C-suite and most of the employees and sold off most of the company assets.

  • AOC slams House Republicans for supporting Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ bill ‘in exchange for some signed merch’: ‘Voting to starve babies’

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  • Oh absolutely. Minorities will disproportionately suffer and die, but nothing close to exclusively.

    More broadly, disadvantaged people will suffer and die. Minorities are already overrepresented among the disadvantaged and under the overtly bigoted policies of the Trump regime, they will be even more overrepresented, but that's just something of a bonus to the would-br oligarchs. They're excited at the prospect of culling poor people, pretty much regardless of the details.

  • Judge: You can’t ban DEI grants without bothering to define DEI

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  • But not clearly defining DEI is key.

    The actual goal is to effectively not only legalize but actively encourage discrimination, and that's done specifically by not clearly defining DEI so companies will tend to generally avoid hiring monorities at all, for fear that they'll be punished by the Trump regime.

  • AOC slams House Republicans for supporting Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ bill ‘in exchange for some signed merch’: ‘Voting to starve babies’

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  • Turns out that like so many other things, all of the noise about "replacement theory" was just conservative projection. They claimed that there was some sort of determined effort to eliminate whites because they were right in the middle of a determined effort to eliminate non-whites (and non-cis, non-het, non-christian, etc.) and as they do, they assumed/pretended that everyone else is as evil as they are.

    This is the way it's going to work, by design:

    1. Companies will not only avoid DEI hires, but will avoid hiring minorities broadly, for fear that they'll be accused of following DEI policies and punished by the Trump regime. So minorities are going to end up even more discriminated against.
    2. Without sufficient Medicaid funding, employer health insurance will be the only way that most in the US will be able to get healthcare.
    3. Denied employment and denied Medicaid, people - and disproportionately minorities - will die.

    No wonder the Republicans are giddy.

  • 71% of Americans say the US should spend more on "assistance to the poor". But if you use the word "welfare" that number drops to 30%

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  • "Think of how stupid the average person is, then realize that half of them are stupider than that." - George Carlin

  • If you could get something for free the whole year, what would it be?

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  • After reading through the other answers, I'm not sure of what to make of the fact that my first thought was coffee.

  • Why is the Secretary of Transportation Begging Americans to Take More Road Trips?

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  • Because the Department of Transportation is now a wholly owned subsidiary of ExxonMobil.

  • Sebastian Lauwers: "What Lemm.ee’s shutdown means (and doesn’t) for the Fediverse" - Mastodon

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  • What it meant to me was that I had to unpin the link to my lemm.ee account from my Firefox home page.

    It could've been the case that I would've had one less instance to choose from, but in the aftermath of the announcement, I found two new instances I wanted to try, so I'm actually one ahead in the long run.

    And that's it.

  • Zohran Mamdani says 'I don't think we should have billionaires'

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  • And he's right.

    By any measure, the exidtence of that great of a disparity in wealth in a society is evidence of the failure of the systems on which that society is built.

    It's akin to if you were responsible for caring for a field of crops, and you ended up with a field in which two or three plants were enormous, bloated and overgrown. a few were more or less healthy, snd the rest were weak and shriveled and starving.

    That rather obviously would mean you'd failed.

  • Film Critic Ted Cruz Outraged By ‘Out of Touch’ Hollywood’s Top Movies List

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  • One of the very few things that virtually all federal politicians - Democrats and Republicans alike - agree on is that Ted Cruz is an asshole.

    Really.

  • Trump Says He’s Moving Forward With Ending Birthright Citizenship After Supreme Court Gives OK

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  • So literally what happened here is Trump said, "I want to violate the Constitution" and the Supreme Court said, " Okay — go ahead."

    And that's it for the rule of law in the US.

    All that's left now is to tally the mass murders along the way to the inevitable collapse of the US, and to hope that our descendents can build something better out of the rubble.

  • Cuomo will stay on NYC mayor’s ballot after conceding Democratic primary to Mamdani, sources tell CNN

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  • Not to necessarily shift blame away from that scumbag sex abuser Cuomo , but I'm betting that the Democratic party leaders are behind this.

  • Trump Calls for Prosecution of Unnamed Democrats Over Iran Intel Leak

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  • The Toddler-in-chief throwing a tantrum because he got caught in a lie.

    That's just so 2025.

  • Meta wins artificial intelligence copyright case in blow to authors

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  • Sorry, but no. That's just the paper-thin excuse.

    Pirating, like pretty much anything else that's sometimes a crime in the current US, is A-OK if you can buy enough judges and politicians.

  • They are so dumb they want to piss everyone off for a lousy 15 minutes

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  • Gotta pay for those executive bonuses somehow...