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  • Indiana ban on gender transition treatment for minors upheld by U.S. appeals court

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  • Puberty blockers are reversible - that's not a lifelong decision. That information should have been in the article, and if we didn't live in a dumbshit rightwing dystopia where press is owned by the conservatives and also fears retribution from the conservatives, that information would've been in there.

    Surgery? Sure, let's have that conversation - though I would certainly argue it's not the state's business what happens between a child, their parents, and their doctors, any more than it would be any other lifelong medical procedure. But it's at least a little murky. But this decision isn't surgery, it's puberty blockers. Not murky. Just evil.

  • Elon Musk's new 'department' seeks 'super high-IQ' staff for unpaid jobs

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  • People with that kind of money don't work, they own. They'll hire somebody to do those 80 hours while they rape underage trafficked girls.

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  • Yeah, how often do the Republicans actually manage to come together to stop Trump?

  • America Needs Resistance, Not #Resistance

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  • One major problem here is the lack of community. It was easier to get in-person events organized when the default was to do things in person. #resistance isn't just more common because people aren't willing to be in person, but because it's not as easy to get involved.

    As far as actual political groups are concerned, a lot of them have very little online presence, or their information is only available through something like Facebook where you need an account to view it. Those that are more available frequently only hold their meetings online, and many make it difficult to find how to get involved because you have to navigate through all their requests for donations to find there's very little else available.

    But that's just my experience over the last few years. I imagine it'll get a lot worse when these groups aren't legally allowed to exist.

  • Ukraine says it cracked open a Russian decoy drone used to fool air defenses and found Western parts inside

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  • The point is that there's sanctions, and the sanctions are supposed to prevent those parts from getting into Russia. It's not surprising to a lot of us that sanctions are ineffective at anything other than hurting the general population, but it's good to report it and have that data point.

  • Portland’s ranked-choice debut causes voter engagement to crater; 1 in 5 who cast ballots chose no one for City Council

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  • Not who brought it up, but it's essentially just checking a box if you approve of the candidate, and check as many boxes as you want. Highest number of box checks wins. I'd take it over first past the post, but I prefer RCV still. Proponents of approval voting say it helps weed out extreme candidates, but I find the most extreme candidates in the US have historically been a huge net win, so I'd prefer to give them a better shot at winning.

  • Opinion | Voters punished Biden for problems he didn’t cause and effectively addressed

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  • Conservative messaging wins propaganda battles because it's simple. Democrats can't use the same tactics, because they'll be less effective no matter what. Preventing consolidation of media and monopolization of media would be more effective, since it's a centrally coordinated effort. Or just preventing anybody from having enough money that they'd even have the ability to do that.

  • It's not about winning, it's about corporate donations

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  • It's important to remember the Democratic Party is a private coalition of politicians whose goal is to obtain and maintain personal power and wealth. Bernie Sanders was not and is not a Democrat, didn't owe them any favors, wasn't playing their game, and would have directly and effectively reduced their personal power and wealth. Stopping Sanders at the expense of the party was the right move given their goals.

    It just sucks for everybody else. Well, except the rival coalition of politicians who had an outsider that they could use as a puppet to increase their own personal power and wealth.

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  • Embarrassing to live in a society so puritanical news articles have to dance around this.

  • Sen. Bernie Sanders says he does not support urging Justice Sonia Sotomayor to step down

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  • If we get elections in the future, it's possible we'll get Democrats in two of the branches, and if they get their shit together they can pack the courts. It's not entirely hopeless, but it does ride on the Democrats being remotely competent as an organization for even a brief period of time.

  • Young Black and Latino men say they chose Trump because of the economy and jobs.

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  • God, this article is awful.

    There's stuff like this:

    A majority of voters nationally said Trump was a strong leader; slightly fewer than half said the same about Harris.

    ...which implies there's some significant difference here without giving you the specific numbers. Is this 51% to 49%? They go into the Latino specifics, but only for Trump, but even break it down further to say what percent of Latinos think Trump is strong versus the percentage of Latinas that think Trump is strong.

    The AP is always held up as this infallibly unbiased source, but even if we agree that being unabashedly both-sides centrist is unbiased, that's not even close to what's happening here. To even remotely both-sides this you'd have to show all the people that think asking the question of Trump's strength is an absolute joke and it's bizarre we're even discussing it because the only people that believe in strongman leadership are literal fascists.

    With respect to the actual headline and meat of the article, it also doesn't challenge the assumption that Trump would be better for the economy. If you're going to include people who were brainwashed into believing that, you have to juxtapose them with the endless historical precedents and current studies that show his policies will absolutely be detrimental to the economy. Even corporations are going to tank in the long term, because you can't steal from the working class forever.

    By continuing Trump's campaign propaganda without serious challenge, this is a right-wing article in support of his administration. A more centrist article would say something closer to "Trump tricks public into believing he'll be better for the economy" because that's the reality of what happened.

  • Bernie Sanders perfectly sums up Trump’s 2024 game plan in decades-old video

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  • Like for a reasonable, ethical individual, that should 100% be enough.

    Conservatives have never been reasonable, ethical individuals. Slavery, Jim Crow, against women's suffrage, against the equal rights amendment, against social security, against gay and trans rights, the list goes on forever. The country's fight isn't to change a conservative's mind, it's to get enough of the non-conservatives to engage, protest, and vote such that they overwhelm the small but galvanized conservative base.

    When you win on those issues, those conservatives don't change their mind. They continue to support slavery, or voter suppression, or the issues of their time, but eventually they die off. Then you have new fights with the new conservatives.

  • RFK Jr. Says He Plans On Getting Rid Of 'Entire Departments' At FDA And CDC In Alarming Interview

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  • True, but that's not new. George Floyd, Occupy Wall Street, Seattle WTO, and the entirety of the civil rights movement all were met with state violence. The more they crack down, the more necessary it is to protest it.

  • RFK Jr. Says He Plans On Getting Rid Of 'Entire Departments' At FDA And CDC In Alarming Interview

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  • They won't hear about the bad things, or they'll be told it was the Democrats that did it, and they'll be believe it. Convincing MAGA of reality is pointless while they're still feeding from the trough of conservative shit. We're better off protesting and being disruptive in combination with getting our shit together for next round, where hopefully we'll have real primaries and get our first competent general election candidate since Obama.

  • Tim Walz loses home county to Trump

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  • Yeah, home advantage is less and less relevant every year. Once upon a time this would be news, but it's a new era and he wasn't even the presidential candidate.

  • 'Did Joe Biden Drop Out' Google Searches Spike on Election Night, Suggesting Many Americans Had No Idea He Wasn't Running

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  • Sort of, with the major distinction that you can just tell somebody water green tea is and they'll know what green tea is. It's a trivial fix. You can tell a Trump supporter that Harris is not a communist, and they won't believe you for a million years, with all the facts in the world behind you.

  • 'Did Joe Biden Drop Out' Google Searches Spike on Election Night, Suggesting Many Americans Had No Idea He Wasn't Running

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  • Plain ignorance is part of it, but I really don't think it's the driving factor. You don't vote for Trump because you lack some key knowledge, no matter how trivial that knowledge is. You vote for him because you've been inundated with conservative media for decades, and you have no grasp on reality anymore. You really believe Harris is going to hold you at gunpoint and replace your gas heaters with electric. You really believe she's going to sell the United States to China for a hundred bucks. You might even believe there's a war on men, a war on your religion, a war on everything that brings you meaning to your life. If I truly believed the things that conservative media was saying, I'd vote for him too.

    It's not just ignorance. It's brainwashing.

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    This can't be real can it?

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  • They should have given people on the left some reason to be motivated to vote though, not just fear.

    This is the massive key that I really don't think the Democratic party understands. When people are scared, they vote conservative. There are literal studies that show fear is the driving force behind conservative voters. Democrats need to make them feel safe. That's one of the reasons Obama was so successful - he ran on change and hope. Fear works for Republicans. It doesn't work for Democrats. But they see fear working for Republicans, so they copy it.

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    This can't be real can it?

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  • I'm not convinced that's the reason, but if the country is so misogynistic it's impossible to elect a woman, we need to stop putting women up for election. That's shitty, but it's better than Republicans winning.