and lots of victims won’t even try to report.

Especially these days when ICE camps out at court houses and police stations and just grabs anyone who’s not white.

Biden couldn’t do shit

I couldn’t bake a cake this morning, because I didnt bother to put in the effort.

Biden couldn’t forgive student loans, because he didn’t bother to put in the effort.

The damn game is rigged

No disagreement, just curious why you think a literal lifetime politician like Biden who in 2020 couldn’t shut up about wanting to work with Republicans again wasn’t one of the ones rigging it…

He ain’t one of us, he never was.

Does pepper ridge farms remember how it became Trump’s SC?

You have to go back a decade, these days it’s a big ask…

Spoiler:

Neoliberals and Obama wouldn’t push Obama’s pick thru so it could be used as a stick to get people to vote Hillary.

They bet the country’s future and lost. Like, it most likely hurt more than helped. It motivated republicans to vote, and it turned off potential Dem voters.

So again:

If they had done what they were elected to, trump never would have won that election.

If I’ve replied to you once why start with this:

you wanna stop putting words in my mouth and have an honest, productive discussion, I’m all for it. Otherwise, don’t bother replying.

This is a two day thread I’ve blocked multiple low activity accounts in, and a new one only shows up after I block the last one…

Like, it should be obvious what’s going on here, but I’m betting a new account will reply in a couple hours after I don’t reply to your next one.

Those stats never tell the whole story.

Lots of cops just won’t take reports, and lots of victims won’t even try to report.

Especially these days when ICE camps out at court houses and police stations and just grabs anyone who’s not white.

2025 numbers won’t be out for months, but now more than ever they’re not gonna tell the whole story.

Like, to be optimistic let’s say an area increases the populations trust of the police, the numbers would show crime skyrocketing, because the percent of reported crime goes up even if actual crime goes down.

If Biden had actually fixed this shit when Dems had the numbers, trump never would have had a second term…

You can’t promise voters one thing in a campaign, call them stupid while in office for thinking it would happen, then promise in the next campaign you’ll actually do it and expect to get re-elected.

Hell, trump doing that to his voters is the whole reason Biden finally got in the oval ~40 years after his first attempt.

So you think the government should have no laws about reporduction?

If a father wants to reproduce with his own daughters, assuming he waits till they’re 18, you’re cool with that?

Any law against inbreeding is eugenics after all, and your pretty clear that because someone corrupted it, the baby has to go out with the bathwater.

Like, you realize on a long enough timescale, all you’re arguing for is the repeated and continual renaming of every system after someone abuses, which only leads to a general populace ignorant of history and that any system can be abused.

You think this is just me being pedantic, but word choice literally shapes how we think.

It matters more than you think it does.

And what you’re arguing for is literally why so many ericans are against socialism.

That’s the ironic part, you’re method is easily and recently disproven. But likely due to that very train.of logic you don’t understand it.

It’s like a blind man arguing everyone should be blind be cause he never sees anything scary, ignorant that if everyone was blind we’d all be fucked

Just like Dems have neoliberals who want to obstruct progressives and make money, Republicans have a significant amount of politicians who want to obstruct MAGA and just make money.

Both those subgroups need the filibuster as an excuse to not do what their voters want, because that isn’t how they make the most money.

Without the fillibuster, republicans would have to do everything MAGA wants. Which would hasten damage ahead of midterms and make them more likely to lose.

Then when Dems get control, they’d have no excuse not to do the shit that works.

The filibuster is the only way the wealthy can keep the shell game going where nothing happens.

trumps just so stupid and never thinks long term, so he doesn’t understand how important it is.

Like, that one dude did a performative speech starting after the Senate closed, but all it takes for a filibuster is someone saying:

Not me, but someone might filibuster this, so let’s not do anything.

And that’s enough to stop a vote.

This isn’t democracy, it’s a coordinated attempt at stopping progress

On October 29, 2025, for the 33rd consecutive year, during the United Nations General Assembly, 165 countries demanded the lifting of the United States’ unilateral economic sanctions that have been strangling the Cuban population since 1960. Unlike the previous year—when only Israel sided with Washington in opposing the resolution presented by Havana—this time five other nations yielded to the strong pressure exerted by the Trump administration: Argentina, Hungary, North Macedonia, Paraguay, and Ukraine. Twelve other countries chose to abstain.

What’s ironic is MAGA is fucking up the stranglehold the US has on this shit…

They’re trying to launch a competing market in Texas because Dems control NY, they were already in motion before Mamdani, but they’re moving faster now.

If they split NYC in half, that makes every foreign market jump up substantially. And other countries have lots of reasons to not put all their faith in America anymore.

We capitalized on being relatively unscathed from WW2 and the fact that America is uniquely positioned geographically to avoid invasion. So it made sense to park a shit ton of gold in the interior of the United States and then move paper that represented that gold.

But a lot of time has passed, those reasons don’t exist anymore.

We’ll never get back the economic power were losing, but Cuba is the best example of why we shouldn’t have had it in the first place.

It’s all the hyper focus on capitalism…

If something didn’t generate capital, it got cut out of schools.

50 years ago the highest tech you got was maybe a typing course for a semester.

Think of how much we need to teach a kid today compared to 1975, the solution has always been lengthening public free education, but instead we chopped out everything that took kids (all kids are psychopaths) and spit out adults who could function and cooperate in their society.

The worst part is fixing it is like planting a shade tree. 20 years from now we’ll have them, but there’s always going to be the gap where some areas don’t have mature trees.

We created another MAGA, even if we pull them left, the normal effects of aging will turn them into ahitheads again when they’re 65+

So…

If a couple both are carriers for a serious and lifelong medical condition, but they really want kids.

If they used IVF to make sure their kids don’t have either copies of that gene…

To you, that’s the same as killing the couple?

Because both methods is eugenics.

Just one is fucking horrible and one ensures future generations don’t suffer.

It feels like you are just using labels a bit wrong

No …

You just have personal definitions that are different than everyone else, and you’re getting upset everyone trusts the dictionary more than you

I’m pretty sure reading an MRI to look at brain activity takes a little bit more effort.

It doesn’t…

You point at the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala.

If one is big and the other small, that’s enough to categorize.

I know most people aren’t aware of it, but its not some super rare phenomena that only a single article has been written about it, and that article contains everything.

That’s fundamental though, that applies to almost every time someone says something they know, then finds a relevant article off the first page of a search engine.

I didn’t go thru my comment line by line and source every comment with an article that backs up everything I said.

Use some critical thinking

Encourage empathy and community wherever you are, especially among young children. Strongly condemn fascism wherever you are able.

This is like paper straws…

Sure it’ll help.

But the real problem is ~30 years ago No Child Left Behind strip everything that wasn’t STEM out of public schools and focused on standardized testing.

Schools are what are supposed to socialize the next generation into well adjusted adults. But we’ve stopped doing that for so long people can’t even connect that to why there’s “suddenly” a bunch of angry young adults who can’t do critical thinking or empathize with others…

Just like ke climate change there’s no switch to flip and fix it immediately. Prior generations took a long time off, and it’ll take a long time to fix.

They’re not…

trump was a neoliberal for decades before the normal effects of aging set in, then he went full… Well full maga. Be cause he was raised by psychopath narcissists.

Take people like Johnson, Rubio and Cruz tho who got a couple decades left, they’re republicans.

Like, there’s not a huge amount of differences, but neoliberals are inarguably better than republicans.

That’s why I still voted for Clinton, Biden, and Harris, despite knowing I’d hate them as presidents and that a popular candidate would win easier.

Agreed.

But that not what a eugeniist is or what they believe in…

It’s just the betterment of the human genome. Saying every eugenicist was like the Nazis is like saying every communist is like Stalin.

What’s ridiculous about it, is every human is a eugenist on a personal level. Every time you feel attracted to someone, it’s because you think mixing your genes with theirs would improve your offsprings genes.

Like, I know I’ve said this a couple times, but you just fundamentally don’t understand the meaning of the words your using, and I’m starting to understand why you’ve never learned…

Ideological differences between partisans may reflect distinct neural processes, and they can predict who’s right and who’s left of center with 82.9 percent accuracy, outperforming the “your parents pick your party” model. It also out-predicts another neural model based on differences in brain structure, which distinguishes liberals from conservatives with 71.6 percent accuracy.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/study-predicts-political-beliefs-with-83-percent-accuracy-17536124/

Nothing wrong with asking for a source, but it’s a good habit to try yourself first. Especially with the lower activity in Lemmy.

We didn’t build a system to distribute food…

We built a system to maximize profits on selling food to people. Not even selling the most food, just making the most profit.

If that means 25% of people starve but profits go up 10%…

That’s not even a trolley problem for a corporation. That’s barely a choice.

Edit:

Mamdani’s solution is city owned grocery stores that pay employees fairly and a focus on providing healthy foods at affordable prices

While ideally states and other cities would do it, a progressive Fed could distribute funds to get it built up and self sustaining.

That and a larger amygdala…

The brain can change well into your 60s, but the differences between conservative/liberal brain’s is so obvious that with like 15 minutes of training anyone can correctly determine political leaning with around an 80% accuracy rate

Which sounds pretty accurate until you remember that ~30% don’t vote…

And then it becomes freaky accurate.

It’s clearly not…

The wealthy were never going to just buy off one of the only two options, neoliberals are conservatives that insist having a D by their names means they’re different.

Literally the only way it means they’re different is they’re not republicans.