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Cake day: February 13th, 2024

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  • I need America to not fall to the current fascists literally in power right now, who are making lists of people with genetic traits, who are kidnapping residents and citizens off the streets and putting them in black sites, and who are arresting judges, while they stiffle Congress, supreme courts, and state and city governments.

    I have one enemy who wants to kill me, and another who wears a colored shirt. I know who my enemy is and who I need to protest against.

    I know which plays a larger threat.





  • cAUzapNEAGLb@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldI knew it
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    4 months ago

    Exactly

    This joke is literally “but what if they were gay, haha!” “I knew it!”

    Its literally the bully humor that we’ve fought for years and years to rid ourselves of, and here it is on the top with over 200 votes.

    This is hate wrapped in a virtuous wrapper at its most generous, and way too many people are just seeing the wrapper and not what’s just under its thin facade: homophobia.





  • It’s a very long article with many examples, but these highlight well

    One 82-year-old woman, who wore pajamas with holes in them because she didn’t want to spend money on new ones, didn’t realize she had given Republicans more than $350,000 while living in a 1,000 square-foot Baltimore condo since 2020.

    By the time a Taiwanese immigrant from California passed away from lung cancer this year at age 80, she had given away more than $180,000 to Trump’s campaign and a litany of other Republican candidates – writing letters to candidates apologizing for not getting donations to them on time because she was going into heart surgery. She had only $250 in her bank account when she died, leaving her family scrambling to cover the cost of her funeral.

    And a 78-year-old, a widow who limited showers to save on her water bill and canceled her long-term care insurance, didn’t understand why the retirement savings her husband had left her was dwindling so quickly. After CNN reached out to her family, they learned that the woman gave more than $200,000 in donations to Democratic political groups and candidates.

    This whole thing is a plague, citizens United and this concept of pacs, and all this money in politics is absurd. I think in the modern day of internet and with each campaign setting up a website, and normal reporting and debates, town halls, and Rally’s is sufficient, we don’t need all these mailers, and constant ads, and texts, and so on and so on. it’s more just a giant transfer of wealth from the people to networks and ad agencies.

    All this money has turned politics towards sensationalism, and it’s hurting society.