Fuck those people then. The democrats should not allow a small portion of the population to dictate something as important as climate policy.
The only way this argument makes any sense is if we assume the democrats are spineless and useless. Which they are, but still.
I don’t buy it. It feels like these vague arguments are used against any progressive policy. “We can’t tax the rich cause then they’ll leave the country!”
If fossil fuel workers are so stubborn that they will refuse to vote for a party that wants to transition them into green energy jobs then their votes aren’t worth it. If the democratic party allows the workers of a single industry to determine their climate policy then they are revealing themselves to be spineless and useless politicians.
Is Trump the sitting vice president of a country facilitating a genocide?
Democrats could minimize these issues if they communicated better. If they just said “fracking destroys our communities and hurts americans. We are going to invest in green energy and training fracking workers to transition to different industries”.
It’s like how they aren’t pointing out that undocumented migrants are regular tax paying people, and deporting them would be horrible. Instead of doing that they’ve moved further to the right and now are campaigning about how Trump blocked their awful border bill.
Democrats only have themselves to blame. They have absolutely no idea what they are doing.
Our family’s first cat brought in a crow. I can’t remember how we got the crow out of the house lol
Fair enough, my ignorance/age is showing.
I’ve taken public transit all my life so I understood what it meant. Never heard the term in Canada before though.
Apparently we’re calling commuters “straphangers” now too. I wonder if the NYPD will shoot at speeding wheelgrippers next.
I don’t want my depressive episodes to result in my cats being miserable
I would appreciate if you didn’t attack me personally.
Nah but for real I go through the same thing. I feel really guilty when I let their box get out of hand, they never seem bothered either which kind of makes it worse.
The response Harris made to the protestors at the DNC is the best example I can think of. I’m probably exaggerating how much the Harris campaign is relying on this strategy because lemmy is inundated with “DO YOU WANT TRUMP TO WIN???” commenters,
They aren’t even trying to win the messaging war. Instead of pointing out how unbelievably horrible the republican plan of deporting 20 million undocumented migrants, they capitulated and moved further right on immigration.
ignoring a lot of the advice from Hillary Clinton strategists (thank fuck)
idk. They seem to be running on the “if you don’t vote dems you hate black people” shtick that didn’t work in 2016. Lemmy users are eating it up though.
The one apple product I’m willing to buy.
I feel like other brands have closed the gap but there was a time where macbooks seemed like the only great laptop on the market.
Technically your tax dollars aren’t being used
Basically it’s taxpayer money being used to buy from american companies via a 3rd party
I understand that buying american weapons makes the aid end up back in america but it’s still tax payer money being spent on weapons is it not?
What does aid mean then? Genuinely asking, I know the US sells weapons to Israel but don’t they also give financial aid?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/world/middleeast/israel-us-aid.html
Idk how I’m supposed to interpret $15 billion in aid as anything other than giving them $15 billion in money/supplies
JK “I’m protecting women” Rowling?
Gotta respect a company
No you don’t
You’re not engaging with what I’m saying in the slightest.
I’m not being nihilistic. Voting for the lesser of two evils is a short sighted strategy that results in politicians like Hillary, Biden, and Harris. I’m arguing that withholding your vote until it’s earned is an effective strategy to bring about change.
Before Biden dropped out everyone on this website was repeating this point over and over, “vote for Biden or we get Trump”. The average voter is not going to respond to that argument, and we know this because the polling for dems skyrocketed when Biden dropped out. Look at Walz’s polling compared to Harris. Despite all the right wing fear mongering, people like and respond to a progressive politician. Stop enabling the dems and hold a fire to their feet. Show them that if they want to get elected all they need to do is put forward policies that actually help people.
Games made by Bethesda, EA, Ubisoft, or Paradox.