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Same here! I harassed my congress critters prior to the budget bill debacle. And the gut punch? Schumer is my senator 🤦🏻

I'm done with harassing them because they don't fucking care. That's all I could do. If I felt safe enough and not a bother, I'd bring a folding chair if the protest was on my bus route.

No "average" person is aware because they are too busy trying to just survive. Nobody wants to chance losing what they've worked so hard for. The only people who watch the news are seniors and disabled people, and they're being misled if they just watch TV news.

People who call themselves Republicans are happy with what's going on. People who call themselves Democrat are not happy but think they need to work within the system to solve the issues and wait until the next election. Libertarians have sided with the Republicans. Socialism is still a taboo way of thinking for the most part here.

Then you have disabled people (like me) who are watching what is happening in horror and have sky high anxiety wondering if they're next to be disappeared or homeless. I can stand for maybe 30 minutes at most, holding a sign maybe 15 minutes at most. So I'm doing what I can and that is trying to live as if things are "normal" to continue on my mental health recovery and sobriety journey at the same time being horrified and terrified of what's to come. It's a weird duality that I don't like. I told my therapist the other day that I have hope for the future for my recovery but I have lost all hope in what is going on politically and in the news.

A lot of this I also blame on false American beliefs fed to us in school that we were safe from all of this nonsense because of our constitution. The American Dream and all that B.S. They sugar-coat our history as a country in schools -- at least they did when I went to school in the 80's/90's, I don't know about now. It's as if America only has a rosy history, even the Civil War is glorified in false narratives.

It's easy to see how we got to this point as a country. The question is, how do we get ourselves out of it?

“They claim that the court is powerless to order any relief,’’ Sandoval-Moshenberg told me. “If that’s true, the immigration laws are meaningless—all of them—because the government can deport whoever they want, wherever they want, whenever they want, and no court can do anything about it once it’s done.”

And I stopped reading after that. So what ‘protected” class will the first legal citizen who isn’t an immigrant to be disappeared be from?

I’m apparently blind as a bat 🤦🏻‍♂️

I was about to make a comment about how blatantly stupid this chart is leaving out many bands (Nirvana, Tool, Pantera, etc) and getting alignments completely fucked up (NIN, No Doubt, L7....). Then I looked at the community it was posted in.

Well played @ickplant@lemmy.world. Well played. 👏🏻

If there is a country that will take me I’d go in a heartbeat. But I am unable to work and don’t have the financial means to just up and move. The ones that do have the ability to do that are either doing that already or are in the process of destroying the US.

No clue what my parents' house could be worth, they're still living in it too. I do know they paid something like $30,000 for it in the 70's and it might be worth 5-10x more than that now -- if not more due to inflation. Cars were also $5000 or so then, and now the average price of a car is $30k-$50k on the low end.

Due to.....several traumatic issues and for my own mental health...living with them isn't an option and now that I'm on SSDI I can't really take any of their money or it messes with my SSDI and I went through too much for too long to do anything to risk it within my control (government shenanigans these days might leave me without income and a home but that's out of my control now). I have one sibling who has a family of their own much like how it was when we were kids but they are struggling to make ends meet in this economy too.

LOL I was born into a middle class family with at least one generation on each side born in the US. Dad worked at the local factory, mom was stay-at-home, had a dog, nice house, and two cars -- living the American Dream.

Then all the factory jobs went away, I couldn't handle college, and I job hopped for a while and got lucky landing a decent paying gig that lasted for 13 years until I went on disability. Up until then I was barely making ends meet living in a studio apartment with a used hand-me-down car that I got when my grandfather passed away.

Now I'm on SSDI and live in a subsidized studio apartment and rely on the city bus for transportation to appointments. Living the dream.

He's already a domestic threat, he doesn't care about the Constitution or laws

I'm on SSDI (and Medicaid and HUD housing) and have been having insane anxiety the last month and a half to the point that I'm wondering if I'll even get paid in April. I regularly check my SSA account online to make sure my direct deposit is still freaking scheduled. Missing a payment could mess up all of my other benefits as well.

I know the fuck up is coming, but I don't know if I can handle another few months hoping they don't fuck up the migration if they don't fuck up just paying people first with all that's been going on.

I'm pretty sure Im not the only one in this situation who can't handle the stress of this bullshit.

Isn’t that what peoples vote means?

Assuming the elections here weren't tampered with, yes. But in this case, it's pretty obvious that there was clearly shit going on to produce the election results that Trump wanted.

Also, the elections here are pretty much a choice between a shit sandwich and a turd sandwich because of the two-party system that has been the standard for decades. 3rd party candidates are basically shunned and seen as a wasted vote. Because of this, a big majority of the voting population just doesn't vote because they feel like their voice isn't heard anyways.

Then take into account that critical thinking wasn't ever taught in schools, tribalism, propaganda, and people just plain trying to survive and put food on their table unless they are wealthy thanks to "trickle down economics".

Pretty obvious how we got here, the house is on fire, the garage is torched, and both neighbors' houses are about to go up in flames. The neighbors are outside screaming at the house that's on fire because the people inside are the firefighters and too busy trying eat instead of escaping and putting out the fire.

Back when I was working, I had a job that paid close to 3x what McDonald's was paying at the time. I could barely afford a studio apartment. And that was 5-10 years ago, it's even worse now here in the US.

Meanwhile Gen X:

Ok, so this solidifies my desire to never buy a Windows PC/laptop and why my switch to Mac was a good choice a few years ago. However Mac gaming is nowhere near where it should be right now and I was thinking about getting a cheap Windows laptop for games that aren't available on Mac.

I remember a push a few years ago to get some linux distros pre-installed on some OEM hardware but I didn't hear much of anything past the hype. Anyone have any good OEM brands that have linux installed instead of Windows and are relatively affordable?

I've set up a community specifically for release updates from the Rayhunter Github at !Rayhunter@lemm.ee if anyone is interested

Thanks!

I am an idiot. Show Bot Accounts was checked. At some point I blocked rss.ponder.cat for some reason that I don't remember 🤦🏻 I can see the posts now.

I'd like to have https://github.com/EFForg/rayhunter/releases.atom post to !Rayhunter@lemm.ee

But I also see an issue with being logged into my lemm.ee account that none of those communities linked show any posts unless I view them on rss.ponder.cat. That concerns me. Has lemm.ee blocked you? I checked my settings and I'm allowing bots to be seen on my end.

Literally disappearing people off the street

Didn't the U.S. fight a war against a country and its leader who did the same shit? I was never very proud to be an American because this country has done some fucked up shit since 1776. But this is downright terrifying to me as someone who is disabled and considered a parasite by Elon because if they aren't stopped after this then it's game over for any "non-white" people, LGBTQ+, and poor people in general to be disappeared.

This may be why they want Greenland so bad 🤔

Is there even a car that is 100% made in the US, parts and labor?

I ask because I'm very confused by this article.

President Trump on Wednesday announced 25% tariffs on autos and auto parts that are not produced in the U.S., effective on April 2.

Ok, so if I don't build a car here or build the parts here then I get charged a tariff.

"We'll effectively be charging a 25% tariff, but if you build your car in the United States, there is no tariff," Trump told reporters.

Ok, so I don't have to pay a tariff on the parts I use to build my cars here in the US?

In a fact sheet released after Trump's Oval Office comments, the White House said auto parts compliant with the USMCA trade deal will remain "tariff-free" until Customs and Border Protection "establishes a process to apply tariffs to their non-U.S. content."