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It's a catch 22 and virtuous/unvirtuous cycle of good education and environmental contributors that don't encourage these always present and tempting weaknesses in humanity:

• Wealth distribution: in economies with very unequal distribution of wealth many are told there constantly isn't enough. This mindset drives horrible behavior in humans dating back to our reptilian brain core.
• Visibility and attainability of meritocracy vs. corruption, cronyism and/or Nepotism

We've had powerful interests poisoning the well for going on 160 years in the south after the civil war, corporations' ascendence since aligned perfectly with the South's desire to weaken the federal state. Now instead of destroying it, they've subsumed it and will repurpose it for fully anti-democratic aims and accelerate already strong perceptions of federal government ineffectiveness thanks to 40 years of neoliberal abandonment of the common person's needs in pursuit of corporate donations for the Democratic party.

It's either civil war, an authoritarian state that might be very long or short lived depending on your preference of dystopian movies or magical and dramatic recapture of political power and agency of the American public. The last one seems the least likely in the short term.

Right; I'm considering requesting cameras in my city to protect crosswalks, pedestrians and cyclists as none of the laws are currently enforced in any meaningful way. One of the most cost-reasonable, effective ways to do that would be to have automatic cameras but the lecherous vendors that want 20-30% of the cut and authoritarian state are two massive concerns I have that make me, at the cost of my own daily safety, hesitant to call this stuff out.

I have been surprised an investing community didn't exist since joining Lemmy; while there is overlap to some degree, the specific aims of investing maybe too macro or indeed numerous to not overrun economics.

1 vote for you to create a new community, but request it not be on Lemmy.world just for healthy diversification of fediverse content

Just like the IRS, these are strategically deranged/under-funded and understaffed by conservatives and their oligarchy backers. 99% of trump voters if you asked them if they want to be physically protected in their workplace would say they want their company regulated by an enforcement body, but if you ask them if they like big government, their brainwashing will say no.

Democrats are deliberately bad at branding because they're beholden to oligarchs as well. Progressives, who badly want to fight for these common sense things have been squeezed out due to concentration of election power, e.g. communication, into a money war and oligarchs choose winners .

If you make it there; you won't have a union and labor protections will be struck down in kangaroo courts, OSHA safety requirements being insufficient or insufficiently enforced were already a main driver of people not wanting to work these kobs--and that was before the current and future dismantling of OSHA related rules.

Also, how are you going to get 90k when federal minimum wage is what is was in 2009? Many of the southern states have even passed "counter-wage" laws forbidding the state from passing it's own improved min wage law--truly hateful of the average person.

Classic and classy dude. Impossible shoes to fill, he was as smart as he was honest and intolerant of bs.

And double down on car infrastructure that costs enormously more per mile per year per passenger, while ruining public health, urban planning and destroying the environment leading to accelerating disasters.

Google voice/Fi numbers. You can call a lot more than just 800 numbers for free, all US calls are free and many countries are as well, landlines anyway.

All christofacists want is to have it both ways, what's so hard to accept?

South Korea mandated internet explorer for all purchase checkout until relatively recently maybe the last 5 years. They had all these pieces built around it so checking out at a website you would have to prove your identity using national ID and then only IE would work.

Be very careful what you ask for.

That photo...just 🤌

"show a posse of racist police that was the beginning of police cars in the US starting to fly Confederate flags"

Could be...unfortunately in these uncertain times on the internet it's anyone's guess.

A Portlander, I was rooting for him so hard to get one with the bucks. Seems like it never has lined up the way they needed to, real shame.

Who can afford Giannis if he decides to leave, I guess everyone but where would he want to go? He'd not want to loot his future team so may wait until he's out of contract to leave so they get him on the free agent. Who would he want to play with who compliments his weaknesses? Who has enough to make it interesting for him?

Please, elucidate on your point? It's not clear to me what point you're trying to make.

"Take for granted" is the expression, granted being something that does not need to be proved, to the extent it is a point given freely in a discussion or debate.

Welp, whatever you do, don't Google it.

"McVeigh believed the US had no business extending its influence around the world or becoming entangled in foreign wars when white working-class Americans from industrial cities such as Buffalo, his home town, were suffering – an early expression of Trump’s America First ideology, which won him tens of millions of blue-collar votes last November.

McVeigh’s favourite book, a white supremacist power fantasy called The Turner Diaries, blamed a cabal of Jews, black people and internationalists for perverting America’s true destiny – a sentiment now finding coded expression in Trump’s twin wars on immigration and on diversity, equity and inclusion."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/19/timothy-mcveigh-oklahoma-bombing-far-right-1995

It specifically wasn't labeled as terrorism at the time as it was a military Vet, pro-gun, anti-government, racist, white dude from the Midwest. And we can't call them terrorists because we have too many of them right? It would be an admission of the disgusting, rot at the core of many of our country men's hearts. That is the very long explanation of why the comic above it captures so well the racists determination of whether an event is "terrorist" or not in our media. They struggled to label January 6th what it was.

Oklahoma City bombing was the most transparent, blantant systemic statement of this early in the current "what is terrorism" cycle 3 decades ago. White dude on a farm amass explosives, premeditate and take out a building. Terrorism not or hardly ever mentioned.

Meanwhile we're to the point Trump's new DOJ is saying people who shoot paintballs at Tesla dealerships should be tried as terrorists.

Beware anyone using the word as it's now, more than ever, completely politicized.