Semi-Hemi-Demigod

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to politics in Barack Obama Is Also Scared Shitless That Donald Trump Could Win Another Term: Report

One thing the political center lacks in America - and I say center because we don't have a truly leftist political party - is a vision for the future. They don't want a fundamental change in how the economy and government work, they just want to keep things steady and work around the edges.

The problem is the economy and government aren't working for most people and most people want them replaced.

Republicans have a vision. Yeah, it's a racist, sexist vision that will drag us back to the 1950s, but it's a vision they can communicate.

What's the Democrats' vision? I don't think it's mine, of worker cooperatives and high speed rail and free education and universal health care, paid for by shaking Bezos and Musk upside down until no more money comes out. As far as I can tell they just want to keep things going like they have since the 90s.

And then they wonder why they can't seem to get people to get excited to vote for them.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to politics in Barack Obama Is Also Scared Shitless That Donald Trump Could Win Another Term: Report

The ideal that “we’re all in this together” was replaced with the reality that the educated class lives in a world up here, and everybody else is forced into a world down there. Members of our class are always publicly speaking out for the marginalized, but somehow we always end up building systems that serve ourselves.

I love how Brooks can talk about class without bringing labor into it. Just a great example of liberals missing the damn point.

Then he goes on to talk about "open immigration" like that's even close to what we have.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to politics in Climate change is hitting close to home for nearly 2 out of 3 Americans, poll finds

overrun a coal plant to shut it down

I love how you dropped this unfathomably based suggestion in a list of lame and ineffective ideas. I pick this one because it seems easier than dealing with the government.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to politics in Trump’s indictment has turned every American voter into a juror

No, we'd have a new second party. And that party wouldn't win against Republicans.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to politics in Are teenage boys in the US becoming more conservative – or more dangerously apathetic?

I’ve actually read the very short article and the author’s opinion isn’t mentioned. It cites opinions of other people a lot, which would explain it being in op ed.

Did we read the same thing?

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to politics in Are teenage boys in the US becoming more conservative – or more dangerously apathetic?

It's not an op-ed, it's just reporting on the study and reactions to it. The whole article is barely six paragraphs long and doesn't get into any editorializing. The survey also says about a third still haven't made up their mind.

And if you're going to spout of reasons why this is the case, it would be great if you would have something concrete to back up your assertion beyond your gut telling you this is the case. Do you have statistics about how much exposure the average teenage boy has to radical feminists?

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to lemmyshitpost in We're all some bird's NPCs.

Sounds like the premise to a Neil Gaiman novel

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to cat in Wife sewed cats a sling bag, they approve

Reminds me of when my guy was little and he'd curl up in my robe while I was wearing it

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to politics in Rudy Giuliani in Vile New Audio Transcripts: 'Jewish Men Have Small *****'

Two words:

Ron.

Jeremy.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to technology in China to limit teenagers’ smartphone use to two hours a day

Rampant teen pregnancy is definitely one way to solve their demographic problem.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to lemmyshitpost in You didn't bought it you rented it!

HP used to make rock solid laser printers back in the late 90s and 00s. Shame what they turned into.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to ukraine in How Russian colonialism took the Western anti-imperialist Left for a ride

I’m still amazed so many of my anti-imperialists don’t recognize that Russia is being imperialist here. It seems so obvious.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to lemmyshitpost in You didn't bought it you rented it!

As long as you don’t need color a laser printer is way better for printing documents.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to politics in They lied about Afghanistan. They lied about Iraq. Now they're lying about Ukraine -Chris Hedges

I’m a socialist and an anarchist and it’s pretty fucking obvious to me that Putin started this war and should be the target of the peaceniks, not the west.

Putin definitely lied about Ukraine. He claimed to be “denazifying” a country with a Jewish president, for fuck’s sake.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to technology in Targeted chemotherapy appears to annihilate all solid tumors

Just in time for us to fight antibiotic resistant bacteria