• orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts
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    1 year ago

    Watching every organization and person capitulate to this bullshit is exhausting. There’s a real cool word you can use when someone tells you to do something fucking stupid and authoritarian:

    “NO.”

  • NoiseColor @lemmy.world
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    It’s standard procedure to deliberately deorbit satellites that are no longer in use, since the whole program was defunded.

    It’s not like they are doing this out of spite, they are just doing what they said they would do, which people voted for.

    Crazy, but true.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t think anyone voted for this, and certainly most people didn’t vote for the administration in charge, so …

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        People keep saying that most people didn’t vote for this, but it’s just disingenuous

        2/3 of eligible americans did not vote against this. that’s the stat that matters

  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Just like every other dictatorships, the Trump regime wages war on knowledge and data.

    And it’s not new either: this started on day one of Trump’s “presidency”, and it should have been an ominous sign of things to come.

    Americans voted for this. What a sad, sad country.

  • RejZoR@lemmy.ml
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    Have republicans actually ever done anything that hasn’t been absolute dog shit decision?

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      Budd Dwyer blew his brains out on live TV. Granted it was on a snow day when all the kids were at home watching TV. Maybe not the best decision but it did lead to one less republican wasting oxygen.

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          He was a member of the NAACP. I don’t think he was any more racist than any other republican of the time. It’s easy for me and you to pass judgment on those who were born more than a century ago. And before you say it, yes he voted against the 1964 civil rights act which I disagree with. He claims he had his reasons, that 2 parts of it were unconstitutional but I’m unconvinced. He also supported gay people serving in the military and was against don’t ask don’t tell. Towards the later years of his life he became somewhat progressive. He also fought hard against the rise of the Christian right. I respect some of what he fought for while disagreeing with some of his views. In any case, I think leftists like me have more in common with Goldwater than Goldwater has with MAGA cunts. We may disagree with each other but we at least agree on fundamental principles like the seperation of church and state.

          Edit: I probably admire him more than most because I see Christian nationalism as one of the greatest threats to our country and he fought against it.

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2jGe560-Y4

  • cub Gucci@lemmy.today
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    Who would’ve thought that the bourgeoisie will weaponize climate change and put it against us, the working class? 🤦‍♂️

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      Would require transferring the relevant ground infrastructure and the people involved or at least their knowledge. Not as simple as one might think. Also ESA would have to allocate funds to it first.

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      Yeah, destroying the planet to exacerbate wealth inequality really is a distraction from the scapegoat figurehead that has survived a hundred scandals being a child rapist. Surely this time if we focus all of our attention on the scandalproof figurehead’s scandals rather than any of the issues, we’re going to win. I know it sank two elections, but this time it’s different. Because that’s what’s really wrong with the current US administration: Not imprisoning people without trial or destroying libraries of scientific knowledge, but the figurehead having some something wrong personally.

      I guess Trump was right - when you’re a star, you can grab them by the pussy and you can do anything.

      • EldritchFemininity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        The reason that people keep repeating it is because Epstein is the conspiracy theory that Trump’s cult is founded upon. Him denying that the list exists has caused the biggest schism in his supporters that we’ve ever seen. People made this thing their entire belief system, and now their idol is saying that it never existed and that he won’t release it. Even though his campaign was based on the promise of releasing it.

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    NASA, please say you destroyed it but instead turned it over to a country who gives a shit about the world. I know there are so few of them but this is such a waste.

    • Auli@lemmy.ca
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      Every country seems to be following America. It’s sad really. We the rest of the world are so hungry to suck on America’s test that we well do anything for it. Problem is it’s going to stop being so prosperous and we fucked ourselves for a very short term goal.