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politics @lemmy.world•Kamala Harris comes out swinging for Supreme Court expansion to take down ‘red state cheating’
6·18 hours agoI see the stamp of religion all over this, but not in a moral sense. Our leaders and journalists work so hard to ignore that elephant in the room.
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I don’t know Sanders, other than what I read in the news. Governmental authorities are to whom I refer. I suppose Sanders is a cog in a gear of that machinery. Consider the US as a whole. It started out as an anti-corporate nation. During the 1800s there were several court decisions which empowered corporations. Now it’s a corporatocracy. These are the kinds of lies to which I refer. Given a sufficiently long time period, a wealth tax will be used against the poor and the rich will laugh about it. It may have value in the short term to do what is claimed.
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Progressive Politics@lemmy.world•When Will Americans Realize the Truth? Republicans Wreck the Economy.
12·2 days agoRepublicans stories may be a fairy tales, but they result in real dollars for their primary benefactors, the super wealthy. That’s what the gerrymandering mess is all about: Making sure the ultra rich continue their systematic exploitations.
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politics @lemmy.world•In Closed-Door Talks, U.S. Demands a Major Role in Greenland
41·2 days agoThe United States has pushed the talks beyond military matters and wants effective veto power over any major investment deals in Greenland to box out competitors like Russia and China. Greenlanders and Danes strongly object to this.
That’s the free market’s “competition” in actual practice. Extol the virtues of competition and the free market, while undermining it wherever possible.
When I was a kid, they taught us in school that we were presumed innocent. When I grew to adulthood, they required us to go through security and cops to access courthouses and airports. That is not presumption of innocence. They are dedicated liars.
If I felt a wealth tax would never apply to me, I’d be for it. But knowing how the ultrarich manipulate the system, it’s just a matter of time before it applies to the masses of average citizens. Own a house or condo? A car? A computer? A pencil? Wealth tax it all (?). Maybe not today under this specific plan, but that’s what the wealth tax begins, and it will eventually evolve to.
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politics @lemmy.world•The newest Trump monument disobeys the biblical commandment to ‘flee from idolatry’
652·2 days agoBible culture is entirely bogus. The Christians who voted for Trump did so because he was rich and in spite of his felony convictions.
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politics @lemmy.world•USDA Employees Sue Secretary Over ‘Christ Is Risen’ Email
26·4 days agoI guess we’ll find out if the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment applies to the Executive Branch, or just to Congress.
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News@lemmy.world•Texas Children’s Hospital to create clinic reversing trans care
18·4 days agoI’m not in Texas, but was leaving Costco a few days ago, and on the busy street corner adjoining their parking lot there was a guy with a sign that said something like “God hates transgender” and “transgender is evil” and on his sign was a cross. I’ve been thinking about it for a few days and realized there was no “Love your neighbor as you love yourself.”
Text of the First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
It has always bothered me that the First Amendment says nothing about the Executive Branch doing these things (such as via Executive Order), only Congress.
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World News@lemmy.world•Israel to sue New York Times over article describing its rape of PalestiniansEnglish
27·6 days agoCurious they’re suing the NYTimes instead of the various interviewees.
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science@lemmy.world•The Science is Not Settled: How Weak Evidence is Fueling a National Push to Ban Social Media for YouthEnglish
2·6 days agoOff-topic comment. I read this article, but read it in a couple different sessions due to interruptions, and had apparently clicked on to other pages. I wanted to comment about how US culture is unreasonably hard on young people (in general), and for all the US talk of freedom, is often restrictive, especially so for minors. Unfortunately, finding this article page was rather difficult. A browser addon called “What we say” had 4 links from the article back to Lemmy discussion, but they were mostly to a federated instance called “Division by zero”. So I tried the button labeled “Find in my home instance”, but it refused to work, which could be due to my own browser’s configuration (it has worked on other articles and instances). So I came back to lemmy.world, and had to scroll manually through several pages, using browser search to find the article. It’d be nice if there was a more direct method of finding a Lemmy discussion from a non-Lemmy webpage.
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politics @lemmy.world•Vance announces suspension of $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to California
4·6 days agoCan’t wait to read the governor candidates responses to this.
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Technology@lemmy.world•AI godfather warns humanity risks extinction by hyperintelligent machines with their own ‘preservation goals’ within 10 yearsEnglish
3·7 days agoThis morning I watched a video posted on Lemmy about a guy getting a ticket for smoking cannabis in public, I believe in Hollywood. Yet, the GOP congress refuses to “ticket” Trump for his war on Iran. We have a massive difference in how laws are implemented and to whom they are applied. Why would extinction of this inequality be a bad thing?
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News@lemmy.world•US inflation rose to 3.8% in April, eroding Americans’ paychecks
14·8 days agoThe plutocrats’ war on the poor. Make America Great Again?
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News@lemmy.world•ICE Beat Teen at Gunpoint Before Realizing They Had Wrong Person | The New Republic
2·10 days agoAccording to the story, they figured it out after they’d put him in a vehicle and were going somewhere.
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politics @lemmy.world•This was John Roberts’ plan all along: The chief justice has declared that the Court is not political. The facts — and his own history — say otherwise
19·10 days agoPer the article, Roberts said,
“I think they view us as truly political actors, which I don’t think is an accurate understanding of what we do,” he told a conference of lawyers and judges in Pennsylvania. “We’re not simply part of the political process.”
Shouldn’t he have said We’re simply not part of the political process.?
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