sparkle @ sparkle @lemm.ee Posts 1Comments 533Joined 1 yr. ago
I live in Georgia, can confirm. Don't go anywhere near the rural parts of this hellhole, especially if you're black or have some sort of other trait which southerners & conservatives discriminate against. Don't even think about taking weed with you in a car outside of Atlanta or Savannah. If you get arrested here, you're not going to be able to leave any time soon. And there's no laws which require compensating the wrongfully incarcerated or convicted.
If Georgia were a county, it would have the 4th highest incarceration rate in the world. Higher than El Salvador and Rwanda. The only ones that beat it are other US states (Louisiana, Mississippi, and Oklahoma).
I would also avoid Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and West Virginia. Not only because you might be wrongfully thrown in jail or prison, or get shot or something, but because those are just terrible places to exist in to begin with. At least Georgia has a decent amount of blue in it. Although our whitest counties bestowed upon the world Marjorie Taylor Greene and the guy who voted against making lynching a federal hate crime, so maybe it balances out. (this guy's political career has been CARTOONISHLY evil by the way, it's wild reading the Wikipedia article about him, I mean every red politician from Georgia is but it's still shocking actually reading what these people do)
I somehow don't think we will, considering the original commenter is seemingly pretending that they didn't see the comment. I wanted to give the benefit of the doubt, but it's hard to believe that they're actually telling the truth about any part of what they said considering they apparently think Trump is the best candidate we have. American centrist and right wing policies are pretty anti-poor.
He uses "left" to refer to Democrats in his comments so I just assumed he meant it here too.
My only guess is that they mean "a for-profit church" when they say "a nonprofit that feeds the poor and temporarily under resourced". But I dunno, maybe they're telling the truth.
Ummm what? Kamala was the top prosecutor of the largest state in the US for like 7 years, on top of actually knowing her shit unlike Trump, and being 2 decades younger than him, she would absolutely tear Trump apart in a debate. Trump knows this obviously, which is why he's started avoiding debates and will probably run away from debating until election day.
Then there's the fact that J.D. Vance has been probably the Republicans' worst VP pick in recent history. Nobody likes him, he's uncharismatic and has pretty much no relevant skills. He's already seeing some of the lowest approval ratings of any VP candidate by Republicans. He wouldn't survive a debate against someone like Josh Shapiro or Andy Beshear. The good thing here is that Harris can pick out of a lot of people who could humiliate Vance for her VP pick, who also bring with them key swing states.
Trump's campaign is on high alert because they know they have no real defense against a Harris campaign. They're scrambling to find some sort of misleading rhetoric that will stick and run with it as quickly as possible, but right now their entire position is basically just "DEI hire, she's a woman, her parents are foreigners, she was a prosecutor so surely she hates black people almost as much as we do" and they know that isn't going to work for long. The only real thing they really have against her is her pro-Israel position, but it's pretty easy to point out that Republicans are obsessed with Israel too so it's not exactly foolproof.
Of course Trump is having meltdowns. He's a womanizing, racist and anti-immigrant felon running off of anti-queer rhetoric, who hasn't achieved anything as a politician and is now the oldest nominated presidential candidate in American history; up against a young (relative to him) prosecutor who's a mixed-race woman with immigrant parents, who can actually point to major positive things she's done for this country despite having some flawed beliefs being "tough on crime" in her past. Plus she's actually willing to do what Biden (and other politicians) weren't willing to do and actually attack the worst parts of the Republican agenda, including Project 2025. His entire platform is based around his persona and being snappier and more energetic than his opponent, but that's thrown out the window now. He's terrified because what was before an easy election has suddenly and unexpectedly become an uphill battle, and he was thrown in completely unprepared with a shitty VP.
I can't say for sure that Harris will win. But I can say for sure that Trump's mental state is absolutely devolving into despair and anger currently.
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4 out of 330 is quite a lot. Are they tech youtubers or something?
Drug addiction is a disorder most often caused by some sort of pressure to do drugs. It's almost never a path someone chooses to take just because. And, obviously, it takes extremely long and an extremely good set of circumstances to escape, you can't just choose not to have a drug addiction suddenly. "Having a drug addiction some time in the past is his fault so it's not dystopic that he can't get basic healthcare" is an extremely ignorant take.
Should diabetes treatment not be accessible to all because a lot of diabetes is partially caused by lifestyle either? Or rather, is your argument that in a capitalist world – which can't exist without an underclass and people too poor to afford many basic necessities – it's fine that people who can't afford healthcare just get fucked and rack up a bunch of debt from the hospital and (in the case of the US) can't get treatment from doctors/specialists for anything that isn't immediately life-threatening? It's okay for there to be a class of humans "undeserving" of healthcare at all?
I just want to gauge the line for how much healthcare inaccessibility/insecurity there needs to be, or who can be excluded, for you to accept that it's immoral and causes unnecessary human suffering and misery.
Probably the redness from being white as fuck and old, maybe some yellow skin from being old too, and the warm color of the artificial lighting in the Oval Office (2700K to 3000K)
What specific problems does the government cause for this non-profit, exactly? What "authoritarian" policies is this "left" you speak of enacting which harms the needy?
There's no way them deducting pay out of your last paycheck is legal in any way. How hasn't soneone sued the hell out of them?
non-furries don't even approach normal, they've utterly rejected the concept of normalcy. especially the straight christian ones... blegh... i trust nobody on lemmy is like that, else we might have to nuke the place and start over
how many $$$ says she a minor
It's a Brtish news article so they actually do pay about that much for insulin, if they pay at all.
Honestly I hate the fact that browsers' default CSS exists. The person doing the frontend should have to specify their "default" CSS before the website even loads. I say this as both a user and a programmer, the same website shouldn't look different or break on different browsers unintentionally due to the browser's CSS, and I as a developer shouldn't have to rely on reset sheets to try to patch that.
Everything would be better if it were swapped around, instead of picking out a reset sheet for a site you pick out a default style...
The world would also be better if browsers rendered pugjs/slim and scss/sass and those were the default rather than html and css but I digress...
It's old, but it's not horribly atypically old. 10 US presidents (John Adams, Jackson, William Harrison, Buchanan, Truman, Eisenhower, Ford, Reagan, Trump, Biden) were 60 or older when they took office, although there's a whole 88 year gap between Buchanan and Truman (meaning 60% of all presidents aged 60 or older when taking office were elected within the last 79 years/33.6% of the US presidency's existence, and a whole 40% of presidents starting from Truman were 60 or older when they took office).
If that were the case anymore, it would've happened after the 1912 election when Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive party got more votes (27.4%) and electors (88) than the Republican Taft (23.2% of the vote and 8 electors). But it didn't. Things went back to normal after that. That was also the election where the Socialist party gained the most votes (6% of the vote and 0 electors).
The Republicans and Democrats are here to stay until our voting system is overhauled.
Well, the largest group in Texas is Latinos... idk how many of them can vote and how mant would actually vote blue though.
Finnish spelling is very consistent with its phonology. "a" and "u" are pronounced kind of similar to as they are in Italian or Spanish or something, except further back in the mouth. So yes
I think they're capped at 60 fps specifically to prevent people who have better hardware from having an advantage.
I spend most of my political insults on Trump, Putin, LePen, and Meloni, tyvm