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AndiHutch @ AndiHutch @lemmy.zip
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  • Trump's DC Occupation Costs 4 Times More Than It Would Take to House City's Entire Homeless Population

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  • Trump's deployment of the National Guard to Washington, DC costs more than 4 times as much as it would cost to simply house every homeless person in the city according to researcher Hanna Homestead.

    It's a very fitting name for the researcher.

  • Trump's DC Occupation Costs 4 Times More Than It Would Take to House City's Entire Homeless Population

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  • Nominative determinism strikes again.

  • Health insurance

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  • I saw a map on here how healthcare industry is like the the biggest employer in like 40 of the 50 states or something insane like that.

  • The regime silently removed parts of the US Constitution like the writ of habaes corpus from the official website

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  • With a king, yes it's power play for sure.

  • The regime silently removed parts of the US Constitution like the writ of habaes corpus from the official website

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  • Maybe so there is really no way to tell.

    The real question is how many people you are willing to sacrifice for this. How many cities are you willing to burn down?

    Nah that's not the right question. Talking like that makes you sound like a federal agent trying to entrap people. A better question might be who and what stands in the way of helping the people and how can we address those problems? But that is far less attention grabbing and harder to answer.

  • The regime silently removed parts of the US Constitution like the writ of habaes corpus from the official website

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  • I mean Canada still has the British royalty if that's their kink. Not sure how it would help but I ain't gonna kink shame.

  • Millionaire big game hunter gored to death in ambush by "Black Death" buffalo

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  • I request gold. Thank you for your attention to this matter. /s

  • The regime silently removed parts of the US Constitution like the writ of habaes corpus from the official website

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  • Time to check out a history book or two. With that attitude, US would still be a colony of Britain. Or the US would've won in Vietnam instead of getting kicked out by the locals. Granted, it is a bit different without an ocean in between, but it could still happen. Or we could break up like what happened to the USSR.

  • Bullshit Economy

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  • I mean yes, but I doubt the average lemmite is in the top 10% of stockholders that have the lion's share of affect on the market since they own like 90% of the market (or some outrageous number like that, I don't know the exact numbers offhand). Investment moves made by small players are probably tiny compared to what the rich and their asset managers do when they sell / buy.

  • Trump’s mental decline is undeniable — so what now?

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  • Wow, Trump is truly a man of the people! I too struggle with finding the right words and delusionally believe everything I make up as the absolute truth too. Just the other day I raised the rent 10,000% on my tenants. Trump is just like me. /s

  • Uber Eats is adding AI to menus, food photos, and reviews

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  • Why can’t the people we vote for represent us?

    Politicians were never meant to represent us (the people). We the people was war propaganda to revolt against the English and their king. They have, since the founding of the US, represented the business owners (landowners). And even after giving women and black people the right to vote, the system still mostly represents the interest of the business owners.

    Bug report closed: System works as intended.

    For the politicians to actually represent us, we the people would need to have some sort of broad agreement on what we do and do not want. But unfortunately, the people don't have the needed experience or education to come to that agreement. So instead we get 2 different flavors of politicians serving the owners and none serving the people. Pick your favorite team, but they do not currently represent the people's interest, instead they represent the business owners' interests.

    As a people, our job is to attempt to bend the politicians and business owners' to our will using what we currently have at our disposal: our actions and our words. But that still won't get anywhere without many other people backing up our actions and our words with their actions and words. It won't be easy, but it is necessary if we want to shape our societies future. If we don't do it, we get shadowy groups like the heritage foundation doing it for the business owners and pushing it on our leaders.

    Also the politicians' job is largely dependent upon them listening to the demands of the businesses lobbyist as of now. If they don't follow their wishes they can expect a harder battle to keep their seat. They would get less big campaign donations and stronger primary challengers as a result of their noncompliance. This makes our job harder since it is difficult to get them to understand something when their job and salary depends upon them not understanding it.

  • Felony Charges Dropped for Man in UCLA Encampment Attack After Diversion Deal

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  • Bold of you to assume he's not already an undercover fed.

  • Fertility Rate in the U.S. Reached an All-Time Low in 2024, CDC Data Reveals

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  • As I learned the other day, if it wasn't for undocumented immigrants paying taxes but not getting benefits, social security would be in a much worse financial situation.

    Every working undocumented immigrant detained is one step closer to financial ruin for future grandpas and grandmas. When immigrants work jobs, they pay in, but since they are here illegally, they can't access the benefits from working. And it sure as heck ain't cheap to round them up and detain them either. It's too bad the media and politicians only pretend to care about the cost if the policy is something that actually helps people.

  • Inflation Outpaces Wage Growth For Over 40% Of Americans

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  • Probably only because they include some 'benefits' like health insurance that are horribly overpriced and the worker never sees.

  • The US far right and Trumps allies are actively working to replace Europe’s head leaders with anti-EU anti democratic far right nationalistic leaders with the help of european allies

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  • As you hinted religion is a potential way to control a population into doing what you want as it is a way of controlling what is talked about (and how it is talked about) to manipulate people.

    I think what has changed is that now the owners of the media and information landscape can use new technology and psychology to control the narrative better mostly to extract a bit more profit. It is more profitable to keep people scrolling or listening to ragebait on your platform or show than to do proper investigative journalism.

    The problem is the vast majority of media sources are controlled by elites who skew their messaging to the perceived whims of their owners which happen to predominately be far right. The population is forced to follow their lead as they have no easy way of influencing public opinion at scale.

  • The US far right and Trumps allies are actively working to replace Europe’s head leaders with anti-EU anti democratic far right nationalistic leaders with the help of european allies

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  • And who was it that believed that there was a need for a lie to “deceive” the population into doing the decent thing? I can’t remember which of them said that.

    I was going to say it sounds like Vance when he was spreading lies about Haitians migrants eating dogs, but then I saw the decent bit of it.

  • Me Living In the US

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  • Red States, Defying Reality, Are Reclassifying Gas as a “Green” Fuel

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  • I would say it is mostly an awareness thing. Electric vehicles are thought of as the best for the environment and people aren't really aware or don't care that they can cut their Co2 related output by about ~50% with their existing ICE vehicle. People just don't know that they can choose to use a different fuel and have environmental benefits that way because no one from the car makers to the gas pumps really advertised or educated them on it.

    A few car makers did have branded Flex fuel cars but really they were only branded that way to take advantage of a poorly crafted government tax credit. Many existing cars that can run e85 have no indication that they can run it and run cleaner with it which can lead to less maintenance issues and make the mechanic's job easier.

    With that said ethanol is in some respects a worse fuel, since it attracts water which doesn't play nice with burning and as you mentioned is not as dense, but it is a much better fuel from an environmental perspective. Neither of those issues are deal breaker's since you can just fill up a little more often or add a fuel additive occasionally to dehydrate the fuel.

    I also think maybe the politics of farm subsidies for corn and ethanol are also somewhat of an issue, since massive government subsidies for corn growing and ethanol production are unfairly distorting the market quite a bit. But then again that's par for the course compared with oil.

    I have heard that most of the producers of ethanol have been bought out and taken over by oil companies, so I wouldn't expect them to make a serious effort to promote it's benefits or compete well since the oil companies wouldn't like that.

  • What monopoly lobbyist group would oppose that?

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  • I imagine the people who own the land (ie. farmers) don't have an interest in it because there isn't an established industry to process it into products like cloth or rope or paper. This means they would have to buy the equipment not only to harvest / plant but also to process into usable material. If there was a pulp factory that would buy it from them they might plant it, but I doubt that any existing pulp factory would buy it as they would probably have to modify their production process slightly to make it into paper. Essentially it's the chicken and the egg problem of farmers don't have a market to sell it to, and factories can't buy enough to justify converting the production process to use the new material.