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  • U.S. Job Market Plummets Under Trump's Leadership: 70% Lower Job Growth, Unemployment Highest in Nearly 4 Years

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  • because from there, you either drown, or turn around, lift yourself up, and get help.

    Seems like most Americans would rather drown

  • Fat cat and the money pot

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  • Those people would be unemployed, or (WAY more generously) need to be retrained and transferred to other jobs.

    I don't find "the orphan grinder technicians would need to find new jobs" a very compelling argument, but I imagine the orphan grinder technicians and their families do.

    We should probably have basic income and stronger social programs, too. But we have a republican party that would rather die of measles than see their outgroup have one iota of comfort.

    Also, "it would be expensive to improve our quality of life, so let's leave the nightmare in place" is a bonkers view.

    I’m skeptical that cost overall is a good argument in favor of single payer, at least in the short/medium term.

    But maybe this is the important part. An argument for who? I think most of the people who oppose single payer health care are doing so for emotional reasons, so facts and charts won't compel them. They might lie to you and themselves about how the money doesn't work out, but those are lies.

  • Order Up

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  • Some people are really concerned with fitting in. Probably a survival trait from early humans

  • Massively Overthinking: Is it possible to launch a new subscription MMORPG in 2025?

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  • Who has money to spend on a subscription?

    Also even when I had money, I don't want to keep buying the game every month. It's stressful, and sometimes I like playing other things.

  • My Tesla had this weird error message on screen

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  • When this comes up, which isn't that often, I typically ask them where the line is. Like, presumably there's something a company could do that's so evil that they wouldn't support it. What is it, for them? Crushing babies live on TV? That's probably too far, right? So then we can sort of do a binary search between that line and where we are, and try to find what is too much for them. I suspect for many people it's "am I personally, immediately, harmed by this, in a way I can't rationalize?"

  • My Tesla had this weird error message on screen

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  • I don't know why it's so hard to get people to care about things. It's not like twitter is some vital service. But people are just like, "meh, it's funny." What tepid slop do these people have where their soul should be?

  • Mamdani, AOC and other DSA members should leave party: Dem Rep. Tom Suozzi insists

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  • Suozzi should eat shit and die. Guess we can't all get what we want

  • Germany's far-right AfD suffers series of candidate deaths ahead of local vote

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  • Inspiring

  • Mark Zuckerberg, the Lawyer, Is Suing Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO

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  • Have you tried explaining something to someone lately? A lot of people don't care and don't understand. About anything

  • Florida to end vaccine mandates for children as state’s surgeon general likens them to ‘slavery’

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  • How does Joseph Ladapo sleep at night? Probably soundly on a mattress full of money.

  • Peter Thiel is delivering 4 private sold-out lectures at a club in San Francisco—about the Antichrist

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  • I assume he'll be spending a lot on security

  • More than 1,000 health workers urge Kennedy to quit over anti-vax policies

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  • RFK should be removed from office

  • Own The Libs

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  • I think most maga women think it won't happen to them. Poor empathy, low knowledge of history, and general foolishness.

  • 78 year old congressman Jerry Nadler decides not to seek reelection, saying Biden fiasco showed need for "generational change"

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  • People were saying "but if you arrest the Republicans for crimes, they'll put you in camps when they get power back!". Now we have camps.

    They're going to be evil no matter what. Might as well try to break their spine while you can.

  • Rising inequality is turning US into an autocratic state, billionaire warns

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  • I guess it's only a few highly visible billionaires who seem colossally stupid.

  • True

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  • Basic income for poor people: lazy people want a handout

    Government backed interest account for rich people: perfectly reasonable.

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    House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias

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  • I'm pretty sure Wikipedia isn't a government entity and thus not subject to whatever their fever dream is. Republicans are the worst, and many of them are quite stupid as well

  • Americans Take to the Streets for 1,000+ 'Workers Over Billionaires' Labor Day Rallies

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  • I went to one. Not seeing a lot of coverage on my corners of the Internet.

    Oddly there one one counter protestor. She wasn't white and neither was her camera guy. I think she was some sort of grifter - she was interviewing people and I think she was looking for outrage bait for right wing duds to froth over. Organizers had a deescalation team follow her to warn people off from talking to her

  • Am I the only person who likes removal of evil races?

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  • I think "cultural values" are a better mechanism for that. Like america teaches that capitalism and individualism are good values. Anyone raised here gets a lot of that, but it's not an innate property of being from Ohio

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    Memorable character deaths?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Linux on a 2014 macbook air?