I stopped working a year ago. Burnt out, broken down, and various physical ailments just broke and depressed me. Moved back in with family to help support my useless ass. Shit sucks and it ain’t going to get any better. But I’ll turn up to every local protest I can cuz this GOP shit is bullshit.

The Sun is literally dog shit.

http://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-sun/

Care to help payoff some of my medical debt?

Dumb ways to die, dumb ways to diiiiieeee…

Not really, I’ve already blocked the newsweek reddit account and there’s plenty of other accounts posting newsweek all the time, it’s very sus.

what are some other good ones?

I don’t know if it applies to this or not, but Reddit top posts absolutely love Newsweek, which is a garbage clickbait, pump and dump articles as fast as possible, and now seeing this, it wouldn’t surprise me if there’s something going on.

I guess Lemmy is mostly tech nerds like myself, but it’s still cool as hell to see another Fedora user around :)

I hate to be that guy, but actually it’s not just “greed” this time. There was millions of chickens that had to be culled due to a viral outbreak of Avian flu last season and we are just now seeing the effects of that. Don’t get me wrong greed does play a part, but the major contributing factor this time around for eggs is not greed, but the system rebounding from the outbreak. I know it’s trendy to say greed ruins everything (it can and does), but in this case it helps to have actual context to know what’s going on with the overall picture of things. The more you know, ya know.

http://www.gro-intelligence.com/insights/us-egg-prices-jump-amid-deadly-surge-in-avian-flu

No need for the tinfoil, that’s literally what this is.

I believe they were one of the good guys, but the owner or founder passed away a few years ago, so it’s not what it used to be anymore.

“Can’t win a primary without him, can’t win a general with him.”

Found Beau’s Lemmy account! :P

What a cunt.

I might get downvoted to hell for this, but hopefully you hear me out before you do. I knew nothing of politics most of my life prior to 2016. It was never on my radar and most of the time when I did vote it was essentially just how my family members voted. I did not think for myself back then. That was my mistake. And so I voted for Trump the first time knowing nothing outside of the “email scandal”. But my own ignorance and laziness to be informed is no excuse.

I have since been on a vigilant crusade of self reflection and self correction to better understand myself. This mistake on my part which has motivated me to spend the rest of my life to be more informed, not just politically, but also with history, economics, social and culture issues as well, the whole nine yards so to speak. Within Trumps first 100 days in office, I knew I made an absolutely huge, huge mistake and I vowed never again. In the years that have followed, I’ve amassed a wealth of knowledge I previously never had from learning more of the Constitution of the US/Bill of Rights, as well as my states own Constitution, and I’ve read numerous books on US history from how the government functions, to Civil War to Civil Rights to better inform myself of how we got here.

I’ve been in horror watching everything unfold since 2016. Not being politically aware/involved before this was my mistake. I’ve read books from my local library on How Democracies Die to How Fascism Works to better grasp what is going on because having perspective matters. Looking back, I can see the type of media my family consumed affected my decision at the voting booth, but it was my mistake that I never dug deeper or tried to objectively learn the truth of things. I used to be the type that naively thought “both parties are the same” (they absolutely are not), but it was my mistake to remain ignorant for many years.

Shortly after the 2016 election, I was second guessing myself, thought I was taking crazy pills, and everything Trump was saying and doing I was in major conflict with. Prior to 2016, I never read/heard political news, but after 2016, everything I read was political news. Ignorance may have been bliss, but it’s no excuse not being informed. That was my mistake. I did a few of those ‘which political party are you’ type of online quizzes. Turned out my views on social issues, drug issues, prison reform, environmental issues, education, military, etc were aligned 80% of the time with the Democratic Party. Really blew my mind, since I was more or less raised to vote Red. Diving into History and learning about the Republican tactics from the Southern Strategy to Obstructing anything Democrats do, to blowing up the deficit while in office, to only cutting taxes for the wealthy, to saying they support the troops but do nothing for them, to overturning Roe v Wade, among 100 other things they’ve done really woke me up that I’ve been misled for so long.

I hope to never make a mistake like that again. My family is all still very pro-Trump, I’m the black sheep in the family, but I don’t care what they think knowing what they are still willing to support. Since 2016, I’ve had numerous debates with my family, almost always civil discussions, but they always move the goalposts…they never move an inch from their Republican entrenched mindset since they watch/listen to Fox News and right wing AM radio every single day. It was my mistake I ever listened to them. I hope to never make a mistake like that again.

tl;dr I naively voted for Trump in 2016 and within the first 100 days instantly regretted it and vowed never again to make a mistake as monumental as that by being better informed. Took an online test, turned out I was always Democrat leaning with my views on issues.

“A father and daughter having consensual sex…”

It must be wild living in whatever fantasy world you live in. Ask your mom or your dad if you can bang them, jfc…

Gay sex and interracial sex are NOT the same thing as incest sex. You do realize you’re advocating for dads to bang their own daughters? Cause that’s what incest usually results in.

When Putin took over Russia and turned it into him getting 99% of the votes every election, most people of Russia did not leave. When Putin cracked down on journalists, free speech, and gay/queer people, hell even his own oligarchs aren’t safe next to a Russian window, most people of Russia did not leave. When Russia invaded Ukraine, the first and second time, most people of Russia did not leave.

Have Russians bought the Kremlin propaganda hook, line and sinker? What does it take for a citizen to say enough is enough before they leave their country? Do Russians lack the means to afford the ability to leave their homeland, potentially forever from friends, and generations of families? Unfortunately, most people whether it’s Russia or the US, simply do not have the means, the finances, the connections, or the resources to leave. A minority of us will have access to this luxury, but for a majority of us, we are simply fucking stuck. And in case it’s not clear, I do not support Russia, I hope the Putin regime collapses sooner than later.

My guy, you do realize you’re unironically doubling down on being pro-incest right? RIGHT?

Not just Fox “News” but all the alt-right AM radio pundits too. While visiting my parents, I overheard his AM radio speaker downplay events by saying that E. Jean Carroll only “claims” Trump did things, while totally ignoring the fact that Trump was already convicted of sexual assault and the judge later confirmed it was indeed classified as rape, and he had to pay her $5 million for defamation, which now there’s ANOTHER court case going on that’s bad for Trump, but all of those pesky facts weren’t mentioned, only that E. Jean Carroll was a vindictive slut. Truly maddening to me when you know the objective facts, I call it Conservative brain rot.

Fuck, this is yet another reminder I really really need to watch The Lighthouse.