I truly believe that. It’s hard for people to see when the “majority” opinion is so loud and constant.

It’s why social media is dangerous.

I’m waiting for the Ikea Timmerflotte. Any day now…

All this shit and you threaten fucking Democrats?!?

You have to be just the right level of stupid to do this much damage. Putin knew it; that’s why he installed him.

Any smarter and you realize you can just tell the CIA the problem and they’ll solve it for national security reasons. Any smarter and you’ll realize that grifting does nothing for you. You already have the money you’ll need for life, and a better country supporting you is better for you, too. Any dumber and you’re drooling on yourself and can’t give a coherent enough speech to get votes. (We’re nearly at that last part as it is.)

The Constitution is nothing if people are not willing to protect and defend it.

We’re not getting though this passively. We’re not getting this done through courts alone.

Really soon we’re going to have to make people, particularly those wearing badges and masks choose a side first, and go back to the courts to see who was right after.

I just hope it’s done in an organized way, where those people DO have a choice. Just disobeying orders as a lone soldier or officer is not nearly as effective as being part of a group.

Either way, the money grab is why I didn’t get back into MtG recently.

I considered sticking my toe in and was told “oh yeah, just buy a $90 commander precon and hop right in.”

Yeah, no thanks.

They may confiscate your phone and record all data on it.

If it’s a fresh wipe with a good passcode, and you keep it on airplane mode, you’re probably fine.

Why do you need an ID? Leave it in your car if you’re driving.

I don’t think there’s a single state that requires you to actually carry documentation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_and_identify_statutes

These are the states that require you to at least verbally state your name, and only if the officer has reasonable suspicion that you have or will commit a crime.

They can ask your name. You may not have to answer.

Research your state’s law on this before you go. It’s in the link.

And if we’re still non-violent, someone will join who isn’t and ensure some violence exists. It’s Plan 1A in the dictator playbook.

Yes, but that’s semantics. Clearly the observation has some effect, but it’s not from any force we recognize.

My friend thinks the jobs don’t exist, and they’re just posted so the company looks good.

They definitely did that at college job fairs. They wanted to keep their spot, but weren’t hiring that year.

Is it being a class traitor though? Maybe she just realizes that her dollars are worth more than rubles for a reason, a reason that is very much now in question.

If anyone should support the rule of law, it’s the billionaires. We should all be on the same side against fascism.

First time home buyer with 2 months of on time rent payments is not that much of a qualifier. And yeah, it has to be actual rent, and not just saying “I paid my uncle in cash.”

Yeah, it doesn’t help you buy your second home. Yeah, you can’t do it at 18 if you haven’t moved out of your parents house.

That’s about it.

Wow, that’s very different from the “must live in government housing” and “only immigrants” that you started with. How many times does your bullshit need to be called out before you tell the truth?

This plan will significantly simplify and expand the reach of down-payment assistance, allowing over 1 million first time-buyers per year – including first-generation home buyers – to get the funds they need to buy a house when they are ready to buy it," the Harris campaign said.

Source

You keep making shit up. One million > 400,000.

provide working families who have paid their rent on time for two years and are buying their first home up to $25,000 in down-payment assistance, with more generous support for first-generation homeowners – or homebuyers whose parents don’t own a home.

Nothing at all about “immigrants”. Where did you hear that bullshit?

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So I’ve been going on and on about how “democrats bad” is a huge narrative being pushed hard on Lemmy. Always with the caveat that criticism is warranted, when it’s specific and targeted.

This is specific and targeted. This is how you properly criticize Dems. But that wouldn’t jive with the people seeding that other narrative. They don’t want to be helpful. They’re not interested in how to get other people to vote. Their objective is the opposite.

Maybe the Dems should switch their incremental improvement to the fact that they need billionaires to buy them votes before their dollars turn into rubles. Yeah, the number is bigger. Look how much good that does the Russians.

They should be supporting both Elon-style directly, and indirectly through accepting tax policy to allow us to do big things. Find smart policies to support medical school so that we can push for more doctors/nurses the way we did for Software Devs from 1995-2015. Create actual medicare for all to finally get rid of the odd tie between your employer and your healthcare. Support real freight so we can have fewer semis destroying our roads and creating traffic. Support mass transit so we need fewer roads and can have more walkable spaces with more available housing. (Mass transit enables realistic high density housing.) Change Trump’s stupid ass tariffs to be a response to climate change, now that we’ve developed better tech to see where the CO2 is coming from.

Raise the federal minimum wage. Reduce the work week to 36 hours, with real teeth in overtime requirements and salary exemptions. Recreate the Civilian Conservation Corps to make sure everyone who’s willing to put in real work can find a job, even if AI doesn’t like their resume.

Healthcare, traffic, and work are the biggest things everyone in the country has to deal with. Address the things that actually affect people’s lives. This is how your dollars stay dollars instead of turning into rubles. The billionaires might have less of them, but they’re worth more. When people are less desperate, everyone’s lives are better.

Straight up cash to help buy your first house. I wasn’t thrilled about it.

She of course has to say it anyway, even if she knows it’s obvious.