Internet points since they’re of equal value.

This is literally part of Kamala Harris’ campaign? Are you not-American or just not-informed? https://portside.org/2024-08-23/kamala-harris-5-trillion-tax-plan

I rarely downvote, but this is one of the few comments that are truly unproductive and meaningless. You earned it.

I just want to point out that, reading between the lines, the solutions that would make a difference to change immigration are:

• Solve climate change
• Undo the compounding effects of a war that destroyed a country
• Jail people who hire undocumented immigrants

Your first solution requires Republicans to believe in climate change (and Independents like Joe Manchin not to get in the way and water down the bill that passed). Your second solution requires investing billions in developing countries to right our wrongs and your third sounds like a Republican talking point.

This is why I push back on the narrative that oversimplifies immigrataion as Republicans and Dems equally don’t care about immigration.

Does AOC need to visit a border to talk immigration when migrants are being bused into NYC daily? Curious if you live in a place where migrants are being bussed or not, because I do, and the reason no one is talking about migrant camps at the border is because they have migrant populations within the neighborhoods in a way that they didn’t pre-covid. There’s two migrants w/ toddlers less than two blocks from my apartment that panhandle daily. There’s migrants panhandling outside of the places I grocery shop and the bars that I frequent downtown. Immigration is tangible in a way that it wasn’t pre-Covid

I think that, irrespective of party, Americans across the board have become more concerned about immigration, partially due to fear-mongering by Republicans for sure, but also due to Democratic strongholds getting a steady flow of immigrants (bussed in by Republicans, fwiw, but a level of immigration that they were not prepared for) and the conflicts for city resources and care have had an outsized impact on perspective/policy and expectations by the population as a whole. It isn’t that Democrats suddenly changed their perspective while everyone else remained the same. Every group of individuals polled increasingly became concerned about migration.

It’s easy to frame it as ‘Dems don’t care’, and I’m not sure what you identify as, but looking at the data, people who identify as Dems actually care more than Republicans and Independents.

I do not want to say that I am happy with the Dems accepting Republican-backed immigration policy positions but I do acknowledge just how unpopular immigration has become within Democratic circles let alone Republicans (and Independents who as a whole are historically more conservative than Democrats).

Curious what would you suggest as a tenable immigration solution in 2024 that you think would likely get backing from Republicans and Democrats?

This wasn’t isolated to the Democrats and Republicans, IIRC it was the prevailing opinion across the nation irrespective of party.

I’m sure there were Independents, and <insert minority group here> that were out there also looking for blood in the moment. I wouldn’t say because racism/xenophobia/violence exists within a group, it always has a home w/ said group (unless there was a vast majority that held the same belief) and so I’m always prone to push back when ppl paint w/ such a broad brush.

I think that these generalizations that insinuate that both sides are equally inviting racism/xenophobia/violence does a disservice to the nuances of reality and encourage nihilsm/indifference.

I do think there is nuance in accepting that the plan when there’s 20K crossing per month is different when the number spikes 10x to 200k. Dems were unprepared for enforcing policy when things shifted to record numbers for sure, but I wouldn’t classify that as ‘not caring’.

Also the Irish +100 years ago. It’s as American as apple pie unfortunately.

RIP. Was on firefish a few months but saw the writing on the wall back then and jumped ship. In retrospect, probably the 3rd or 4th federated product I’ve been a user of that flamed out. WATTBA

So would you prefer the capital tax rate is lower or that CNN didn’t report it?

As someone voting for Dems, I’m still confused why progressive policies are becoming more moderate

My personal opinion is that it was:

• Easier signup
• A wider variety of opinions… Fediverse imo is known for tankies and progressives. I’m a progressive so I’m OK w/ the latter, but it can be an echo chamber at times.
• Built-in audiences (Threads especially but also Jack founding a spinoff helps)
• Similar to Linux, one of the benefits to open-source is plenty of forks and standards. This leads to a more fractured landscape at times and so it’s rockier than the alternatives

• Doesn’t have millions to market like the alternatives.
• More technical requirement (historically anyways)
• Much less likely to be the default on hardware (which is what most ppl stick to)

Regardless of how you feel about subscriptions, it’s a step in making the fediverse a more viable option for that that create content for a living.

Made the switch as well thanks to the modern key bindings

Prior to switching (upgrading?) to Wayland, Debian KDE crashed under X11 regularly when waking from hibernation and the taskbar would disappear. Restarting the plasma shell made it operable again, so I created an alias and regularly rebooted the DE shell 2-3x a day:

alias damnTaskbar='killall plasmashell ; kstart plasmashell &'

Et tu, neo-facists?

I think it’s one thing to push liberal-leaning articles to liberals to give them what they want. (I’m a progressive but I know a circle-jerk when I see one). It’s something else when they are getting people to hate-watch toxic content from far-right content creators who are repeated bad-faith actors. If Richard Spencer had a YouTube channel, would they embed his videos as well? Sus AF.

Thanks for sharing

Zero clicks on the video. Screw both of them.

Also feels like Mediate is subtly spreading Candace Owens videos by embedding it instead of just a screenshot or a link to another page to get the info if desired

Security Incident is any and everything. Messing w/ a license plate is a nothingburger from a reader perspective and that’s why they buried the lede. AP News doesn’t do that: NYC man accused of damaging license plates on Secret Service vehicles guarding VP’s stepdaughter. Clearly based on the downvotes you’re getting, I’m not the only one seeing the nuance here.