doingthestuff

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[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 3 points 1 week ago

You'd be surprised.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 1 points 1 week ago

True, but apparently there a lot of white women who voted for Trump anyway. As usual, the rich and attractive ones will always get laid.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I constantly bring up school lunch programs but I get downvoted on sites like this because I choose unpopular context. For example, Biden spent money on something, I say - he could have funded school lunches, but instead lunch ladies get to go back to collecting food debt.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

When you're struggling to feed your kids, yeah, mine is on the list. That doesn't mean I don't help other people but our government taxes the struggling and literally sets cash on fire as a thank you.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 45 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

It was the stupidest of ideas. Republicans were never going to vote for her in any numbers. She was all about gun control, she personally owned the 12 million border crossings, she had all those defund the police sound bites from her earlier years, and she couldn't effectively separate herself from the difficult economy for middle and low earners - while failing to communicate that she even cared about the common man's plight or would try to help it. Even her proposed tax plan raised taxes on lower middle class, at least the charts I saw (including here on Lemmy). And Republicans have seen four years of Trump and think all the Nazi and "all Republicans are racist" talk is literally the stupidest thing on the earth. Abortion was all Dems really had, and although lots of Republicans are pro-choice, Trump had promised to veto a national abortion ban (for whatever that's worth).

I remember when Democrats were for the working people. They need to stop being "We're not the Nazis"and start telling us who they are. But I don't think they want to tell us who they are. They're no longer the party of the working man, they're the party of corporate interest and global governance, and they're also almost as authoritarian as the right. Maybe the collapse of the Democrat party will result in the birth of an actual socialist party in the US. We've seen major party changes in the past. Will it happen again, soon?

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 1 points 2 weeks ago

It doesn't prove fraud in the last election, obviously. But it does make fraud in this election dramatically less a consideration for those who might suspect it

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You really don't think guys won't lie to get laid?

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Do what you want. I don't give a fuck.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Well Dems did get 13 million fewer votes this time.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 0 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

I only have an associate's degree which was very affordable and I worked thru school but I guess I get to help pay for those who took on a lot more debt. If that had been on the table maybe I'd have gotten more education.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 2 points 2 weeks ago

He isn't though.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (8 children)

Democrats passed the ACA without any Republican support. They should have passed MFA then. It was terrible and made my life much harder at the time. It's better now, but barely. My wife has a low paying government job and her health insurance costs went up significantly more than her 2% raise. Both of us took cuts in net pay while food, property taxes and seemingly everything else went up. What have Dems done about housing, pay, taxes, food costs in the last term? Nothing. Oh, Biden got one drug to be cheaper. But I'm not a diabetic. Yet.

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