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I'm guessing that what they are calling political homicides are direct politicians being killed, as distinct from murders of civilians that involve political motivations.

But stuff like this is why I am unsubscribing from this community. It seems more like it's trying to foster "engagement" and that's not why most of us came here.

Whatever it is, DON'T DO IT!?!

Local health departments are chronically understaffed. For every 6,000 people in rural areas, there’s one public health nurse — who often works part-time, one analysis found.

“State and local public health departments are decimated resource-wise,” said Lurie, who is now an executive director at an international organization, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations. “You can’t expect them to do the job if you only resource them once there’s a crisis.”

Another explanation is a lack of urgency because the virus hasn’t severely harmed anyone in the country this year. “If hundreds of workers had died, we’d be more forceful about monitoring workers,” Chessher said. “But a handful of mild symptoms don’t warrant a heavy-handed response.”

You get what you pay for.

I mean... yeah, ofc, but that ship has sailed, and I for one hope that this message gets spread far and wide, to help counteract the message being preached from the literal and actual pulpit in America that a vote for Trump = a vote for God.

Also, as we could have guessed, this is an enormously clickbaity "news" title, as this excerpt explains:

“In a moment like this, I am compelled to be clear that every voter must make a choice, and my choice is to oppose the dangerous politics that (Donald) Trump and the MAGA movement have unleashed by supporting the ticket that can defeat this potential for American fascism,” Barber said in a statement to CNN, while stressing that he was backing Harris in his personal capacity.

In their personal capacity they are endorsing Harris, but in their professional (or whatever that word should be to mean non-personal) capacity they are only endorsing "not-Trump". As it should be.

Edit: which reminds me that I wanted to block this community - that issue of EXTREMELY misleading headlines (especially those that mean the precise polar opposite of what a natural interpretation of the sentence would seem to indicate) comes up FAR too often here for my tastes. !globalnews@lemmy.zip significantly cleans up such trash by limiting what is allowed to be shared.

It crits, dealing double splash/AoE damage. It's super effective.

Wow, can you imagine having that?

A house that you could put "stuff" into?

Oof.

Not anymore...

I feel like this has similarities to the trolly problem posts as well. As in there's some kind of orange thing threatening us all there too, and we have the choice to put on our glasses or willfully not see what's coming:-).

Tbf, the Democratic party nomination process is not a 2-party system. They did say that back then, and they were wrong to do so - hoping that people wouldn't notice that difference.

But now we are talking about the real deal, the thing that they were trying to falsely tie an equivalence to, the actual vote for the actual presidency. Democracy in the USA may not last the decade regardless, but voting one way is for ditching it in favor of Project 2025 and among other things, ironically enough even moar-er support for genocide, while the other is a vote for hopefully a little better than the current status quo.

Both offer short term pain and long term destruction... but not equally so.

Omg that sounds hilarious 😂

@petrescatraian@libranet.de Yes, one of these months surely it will come... eventually:-).