FDR wanted social security to be this, and Medicare to be for everyone...
The "moderates" at the time kept telling him it had to be looked into more, and 80 years later Biden kept saying the same thing
It's what they'll always keep saying, it's why we can't keep wasting time electing them, we need people who actually want to fix shit.
No shit...
They have been since Jimmy Carter
And the Dem voting base's fear that Jimmy was just the start of the party moving right, is obvious now that people genuinely believe he was "the last good one" instead of "the first shitty one"
That's how much the Overton window moved in 50 years. Back in 1976 Carter proudly labeled himself a "centrist" even when the right at the time was Nixon right after Watergate. So I don't want to hear any bullshit about how the right was better back then.
$80 is insane, but that thing is a statue and hopefully you just sit a tub of popcorn in it.
Anyone willing to pay for it as a collectible thing, isn't going to want it all corned up.
The value of the house is not gonna go up because a few decades went by by which time they paid it off; it would only decrease by that fact! And the only thing we know about her is, that she paid her debt off… You find that irresponsible of her?
I honestly can't tell if you're trying to be sarcastic, or genuine...
Old products were made so that each product lasted as long as possible.
So when one part failed, it was worth repairing because the rest was probably fine.
Modern products are designed to last X amount of time, so when one part fails, the rest of it is likely to fail soon.
Making repair not worth it.
You're trying to treat this as one problem, but it's specific depending on what you need. Like, you can 100% buy a fountain pen instead of using cheap disposables. But I doubt that's what you're talked no about.
We need politicians with the balls to start nationalizing things like insurance and utilities...
Both parties picking profits over people isn't working out
Newsom is a piece of shit that needs to go.
His views don't align with Dem voters nationally, and certainly not within Cali.
On this latest podcast, the meandering conversation started on America’s so-called “masculinity crisis”—a reference to real problems facing boys and men, such as higher rates of suicide and social isolation, or a nod to conservative pearl-clutching about the perceived “feminization” of American boys, depending on who you ask.
“Most of these kids, many of them [are] not even having any relations, sexual relations, with other women,” Newsom said.
The conversation went from lamenting how American youth don’t have enough sex, to hand-wringing about whether the LGBT rights movement may be pushing “sexuality” onto kids.
“Speaking of sexuality and divisiveness,” Ryan said, “One of the things in the last administration that really divided people was gender affirming care, LGBTQ [sic].” They incorrectly equated sexual orientation and gender identity, leading to a conversation about what Newsom called “the trans issue.”
“That's now no longer about celebrating your rights. It's about denying other people theirs,” Newsom said. “Marriage equality was about everyone's right [...] But your child may not have that same opportunity to get on the podium if a trans athlete is competing.”
Posting Israeli propaganda usually gets someone banned pretty quickly...
The Democratic party just doesn’t fucking get it
"The party" is the DNC, and about 50 state parties.
And it's better than it has been in over half a century.
But we still got some shitty neoliberals holding office, like the Rep this article is about, that we need to get rid of.
Isn't their big problem that what's already happening?
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5613
There's two "full time" Lemmy developers, and one of them just added a repeating dialog box that will pop up regardless of instance asking for money to be sent to his and another lemmy.ml admin's personal accounts as a salary.
For anyone else wondering, the article is normal, it's just OPs summary that rants about a fucking Facebook group