trebuchet

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[–] trebuchet@lemmy.ml 79 points 6 months ago

It was a tough sacrifice, but the really important thing going forward is making sure Elon gets his 56 billion dollar bonus reinstated that was so cruelly taken away.

[–] trebuchet@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Trump has that incredible either-you-see-it-or-you-don't charisma.

For every Trump there are a thousand wannabes like DeSantis who get destroyed by their gaffes and screw ups (like is supposed to happen) instead of being boosted by them. The exception, despite being very prominent, doesn't break the rule that coverage of a politician's gaffes is normally very, very bad for them.

[–] trebuchet@lemmy.ml 18 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I really don't think so. The fact that we're still talking about this week's later is an indication of how dead her national political career is. Her brand is the dog killing politician now.

She was a contender to be Trump's VP candidate, and he can't stop talking about what a fool she is with no political acumen.

[–] trebuchet@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

Sadly that strategy does in fact ordinarily pay off because the young people that make up the largest demographic of legal adults notoriously underperforms when it comes to voting.

[–] trebuchet@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Utah is gorgeous.

There are definitely parts of Socal that are ugly. Also parts that are sublime.

[–] trebuchet@lemmy.ml 19 points 6 months ago (10 children)

Try visiting a not ugly state like California.

[–] trebuchet@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 months ago

But how does that help capitalists make more money by eliminating their competition?

[–] trebuchet@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Team Red doesn't actually have anything of the sort in their heads. They already decided on the conclusion, which is that climate change is fake, and then they grasp on whatever the flavor du jour is for the rationalization on why it's true. That might happen to be this thing you're saying about measuring tools in urbanized areas, but if you cut that down they'll just switch to some other rationalization.

You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't arrive at with reason in the first place.

[–] trebuchet@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So there's no evidence whatsoever then.

This conspiracy theory makes as much sense as claiming the reason Republicans are against global warming is Saudi Arabia.

People on this site lose their minds when the word Russia or Putin appears in a sentence. We don't need dehumanized foreign bad guys to explain away and play cover for the actual bad guys we have domestically in the United States. We have the receipts. It's Exxon and other big corps, not Russia.

[–] trebuchet@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's never too late to go back to school.

[–] trebuchet@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Isn't the lowest hanging fruit exactly what they're targeting, i.e. the people who currently have loans, and the higher hanging fruit all the other circumstances people are mentioning here like already paid off their loans or future student who will get loans or in your case people who forewent becoming a student due to the loans?

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