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I believe they call that "distinguished" now - as compared to whatever the fuck is going on with Alex Jones, Joe Rogan, and Elon Musk who we now are aware can jump a whole entire 3 inches off the ground.

There are multiple whole entire industries dedicated to fleecing such individuals. Health care in the USA for one... Donald Trump's campaign to name another...

They lived in a different time period. Climate change hadn't already happened yet, and the USA especially was sitting on top of the world, as the rest of it had been if not quite decimated then at least heavily damaged by all the bombing from WWII. And we were a socialist nation! Schools, roads, bridges, a fully functioning post office, and so much more. The top marginal tax rate was ~90% and... well anyway.

So yeah, like the Kings of Old, they accumulated "stuff". It made sense to them at the time. Surely nothing would ever like... "change" or anything like that, would it? And they even okayed the dismantling of things like social security, and maintenance of infrastructure - so long as such did not directly impact themselves, it's all good, right? So long as women also lose bodily autonomy, anything that went along with that is A-okay, r-r-right?!

On the bright side, do younger people have less stress, knowing that they don't have to save up for retirement, bc they'll surely die sooner than it would be able to keep up with anyway? Especially with inflation like we've seen lately?

Anyway that was quite a tangent wasn't it? TLDR: people's lives are so very different now, and look to remain that way permanently. And not just in the USA, but due to Brexit, in the UK too. Disinformation campaigns are strikingly effective.

The last I looked it was white cis het men whinging about being the latest "minority" group, and "alphas". Extra bonus points for being older but with a new account you will be locked out of that (and due to climate change, possibly forever).

I thought that was Mikey-D's?

Phew, thank goodness I was wrong:-).

Um... so then if they serve "fish sticks" then...

Nvm, I don't think I want to know!?😅

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. [email protected] significantly cleans up such trash by limiting what is allowed to be shared.

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