Three Mile Island, and they want to do it to power their AI development. Not move their current servers and infrastructure to the nuclear power grid.
And the owner of Three Mile Island, who’s working with Microsoft, is trying to get the fed to give him the money needed to get the plant running again. Taxpayer money for Microsoft’s AI project that they’ll reap all the reward from.
I’ve seen billboards for one of those “Have you been in a motorcycle/car accident?!” law offices and it’s one of the lawyers squaring off with Tyson.
I’ve had so many questions: Did Tyson actually agree to do that? How much did they pay for him to do that? Is this law office illegally using his image? Do these offices usually have these kinds of celebrity-endorsement funds just lying around?
And then, it’s like, why Tyson?! Like, yeah, he’s probably one of the most well known boxers, but… He’s a rapist, and when someone asks me to name a celebrity to endorse lawyers, the first name that comes to mind isn’t “Mike Tyson, obvi.”
It’s just so weird all around.
The DNC during their campaign to save democracy refused to compromise with their base on genocide.
To reiterate, genocide.
And after they lost, they threw trans people and the left under the bus.
So what makes you all think they’re going to change their stance on anything now? They’re already screaming that the DNC was too far left during this campaign, this campaign, where they unapologetically and unconditionally showed support to a fascist and his genocide.
They had Republican after Republican parade across their convention stage, but had zero Palestinian Democrats come speak despite requests from the Uncommitted Protest movement.
What’s that thing all of Lemmy is always saying, “When people show you who they are, believe them?” They’re showing you who they are and who they want to be, so believe them. There’s no saving the DNC, it’s just a slow march to fascism under them versus the speed run with the Republicans.
Two Democratic politicians already threw trans people under the bus, saying the party is too left on trans-issues, and then parroting the “people don’t want biological boys in girl’s sports” bullshit.
And then that one Dem who ran the campaign ad “I’ve never pushed for sex changes,” or something like that.
I’m trans too, and honestly, I will never be supporting the DNC again after hearing that from two of their congressional members.
We’re well aware, and it’s honestly getting old hearing “wElL tHe ReSt Of ThE wOrLd,” yeah, the UK voted to leave the EU and ousted a party to replace them with Labour who don’t want to hold another referendum on the vote.
India continues to elect the populist and nationalist Modi as their PM, because he gives them bags of rice with his name on them and tells them it’s ok to hate Muslims.
Germany is flirting with fascism again, and they’ve got all the stuff Americans are apparently too fucking stupid to get done, right?
Dutch police just rounded up a bunch of pro-Palestinian protesters, protesting peacefully, and then started beating them for not moving fast enough.
Oh, and the majority of European countries are freaking the fuck out about immigration and the floods of immigrants trying to come into their countries. And funnily enough, your politicians speak about immigrants the same way our Republicans do.
But you’re right, the people who weren’t alive 50 years ago when all of this should have been done, yeah, that’s our fucking fault too, right?
They raised over a billion dollars after Harris got the nomination.
They spent a quarter of that on sending door knockers to the same people’s houses 2-3 times.
And they donate money to Republican outsider campaigns to try to siphon votes off the Republican incumbent (who they usually still lose to anyway).
They would absolutely spend millions of dollars thinking they were going to lose. It’s not their money, and their lives will not change whether it’s spent or not.
Yep, and I have friends who have a lot of their social events and stuff there. I usually politely decline if I’m invited.
Gotta love when users go to insulting intelligence and acting like them screaming their argument louder makes them more corrector.
You’re lived experience is yours, it’s not the lived experience of everyone. Not everyone has the means, money, ability, or desire to just sell everything they own and start over somewhere new, completely alone.
So, once again, not everyone can just drop everything, hop in a plane, and hope the new country takes them in with zero issue.
You’re also a man, I assume, since you mentioned a deceased wife and then your children. And since you’re German, odds are you’re also white. So how easy is it for the Arab trans woman to just drop everything and be accepted in a completely new country with no rights as a non-citizen?
Oh wait, they’re just being silly, they should just be a white man from a European country, and follow your exact life path because it’s the only possible way, and any other way is lazy.
You’re laughably out of touch, and since you’ve resorted to insults, I’m done with this conversation. I swear Lemmy is worse than Reddit, ffs.
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I’m goad this worked out for you (despite you never naming which country you immigrated from and which you emigrated to). But I assume you’re not American, and haven’t actually looked into this. And you’re wildly, wildly out of touch if you think your exception to the rule is somehow the rule.
Yes, they do care if you’re American, yes they do care what degrees and certifications you hold, and yes, they do expect you to be proficient in the language. I’ve looked into, parts of Canada require you to have a certain level of proficiency in French. The Netherlands want you proficient in Dutch, the countries that people want to move to require language proficiency if your only language is English.
Your advice is basically drop everything, move somewhere, and hope they don’t deport you. Wow, what a way to live a life, why hasn’t everyone in America done this, and if it’s so easy, why do all these countries have these application processes and wait times and language tests? Why do so few Americans actually emigrate every year?
Must be because we’re all stupid and don’t understand you just move somewhere, live in squalor for an indefinite period of time (minimum two years, it sounds like), and then everything just works out. Wow, it’s so easy.
And how long did it take to learn the language? Was it done beforehand? What skills do you have? What country were you immigrating to, and which were you emigrating from? How much money did you have put aside, and what did you liquidate? What was the legal process like, and did you receive help? Were you allowed to live permanently in your new country before being granted citizenship? Did you have any connections in your new country? Did you have any sort of employment lined up? How did you and your family survive if you just up and moved? Did you have any pets and what was the process to have them emigrated vis vaccines, physical, breed/species restrictions, etc?
You act like everyone who may want to leave can just sell their positions, buy a plane ticket, and start over with the money in their pocket and the clothes on their back, and with enough hard work, they can get through it. Yeah, maybe. But it’s not like you apply tomorrow and are granted citizenship a week later and you’re on your way. There is months/years of work that goes into the emigration process, and it varies wildly by country.
But the reality is, most countries don’t want American immigrants, and even when they do, they normally expect you to already be proficient at the new language and will test for it (which can take month/years to learn for people), and they’re normally looking for specific occupations or qualifications. They don’t want brick layers and retail associates, they want software engineers and nurses and doctors.
Didn’t Trump try this with the DEA and states that legalised marijuana? Something about they wanted to start going after individuals and stuff because it’s still federally illegal?
I just remember a majority of the state’s said, “Go for it, but we’re not helping you in any way.” And they basically dropped it.
I’m hopeful similar situations will hold.
You’re saying we can’t believe voters
I have repeatedly been talking about non-voters: those who stayed home.
Blame the repub voters, sure, I guess, and there’s no reason to blame dem voters.
But don’t blame non-voters for failing to be won over by a centrist platform that shows an unconditional backing of a fascist authoritarian and his genocide. Blame it on the DNC, Harris, and Biden. They made the choice to not actively support a genocide, or chose not to support a slow march to fascism versus a fast one, or whatever other nonsense reason you think justifies your world view.
Now understand mine: the liberals have told the left/progressive side since 2016 that it’s both their fault, and that if they get their support in 2020, they’ll be willing to start supporting progressive policies.
The voting base took a vocal stand on genocide, to reiterate, genocide, demanding their party move left on the issue. With Democracy on the line, and years of bad political capital with their progressive/left voting base, the DNC opted to continue unconditional support for genocide. Being perpetuated by a fascist leader, who worked with their fascist opponent during the campaign.
They didn’t ask for $40/hr minimum wage, they didn’t demand free puppies for everyone or some unrealistic ideal. They wanted compromise on genocide, and the DNC said no. The DNC waved off a good chunk of their voting base and were surprised when they actually took a stand.
Non voters didn’t have a choice, like you keep saying. They had opposite sides of the same coin, and as I pointed out above when talking about how their pundits are screaming about wokism and trans people and the left side of the party, are blaming anyone but themselves.
If they acknowledged their own faults, sure, I’d entertain your argument. Or if it was something like M4A being a significant wedge issue for voters or something, sure, because it’s not genocide. But they, and you, keep doubling down on unquestioned support of the least evil being the only correct choice.
I’m saying that’s wrong, those who abstained from voting for either are at least cleansed of actively supporting a genocide, regardless of whatever their actual individual reason was. And acting like choosing the least evil makes you right is exactly the liberal condescension non voters are tired of.
It assumes that your moral definition of the world is the only correct one, arguing for the greater good (which I would argue should have come from the DNC not supporting a genocide unconditionally first) while dismissing an individual’s own definition. To assume your position is to assume that your world view, and er go, your interpretation of the world, is the only correct one.
Like I said, Democracy was on the line, so why couldn’t the DNC compromise one policy for their voting base? They compromised on fracking, didn’t show support for M4A, showed support for continuing border security as is, etc. So why not genocide? Why was that a line in the sand for them despite vocal opposition from their voting base?
Drag got it yet? You’re not morally superior for supporting a genocide, and that’s only one of many reasons someone may have chosen not to support either candidate. And they’re all valid, but the blame doesn’t go to them. It goes to the DNC who thought it better to turn right and try to win moderates as the Republican-lite candidate instead of tapping into 60% of the voting base that doesn’t vote. It goes to the DNC who couldn’t ensure that “did Biden drop out” wasn’t going to be one of the most searched things on election day with better messaging during the campaign.
But no, let’s keep blaming them, and insulting and condescending and acting superior to them, the non voter, because they didn’t understand Democracy was on the line and wouldn’t compromise for the greater good. I understand you want to assign them blame, but that needs to be directed back at the DNC. So two-fold blame on the DNC for drag.
because you don’t know what drag means by “choice is inevitable”?
I’m doing my best to be civil, especially considering the last time you and I spoke, you called me a fascist nazi Trump supporter who wanted drag and drag’s friends all dead, despite me also being LGBTQ, a veteran, and having voted for Harris.
So no, I’m not debating your supposed enlightened imagined moral superiority because you only see the binary of “choice: liberalism (diet fascism) or fascism.” I get it “choice is inevitable,” “by choosing not to choose, you’ve made a choice,” “I am so very enlightened because I passed an introductory college course on philosophy.”
We get it, drag, you’re arguing that the choice of not choosing is the worst choice because you’ve not supported the least worst choice, and therefore de facto supported the worst choice. That’s your argument, right, with some lengthy and convulated nonsense about the morality around the choices that are thrust into our lap and the unfairness of life and the responsibility on the individual (the individual voters, of course, not the individuals unconditionally supporting s genocide) to make the least-bad choice no matter what.
Did I get it? That’s your argument in a nutshell, right, which is why the Democrats and their party leadership are absolved of all wrongdoing and all of the blame and guilt belongs at the feet of those who didn’t vote? Or does this apply to third parties too? We’ll just assume it does.
Life isn’t like that, and drag can keep doubling down on those who didn’t vote being the most guilty, or drag can understand that that is just further disenfranchising a large demographic of non-voters that the Democrats clearly need to turn out for them. And drag doesn’t get to cherry pick which policies they support of their candidate, you support them and all of their ideals.
So they stayed home, that’s their choice, and there’s no guilt in that. But keep blaming them, like I said before, I’m sure that’s winning people over to your morally just and superior cause.
Unfortunately, we don’t all have the choice to jump ship. 🤷♀️
I didn’t want to write another 11 paragraphs that you’d just complain about.
You can’t see fascism for what it is, when it’s standing in front of you, and still act like you are morally superior to anyone.
Got it, drag. You do you, still waiting for you to say anything of note beyond “choosing not to choose is the worstest choice.” You got anything else?
Anything about how supporting a genocide unconditionally despite public outcry isn’t fascism? Or is that a branch of liberalism I’m unfamiliar with? Hence diet-fascism and fascism, from before, in one of the many pages of comments I wrote.
Fascism or liberalism, but you’ve got the spirit.
Yeah, we’re done.
Harris/Biden: show unconditional support to fascist leader of Israel during his genocide of Palestinians.
You: That’s not fascism, that’s liberalism.
Sure.
Voters aren’t obligated to vote, candidates are supposed to earn votes by showing their ideas and policies are worth supporting.
So where’s the benefit in supporting a genocide?
Keep letting them march us right and condescending to a base of voters who are telling you what they want/expect because you have some imagined notion of moral superiority you think you have for supporting the lesser evil. Keep ignoring everything I’m telling you and how this looks to voters like myself, and acting like no, no, you know best.
No, I understand your point, and you’re completely missing mine.
You’re saying people are obligated to choose diet fascism or fascism, and those who chose are absolved of guilt while those who abstained aren’t. I’m saying they’re not, and to blame them for anything is ridiculous, the blame is on the Democrats.
And what would their action have sparked even had they voted? The US just walked back their threats regarding further aid to Israel. According to third party organizations like the UN, Israel hasn’t improved aid access in Gaza, but the US just announced they’ll be sending more weapons to Israel anyway.
So where’s the least harm, Netanyahu got what he wanted regardless of the clearly toothless threat (and literal virtue signaling to their base to win votes) from the Democrats? The genocide continues, but you’re going to tell yourself your hands are clean because you chose the least harm?
We support a genocide, drag, we have no moral superiority over those who didn’t support it. Blame Harris and the Dems, where the blame lies, and be angry you were put in this position to begin with. The Democrats are supposed to be better than this, and have no excuse not to have been. And they lost because of it, hold them accountable, not non-voters who need to be won over, not condescended to and scolded.
You should probably write 11 more paragraphs on how everyone who voted against genocide is a nazi, just in case somebody didn’t read your first two screenfuls of text
So just not going to try to address any of what I had to say with your own thoughts, opinions, or evidence? Just going to snidely make a comment about how I write as if your brevity somehow makes you right?
There’s that elitist, liberal entitlement the average American loves to see from the DNC. 👍 Keep winning over voters, drag, you’re doing God’s work.
I haven’t seen you explain to me how supporting Israel’s genocide unconditionally doesn’t make Harris and Biden fascist, unless I missed it scrolling by my two “screenfuls” of text. 🙄
I believe we are still issuing Purple Hearts from that 500,000 surplus to our troops.
It’s also interesting to note that we’re basically lucky the Japanese surrendered after the second bomb. We didn’t have any more ready to go.
Personally, I’m of the mind that we did save both American and Japanese lives by dropping the bombs versus invading the Japanese mainland. People forget how fiercely loyal the WWII-era Japanese soldier was to their cause. They had to play messages from the emperor to get the military to surrender, otherwise they just believed it was propaganda, and the Japanese propaganda of the day told them the American soldiers were coming to rape and kill every last one of them.
One of the proposed weapons for an assault on the main Japanese islands was a bat-incendiary bomb. The bomb would be filled with bats that were strapped with time-delay incendiary bombs. The bomb would land and break apart, and the bats would scatter and hide amongst the houses in attics and what not. Eventually the bombs would detonate, and whatever Japanese town/city would be engulfed in flames city-wide.