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oh no it’s Russian news not like my wholesome chungus Time Warner/comcast/etc owned news

No shit, the democrats have been losing elections like that since the Clintons in large part drove the party towards neoliberalism

But the thing is, they win even if they lose, because that’s what they and their party are being funded to do. The democrats’ donors would MUCH rather they “moderate” (read: copy Republican policy) even if it loses them elections, because as long as they aren’t being taxed or regulated or whatever by ACTUAL LEFT WING POLICY then THEY WIN. The candidates don’t give a fuck, if they win they get power, if they lose they get paid a shitload to play pretend that they’re a celebrity whose opinions matter.

I have literally never in my life heard of a country make an ambitious climate goal and then actually achieve it other than china. China is the only country actually investing substantial money into all that renewable energy research while western countries cling to fossil fuel profits (almost like capitalism affords incredibly wealthy oil companies inordinate political and economic authority, huh).

There’s literally a fucking meme of California vs China talking about high speed rail, after like 20 years California had built shit and China’s built over 25000 miles of it. I’m pretty sure here in present year that’s 46000 miles of it.

China is stockpiling resources and building infrastructure to plan for the absolute devastation that is going to be wrought on human society over the next few decades. What the fuck has literally anyone else done? If any country in earth is going to be resilient enough to weather the crop failures and super storms we’re destined for and, god fucking i hope, be in a position to help anyone else (and with an ideological basis that would impel them to without expecting a century of debt bondage in return) it’s going to be China.

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China is literally the only hope humanity has to survive climate change at this point and if you’re not aware of that you’re ignorant, sorry

i’ll never understand why there are so many Lemmy instances full of opinions identical to what you’d see on reddit

Caring about citizens is a litmus test for whether someone is an ignorant liberal or not

Liberals think if it weren’t for that, “there wouldn’t be money in politics.” In the real world, capitalism affords inordinate political and economic authority to the capitalist class, and this is true even if you have really strict rules on direct donations or funding campaigns or whatever.

Liberals have this fucking fantasy in their heads of a pre or post Citizens United world where the rich don’t influence politics, but that’s what it is, a fucking fantasy. Capitalism is inherently incompatible with actual democracy because the ownership of capital itself is what affords the capitalists political influence. Biggest employer in a town? You have inherent influence. Own the newspaper, TV or radio stations? You have inherent influence.

with no research and 0 sources I can confidently say you can thank China for this, someone’s out there making solar and wind actually affordable and cost effective and I can guarantee you it’s not the west

many of us migrated here because the other site wanted to lock down their api and user data so that they could auction it to google for profit.

The venn diagram of people who did this and “liberals who would have been fine staying on reddit rather than make a site exactly like reddit” is a circle

AI code is going to be like computer’s DNA introns where nobody knows what the fuck any of it even does except some of it will actually be critically important code that works for reasons literally nobody can understand without being a goddamn AI archaeologist

i could rewrite whatever they want me to and do it in half a second, that doesn’t mean it’ll fuckin’ work properly

who would have guessed that when the democrats don’t collude to either purposefully lose or ratfuck the left to put in a candidate essentially indistinguishable from the republicans that it would result in a candidate people actually like and who wants to do good things

edit: sorry I mean when they don’t SUCCESSFULLY collude for either of those purposes

lol i sent a high school friend a VERY long rant saying this exact thing after doing lsd in college

not even mentioning the real crime of never finishing half life

Why exert effort just to be here longer when you didn’t have a reason?

gosh i dunno perhaps dying is fucking terrifying?

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I think this is kind of arbitrarily defining a forum even though I would absolutely, personally, consider this to be a form of forum as well

okay then you’re either blind or a moron

some rich guy paid a couple guards to kill him

If that were the case then they wouldn’t have the fucking government covering it up. It literally is a conspiracy