shawn1122

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[–] shawn1122@lemm.ee 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You can't JD. The rest of us absolutely can.

[–] shawn1122@lemm.ee 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They produce solid content, especially long form journalism but their subscription cost is fairly high.

[–] shawn1122@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Develop a public healthcare system and we'll talk.

[–] shawn1122@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

And is malleable enough to allow for coinage.

[–] shawn1122@lemm.ee 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

The difference is gold has carried high monetary value among human societies for nearly 3000 years while Bitcoin is a non tangible digital asset that's existed for less than two decades and remains incredibly volatile.

This comes across as another Trump scam. He's going to bankrupt the American government by siphoning public money to himself and other private entities and the American people are going to be stuck hodling the bag.

[–] shawn1122@lemm.ee 36 points 1 week ago

It's the USA. Everything is for sale. From the wellbeing of your ordinary everyday citizen to the government that supposedly represents.

[–] shawn1122@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Sure but even Obama, who did not have to deal with gender based prejudice and was generally a well liked populist, could not pull a majority of the white vote. A lot of white voters just could not bring themselves to trust him because he looked different and had a different name. It's incredible he ever got elected.

Identity politics are baked into American culture unfortunately and I wonder if a female PoC has a real shot with where things are now. If they do, other PoC would really have to show up for them, like they did for Obama.

[–] shawn1122@lemm.ee -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I guarantee you they are too stupid to realize as long as he didn't type anything.

Have you seen boomers and gen x operate anything on a smartphone? If it doesn't 'just work' then all bets are off. It's as bad as gen z only understanding smartphone UIs.

[–] shawn1122@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago

Only one of those has any basis in reality though.

[–] shawn1122@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago

Declaring a national emergency on Fentanyl allowed him to impose tariffs without needing congresses approval.

[–] shawn1122@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

It's hard to imagine a majority of white voters supporting AOC. Obama managed win two elections despite 43% and 39% of the white vote due to strong PoC voter turnout but I doubt that would play out well in the current political climate. AOC would be even more divisive, in a way, by being a woman.

[–] shawn1122@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Immigrants did still vote for Kamala as a majority (55%).

I wasn't aware of the massive jump Trump had achieved with young men. Looks like it was especially true with young white men, with nearly two thirds voting for Trump. Less than 30% of young men from other racial demographics voted for Trump with the exception of Latinos (45%).

Overall the biggest jumps were with Latinos and young white men but he saw an increase in nearly of every demographic except older white people with whom he has historically had majority support.

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