I thought the last scene was a bit of a cop out.

That’s an entirely different situation all together now.

Old school Republicans were fine with a Republican President having this power, just not Trump.

That’s going to go well for the TSA.

Only one or two until you hit the credit card limit.

Eat some good barbeque.

People don’t fully understand what FEMA really does.

A lot of what FEMA does is bring money and resources to help states respond to emergencies. FEMA is never the government agency in charge of responding to a natural disaster, it is the state.

Blackwater/Xi isn’t going to replace the sacks of cash. At best, it could provide security, but that function is filled by the National Guard. What’s going to happen to some places is like what happened to New Orleans after Katrina; rebuilding efforts aren’t going to bring region back up to the level it was at before and it is going to cause major issues to the local economy.

The difference here is that the federal government doesn’t run elections, states do. Obviously, Trump is trying to set up a way to invalidate future elections, but Trump doesn’t have power on who can vote.

Thanks leftists for not showing up to town hall meetings to push for universal coverage, choosing to cede the discussion to the Tea Party.

That’s not even remotely legal. The Federal Government doesn’t set limits on who can vote, states do.

I know there was a major disagreement between the local skilled labor and TSMC because the locals used a different, but still as effective, method of joining pipes. TSMC wanted to use Taiwanese labor instead who fitted pipes the way TSMC was used to.

Long term, Americans have been bad at making idiots feel shame for their idiocy. There is less of a societal push to make people conform to societal pressure. On one end, this leads to great creative freedom for artists. On the other end, it creates the born again movement.

Medium term, LBJ oversaw the collapse of economic leftism as he was trying to include civil rights legislation and the Vietnam War. This lead to the stagnation of American salaries, but it took a while for people to notice that quality of life wasn’t improving for everyone. Also, conservatives realized they could create parallel media in a way to control public sentiment.

Short term, the Great Recession and COVID made it clear that quality of life wasn’t as bulletproof as people thought. As a response, some people want to bring back “the good old days”, not realizing/remembering that the good old days had a lot of bad to it that was covered up.

I feel like there are a few things not noted in the article:

1. The relative economic value of labor has dropped significantly as the developing world has developed and the developed world has seen greater labor participation. Efficiency rose, but so did the supply.

2. The supply of housing has not not kept up as part of the economy, especially low income housing. The lack of housing supply generally drives wages up in economically productive areas, making it so we have to work longer.

It depends on the systems of alliances and international commitments against a first strike. For instance, the Iran-Iraq War went on for several years and included the deployment of chemical weapons. I’m pretty sure that a nuclear exchange would be tolerated.

It depends on how the standard was made, with the decisions generally made to fit specific reasons and no overarching standard.

There are also clothes that use more than one number. A lot of mens pants use two numbers; the same with formal mens shirts.

I use it a lot.

Only if the wreckage of World War III can do so.

The Batman incorporates a lot of working class struggles into the narrative. Batman is constantly called out for not knowing things that are obvious to working people, but not to upper class people like himself.

Bluesky is new Twitter today.

There is nothing in its design to prevent it from becoming the X of tomorrow.

I know that’s the reason why I’m getting downvotes. Luckily, because this is Lemmy, downvotes don’t really mean much.

It is just funny that you see this back and forth between how people here will never vote for Democrats yet they’ll make these grand statements on how Democrats, without their support, should act.