Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours
by caseysoftware on Thursday January 07, 2021 @02:34AM
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When "let us go back to work, my family is starving and we're going to lose the house!" is characterized as "they just want to get haircuts!" it's worse than censorship. It's mockery of people's suffering.
Move down the hierarchy of needs a bit and listen to what people are discussing. It's not trade policy.
Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours
by disgruntledphd2 on Thursday January 07, 2021 @03:46AM
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Lets be clear though, those people would have been better supported such that they wouldn't have needed to make a choice between eating and the pandemic if the outgoing Federal government hadn't made such a mess of their response (and refused point blank to support state and local governments who cannot borrow).
Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours
by ed25519FUUU on Thursday January 07, 2021 @11:47AM
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Local governments took as much money as they could to shore up their own finances including and especially their payrolls.
Props to the food banks and other organizations that did so much with so little.
Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours
by lifeformed on Thursday January 07, 2021 @03:14AM
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Again, that's a mainstream topic that you see everywhere. Everyone is concerned about that, it's not some secret qualm.
Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours
by ed25519FUUU on Thursday January 07, 2021 @11:51AM
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> If they want to talk to me about how voting machines are rigged by Hugo Chavez
Even if you don’t agree with that statement, are you honestly okay with our voting technology being outsourced and owned by a Venezuelan company?
I think there’s some sort of “orange man bad” blindness that is getting people to accept things they otherwise would never tolerate.
But if a party dilutes their message by embracing conspiracy theories, outlandish lies, bigotry, and authoritarian rhetoric, then what the hell? How is political discussion supposed to be in good faith anymore? If people want to talk to me about trade, they can talk to me about trade on whatever platform they want. I listen to them all the time. If they want to talk to me about how voting machines are rigged by Hugo Chavez, then they're probably not going to say, "oh, your right" when I show them facts that say otherwise.