This is why you always block ads and trackers. It never pays to worry about revenue of “poor sites”

True, but Lemmy world is acting a bit like the other services mentioned above.

This community is on Lemmy.world though

I think Bernie’s Fight the Oligarchy Tour is changing this, but more people needs to push this.

He would, but his charity was shut down. /s

Actually he secretly vaccinated himself. He tried to convince his fans to do it during one rally and after he got boos he never did it again.

LOL I had similar experience when I responded to this post https://lemm.ee/post/61781690 saying that it is the same thing, just wrapped differently.

That’s a valid point, but people demonstrating still helps. Looks like it motivate some politicians to also act, and motivates more people.

I believe the root that causes the rot is corruption. Countries that are liberal and have low corruption index do well and people are happy living there.

The strict gun laws in California were actually introduced by Reagan after Black Panthers started arming up.

I thought initially that he was doing a good job, because starts seemed to improve, bit perhaps he is just fudging the numbers. It looks like Doge also messed with the department that’s responsible for this in US.

Did Zuck’s check not clear yet?

Actually he panicked when Japan started selling US bonds.

Yeah, seriously. Is there currently any leader who is more incompetent?

What he is doing to US is a gold mine for Russia and China.

I don’t know much about UK elections, but from what I see on Wikipedia it deploys different voting systems and even fptp is really a fptp system + party list so not exactly the same.

In US there truly is just a single election where you give a single vote for the candidate and whomever gets more votes wins.

Yes, there are primary elections too, but those aren’t real elections, they are elections run by the parties to pick up their candidate. They actually could not hold election and just pick up the candidate themselves and that’s what they often do for a second term.

The way it works with FPTP in US is that it naturally forces two parties, as you generally are forced to vote against someone and not for someone. This is because of there are two good candidates and one bad, the vote splits and the bad candidate wins due to spoiler effect. So people try to predict which candidates will likely win and vote for the lesser evil.

So no one in 3rd party has any chance, and generally most of the times the people who are running 3rd party are just pathetic.

Sometimes when a serious candidate runs in 3rd party it generally spoils for the candidate with similar views. That’s how Bill Clinton won against HW Bush

Isn’t it interesting that every single Republican in office during that time had 2 each?

Yeah.

I don’t consume any of the above (except alcohol occasionally, but even that’s rare), was just making fun that weed was somehow special.

Well about plant that God made, tobacco is also a plant. And alcohol is just fermented grains/fruits/vegetables. So also are God made.

Yeah, you couldn’t do this badly, because you are just an amateur. That guy in the video, won multiple club championships on his own golf course and bankrupted 4 casinos. That requires special talent.

I don’t watch Fox News, but I saw other posts mentioning that and showing ghost without ticket, so I think there’s high chance they did.

Edit: here’s one post that I saw: https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/t/2006492

Edit 2: looks like moderators removed it so here’s link directly to the article: https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/fox-news-removes-dow-ticker-34990910