• @[email protected]
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    The state and local is where most of the progress is going to happen in the next 4 years. They control a lot more than you think - even including running elections for federal office. Pay attention to all your local elections - they are going to matter a lot

    EDIT: While I’m here, going to mention there are local elections in some localities across the US tomorrow (feb 25th) in parts of California, Connecticut, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, & Maine

    Here’s a substack post with more info about those local elections

    • @SocialMediaRefugee
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      My state is gerrymandered to death which is probably one reason the right wants to push everything to the states. Easier to divide and control.

    • @[email protected]
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      Ballot measures. Write them if your state empowers them. That’s where the democracy will happen.

  • Yerbouti
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    Until pedo-prez and nazi-musk determines that it’s hurtful to gafam.

    Sorry for becoming a cynical asshole, it’s actually a good news but I can’t help myself these days.

    • Cosmic Cleric
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      Sorry for becoming a cynical asshole, it’s actually a good news but I can’t help myself these days.

      Hope you’ll take this criticism as honestly given, and not meant as an attack, but you’re not improving the quality of Lemmy with these kind of posts.

      May I suggest, instead of making a comment and apologizing for it in the same comment, you just don’t make the comment at all?

      It really sucks having to push through these type of comments.

      This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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        Yeah you’re probably right, I’ll try to shut to fuck up next time. It’s just that these asshole a ruining every god damn thing I believe in so I can’t help to think they’ll come for this too. Here I’m doing it again… I’ll go serve myself a huge glass of wine to celebrate this good news, it’s almost 5 anyway.

        • @grue
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          What we need is a gloom & doom venting megathread (I almost misspelled it as “negathread,” LOL).

          • @Cocodapuf
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            Hey, that’s not a bad name…

        • Cosmic Cleric
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          Hang in there brother/sister, times will be better again.

          Yes it’ll be a long 3 years 11 months, but still, even the laziest people usually figure their shit out at some point and change their course appropriately, and vote differently.

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      Local and state officals can enforce laws on their own without federal involvement

      Assuming everything is doomed to fail is exactly what Trump and Musk want from you. They want you to stop fighting or trying because you might realize they are weaker than you think. Don’t do their work for them

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        Assuming everything is doomed to fail is exactly what Trump and Musk want from you.

        You’re right, my bad.

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    This is also nice because every state doesn’t have to pass this kind of law for it to help everyone else. Companies are often willing to have california specific models of their products to comply with California specific laws, but if enough states have right to repair laws it will hopefully be easier for companies to just have all their products be compliant.

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    A monumental win for repair warriors; corporate gatekeeping faces a well-deserved reckoning.

    😺😺😺😺😺

    • @[email protected]
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      Also great for the environment. Replacing a part is significantly better than the waste products and energy used in recycling facilities.

  • sunzu2
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    I need Louis Rossmanns input on this.

    These parasites love passing laws that hurt the taxpayer looking at you, ACA…

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    “states rights rabble rabble rabble” -Republicans, usually. But not now it appears.

    Except when an EO appears on dumbfuck’s desk barring it because his eunuch demands it

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      More likely it will lose superpower status and just become a run-of-the-mill large size developed country like Britain or Germany.

      Living in a run-of-the-mill developed country isn’t actually bad - in fact the best places to live in the World in terms of median quality of life are all pretty run-of-the-mill places.

      Granted, judging by what I saw living in Britain, the whole post-Imperial hangover does screw things up significantly for a century or two compared to similar countries that were never top dog.

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        The British pedon has been driven into poverty quicker than American one…

        They got NHS at least tho

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          True.

          That said, British days as an Empire were almost a century ago whilst the US has been entering that phase for a decade or two at most.

          IMHO, the closer a country’s past as top dog is, the more wealth is still floating around from the old days and the less the local elites tend to squeeze the local peons to maintain their status, and the riches from the gold old days are a lot more depleted in Britain than in the US, whose currency is still the main reserve currency of the World (though less and less so since maybe 2 decades ago), which would explain why impoverishment of the average person was faster and deeper in Britain.

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      Don’t do Trump’s work for him by spreading apathy and dispair. He wants us complacent and to forget the power we have. He is far weaker than he seems so he has to project absolute power. Don’t give anything to him for free

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      Maybe so but the fuckening just began, boy

      yeeehaw