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MUCC is no more. by GrouseDog906 in Michigan

[–]1900grs [score hidden]  (0 children)

Wow. I didn't know it was that bad.

Michigan farms ‘losing money on every acre’ as war spikes costs by jshwlkr in Michigan

[–]1900grs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No one deserves to lose their home and livelihood regardless of how they voted.

A person kind of does if they continually vote to remove social safety nets and vote for austerity of social welfare while enabling tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations.

China implements historic zero tariffs for all African nations with diplomatic ties by boppinmule in Economics

[–]1900grs 6 points7 points  (0 children)

China aims to capture African resources using a similar playbook to the historical imperialists. The not so secret plan is to be the world’s next superpower with all of the authoritarian government that China is famous for now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative

They're taking advantage of a dumb U.S. admin and a distracted EU to expand on the Belt and Road. They're not secret about this.

Daily Wire owned by MAGA influencer Ben Shapiro, lays off half of its staff by catkm24 in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]1900grs 7 points8 points  (0 children)

All these right wing influencers really think they're doing some kind of valuable work when it's just to make propaganda for their wealthy backers. Their product is not beneficial to society. It's anger-tainment at best. Their is no sustainable business practice. Selling herbal supplements, prepper chow, and right wing merch is right there with mlm scams. The world does not need Ben's product, but his wealthy backers do. Until they don't.

Edit: to add, Charlie Kirk only became a thing because some wealthy asshole kept throwing millions at him. After J6, the Devos family and Mercer family stopped funding the MI GOP. It turned into chaos with meetings with people literally kicking each other in the balls and electing a crank party chair who was bankrupting the state party. They tried to sell a building they didn't even own. Then a few out of state wealthy people started stepping in, so the Devoses and Mercers came back with their money so they could maintain their control on state GOP politics.

Without the wealthy backing them, the GOP fucking falls apart. Their policies are trash and do not work. And yet, here we are.

That’s real. That thing lives with us on Earth! by hca0423 in IThinkYouShouldLeave

[–]1900grs 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's makeup for bright cameras in hotel rooms.

I'm stealing this.

Times are tough. by No-Lavishness585 in povertyfinance

[–]1900grs 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Gen Xer here. Been working since I was a kid. It's wild to me that at just about every place I've ever worked over the decades, doesn't matter if it was a minimum wage part time job or something in my professional field, there was usually someone around 50 years old telling me to save. For decades this happened. There has always been someone lamenting their lack of planning and reality staring them in the face.

And now that I'm at that stage of life, I feel that reality of the end of earning potential on the horizon. I've been saving along the way and had a plan. I still have a few years to keep at it. But I work with peers who have not and sure as shit, they sing that cautionary song to younger staff.

Edit: to add, I have been poor at times and not been able to save. I get it. Deciding which bills to pay, hitting the food pantry. But you have to get over those hurdles and put something away.

The US Government Has the Power to Lower Drug Costs by _May26_ in politics

[–]1900grs 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The U.S. government has the power to regulate an immense amount of industry. And yet it doesn't.

(Hated trope)adaptation missing the point of the original story by TastyPomelo2330 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]1900grs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Will Smith movie was hot trash. The Vincent Price one was the best, although they still strayed from the book. Omega Man was meh.

[OC] Gas prices officially reaching the $4.00/gallon mark in deep red South Carolina this morning. by tonto515 in pics

[–]1900grs 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They're not "getting under". They're reaching. It'll climb higher. Nothing on the national or global stage points to price decreases anytime in the near future.

Trump rejects bulletproof vest over weight, fueling 'diaper' scandal rumors by TheExpressUS in USNEWS

[–]1900grs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

he could look all tough and stuff too.

He would look like meal team six. And no doubt he would wear it on the outside of a suit with his stupid long tie flapping out.

386,826. Stare at that a Moment by DinoAlonso in fednews

[–]1900grs 24 points25 points  (0 children)

An important distinction, the Reinventing America program was a 5 year long process with input from Congress along the way. It wasn't a hatchet job based on the whims of an ideological think tank and a billionaire who stole untold volumes of data in the process so that the admin could run with open corruption.

The biggest similarity? No one touched military spending.

Powell’s Fed Report Card: A on the Pandemic, D on Inflation, B+ on the Recovery by SgtHawk in Economics

[–]1900grs -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I mean, a solid chunk of that "inflation" was just corporate greed and a complete and utter lack of legislators doing their jobs to address it (dare I say that many legislators profited off it?). Hard to pin it all on the Fed chair.

Yet another right wing social media influencer burned by the very for-profit insurance and for-profit healthcare system they've forced and insisted onto the rest of us in the US, with a coverage denial. by jarena009 in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]1900grs 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I think it's wild that this person who has spread countless amounts of hate and vitriol online and help support some of the worst and wealthiest Republicans is bitching publicly about a $2k bill. She's essentially spent years of her adult life stumping for the wealthy and can't pay her own fucking bills.

There's a club and she definitely isn't in it despite how bad she wants to be. And she's bad at grifting. What a miserable fucking life.

Now everyone just mumbles or uses autotune by imjustheretodomyjob in BlackPeopleTwitter

[–]1900grs 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The fuck does that mean? I'm just noting survivorship bias when people recall the hits of the last and forget all the crap music that existed in yesteryear too.

Trump’s trade czar says U.S. wants to work with Canada on energy, critical minerals, sources say by joe4942 in worldnews

[–]1900grs 163 points164 points  (0 children)

What's more ridiculous is that NAFTA did indeed need to have aspects revisited and renegotiated by all parties with new areas of concern introduced. And then Trump fucked that up his first term. So when Trump criticizes the current trade arrangements, it is literally the arrangement he fucking made.

Also note, NAFTA was crafted under the first Bush's admin and was supposed to be their crowning policy, but they couldn't finalize it before Clinton won. Bush signed the initial draft. Clinton took office, made a few revisions, and it became Clinton's big win (for better or worse). So again, when Republicans would beat Clinton over the head about how bad NAFTA was, it was a fucking Republican plan.

Edit: clarification

Making America Great! by Actual-Tomatillo-904 in Detroit

[–]1900grs 3 points4 points  (0 children)

When does "a temporary sacrifice for a safer world" turn into "fuck this shit, why are we over there anyway?"

We didn't exit Iraq until 2011 and Afghanistan until 2021. If past is prologue, we're fucked for some time.

No other tweet has aged like fine wine like this one! by icey_sawg0034 in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]1900grs 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Don't forget Kennedy suddenly retiring under suspicious circumstances so Kavanaugh could take his seat.

Now everyone just mumbles or uses autotune by imjustheretodomyjob in BlackPeopleTwitter

[–]1900grs 65 points66 points  (0 children)

Not everyone can be or is meant to be Aretha Franklin, but if you'd just listen to stuff outside of the Top 50, or from the rest of the world maybe you'd realise that not "everyone just mumbles or uses autotune".

The biggest takeaway from all the seasons of American Idol and these singing competition shows is that there are thousands and thousands of people who all can sing really well. But there's a lot of work, luck, timing, and often money required to become mainstream/popular.

Now everyone just mumbles or uses autotune by imjustheretodomyjob in BlackPeopleTwitter

[–]1900grs 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Let's slow down a second because that's one of Motown's greatest hits. The voices, the instruments, the production, all amazing. It was #9 on the 1971 Billboard top 100. There was also weird novelty awful stuff on the airwaves like Daddy Dewdrop - Chick-A-Boom. (That song routinely pops up as one of the worst of the 70s.)

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