Have republicans actually ever done anything that hasn’t been absolute dog shit decision?
Many of them have died
Not enough :(
yeah but it doesn’t count when it takes that long.
too little too late
It doesn’t have to take that long.
Technically they made the EPA, which I guess they decided was a bad idea.
Yes, but not since the days of Goldwater
The super racist guy who Hillary Clinton supported whom the Goldwater Rule was named after?
That’s who you think was the last good Republican?
He was a member of the NAACP. I don’t think he was any more racist than any other republican of the time. It’s easy for me and you to pass judgment on those who were born more than a century ago. And before you say it, yes he voted against the 1964 civil rights act which I disagree with him for. He claims he had his reasons, that 2 parts of it were unconstitutional but I’m unconvinced. He also supported gay people serving in the military and was against don’t ask don’t tell. Towards the later years of his life he became somewhat progressive. He also fought hard against the rise of the Christian right. I respect some of what he fought for while disagreeing with some of his views. In any case, I think leftists like me have more in common with Goldwater than Goldwater has with MAGA cunts. We may disagree with each other but we at least agree on fundamental principles like the seperation of church and state.
Edit: I probably admire him more than most because I see Christian nationalism as one of the greatest threats to our country and he fought against it.
Oppose slavery.
But its hard to believe they were the cool party until the 50s. Thank you Reagan.
Slavery is still explicitly legal in the USA.
They were Hoover’s party. They stopped being cool long before the '50s.
Alright, given that i am not from the us my knowledge is somewhat limited here.
Budd Dwyer blew his brains out on live TV. Granted it was on a snow day when all the kids were at home watching TV. Maybe not the best decision but it did lead to one less republican wasting oxygen.
Watching every organization and person capitulate to this bullshit is exhausting. There’s a real cool word you can use when someone tells you to do something fucking stupid and authoritarian:
“NO.”
The same thing the Trump administration does every time a judge tells them to stop doing something
Do you think Trump respects when someone tells him no? The guy who’s been accused dozens of times of rape? He (and any other fascist) speaks and understands only one language: violence.
They could tell him to do it himself. Im pretty sure he won’t actually have a clue how.
I certainly don’t know how. I couldn’t even get up there.
I couldn’t even get up there
haha this really tickled me for some reason, like of course a random person couldn’t do rocket science
That’s when you back it up with force
Just like every other dictatorships, the Trump regime wages war on knowledge and data.
And it’s not new either: this started on day one of Trump’s “presidency”, and it should have been an ominous sign of things to come.
Americans voted for this. What a sad, sad country.
Sounds like a diversion seeing that Trump is in the Epstein files.
Yeah, destroying the planet to exacerbate wealth inequality really is a distraction from the scapegoat figurehead that has survived a hundred scandals being a child rapist. Surely this time if we focus all of our attention on the scandalproof figurehead’s scandals rather than any of the issues, we’re going to win. I know it sank two elections, but this time it’s different. Because that’s what’s really wrong with the current US administration: Not imprisoning people without trial or destroying libraries of scientific knowledge, but the figurehead having some something wrong personally.
I guess Trump was right - when you’re a star, you can grab them by the pussy and you can do anything.
The reason that people keep repeating it is because Epstein is the conspiracy theory that Trump’s cult is founded upon. Him denying that the list exists has caused the biggest schism in his supporters that we’ve ever seen. People made this thing their entire belief system, and now their idol is saying that it never existed and that he won’t release it. Even though his campaign was based on the promise of releasing it.
NASA, please say you destroyed it but instead turned it over to a country who gives a shit about the world. I know there are so few of them but this is such a waste.
I am just amaze at how Americans (and those residing in America) have truly been conditioned and pacified to accept such blatant act of self-harm being inflicted. Never mind the defunding of climate change research, but defunding welfare is really the red line most other governments will never cross. In France, they riot whenever welfare is touched. In Russia, of all places, the only time Putin was seriously challenged by the public was when he announced pension reforms. And then he backed down! A dictator!
Americans have been brainwashed to think free healthcare, unemployment benefits and childcare is bad for them! Not even conservatives in other countries will dare touch the welfare because it is a political suicide! What is happening in the US right now is the culmination of liberal values it was founded on; worshiping the altar of individualism at the expense of the common good.
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It’s somewhat that, but the key point is the manufactured consent that our biggest corporations prescribe via their media subsidiaries. I’d argue America has the best propaganda in the world. WE’RE #1!!! WOOOO
That documentary about Edward Bernays. The Century of the Self. The episodes are appropriately named too! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self
It explains how we are here. Basically after WW2 the leaders embarked on a psychology advertising campaign for Western civilization where it would be too uncomfortable to wage a war again like that without all the comforts of consumerism. America is at the peak of it.
The only way the citizen of America will really push back is when the government collectively takes something from them that lies at or near the base of Maslow’s Pyramid. When it gets too uncomfortable. Or else everything is actually fine.
100%, people don’t lead revolutions with stomachs full of food
Bread and circus’s is often times derided but it was exactly why Rome was so successful. Under all the glory, triumph, and corruption the Roman elite knew damned well what happened when the commoners went hungry and they didn’t wanted another Gracchi Brothers incident. Shame for us the modern milksop oligarchy forgot the damned bread.
yeah but, what if they had, like, a really really cool circus?
As someone who has felt true starvation I can assure you that folks would sooner but her the circus for food than enjoy it’s entertainment.
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Indeed, the French beat the Americans hands down.
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He does anything to make the Epsein circus go away
He was constantly doing horrible things before the Epstein circus started. This is just what Trump does.
Yep
Sell it to the ESA, if it isn’t a cover-up.
Would require transferring the relevant ground infrastructure and the people involved or at least their knowledge. Not as simple as one might think. Also ESA would have to allocate funds to it first.
Who would’ve thought that the bourgeoisie will weaponize climate change and put it against us, the working class? 🤦♂️
I guess as an American I’m counting on the rest of the world to continue working on problems while we sit here and shit in our own mouths for the next 3.5 years(hopefully just 3.5)
Hopefully by a few different miracles, a much much shorter amount of time
I don’t trust Americans to fix their own problems.
Yeah because it turns out they can’t aim worth a damn.
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It’s standard procedure to deliberately deorbit satellites that are no longer in use, since the whole program was defunded.
It’s not like they are doing this out of spite, they are just doing what they said they would do, which people voted for.
Crazy, but true.
I don’t think anyone voted for this, and certainly most people didn’t vote for the administration in charge, so …
People keep saying that most people didn’t vote for this, but it’s just disingenuous
2/3 of eligible americans did not vote against this. that’s the stat that matters
People don’t get excited to vote against candidates/platforms nearly as much as they do to vote for them. The choices may not be equally bad but that’s surprisingly irrelevant. South Park’s Turd Sandwich is pretty spot on.
But to your point, most of them didn’t vote for the climate change apocalypse, they voted for the racism.
Some of them undoubtedly did vote for the apocalypse, because their religious views include hastening the end so they can get to the rapture. That’s terrifying and underreported, but I suspect it’s a minority. There’s nothing Great Again about destroying the world, unless you’re a rapacious billionaire who wants to sit on a larger stack of toys in your cool bunker. Most of the idiots won’t realize how they got swindled until it’s far too late.
If I was in his position and absolutely had to part with the sats, I would SELL or RENT them out. Like how a genuine businessman would. This bull is stupid on all the levels.
I think the intention is to get rid of the data being provided to fix global warming. If the satellite is sold the data would turn up in some fashion eventually.
measuring things is woke
Ban rulers, speedometers, fuel gauges and pressure sensors! Cook meat on a gut feeling! Destroy all cups! Long dresses for all so we can’t see feet! YAAARGH!
Cook meat on a gut feeling!
Anyone who needs a thermometer to cook meat is either a minimum-wage flunky who can’t find their ass with both hands and a map, or shouldn’t be cooking meat at all.
yeah all that “quantitative objective science” liberal BS
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Oh god how do we share a planet with these troglodytes
That’s why no more weather service. If you can’t see the F5 Hurricane barrelling down on you it doesn’t exist.
I read this this is the voice of Butthead. To which Beavis would reply “Heh, heh, yes, we need more FIRE!”
Chat, are we cooked?
literally trying to cook us now
We won’t know. Neat, isn’t it?
